Roald Dahl children's novels in a survey published by "School Library Journal", a monthly with primarily US audience. The Top 100 included four books by Dahl, more than any other writer: "Matilda", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "The Witches", and "The BFG". In 2012, Dahl was among the British cultural icons selected by artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork – the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures of his life he most admires. In a 2017 UK poll of the greatest authors, songwriters,
6223 Dahl albedo of 0.034, while the "Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link" assumes a standard albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.057 and calculates a diameter of 16.8 kilometres, as the higher the albedo (reflectivity), the lower a body's diameter for certain absolute magnitude. This minor planet was named in memory of the Welsh author Roald Dahl (1916–1990), known for his classic children's books "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" and "James and the Giant Peach". The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 August 1996 (). 6223 Dahl 6223 Dahl, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from