Roald Dahl sisters. Dahl always maintained that his mother and her stories had a strong influence on his writing. In one interview, he mentioned: "She was a great teller of tales. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten." When Dahl started writing and publishing his famous books for children, he created a grandmother character in "The Witches" and later stated that she was based directly on his own mother as a tribute. In 1961, Dahl hosted and wrote for a science fiction and horror television anthology series called "Way Out", which preceded the
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