Roald Dahl RAF pilots blamed the gremlins for all the problems with the aircraft. While at the British Embassy in Washington, Dahl sent a copy to the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt who read it to her grandchildren, and the book was commissioned by Walt Disney for a film that was never made. Dahl went on to create some of the best-loved children's stories of the 20th century, such as "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", "James and the Giant Peach", "The Witches", "Fantastic Mr Fox", "The BFG", "The Twits" and "George's Marvellous Medicine". Dahl also had a successful parallel career as 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