457 Alleghenia
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457 Alleghenia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf and Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann on September 15, 1900. Its provisional name was 1900 FJ.
It is named in honor of the northside neighborhood of the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and its scientific and industrial heritage that produced some of the finest astronomy equipment of the early 20th century [link].
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