Willem Bontekoe (1587–1646) was a captain in the Dutch East India Company. However, he is not known because of his successful trips to the East, but because of the publication of his diary in 1646, with the memorable descriptions of his travels to the East Indies. (M 47167) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.