31268 Welty (provisional designation: 1998 FA) is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1998 by Ian P. Griffin at the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Florida. It is named after Sandra Welty, an English teacher at Kenwood High School, Baltimore.
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“My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)