Minor planets named for truly remarkable people.
Raghav Tripathi (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his biochemistry project. 1533 the city was occupied by Pizarro. George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903) was a British physicist and mathematician noted for his studies of the behavior of viscous fluids and for a fundamental theorem in vector analysis.
Named to honor Charlotte E. Moore (Mrs. Bancroft W. Sitterly), whose long-time collaboration with Henry Norris Russell included analyses of many atomic spectra and the important work on dynamical parallaxes that led to their landmark treatise, "The Masses of the Stars", in 1940. He attends the National Junior College, Singapore. He is an avid meteor observer, active within the Dutch Meteor Society.
Paul MacCready (b. 1933) designed the first human-powered aircraft, the Gossamer Condor, followed by the Gossamer Albatross, which was pedaled through the air to cross the English Channel in 1979. 428-348 B.C. This prefecture promotes environmental protection.
Named in memory of Homer E. Newell (1915-1983), one of the most important organizers of the U.S. Although this bird does not breed in the Netherlands, it stays there during the winter. Elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, he has achieved important results in the problem of supersonic flow around wings and the study of equations of fixed type in higher dimensions.
Nagaishi city, situated in the southern part of Yamagata prefecture, has a population of 30~000 and is famous for its White azalea Park and Iris Park. Among his numerous offices were the executive directorship of the New York Academy of Sciences and the presidency of the International League for Human Rights. Apollo assumed his form in order to lead Achilles away from the retreating Trojans.
Data from The IAU Minor Planet Center, mashed up by Leonard Richardson.
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