Minor planets named for truly remarkable people.
Tim McKay (b. 1964) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for work on galaxy clusters and gravitational lensing. She attends the Hedgesville High School, Hedgesville, West Virginia, U.S.A. Reliefs stamped into thick paper, designs for coins, tapestries, stage-settings and costumes, as well as decorations for Sèvres porcelain, show Hajdu's many-sided talent.
Named for the Silesian poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788-1857). He is also an amateur astronomer and a former teacher of the discoverer at the T.I.T. Usman' is an old town in Russia, founded in 1645, and birth place of a number of notable people: famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, N. G. Basov (1922-2001); the ethnographer, B. P. Knyazhinskij (1892-1975); and astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, N. S. Chernykh (1931-2004).
GangDa, the Chinese abbreviation for the University of Hong Kong (Xiang Gang Da Xue), is the first and foremost tertiary institution in Hong Kong. She attends the Lake Highland Preparatory School, Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. The naming of this minor planet commemorates the May 1998 dedication of the Sherman W. Schultz Observatory at Macalester College.
Okegaya Marsh is located in the western part of Shizuoka prefecture. More recently she has established systematic effects in the Hipparcos and other star catalogues using positions of selected minor planets. He attends the Winona Senior High School, Winona, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Taormina is Sicily's most picturesque town, located on the slopes of Mt. Tauro, overlooking the sea with views westward to Mt. Etna. In his 1923 work entitled Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen, Oberth gave a thorough discussion of many phases of rocket travel, including the launching of payloads into earth orbit and the abnormal effects of pressure on the human body. Citation and name suggested by Wendee and David Levy. He established an observatory at Wellington College, which is now reopening as Gifford Observatory. Forti was trained as a solar physicist and worked for six years with the Harvard-Smithsonian Radio Meteor Project from 1965. He attends the Liberty High School, Hillsboro, Oregon.
Data from The IAU Minor Planet Center, mashed up by Leonard Richardson.
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