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Jauerbrech

James Evan Fenska (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his microbiology project. During 1985-1986 he specialized in neuropsychiatry at the Ann Arbor Medical Center. He devised artificial limbs that move voluntarily after amputation by using the muscles of the stump.

Kamenda

Kamiukena Koto-gakko is a prefectural high school in Ehime prefecture. According to the historical Chinese chronicles, the Records of Wei, Karatsu was originally called Matsurakoku from around the third to sixth centuries. In 1798 he successfully determined the universal constant of gravitation using an apparatus with two small lead spheres, attached on a fiber, and two large lead spheres, by measuring the angular deflection of the fiber.

Werberk

Luigi Broglio (1911-2001), aereonautical engineer and dean of the aerospace engineering school of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", conceived and directed the San Marco Project, a cooperative space initiative between Italy and the U.S. The southern hairy-nosed wombat is restricted to arid regions. It is also an important part of the European VLBI network.

Gackyald

Named in honor of Jean Chapront and Michelle Chapront-Touzé, astronomers at the Bureau des Longitudes. Together with his wife Zdena Salivarová, he operated The Sixty-Eight Publishers in Toronto, the main Czech exile publishing house. Rob played a key role in insuring that the six science instruments on NEAR were delivered and integrated on time and under cost for NASA's first Discovery class mission.

Kardar

Rounok Joardar (b. 1994) was a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his materials and bioengineering project. He donated his library to the Uppsala Observatory, and it is still the rarest part of that collection. He is a pioneer in amateur telescope-making and played an important role in the development of the 0.84-m Chiro Telescope and other large portable telescopes.

Data from The IAU Minor Planet Center, mashed up by Leonard Richardson.

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