Mashteroids

Lusiblu

Lisa Wu mentored a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He has also designed and built CCD cameras used for imaging from space. Some of its scientific facilities and institutions are connected with the prestigious Joseph Fourier University: a synchrotron accelerator, the astronomical observatory, the headquarters of the International Institute for Millimetric Radioastronomy, the glaciology laboratory and the new planetary sciences laboratory.

Teve

William Tutte (1918-2002), an expert in combinatorics, was a faculty member at the University of Toronto for 14 years and then joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1962. An active observer of comets, he wrote a regular astronomy column for Brazilian newspapers. Name endorsed by J. Ticha.

Mishkimi

Michelle Minitti (b. 1973) is a researcher at Arizona State University who studies the mineralogy of Mars. He has also undertaken photometry of Mars and since its inception in 1984 has been chairman of the Working Group on Asteroids of the U.S.S.R. Jeremias is the German form of Jeremiah.

Girtfedodry

Eric Nelson Delgado (b. 1990) was awarded first place and Best in Category in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his microbiology project. He has been a leader in the use of infrared sensors in the highest quality infrared instrumentation. Named in honor of Adriano Casulli (b. 1974), son of the discoverer.

Jirguskvo

Named in memory of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727-1781), the famous French economist whose efforts for financial reform were blocked by the privileged classes. He codiscovered 21 minor planets. Jure Skvarc (b. 1964) created data-analysis software for the automatic search and astrometric measurements in the minor planet and comet search project at the Crni Vrh Observatory and in the Astrovirtel survey at the University of Padua.

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

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