Minor planets named for truly remarkable people.
Wei Gan (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his physics project. He teaches at the La Colina Junior High School, Santa Barbara, California. Arguing that the rights of women, as those of men, rely on intellectual, economic and legal autonomy, she challenged the mores of her time and influenced feminist thought for centuries.
Rodney Laver (b. 1938) is a tennis player from the discoverer's home state of Queensland and widely regarded as one of the greats of the game. He showed that, contrary to Western understanding, European sea charts and maps of far-east Asia then being made were largely influenced by the knowledge of contemporary Japanese and Chinese sailors. The gods, taking pity on her, transformed her into a collection of reeds.
Aleksandr Anatolievich Solov'ev is a theoretical astrophysicist and solar physicist and a professor of Kalmyk University at Elista. Tremaine has made seminal contributions to solar-system and galactic dynamics. Camille Jordan (1838-1921) was a French mathematician and the first to produce a purely analytical proof of the theorem that now bears his name: a simple non-self-intersecting closed curve in the plane divides the plane into two separate regions.
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Borisov (1809-1862), regional ethnographer in the town of Shuya and a member of Russian Geography Society, was the author of a book about Shuya and its environs. In 1987 he received the Global 500 prize from the United Nations Environment Programme. She attends the La Colina Junior High School, Santa Barbara, California.
Named for Harry Lillis (`Bing') Crosby (1903-1977), American singer and film actor. The Tsou people are known for their handsome features and bravery. The development of Linux involved a large Internet collaboration and demonstrates the possibilities of the free exchange of information.
Data from The IAU Minor Planet Center, mashed up by Leonard Richardson.
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