Naming
Citations
for
named asteroids discovered by Marco Langbroek
in
NEAT archive imagery
Below are the naming citations as published in the IAU Minor Planet Circulars
for those asteroids I
discovered in NEAT archive imagery (see my separate detailed page on my
asteroid discoveries) which have received permanent numbers
by the IAU-MPC and have
been given an official name by the International
Astronomical Union.
Many thanks are due to the people of the NEAT
program for approving of these naming suggestions and
submitting them to the IAU on
my behalf, and to the IAU
Committee on Small Body Nomenclature for approving of these
naming suggestions and making them official.
from:
MPC 64313
(132798) Kürti = 2002 PU167
Stefan
Kürti (b. 1960) is a Slovakian amateur astronomer with
a focus on minor planets. Among his discoveries are two near-earth
objects.
The name was suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 64313
(132820) Miskotte = 2002 QX65
Koen
Miskotte (b. 1962) is a Dutch confectioner and amateur astronomer
whose main interests lie in meteor astronomy. He is a
very prolific meteor observer, active within the Dutch Meteor Society.
The name was suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 64313
(142014) Neirinck = 2002 PA168
French-born
Pierre Neirinck (b. 1926) headed the Satellite Orbits Group
at Appleton Laboratory in the U.K. during the 1970s. Now retired, he
still coordinates the international amateur satellite observations. The
name
was suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 64314
(179678) Rietmeijer = 2002 QS66
Frans
J.M. Rietmeijer (b. 1949) is a Dutch-born
planetary geologist specializing on interplanetary dust particles. He
is a research professor at the University of New Mexico. The name was
suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 66245
(206241) Dubois =
2002 WM28
Dutch
anatomist, surgeon and paleontologist Marie Eugène François Thomas
Dubois (1858-1940) was the "founding father" of palaeoanthropology.
His
dedicated search culminated in 1891 with the discovery of the first
Homo erectus
fossils in a bank of the Solo river near Trinil, Java. The
name was
suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 70411
(215463) Jobse = 2002 QQ66
Klaas Jobse (b. 1955) is a Dutch gardener and amateur astronomer who operates
the Cyclops Observatory in Oostkapelle and a fireball all-sky camera. His main focus
is on near-earth-asteroid follow-up, meteoric fireballs and video meteor observations.
The name was suggested by M. Langbroek.
from:
MPC 70411
(213629) Binford = 2002 QK67
Lewis R. Binford (b. 1930) is an American archaeologist and anthropologist.
He was one of the main figures behind the development of the “New Archaeology” or
“Processual Archaeology”, the major theoretical and methodological improvements
to archaeology taking place during the 1960s to 1980s.
last
update: 6 June 2010
