Allen wrote: > I just realized that we have an asteroidal namesake on the list: > From www.jhuapl.edu/public/pr/announ/990803.htm : > "Asteroid 5446 will now be known as 5446 Heyler in recognition > of Gene Heyler, a spacecraft attitude control expert from Columbia, > Md., who has been responsible for developing innovative techniques > for tracking minor planets during fast flybys. These techniques played > a major role in the success of the NEAR flyby of asteroid 253 Mathilde > in June 1997." We have others as well: Jonathan McDowell (4589) and Tony Beresford (5682) come to mind. There is a Matson (2586), but it is named for Dennis Matson at JPL (a project scientist for Cassini, who I believe did earlier work at Palomar). I'll have to work a bit harder before I've earned the honor... :-) Cheers, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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