Asteroids named after people called Abraham
馃懚 Abraham as a baby name馃惗 Abraham as a dog name
(13132) Ortelius
Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer. Creator of the first modern atlas (Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1570) he believed that the continents were joined together before drifting away from each other.Discovered 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(28729) Moivre
Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754) was born in France but flourished in England. He wrote a major treatise on probability theory, where he gave an approximation to the binomial distribution and proved a trigonometric identity that played an important role in the early development of complex number theory.Discovered 11 April 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(31956) Wald
Abraham Wald (1902-1950) was an American statistician whose most important work was the development of the theory of sequential testing of hypotheses.Discovered 13 April 2000 by P. G. Comba, Prescott