Asteroids named after people called Amos

(20285) Lubin

Amos Benjamin Lubin (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Hanover High School, Hanover, New Hampshire.Discovered 20 March 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro

(161315) de Shalit

Amos de Shalit (1926-1969) was an Israeli nuclear physicist who made important contributions to the nuclear-shell model. In 1954 he founded the faculty of physics at the Weizmann Institute of science, and served as the institute director general. In 1968 de Shalit founded the science-education department at the Weizmann Institute.Discovered 19 August 2003 by D. Polishook, Wise