Asteroids named after people called Annemarie

(20597) Pickersgill

Annemarie Pickersgill (b. 1987) is a Canadian planetary scientist at the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, investigating the effects of hypervelocity impact cratering processes. They provided a revised age for the Chicxulub “dinosaur killing” impact crater showing hydrothermal systems were much longer lived than previously thought.Discovered 11 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

(26235) Annemaduggan

Annemarie Duggan mentored a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Shrewsbury High School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.Discovered 17 August 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro