Asteroids named after people called Beate

(5559) Beategordon

Beate Sirota Gordon (1923-2012) was an Austrian-born American. In 1946, at age 22, she was responsible for the inclusion of women's rights into the Japanese constitution. To protect that work, she remained silent about her contributions for much of her life.Discovered 27 June 1990 by E. F. Helin, Palomar

(10954) Spiegel

Beate Spiegel (b. 1960) serves as head of the office of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. She was instrumental in supporting the project “Digitization of the Palomar-Leiden Survey and the T-n Trojan Surveys” of the van Houtens. The name was suggested by L. D. Schmadel.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar