Asteroids named after people called Bertil
(7331) Balindblad
Named in honor of Bertil A. Lindblad (b. 1921) of the Lund Observatory, in recognition of his lifetime work on meteor orbits; his long-term effort in establishing a database for all meteor orbits, now generally used by all meteor workers; his stewardship of IAU Commission 22, which he served as president in the early 1970s; and, in particular, his contribution to starting the very successful “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” series of conferences. Name suggested and citation written by I. P. Williams.Discovered 15 October 1985 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
(8698) Bertilpettersson
Bertil Pettersson (b. 1945) studies star formation, especially T Tauri stars and Herbig-Haro objects. He is also the system manager at the Uppsala Observatory.Discovered 19 March 1993 by UESAC, La Silla