Asteroids named after people called Bobby

(5642) Bobbywilliams

Named in honor of Bobby G. Williams (b. 1951), celestial mechanics and spacecraft navigation expert at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Williams has been a leader of the navigation effort for the NEAR mission to (253) Mathilde and (433) Eros. Name suggested and citation provided by J. Veverka and D. K. Yeomans.Discovered 27 July 1990 by H. E. Holt, Palomar

(19577) Bobbyfisher

Bobby Drake Fisher (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a middle school science competition, for his botany and zoology project. He attends the Salesian Sisters Elementary School, Corralitos, California.Discovered 9 June 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro