Asteroids named after people called Bradford
馃懚 Bradford as a baby name馃惗 Bradford as a dog name
(8553) Bradsmith
Bradford A. Smith (b. 1931) is an American astronomer who served as the principal investigator of the Imaging Experiment Team of the Voyager missions to the outer planets and has also contributed to many other NASA missions. He has also served as president of IAU Commission 16.Discovered 20 April 1995 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K., Kitami
(10041) Parkinson
Bradford Parkinson led a team that developed the Global Positioning System with revolutionary tracking technology. The GPS has transformed navigation, recreation, law enforcement and all sciences requiring precise knowledge of location.Discovered 24 April 1985 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M., Palomar
(15622) Westrich
Named in honor of Bradford J. Westrich for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Bradford is a student at the Edgewood Middle School, Moriarty, New Mexico.Discovered 27 April 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro