Asteroids named after people called Chryssa
(28883) Kouveliotou
Chryssa Kouveliotou (b. 1953) has been a leader in high energy astrophysics. Starting as a professor in her native Greece, she spent most of her career in the USA, working for NASA and, later, George Washington University. Using a succession of orbiting observatories, she has led discoveries on 纬-ray bursters and confirmed the existence of magnetars.Discovered 24 May 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa