Asteroids named after people called Colin
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(5833) Peterson
Colin A. Peterson (b. 1977), a research support specialist at Cornell University, and responsible for designing sequences for the NEAR spacecraft Multi-Spectral Imager and Near-Infrared Spectrometer team, has developed innovative methods for obtaining spectral maps of (433) Eros. The name was suggested by J. Veverka.Discovered 5 August 1991 by H. E. Holt, Palomar
(13213) Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746) is known for his “Taylor adapted series”, which he used for adding powers of arithmetic progressions. He is particularly honored for his Treatise of Fluxions (1742), in which he presented for the first time Newton's methods on this subject.Discovered 3 May 1997 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(15347) Colinstuart
Colin Stuart (b. 1986) is a British astronomy writer and presenter. He has given public astronomy talks to over 250,000 people in schools and at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, written many popular astronomy articles and space books. In 2014 he was runner up in the European Astronomy Journalism Prize.Discovered 26 October 1994 by B. G. W. Manning, Stakenbridge
(15614) Pillinger
Colin T. Pillinger (b. 1943), a planetary geochemist, made significant discoveries in the light-element geochemistry of meteorites, diamonds, lunar samples and terrestrial samples. He is the originator and principal investigator of the Beagle 2 Mars lander. The name was suggested by E. K. Gibson.Discovered 7 April 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(17051) Oflynn
Colin Patrick O'Flynn (b. 1986) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering project. He attends the Westdale Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.Discovered 20 March 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(43500) Chandler
Colin Orion Chandler (b. 1978) is an American astronomer at the University of Washington. His 2022 Ph.D. dissertation at Northern Arizona University used public imaging databases to identify previously unknown cometary activity in main-belt asteroids and other minor planets.Discovered 1 February 2001 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(158589) Snodgrass
Colin Snodgrass (b. 1981) is an astronomer at the European Southern Observatory. His work centers on the characterization of inactive cometary nuclei through photometry, measuring their sizes, colors and rotation periods. He is also active in observing exoplanetary systems.Discovered 23 June 2002 by Fitzsimmons, A., Collander-Brown, S., La Palma
(391496) Colineldridge
Colin Eldridge (b. 1941) is an Australian amateur astronomer and generous supporter of astronomy outreach and education in Western Australia.Discovered 11 August 2007 by P. Luckas, Shenton Park