Asteroids named after people called Cyrena

(6762) Cyrenagoodrich

Cyrena A. Goodrich (b. 1955) is a professor at Kingsborough Community College in New York. She is the leading expert on the formation of ureilites, studying these meteorites as probes of the complex melting and reduction they experienced during minor-planet differentiation.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring