Asteroids named after people called Damon
馃懚 Damon as a baby name馃惗 Damon as a dog name
(8071) Simonelli
Named in honor of Damon P. Simonelli (b. 1959), planetary scientist at Cornell University and an expert in the study of minor-planetlike bodies using spacecraft photometry. Simonelli was developer of the standard photometric model of Phobos, and a major contributor to the analysis of ground-based and Galileo observations of (951) Gaspra and (243) Ida. Name suggested by B. E. Clark and citation provided by J. Veverka.Discovered 5 April 1981 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
(30372) Halback
Damon Halback mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Harker School, San Jose, California.Discovered 7 May 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro