Asteroids named after people called Eli

(226861) Elimaor

Eli Maor (b. 1937) is a respected historian of mathematics, whose books include To Infinity and Beyond (1991), e: The Story of a Number (1994) and The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000 Year History (2007). To sky watchers, he is best known for his definitive history Venus in Transit (2000).Discovered 14 October 2004 by Jarnac, Vail-Jarnac