Asteroids named after people called Els
(292856) Peeters
Els Peeters (b. 1973) is a Belgian-Canadian astronomer who completed her PhD at the University of Groningen on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and dust in regions of massive star formation. She studies how stars are formed, the inter-/circumstellar medium in galaxies, and theoretical astrochemistry. She is one of the co-discoverers of fullerenes in space.Discovered 26 October 2006 by P. A. Wiegert, Mauna Kea