Asteroids named after people called Frederic
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Frederic Edward Church (1826-1900) was one of several American artists of the Hudson River School who strove to paint the wonders of nature in meticulous and dynamically detailed landscapes. He was perhaps the most famous American painter of his time.Discovered 4 November 1991 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
H. Frederic Bohnenblust (1906-2000) was a Swiss-American mathematician who held professorships at Princeton and later at Caltech, where he became dean of graduate studies. A great teacher and a strong advocate of mathematical education, he was the discoverer's thesis adviser.Discovered 27 December 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Frederic Koehler (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his computer-science project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Discovered 31 March 1997 by LINEAR, Socorro
Frédéric Vitoux (b. 1944) was a French writer and journalist known for his novel Bébert, Le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1976).Discovered 23 March 1993 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
Frederic Moynier (b. 1978) is a French cosmochemist who is an expert on volatile element abundances in meteorites and returned samples from asteroids and the Moon. His research has shed light on the processes and timing of volatile-element delivery on Earth.Discovered 9 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Frédéric Merlin (b. 1981) is a planetary scientist at Paris Observatory. He studies transneptunian objects using spectroscopy and surface compositional modeling.Discovered 7 September 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Frédéric Courant (b. 1960) is a journalist who, since 1993, has worked as an animator of the French television science program C'est pas sorcier. This program has interviewed thousands of scientists and has shown through its wide audience the wonders of science to many children.Discovered 22 September 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
Frederic J. Pelletier (b. 1974) is a senior engineer at KinetX, and served as Navigation Lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Discovered 11 April 2005 by M. W. Buie, Kitt Peak
Frédéric Vachier (b. 1974) works at IMCCE-Observatoire de Paris as a celestial mechanician and observer. He has studied binary asteroids, both as an observer and as a theorist for orbit determinations.Discovered 20 August 2001 by Pic du Midi, Pic du Midi
Frédéric Pont (b. 1967) is a Swiss astrophysicist who is a professor at Exeter University. A pioneer in the study of exoplanet atmospheres, he discovered several exoplanets using the transit method. With the Hubble Space Telescope Frédéric detected the first haze in an exoplanet atmosphere. He founded the Exoclimes conference cycle.Discovered 28 November 2008 by M. Ory, Vicques
Frédéric Séguin (b. 1981) is a Canadian analytical chemist. As a member of the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory, he took part in the analysis of small organic molecules present in the sample brought back from asteroid Bennu during the OSIRIS-REx mission.Discovered 28 September 2009 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Mount Lemmon
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