Asteroids named after people called Harold
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(3898) Curlewis
Named in memory of Harold Burnham Curlewis (1874–1960), government astronomer for Western Australia during 1912–1940 and second director of the Perth Observatory. Because of severe funding cuts, he was sometimes the observatory's only employee, but he managed to keep the observatory operational during the severe years of the depression. His 38 years of continuous service remain the longest of any employee of the Perth Observatory. Name suggested and citation provided by J. Biggs and P. Birch.Discovered 26 September 1981 by M. P. Candy, Bickley
(6761) Haroldconnolly
Harold C. Connolly (b. 1965) is a professor at Kingsborough Community College in New York. His work on petrologic and experimental studies of meteorites has played a key role in understanding the origin and evolution of chondrules and calcium-aluminum inclusions in the solar nebula.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
(13327) Reitsema
Harold J. Reitsema (b. 1948), of Ball Aerospace, Boulder, has been a participant in many of the successful occultation expeditions to determine sizes and shapes of minor planets, and he has also used occultations to study planetary atmospheres. The name was suggested by M. F. A'Hearn.Discovered 17 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(15109) Wilber
Named in honor of Harold T. Wilber for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Wilber is a teacher at the Franklin Middle School, Springfield, Illinois.Discovered 2 February 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(15146) Halpov
Harold R. Povenmire (b. 1939) has extensively searched the Georgia strewn field in an effort to find tektites and understand their complicated geology. He recently published the book Tektites: A Cosmic Enigma. He has also been an avid observer of grazing lunar occultations and of occultations by minor planets.Discovered 11 March 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(18560) Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (b. 1907) is an English-Canadian mathematician and former professor at the University of Toronto. He has been a prolific writer on intuitively simple geometric problems, such as the classification of polytopes and the tiling of the plane with convex polygons.Discovered 7 March 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(44117) Haroldlarson
Harold P. Larson (b. 1938), pioneering airborne infrared astronomer and educator at the University of Arizona, discovered the presence of water in Jupiter's atmosphere. He is a distinguished educator, winning awards for innovative work with undergraduate students.Discovered 21 April 1998 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(95980) Haroldhill
Harold Hill (1920-2005) was a well known selenographer with the British Astronomical Association's Lunar Section and is considered to have been the last of the great visual lunar cartographers. He received the BAA Merlin Medal in 1969 and is best remembered for his seminal 1991 work, Portfolio of Lunar Drawings.Discovered 14 June 2004 by CSS, Catalina
(114096) Haroldbier
Harold D. Bier (b. 1931), chemistry professor emeritus at Texas Lutheran University, helped found the department and played a major role in educating students in physical and analytical chemistry for over 30 years. More than 120 of these students received advanced degrees in chemistry, medicine and the sciences.Discovered 8 November 2002 by J. V. McClusky, Kingsnake
(175203) Kingston
Harold R. Kingston (1885–1963) was the founder of the London Center of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Kingston became the national president of the RASC in 1930. This naming is in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the London Center's founding in 1922.Discovered 31 March 2005 by Jarnac, Vail-Jarnac