Asteroids named after people called Hendrick
馃懚 Hendrick as a baby name馃惗 Hendrick as a dog name
(12646) Avercamp
Dutch painter Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) specialized in painting the Netherlands in winter during the time that is now known as the Little Ice Age. Many of Avercamp's paintings feature people ice skating on frozen lakes. Name suggested by W. A. Fr枚ger.Discovered 25 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(29208) Halorentz
The Dutch physicist Hendrick Antoon Lorentz (1853-1928) formulated the classic electron theory and predicted the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation, the Lorentz contraction, time dilation and the velocity dependence of the mass. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics with his student Zeeman.Discovered 9 September 1991 by Borngen, F., Schmadel, L. D., Tautenburg