Asteroids named after people called Henry
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(4384) Henrybuhl
Henry Buhl, Jr. (1848-1927) was a philanthropist who established the Buhl Foundation for “the well-being of the citizens of Pittsburgh and the County of Allegheny”. The foundation created the Buhl Planetarium and supports education, human services and youth and economic development in the community.Discovered 3 January 1990 by Hioki, T., Hayakawa, S., Okutama
(5891) Gehrig
Named in memory of Henry Louis (Lou) Gehrig (1903-1941), professional U.S. baseball player. From 1925 to 1939 Gehrig appeared in 2130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees, a reliability record that remained unbroken until 1995. Gehrig was a consistent left-handed batsman, with a career average of 0.340, but his career was ended prematurely as a result of amyothrophic lateral sclerosis (“Lou Gehrig's Disease”). Name suggested by G. V. Williams, who made the identifications involving this object, and T. B. Spahr.Discovered 22 September 1981 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(9016) Henrymoore
Named in memory of Henry J. Moore (1928-1998). A geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey since 1960, Moore took part in the fledgling astrogeology program helping to train the Apollo astronauts in impact geology prior to the moon landings. He participated in the analysis of the lunar samples they brought back and worked with the photographs of the moon's surface taken from orbit. His experience in the selection of lunar landing sites transferred to the Mars Viking project. Moore's work on the Mars Pathfinder mission and with its Mars rover, Sojourner, were among his last contributions.Discovered 10 January 1986 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M., Palomar
(10557) Rowland
Henry Rowland (1848-1901) was an American physicist who in 1885 developed a machine capable of engraving as many as 20~000 lines per inch for the construction of diffraction gratings. His invention of the concave diffraction grating revolutionized spectrum analysis.Discovered 15 September 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(10637) Heimlich
Henry J. Heimlich is an American surgeon who in the early 1970s devised the “Heimlich maneuver”, a potentially life-saving procedure for propelling food or other foreign objects up and out of the throat.Discovered 26 August 1998 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(10753) van de Velde
The Belgian architect and painter Henry Clemens van de Velde (1863-1957), who worked at the court of Weimar during 1900-1914, founded and directed the Arts and Crafts School, later changed into the Bauhaus. To his regret, critics labeled “Der Neue Stil” of his art as “Jugendstil”.Discovered 28 November 1989 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
(12727) Cavendish
Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) was a British eccentric and a physicist. In 1798 he successfully determined the universal constant of gravitation using an apparatus with two small lead spheres, attached on a fiber, and two large lead spheres, by measuring the angular deflection of the fiber.Discovered 14 August 1991 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(13806) Darmstrong
High-school geography teacher Henry Armstrong (b. 1962) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with keen observing skills.Discovered 8 December 1998 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(17857) Hsieh
Henry H. Hsieh (b. 1978) has studied the nature of the comet-like Themis-family minor planet (7968) = 133P/Elst-Pizarro and has surveyed the main belt for examples of similar transition objects.Discovered 18 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(18979) Henryfong
Henry Fong (b. 1987) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his chemistry team project. He attends the Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California, U.S.A.Discovered 1 September 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(19454) Henrymarr
Henry Louis Marr (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his medicine and health project. He attends the Alhambra High School, Alhambra, California, U.S.A.Discovered 25 March 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(27365) Henryfitz
Henry Fitz (1808-1863) was an amateur astronomer, early photographer and an optician best known for his high quality telescopes in an era when glass was of inferior quality. He made the largest refractor telescopes in America at the time.Discovered 3 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(28118) Vaux
Henry Vaux (b. 1940) published a photographic book in 2018, Legacy in Time, which took 20 years to complete. He also served for ten years as Associate Vice President at the University of California System. Henry has served on Lowell Observatory's Advisory Board for many years, giving generously of his time and talent to further Lowell's mission.Discovered 17 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(28803) Roe
Henry G. Roe (b. 1975) is an assistant astronomer at Lowell Observatory. His research interests include weather on Titan and methane in the outer solar system.Discovered 28 April 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(29658) Henrylin
Henry Wanjune Lin (b. 1995) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his physics and astronomy project. He also received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award. He attends the Caddo Parish Magnet High School, Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S.A.Discovered 21 November 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(34778) Huhunglick
Henry Hung-lick Hu (b. 1920) is a barrister-at-law in Hong Kong. In 1971 he founded Shue Yan (“the cultivation of virtue”) College, the first university in Hong Kong that was privately funded.Discovered 10 September 2001 by W. K. Y. Yeung, Desert Eagle
(44597) Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an essayist and naturalist who took the naturalist beliefs of transcendentalism out of the realm of theory into practice and built himself a rustic cabin on the shores of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. His memoir of this experience is Walden, or Life in the Woods.Discovered 6 August 1999 by Ticha, J., Tichy, M., Klet
(117329) Spencer
Henry Spencer (b. 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist and small-satellite engineer. He has been a pioneer of open-source software, including C News and the “regex” pattern-matching library. He is also the keeper of the oldest surviving Usenet archives and the software architect for the MOST astronomy satellite.Discovered 9 December 2004 by Jarnac, Vail-Jarnac
(193736) Henrythroop
Henry B. Throop (b. 1972) is a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute. He served as a Science Team Collaborator and as a member of the Spacecraft Hazard Team for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Discovered 25 March 2001 by M. W. Buie, Kitt Peak
(254422) Henrykent
Henry Kent is an inventor with a passion and curiosity for science and engineering. He worked at the Ontario Science Center in Toronto, Canada, for twenty years.Discovered 9 November 2004 by Wiegert, P. A., Papadimos, A., Mauna Kea