Asteroids named after people called Hiram
馃懚 Hiram as a baby name
Hiram Bingham (1885-1956), a member of the history faculty at Yale University, went searching for the lost city of the Incas. After tremendous effort he found it鈥揗achu Picchu鈥揾igh in the Andes, not far from Cuzco, on 1911 July 24.Discovered 2 September 1992 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Hiram Perkins (1833-1924) was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Ohio Wesleyan University from 1857 to 1907. In 1923 he used profits raised through hog farming during the Civil War to fund the construction of Perkins Observatory in Delaware, Ohio.Discovered 30 August 1981 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
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