Asteroids named after people called Jeffery
馃懚 Jeffery as a baby name馃惗 Jeffery as a dog name
(5597) Warren
Named in honor of Jeffery Warren (b. 1960), optical engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University. Warren was responsible for the design, fabrication and operation of a major instrument on the NEAR spacecraft, the Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIS). The NIS investigation represents the first-ever mapping of the surface of a minor planet from orbit. Name suggested and citation provided by J. Veverka.Discovered 5 August 1991 by H. E. Holt, Palomar