Asteroids named after people called Jerome
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(8153) Gattacceca
Jérôme Gattacceca (b. 1973) is a research scientist based in CEREGE à Aix-en-Provence, France. Jérôme is an expert on the magnetic signatures of meteorites and Moon rocks. He leads meteorite recovery missions to the Atacama desert in Chile, and is the head of the Meteoritical Society nomenclature committee.Discovered 25 November 1986 by A. Mrkos, Klet
(9136) Lalande
Named in memory of Joseph-Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande (1732-1807), famous French astronomer who computed many useful tables for practical astronomical work and authored many papers and textbooks. After some years as an assistant to Delisle, Le Monnier and Lacaille, Lalande went to Berlin in order to prepare measurements for determining the lunar parallax. He was a member of the Berlin and Paris academies of science and was editor of many volumes of the almanac Connaissance des temps during 1760-1776 and 1794-1807. His monumental Bibliographie astronomique (1802) has lasted for two centuries.Discovered 13 May 1971 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
(9837) Jerryhorow
Jerome Horowitz (1928-2009) was the father of the discoverer.Discovered 12 January 1986 by I. Horowitz, Anderson Mesa
(15905) Berthier
Jérôme Berthier (b. 1968) works on minor planets at the Institut de Mécanique Céleste in Paris. His main goal is to develop both accurate ephemerides and the reduction package PRIAM to predict stellar occultations by minor planets.Discovered 27 September 1997 by ODAS, Caussols
(20578) Parisot
Jérôme Parisot (b. 1970) is a French research engineer specializing in assembly, integration and tests activities for space instruments for over 30 years. He started working on OMEGA/Mars Express, and then on instruments on multiple missions, including VIRTIS on Rosetta.Discovered 9 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(24999) Hieronymus
Jerome van Aeken (Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516), was a Dutch painter of the late Middle Ages who showed the depths of the human mind. In works such as The Temptation of St. Anthony he used symbols to depict vulnerability to the temptation of evil and the obsessive attraction of lust, heresy and obscenity.Discovered 24 July 1998 by P. Pravec, Ondrejov
(30441) Curly
Brooklyn-born Curly Howard (Jerome Horwitz, 1903-1952) of Three Stooges fame was one of the greats of comedy. Generally forgetful of his lines, he would ad-lib much of the time.Discovered 24 June 2000 by J. Broughton, Reedy Creek
(116903) Jeromeapt
Jerome Apt (b. 1949) is a former director of JPL's Table Mountain Observatory, former NASA astronaut (four shuttle flights, 1991–1996), and current professor at Pittsburg's Carnegie Mellon University.Discovered 11 April 2004 by J. W. Young, Wrightwood
(227147) Coggiajerome
Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849–1919) was a French astronomer, born in the small village of Coggia, Corsica. He discovered six comets and five asteroids at the Marseille Observatory.Discovered 10 August 2005 by M. Ory, Vicques