Asteroids named after people called Jonas
👶 Jonas as a baby name🐶 Jonas as a dog name
(34478) Jonasboukamp
Jonas Boukamp (b. 1999) was awarded second place in the 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his plant sciences team project. He attended the Berufskolleg Rheine, Rheine, Germany.Discovered 24 September 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(252794) Maironis
Maironis, pseudonym of Jonas Mačiulis (1862-1932), is one of the most famous Lithuanian romantic poets. As a Roman Catholic priest, he served as rector of the seminary in Kaunas until 1922, when he was elected professor of moral theology at the Kaunas University.Discovered 16 March 2002 by Cernis, K., Zdanavicius, J., Moletai
(392440) Klimavicius
Jonas Klimavičius (1923–2018) was a Lithuanian amateur astronomer and the uncle of the first discoverer. He had an extensive library and a small observatory with 40×75-mm binoculars. By showing the night sky through his telescope and providing books on astronomy, he was the first to inspire an interest in observing the starry sky in the first discoverer.Discovered 8 September 2010 by Cernis, K., Zdanavicius, J., Moletai