Asteroids named after people called Kenneth
👶 Kenneth as a baby name
Named in honor of Kenneth A. Pounds, professor of physics at Leicester University, where he has directed x-ray astronomy, in which he is a pioneer, for 25 years. Pounds leads the British participation on ROSAT, which has just produced the first x-ray and XUV photographs of the Moon. An active supporter of amateur initiatives through many talks to societies, he is strongly in favor of publicizing astronomy in the most general way. Pounds is currently president of the Royal Astronomical Society and was awarded the Commander of the British Empire for services to astronomy. Name suggested and citation material provided by S. A. Mitton.Discovered 15 October 1985 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Named in honor of Kenneth J. Lawrence, astronomer and valuable member of the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey team, on the occasion of his 28th birthday, 1992 May 30. Discoverer of near-Earth asteroids and comets, his congenial personality and wry wit contribute to the smooth operation of the highly-focused NEA discovery program. This recognition is heartily endorsed by his friends and coworkers, Jeff Alu, Perry Rose and Brian Roman.Discovered 4 October 1986 by E. F. Helin, Palomar
Kenneth Robert Steel (b. 1929) is the father of the discoverer.Discovered 27 March 1992 by D. I. Steel, Siding Spring
Kenneth A. Williams, of Lake Clear, New York, is an accomplished astrometrist, astrophotographer, and discoverer of numerous minor planets.Discovered 18 July 1996 by G. R. Viscome, Rand
Kenneth Dale “Taco” Cockrell (b. 1950), an engineer and pilot with NASA from 1987 to 1990, was then selected as an astronaut and flew on space shuttle missions STS-56, STS-69, STS-80, STS-98 and STS-111.Discovered 8 January 1994 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
Kenneth P. Klaasen (b. 1946), a geomorphologist and expert in scientific operations of spacecraft at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has designed observational sequences for numerous planetary missions, most recently for Deep Impact, for which he has also overseen instrument calibration.Discovered 2 August 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
After 31 years, Kenneth Seitz (b. 1941) is retiring in 2009 as director of Cantilena, a women's chorale in Arlington, Massachusetts. He has delighted audiences as a conductor and pianist, contributing significantly to the treble-voice repertoire through his compositions, arrangements and research.Discovered 19 May 1999 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
Kenneth Kennedy (b. 1942) has been an active amateur astronomer in Scotland for fifty years. A retired senior hematologist, he has been Director of the BAA Aurora Section and has encouraged amateur collaboration in professional studies of aurora and polar mesospheric clouds.Discovered 4 November 1993 by R. H. McNaught, Siding Spring
Kenneth Richard Ott (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his biochemistry project. He attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.Discovered 6 April 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Kenneth C. Freeman (b. 1940), professor at the Australian National University, is well known for his studies of the formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies, particularly of the Milky Way.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Kenneth Kaplan mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York.Discovered 21 April 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
Kenneth Greathouse mentored a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Parkway Central High School, Chesterfield, Missouri.Discovered 8 December 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Kenneth B. Wiberg (b. 1927) has made many important contributions to the areas of spectroscopy, organic chemistry and computational chemistry while on the faculties of the University of Washington (1950-1962) and Yale University (since 1962).Discovered 28 December 1999 by J. V. McClusky, Fair Oaks Ranch
Kenneth T. Poshedly (b. 1949) is the tireless Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers. In 2010 he won the Peggy Haas Service Award for his work with that organization.Discovered 30 January 2000 by CSS, Catalina
Kenneth Ozuna mentored a finalist in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Del Norte High School, San Diego, California.Discovered 20 March 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Kenneth Williams (b. 1956) is a member of the navigation team at KinetX, Inc. for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He was the Navigation Team Chief for the MESSENGER orbiter and the Stardust Missions, the Lead Maneuver Analyst for the Genesis mission, and a Mission Planner for the Cassini mission.Discovered 3 November 1999 by CSS, Catalina
Kenneth Dale Wilson (b. 1954) is the former planetarium director with the Virginia Museum of Natural Sciences and a co-author of several books on amateur astronomy.Discovered 1 December 2003 by CSS, Catalina
Kenneth Shamordola (b. 1943) is an electric engineer for the OTES instrument on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He is providing electronic design support for servo controllers and low noise signal channels for the OTES instrument design and testing.Discovered 21 April 2003 by CSS, Catalina
Kenneth Irwin Kellermann (b. 1937) is a radio astronomer at the (U.S.) National Radio Astronomy Observatory. He is known for radio spectroscopy, for leadership in the development of very long baseline interferometry, and for the achievement of high-spatial resolution and increased sensitivity in radio observations.Discovered 4 April 2000 by L. H. Wasserman, Anderson Mesa
Kenneth Tapping (b. 1945), a solar physicist at the NRC-Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Penticton, B.C., is responsible for Canada's 10.7-cm flux measurements (continuous since 1946) that are critical to understanding solar variability and climate.Discovered 9 September 2007 by D. D. Balam, Mauna Kea
Kenneth Lane Thompson (b. 1943) is a computer scientist and winner of the Turing, Hamming Medal, National Medal of Technology and Japan Prize awards. He created the B programming language, the UTF-8 character encoding and the Belle chess machine, and was co-creator of the UNIX and Plan 9 operating systems.Discovered 30 January 2008 by Glinos, T., Levy, D. H., Vail-Jarnac
Kenneth C. Chambers (b. 1956) is an American astronomer who began his career at the Johns Hopkins University. After a postdoc at Leiden University he joined the faculty of the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi. There he became the founding Director of the Pan-STARRS Observatory, where he focused his efforts on the Pan-STARRS surveys.Discovered 26 July 2015 by Pan-STARRS 2, Haleakala
Kenneth O. Wright (1911–2002) was a Canadian Director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory of the National Research Council of Canada until 1976, having joined the observatory staff in 1936. He was a renowned stellar spectroscopist with an interest in supergiant stars and the chemical abundance of stars.Discovered 26 December 2006 by K. M. Perrett D. D. Balam, Maunakea
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