Asteroids named after people called Kip
馃懚 Kip as a baby name馃惗 Kip as a dog name
(16740) Kipthorne
Kip S. Thorne (b. 1940) is an astrophysicist working principally in the field of gravitation physics. The youngest full professor in the history of the California Institute of Technology, he was coauthor of the famous book, Gravitation (1973), with John Wheeler and Charles Mismer.Discovered 22 May 1996 by E. W. Elst, La Silla