Asteroids named after people called Kristian
馃懚 Kristian as a baby name
Danish astrophysicist Kristian Pedersen (b. 1966) is known for his research on how stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies form. In 2004 he was awarded the Tycho Brahe Gold Medal as an acknowledgment of his outstanding public outreach skills.Discovered 13 March 1988 by P. Jensen, Brorfelde
Kristian Olaf Birkeland (1867-1917) was a Norwegian scientist who elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. He constructed an electromagnetic device enabling him to simulate the light of the polar aurora by directing a beam of cathode rays (electrons) on a sphere in a vacuum tank.Discovered 16 January 1994 by Elst, E. W., Pollas, C., Caussols
Kristian Waldorff is the flight system GN&C LIDAR CPE at Lockheed Martin for the OSIRIS-REx Mission. He was a Payload Accommodation Engineer on the MAVEN mission and was on the Electrical System Engineering teams on the GRAIL and Phoenix missions.Discovered 9 December 2004 by CSS, Catalina
Kristian Moln谩r (b. 1976) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and enthusiastic eclipse chaser. He has visited four continents during twenty expeditions. He is an avid observer of eclipses, meteors, aurora borealis and the zodiacal light.Discovered 17 August 2002 by NEAT, Palomar
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