Asteroids named after people called Laird
(25015) Lairdclose
Laird M. Close (b. 1967), Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, is an expert in adaptive optics, particularly as applied to the study of brown dwarfs, exoplanets and asteroids. He was a co-discoverer of the satellite of (45) Eugenia, the first asteroid satellite imaged from Earth, as well as (90) Antiope, and others.Discovered 19 August 1998 by NEAT, Haleakala