Asteroids named after people called Lieven
(8700) Gevaert
Lieven Gevaert (1868-1935) was a Belgian industrialist who established the “N.V. Gevaert Photo-Producten” at Mortsel, near Antwerp, beginning in 1890 with a small shop of homemade photographical paper. Gevaert glass plates have been used for many purposes in astronomy, especially for the astrometry of minor planets.Discovered 14 May 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla