Asteroids named after people called Maarten
馃懚 Maarten as a baby name
Maarten Schmidt (b. 1929) is a famous Dutch-American astronomer. His identification of the wavelengths of the radiation emitted by quasars led to the theory that they may be among the most distant and the oldest objects ever observed. The name was suggested by W. A. Fr枚ger and H. Habing.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Maarten H. Versteeg (b. 1960) is a Staff Engineer at the Southwest Research Institute. He served as the Alice UV Spectrometer Instrument Software Lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Discovered 22 February 2004 by M. W. Buie, Kitt Peak
Other first names
