Asteroids named after people called Mare
(9994) Grotius
The works Mare Liberum (1609; Free Access to the Ocean for all nations) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625; On the Law of War and Peace) of the Dutch statesman Hugo Grotius (Huig de Groot, 1583–1645) laid the foundation for modern international law.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar