Asteroids named after people called Margaret
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(8353) Megryan
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (Meg Ryan, b. 1961) majored in journalism and later became an actress. She showed her talent in You've Got Mail (1999).Discovered 3 April 1989 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(8632) Egleston
Margaret Ericksen Egleston (b. 1943) has since 1984 been a scientific programmer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she helps John Wolbach in his research on solar activity and climate.Discovered 28 March 1981 by Harvard Observatory, Harvard
(10739) Lowman
Margaret D. Lowman (b. 1953) has worked to understand the role tropical forests play in Earth's interconnected ecosystem. As a canopy biologist, field work has taken her to the treetops of Australia, Belize, Panama, Peru and Africa. She directs research and conservation at Florida's Marie Selby Botanical Gardens.Discovered 12 May 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M., Palomar
(12317) Madicampbell
Margaret Diane Campbell (b. 1976), a Ph.D. student at the University of Western Ontario, became interested in astronomy as a young girl.Discovered 24 April 1992 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(22038) Margarshain
Margaret Shain mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, New Albany, Indiana.Discovered 12 December 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(22725) Drabble
English writer Margaret Drabble (b. 1939) has, among other works, published seventeen novels, has edited The Oxford Companion to English literature and is a biographer of Arnold Bennett and Angus Wilson. She became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2008.Discovered 19 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(37159) Margaretmead
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was an American cultural anthropologist whose work brought wide public attention to culture, childhood, kinship and human social life. Her legacy is often linked with the idea that care for the vulnerable lies near the roots of civilization.Discovered 17 November 2000 by W. K. Y. Yeung, Desert Beaver
(46270) Margaretlandis
Margaret E. Landis (b. 1990) is an American scientist who studies the history of volatiles, especially water ice, in the solar system. Her work focuses on topics including the origin and fate of the Ceres water vapor exosphere. She advocates for robotic exploration of potentially icy objects, like (24) Themis.Discovered 26 April 2001 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(49777) Cappi
Margaret Capitola Sonntag Comba (b. 1940) is the discoverer's second wife and the joy and comfort of his old age. She is a psychologist and art therapist by profession and a faculty member at Prescott College.Discovered 2 December 1999 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
(50725) Margarethuggins
Margaret Huggins (1848–1915) was an Irish-English astronomer who was a pioneer of photographic spectrography. She co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1899) with her husband, William.Discovered 4 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(70030) Margaretmiller
Margaret Joan Miller (b. 1956) is the wife of the discoverer. A graduate of Indiana University, she is an accomplished violist who, as a member of the DaVinci Quartet, was a prize winner in two major international competitions. She now devotes her time to teaching viola and violin to students of all ages.Discovered 7 February 1999 by B. D. Warner, Palmer Divide
(117385) Maughan
Margaret Gardner Maughan (1928–2020) was a British Paralympian. In 1960, she won her nation’s first Paralympic gold medal. Margaret lit the cauldron at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.Discovered 18 December 2004 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Mount Lemmon
(119195) Margaretgreer
Margaret Hatcher Greer (b. 1951) is a retired elementary school teacher from Decatur, Alabama. She is a lover of science and astronomy, and she taught at Walter Jackson Elementary and Ben Davis Elementary.Discovered 25 August 2001 by L. Ball, Emerald Lane
(143048) Margaretpenston
Margaret Penston (b. 1941) is an astronomer recognized for her work in astronomy education. She is past president of the U.K. Society for Popular Astronomy and the author of several books on astronomy for the general public.Discovered 2 November 2002 by Fitzsimmons, A., Williams, I. P., La Palma
(154997) Marstream
Margaret Streamer (b. 1947) is an amateur Australian astronomer who was told by her high-school principal “don't be silly, girls don't do astronomy”. Almost 60 years later, after a career in biochemistry and a lifetime interest in amateur astronomy, Margaret returned to university and graduated with a Master of Philosophy (Astronomy and Astrophysics).Discovered 2 July 2005 by D. Herald, Kambah
(186411) Margaretsimon
Named in honor of Margaret Simon (b. 1967), a strategic communications manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who served as the External Events Coordinator for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.Discovered 10 August 2002 by M. W. Buie, Cerro Tololo
(251633) Kivelson
Margaret Kivelson (b. 1928) is an American professor of planetary science and space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is an expert in the magnetospheric and internal properties of planets and moons. Among her many accomplishments, Margaret provided compelling evidence for a subsurface ocean on Jupiter’s moon Europa.Discovered 21 May 2010 by WISE, WISE
(262106) Margaretryan
Margaret Ryan Masiero (b. 1956) is an American accountant, working for the Purnell School in New Jersey. She is the mother of the discoverer.Discovered 14 September 2006 by J. Masiero, Mauna Kea