Asteroids named after people called Mike
👶 Mike as a baby name🐶 Mike as a dog name🐱 Mike as a cat name
(9938) Kretlow
Mike Kretlow, a longtime friend of the discoverer, was a fellow student at the University of Siegen, where he wrote a masters' thesis about nongravitational forces on comets.Discovered 18 May 1988 by W. Landgraf, La Silla
(10789) Mikeread
Mike Read (b. 1978) is a student working with Spacewatch as an observer and engineer. He has been responsible for the design, construction and wiring of some of the Spacewatch Camera electronics. He has performed some exceptionally difficult recovery observations. He has also served as the Spacewatch Webmaster.Discovered 5 November 1991 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(12128) Palermiti
Director of an observatory in Florida, Mike Palermiti (b. 1949) provides expert consultation to the astronomical community about optics, telescope design and CCDs. He contributed to the early development of low-light-level imaging and has made significant observations of novae, minor planets, comets and occultations.Discovered 13 September 1999 by C. W. Juels, Fountain Hills
(12666) Mikeauldridge
Mike Auldridge (1938–2012) was American resophonic guitar player and founding member of the renowned bluegrass group, the Seldom Scene. A revolutionary with the resophonic guitar, he was a first-call musician for Lyle Lovett, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, among many others, and a mentor for Rob Ickes, Jerry Douglas and other top players.Discovered 6 December 1978 by Bowell, E., Warnock, A., Palomar
(13745) Mikecosta
Mike Costa (b. 1954) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging observing interests, which he pursues with a 0.25-m Newtonian telescope. Costa has been an enthusiastic supporter of the activities of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre.Discovered 28 September 1998 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(14065) Flegel
Mike Flegel (b. 1955), an amateur astronomer and life member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre, edited the London Centre's newsletter in the late 1970s. Since 1998, he has worked as a networking consultant.Discovered 11 March 1996 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(14428) Lazaridis
Mike Lazaridis (b. 1961) founded a technology company specializing in mobile communications, in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1984. In 2000, he organized the Perimeter Institute, dedicated to pure research in physics and cosmology.Discovered 8 November 1991 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(20020) Mipach
Mike Powell (b. 1959), Paul Owen (b. 1960) and Chris Curwin (b. 1959) are amateur astronomers in New Brunswick, Canada. Motivated by the coronavirus lockdown to offer online presentations, they created The Sunday Night Astronomy Show, a live, interactive, informal program covering observing, equipment and special events. Over 150 editions have been produced.Discovered 4 November 1991 by Mizuno, Y., Furuta, T., Kani
(27336) Mikequinn
Mike Quinn mentored a finalist in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high-school seniors. He teaches at the Sunset High School, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.Discovered 4 February 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(27400) Mikewong
Mike Wong (b. 1971) is a planetary scientist at the University of California at Berkeley who studies giant planets in the Solar System. He is part of the team that discovered a moon around asteroid (624) Hektor, and he studied a 2009 impact on Jupiter while monitoring of the atmosphere with adaptive optics.Discovered 11 March 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(27531) Sweaton
Mike Sweaton (b. 1957) is the Electrical Engineer for Lowell Observatory. He has ensured the continued successful operation of the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT). He has also made many performance improvements to the LDT and assisted with night time operations.Discovered 26 April 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(28682) Newhams
Mike Newhams mentored a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. He teaches at the Out-of-Door Academy, Sarasota, Florida.Discovered 5 April 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(30004) Mikewilliams
Mike Williams (b. 1952) was a lead engineer at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He was instrumental in the design, fabrication and testing of instruments and hardware for ground-based observatories and numerous NASA spacecraft missions to Mars, as well as the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission.Discovered 30 January 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(30125) Mikekiser
Mike Kiser mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Brentwood High School, Brentwood, Tennessee.Discovered 29 March 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(30414) Pistacchi
Mike Pistacchi mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Harker School, San Jose, California.Discovered 29 May 2000 by LINEAR, Socorro
(32113) Mikeowen
Mike Owen (b. 1967) is an American researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and has been long involved in numerical modeling and mission design for planetary defense. He is one of the developers of the Spheral shock physics code that is being used to interpret the outcome of the DART impact.Discovered 28 May 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(45519) Triebold
Mike Triebold (b. 1953) is a leading preparator of museum quality fossils. In 2019 he was awarded the Charles H. Sternberg Medal by the Association of Applied Paleontological Sciences for contributions to paleontology, for fostering cooperation and understanding between professional, amateur and academic paleontologists.Discovered 30 January 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(45640) Mikepuzio
Mike Puzio (b. 2004) is an Eagle Scout. He suggested the name for Bennu, target of the OSIRIS-REx mission. He has given many presentations about the mission as an OSIRIS-REx Ambassador.Discovered 3 March 2000 by CSS, Catalina
(90447) Emans
Mike Emans (b. 1944) is a Seattle-area retired computer operations manager formerly with the Department of Information Services for the state of Washington. He is also a semi-professional guitarist with a group called “Common Threads” that played in the Washington area.Discovered 28 January 2004 by CSS, Catalina
(134028) Mikefitzgibbon
Mike Fitzgibbon (b. 1962) worked on the OSIRIS-REx mission as an OCAMS Software Engineer and on Space Shuttle missions with the AIS, GLO and UVSTAR instruments, and a number of planetary missions including Mars Polar Lander, Mars Odyssey, Phoenix, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, MESSENGER and MSL.Discovered 12 November 2004 by CSS, Catalina
(134244) De Young
Mike De Young (b. 1954) has taught at the Rehoboth Christian School since 1977. He was selected in 1995 by the National Association of Geology Teachers as one of the nations 24 outstanding earth science teachers. He runs the school observatory and is the local liaison for the Calvin-Rehoboth Robotic Observatory.Discovered 6 January 2006 by L. A. Molnar, Calvin-Rehoboth
(367732) Mikesimonsen
Mike Simonsen (b. 1956) is a talented musician, an accomplished horticulturalist, a popularizer of astronomy, and a leader in the study of variable stars.Discovered 4 May 2005 by J. Bedient, Faulkes Telescope
(444414) Mikehankey
Mike Hankey (b. 1972) is an American and the Operations Manager for the American Meteor Society. He is responsible for dramatic improvements to the AMS online fireball reporting system, which has expanded to use by the International Meteor Organization and has facilitated rapid recovery of meteorite falls worldwide.Discovered 29 December 2005 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Mount Lemmon
(571117) Mikehudson
Mike Hudson (b. 1965) is a Canadian Professor of Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics of the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His research interests include galaxy formation and cosmology.Discovered 13 December 2006 by K. M. Perrett D. D. Balam, Maunakea