Asteroids named after people called Owen
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(5132) Maynard
Named in honor of Owen E. Maynard, who played a major role in the achievement of the first manned landing on the moon. An engineer in the Apollo program from the beginning, he helped design the Apollo spacecraft and oversaw the design of the command-service and lunar modules. He led the team that developed the complex lunar mission flight plans. As chief of the Systems Engineering Division, he was responsible for all aspects of the construction and testing of the Apollo hardware. He planned the early Apollo test flights, including that of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11. Name suggested and citation prepared by R. Attwood.Discovered 22 June 1990 by H. E. Holt, Palomar
(13843) Cowenbrown
Named in honor of C. Owen Brown for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Brown is a teacher at the Alexandria Country Day School, Alexandria, Louisiana.Discovered 6 December 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro