Asteroids named after people called Pedro
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(4443) Paulet
Peruvian scientist Pedro Paulet (1874-1945) built a liquid-fuel rocket engine in 1895 and a prototype of rocketry propulsion in 1900. The National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has a small plaque honoring Paulet's memory.Discovered 10 September 1985 by H. Debehogne, La Silla
(4617) Zadunaisky
Pedro E. Zadunaisky (b. 1918), one of the most active celestial mechanicians in Argentina, worked in particular on the orbits of comet 1P/Halley and Saturn IX (Phoebe). His monograph A Guide to Celestial Mechanics was published in 1961.Discovered 22 February 1976 by Felix Aguilar Observatory, El Leoncito
(10694) Lacerda
Pedro Lacerda (b. 1975) is a Lecturer at Queen's University Belfast whose work includes analyzing rotational lightcurves to infer physical properties of trans-Neptunian objects and other small solar system bodies.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
(11265) Hasselmann
Pedro Henrique Arag茫o Hasselmann (b. 1987) completed his PhD at Observat贸rio Nacional do Rio de Janeiro researching the photometric properties and phase functions of asteroids.Discovered 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus, Siding Spring
(13082) Gutierrez
Pedro J. Guti茅rrez (b.~1972) of the Instituto de Astrof铆sica de Andaluc铆a--Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Granada, Spain, has used thermophysical modeling to study the evolution of comets and their orbits.Discovered 6 March 1992 by UESAC, La Silla
(17041) Castagna
Pedro Turibeo Castagna (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering team project. He attends the Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha, Novo Hamburgo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Discovered 19 March 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(20227) Bernardinelli
Pedro H. Bernardinelli (b. 1994) is a Brazilian astronomer at the University of S茫o Paulo who studies distant objects in the outer Solar System: trans-Neptunian objects, comets, and interstellar objects. He co-discovered the largest then-known comet C/2014 UN271 along with dozens of trans-Neptunian objects using the Dark Energy Survey.Discovered 29 November 1997 by LINEAR, Socorro
(24048) Pedroduque
In 1998 Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque (b. 1963) flew as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-95 mission.Discovered 10 October 1999 by J. Nomen, Ametlla de Mar
(31648) Pedrosada
Pedro Antonio Vald茅s Sada (b. 1973) is a professor of physics and mathematics at the Universidad de Monterrey (Mexico), whose research includes astrometry and photometry of asteroids as well as stellar occultations.Discovered 11 April 1999 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(32599) Pedromachado
Pedro Mota Machado (b. 1967) is a Portuguese professor at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Science (Lisbon). He studies the atmospheres of Venus and Mars, observes stellar occultations by asteroids, and is an author of books on poetry and ethno-photography.Discovered 23 August 2001 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(35623) Pedrodavid
Pedro David (b. 1959) is a French scientist. He received his Ph.D. in 1992 working on high energy astrophysics. After being a consultant in the private sector, he joined Paris Observatory and the Gaia space mission in 2009. He works on the Gaia data reduction pipeline of small Solar System bodies, their dynamics, and the follow-up of unknown bodies.Discovered 23 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(249539) Pedrosevilla
Pedro Sevilla (b. 1967) is an engineer who worked on the payload electronics and focal planes of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission.Discovered 16 April 2010 by WISE, WISE
(554239) Montseypedro
Montserrat Loredo (b. 1959) and Pedro Villanueva (b. 1958) are Spanish artisans. Montse creates leather works and Pedro creates works in amber, mammoth ivory and jet.Discovered 24 August 2006 by J. Lacruz, La Canada
(623031) Cartaya
Pedro Pablo Cartaya Gonzalez-Llorente, SJ, (b. 1936) is a Cuban-American astronomer. He is managing director of the Belen Observatory at the Belen Jesuit School in Miami, a high school observatory with 22 telescopes, whose alumni include a number of scientists and engineers active in the field of space science.Discovered 28 March 2015 by R. P. Boyle K. 脛聦ernis, Mount Graham
(673736) Sanhueza
Pedro Sanhueza (b. 1963) is a Chilean guardian of dark skies, efficient lighting and the natural environment. A former director of Oficina de Protecci贸n de la Calidad del Cielo del Norte de Chile, he currently leads EcoDiLumina, being involved in the crafting of three lighting laws in Chile.Discovered 23 August 2008 by O. Vaduvescu, Cerro Tololo