Asteroids named after people called Peggy
👶 Peggy as a baby name🐶 Peggy as a dog name
(9261) Peggythomson
Peggy Y. Thomson (b. 1927) was responsible for a major gift to Indiana University from a charitable trust that allowed the Daniel Kirkwood professorship to be fully endowed as a chair of astronomy. The name was suggested by F. K. Edmondson, whose elementary astronomy course inspired Thomson when she was a student.Discovered 8 October 1953 by Indiana University, Brooklyn
(15057) Whitson
Peggy Annette Whitson (b. 1960), who has worked for NASA since 1989, was selected as an astronaut in 1996 and was launched to the International Space Station in 2002.Discovered 22 December 1998 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(21445) Pegconnolly
Peggy Connolly mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, Aurora, Illinois.Discovered 18 April 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(29701) Peggyhaas
Peggy Haas (née Beryl Godfrey) (1912–1997) was an assistant to William H. Pickering in Jamaica. There she met and later married Walter Haas who in 1947, started the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO). She was indispensable to the ALPO in work on the Journal, as librarian from 1966 to 1985.Discovered 20 December 1998 by CSS, Catalina