Asteroids named after people called Pieter
👶 Pieter as a baby name
Dutch astronomer Pieter van Dokkum (b. 1972) studies the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time. A former circus ringmaster and used-car salesman, this Yale University professor can often be found standing knee-deep in a pond photographing dragonflies.Discovered 18 September 1990 by H. E. Holt, Palomar
Pieter Van Coudenberghe (1520-1594) was a famous Flemish apothecary well-known for his botanical garden, which was visited by many European savants for its 600 exotic plants. This garden, with a complete list of all plants, was described by the Swiss naturalist Conrad Gesner in Horti germaniae (1561).Discovered 19 July 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Named in memory of Pieter Brueghel (Bruegel, Breughel; c. 1525–1569), the greatest Flemish painter of the sixteenth century. He was apprenticed to Pieter Coecke, a leading Antwerp artist, whose daughter he married. Although Brueghel was little influenced by Coecke's Italianate art, the apprenticeship provided an important contact with a humanistic milieu, sensitizing Brueghel for human life. Perhaps for this reason his landscapes show, not only trees, mountains and snow, but also humans suffering from one side and enjoying life from the other. Through his sons Jan and Pieter, Brueghel became the ancestor of a dynasty of painters that survived into the eighteenth century.Discovered 17 April 1996 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Dutch navigator Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser (c. 1540-1596) sailed to the East Indies in 1595. He is credited with having invented twelve new constellations in the southern sky, first depicted in 1598 on a globe by Petrus Plancius.Discovered 17 October 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Pieter Timotheus (Tim) de Zeeuw (b. 1956) is currently director of Leiden Observatory and of the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA). He has made substantial contributions to galaxy dynamics and has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Claude Bernard University of Lyon.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Pieter van Vollenhoven (b. 1939) is a professor of risk management at the Technical University of Twente. The Netherlands Ambassador of the International Year of Astronomy (2009), he has actively supported the popularization of astronomy and space science in the Netherlands for many years.Discovered 16 October 1977 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
Pieter Pourbus (1523-1584) was a Dutch-Flemish Renaissance painter, sculptor and cartographer. Known primarily for his religious and portrait painting, he was also a surveyor and engineer. Name suggested by C. Leterme.Discovered 10 August 1994 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Pieter C. Mondriaan (1872-1944) was a Dutch Neo-plasticist painter. He developed Neo-plasticism painting, which consisted of a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the use of three primary colours. Name suggested and citation provided by W. A. Fröger.Discovered 14 January 1999 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
Pieter Dirk (Peter) Barthel (b. 1952) is a Dutch astronomer who studies active galaxies. He is Professor Emeritus in Astrophysics at the University of Groningen, and is a former chair of the Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society. Pieter is a passionate science communicator, and was awarded the royal distinction of Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.Discovered 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
Dutch physicist Pieter Zeeman (1865-1943) discovered the splitting of spectral lines in the magnetic field, allowing the analysis of the atomic fine structure. He also made a verification of special relativity. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize for physics with his teacher Lorentz.Discovered 10 September 1991 by F. Borngen, Tautenburg
Pieter Jansz Saenredam (1597-1665) was a Dutch Baroque-era painter and engraver noted for his surprisingly realistic paintings of churches. He was secretary, steward and even dean of the Guild of St. Luke in Haarlem. The name was suggested by C. E. Koppeschaar.Discovered 12 August 1974 by T. Gehrels, Palomar
Pieter Kallemeyn Jr. (b. 1965) is an American engineer. He was the fault protection engineer for Phase B of OSIRIS-REx before moving to the InSight Mars Lander as system design lead/spacecraft team lead. He has worked on many spacecraft to the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and asteroids.Discovered 3 July 2005 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Mount Lemmon
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