Asteroids named after people called Roberta
👶 Roberta as a baby name🐶 Roberta as a dog name
(10172) Humphreys
Minnesota astronomer Roberta M. Humphreys (b. 1944) is a leader in studies of physical properties of massive stars in the Milky Way and in nearby galaxies. She headed the Automated Plate Scanner Project to digitize the Palomar Sky Survey and make a publicly available database of a billion stars and several million galaxies.Discovered 31 March 1995 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(13693) Bondar
Roberta Lynn Bondar (b. 1945), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-42 and has inspired the interest of young Canadians in science.Discovered 4 October 1997 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak
(21391) Rotanner
Roberta Tanner (b. 1953), a 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Excellence in Teaching Award finalist, is a teacher at the Loveland High School, Longmont, Colorado, U.S.A.Discovered 20 March 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
(25374) Harbrucker
Roberta Harbrucker mentored a finalist in the 2008 Society for Science and the Public middle school science competition. She teaches at the Lincoln Middle School, Gainesville, Florida.Discovered 10 October 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(26499) Robertazabotti
Roberta Zabotti (b. 1957) is the cofounder of Il Cielo and Coelum, two Italian astronomy magazines. Since the 1990s, she has worked in the scientific publishing sector.Discovered 4 February 2000 by Boattini, A., Tombelli, M., San Marcello
(31190) Toussaint
Roberta Marie Toussaint (b. 1954) is a U.S. experimental physicist noted for developing biomagnetic devices and techniques and also for vital improvements to calibration of vast amounts of data from the worldwide GONG network of helioseismic telescopes and a high-precision spectrometer.Discovered 27 December 1997 by R. A. Tucker, Goodricke-Pigott
(155997) Robertaciani
Roberta Ciani (b. 1971) is an Italian amateur astronomer who has been a member of the Gruppo Astrofili Montelupo since 2019. She is a writer of astronomy-themed poems and a theater actress. Roberta is passionate about constellations and mythology.Discovered 12 September 2001 by A. Boattini M. Tombelli, San Marcello
(471301) Robertajmolson
Art historian Roberta J. M. Olson (b. 1947) identified Halley's Comet as the model for Giotto's Star of Bethlehem in his Arena Chapel fresco in Padua. This inspired ESA to name the mission to Halley's Comet “Giotto”. Her books include Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art and, as a co-author, Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe.Discovered 30 January 2006 by Spacewatch, Kitt Peak