Asteroids named after people called Stefaan
(33976) Van Wal
Stefaan Van Wal (b. 1992) is a Belgian aerospace engineer. He studied the deployment and dynamics of rovers on the surfaces of asteroids, using both experimental and simulation techniques. He participated in the Hayabusa2 mission, where he applied his theoretical work to help design the deployment of its rovers and to analyze their dynamics on the surface.Discovered 5 July 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa