Asteroids named after people called Stefan
馃懚 Stefan as a baby name
Stefan Banach (1892-1945) was a Polish mathematician and professor at the University of Lvov. His major contributions were in functional analysis, particularly the theory of complete normed linear spaces, now generally known as Banach spaces.Discovered 28 December 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
St茅fan Renner (b. 1976) is a French astronomer and associate professor at the University of Lille and Paris Observatory. His main research interests are resonant dynamics, applied primarily to Saturn鈥檚 small moons and Neptune鈥檚 ring arcs, and to rings around small bodies. St茅fan has also taken part in stellar occultations observational campaigns by TNOs.Discovered 24 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Stefan Klein Muller (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his medicine and health project. He attends the Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, New York.Discovered 14 November 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
Stefan E. Schr枚der (b. 1970) is a planetary imaging specialist at the Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) in Berlin. He developed the photometric model for Vesta's surface, enabling the interpretation of albedo features revealed through Dawn mission images.Discovered 16 September 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888-1945) was a professor at the University of Warsaw and a founder of the contemporary Polish mathematics school. He worked mainly in probability theory and topology, where he solved some important problems that clarified the topological structure of the Euclidian plane.Discovered 23 October 1997 by P. G. Comba, Prescott
Stefan Wan (b. 1999) was a finalist in the 2017 Regeneron STS, and was awarded 2nd place at the 2016 ISEF for his engineering project. He attends the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida.Discovered 14 September 1998 by LINEAR, Socorro
Stefan K眉hner (b. 1970), electronics technician, is an enthusiastic amateur astronomer and experienced short-wave radio operator. Name proposed by L. D. Schmadel.Discovered 7 October 1991 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F., Tautenburg
Stefan O'Dougherty (b. 1998) worked as a calibration and test engineer on OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Mission OCAMS camera system.Discovered 17 May 1999 by CSS, Catalina
Stefan K眉rti (b. 1960) is a Slovakian amateur astronomer with a focus on minor planets. Among his discoveries are two near-Earth objects. The name was suggested by M. Langbroek.Discovered 8 August 2002 by NEAT, Palomar
Stefan Heutz (b. 1980) is a German jurist and amateur astrophotographer. His pictures and articles are published in books, magazines and in the internet. The naming of this minor planet is in appreciation of his efforts to encourage and promote astronomy.Discovered 9 September 2004 by W. Ries, Altschwendt
Jolana K眉rtiova (b. 1963) is the wife of Stefan K眉rti, who discovered and measured the early positions of this object.Discovered 8 October 2001 by NEAT, Palomar
Stefan Wul was the nom de plume of French science-fiction writer Pierre Pairault (1922-2003). He was a dental surgeon, but science fiction was his real passion. He published twelve novels between 1956 and 1977.Discovered 2 April 2003 by B. Christophe, Saint-Sulpice
Stefan Karge (b. 1963), an amateur astronomer since childhood, is heavily involved in astronomical public education and is an enthusiastic observer of active quasars. He has discovered numerous minor planets at the Taunus Observatory of the Physikalischer Verein and at the Tzec Maun Observatory.Discovered 28 October 2008 by E. Schwab, Tzec Maun
Stefan Berg (b. 1986) is a German software developer. He created the free and open-source software Nighttime Imaging 'N' Astronomy, which is widely used by amateur and professional astronomers for the remote control and automation of telescopes and observatories.Discovered 1 September 2013 by J. Jahn, SATINO Remote
Stefan Pop-Cot (b. 1985) is a Romanian astronomer and photographer from Cluj-Napoca. Vice-president of two national astroclubs, he is active in public outreach and stargazing, founding the Mobile Astronomical Observatory, organizing star parties, astrophotography exhibitions, workshops, educational events and donating refurbished telescopes.Discovered 10 July 2014 by EURONEAR, Roque de los Muchachos
Emil-Stefan Pera (b. 1980) is a Romanian dentist and amateur astronomer. A passionate astrophotographer who has gained national and international awards, he offers astrophotography classes. Emil is a member of the Romanian Society for Cultural Astronomy and is building his own astronomical observatory in Re葯i葲a.Discovered 2 September 2014 by EURONEAR, Roque de los Muchachos
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