Asteroids named after people called Tilman
(12062) Tilmanspohn
Tilman Spohn (b. 1950) was director of the Institute of Planetary Research at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin. He pioneered in-situ measurements of thermal and mechanical properties of planetary surfaces and was Principal Investigator for the instrument MUPUS on the Rosetta lander Philae.Discovered 24 March 1998 by ODAS, Caussols