Asteroids named after people called Volker

(318723) Bialas

Volker Bialas (b. 1938) received his doctorate in 1968 in Munich on the Rudolphine Tables of Johannes Kepler. From 1985 to 2003 he was Scientific Director of the publication of Kepler's Collected Works at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the working group Johannes Kepler of the IAU.Discovered 8 September 2005 by E. Meyer, Linz

(379155) Volkerheinrich

Volker Heinrich (b. 1962), an amateur astronomer since childhood, is the chairman of the Astronomy Section of the Physikalischer Verein at Frankfurt am Main. He is heavily involved in public astronomical education and is an enthusiastic collector of meteorites.Discovered 18 August 2009 by E. Schwab, Tzec Maun