Asteroids named after people called Willy

(5336) Kley

Willy Kley (1958–2021) was a German astrophysicist and a Professor of Computational Astrophysics at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He was an expert on hydrodynamical simulations in the context of the formation of planets and planetary systems with a special focus on planet-disk interaction and planet migration.Discovered 7 May 1991 by N. Kawasato, Uenohara