[meteorite-list] Minor planets named after two Dutch meteor researchers

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:06:18 2004
Message-ID: <001101c29729$ab66f5a0$cee181d4_at_latitude>

Hi list,

Two asteroids have just been named in honor of two of our Dutch Meteor
Society members and meteor researchers (one amateur and one professional),
Hans Betlem and Dr Peter Jenniskens, on the initiative of Dr Pavel Spurny of
Ondrejov observatory. See below.

Marco

>
> >
> > Hello Pavel,
> >
> > here are the citations about two new minor planets published in MPC
> 47170 from 20.11.2002.
> >
> > Regards, Petr Pravec
> >
> > (42924) Betlem = 1999 TJ2
> > Discovered 1999 Oct. 2 at Ond\v{r}ejov.
> > Hans Betlem (b. 1954), Dutch amateur meteor astronomer and
> > founder of the Dutch Meteor Society, is well known for his
> > photographic observations of major meteor streams and has published
> > many precise trajectories and orbits of meteors. He has organized
> > several successful Leonid expeditions.
> >
> > (42981) Jenniskens = 1999 TY224
> > Discovered 1999 Oct. 2 at Ond\v{r}ejov.
> > Peter Jenniskens (b. 1962), meteor astronomer of NASA Ames,
> > organized several successful airborne missions (Leonid
> > multi-instrument aircraft campaigns) to observe the Leonid returns
> > from 1998 to 2002. He has substantially improved our knowledge of
> > the behavior of meteor streams.
>
>
Received on Thu 28 Nov 2002 04:05:50 PM PST