{"id":144137,"date":"2021-06-23T14:31:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=144137"},"modified":"2021-07-01T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T23:15:30","slug":"asteroids-named-after-uh-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/06\/23\/asteroids-named-after-uh-astronomers\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroids named after <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_142447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-142447\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-ifa-bldg-exterior.jpg\" alt=\"Institute for Astronomy building\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-142447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-ifa-bldg-exterior.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-ifa-bldg-exterior-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-ifa-bldg-exterior-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-142447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Institute for Astronomy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Naming asteroids is serious business. In the latest batch of officially named asteroids, five have been given names honoring astronomers at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\">Institute for Astronomy<\/a> (<abbr>IfA<\/abbr>).<\/p>\n<p>The International Astronomical Union Committee for Small Body Nomenclature is responsible for designating and naming minor planets. If an object has been observed for at least two nights and is proven to be a newly-identified object, it is assigned an initial provisional designation. If enough observations are obtained to calculate an orbit, the object is assigned a sequential numerical designation. The asteroid\u2019s discoverer can then propose a formal name.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_144140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144140\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-astronomy-ifa-heinze-a-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"man smiling\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-astronomy-ifa-heinze-a-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-astronomy-ifa-heinze-a-93x130.jpg 93w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-astronomy-ifa-heinze-a.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aren (Ari) Heinze<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 0 15px;\"><figure id=\"attachment_144543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144543\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-ifa-flewelling-h-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"woman\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-144543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-ifa-flewelling-h-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-ifa-flewelling-h-89x130.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/manoa-ifa-flewelling-h.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Flewelling<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><strong>Newly designated asteroids<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>(28990) Ariheinze<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aren (Ari) Heinze<\/strong> is a postdoctoral fellow working on <a href=\"https:\/\/atlas.fallingstar.com\/home.php\">Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System<\/a> (<abbr>ATLAS<\/abbr>) at <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. His areas of study include Pluto and other dwarf planets, brown dwarfs and asteroid discoveries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(33932) Keane<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Jacqueline V. Keane<\/strong> is an assistant astronomer at <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> whose research interests include the use of ground- and space-based facilities to study the comae and nuclei of comets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(34689) Flewelling<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Heather Flewelling<\/strong> is an instrument scientist at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope. She was previously an <abbr>ATLA<\/abbr>S planetary defense researcher at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. Her work includes development of robotic telescopes and data pipelines, studying transient objects and outreach activities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(41458) Ramanjooloo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Yudish Ramanjooloo<\/strong> is a junior researcher at <abbr>UH<\/abbr>. His main research interests include studying near-Earth objects, and the interaction between the solar wind and the induced magnetosphere of comets and exoplanets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>(51166) Huimanto<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Man-To Hui<\/strong> is a postdoctoral researcher at <abbr>IfA<\/abbr>. His studies include photometric and dynamical studies of active asteroids, and near-Sun asteroids and comets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These five new designations join a cornucopia of at least 40 asteroids named after current and former <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> astronomers, students, staff and other individuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifa.hawaii.edu\/info\/press-releases\/ifa_asteroids\/\">For a full list, please go to the <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five asteroids have recently been named in honor of <abbr>IfA<\/abbr> astronomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[34,598,35,9],"class_list":["post-144137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-astronomy","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-institute-for-astronomy","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144137"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144544,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144137\/revisions\/144544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}