What asteroid is named after a physicist who is a founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
57868 Pupin 57868 Pupin, provisional designation 2001 YD, is a dark Erigonian asteroid and slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 17 December 2001, by astronomers of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was name after Serbian–American physicist Mihajlo Pupin.
Daniel Eisenstein Daniel Eisenstein (born 1970) is an American cosmologist and academic. He has been Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University since 2010. He was joint-winner of the 2014 Shaw Prize. An Asteroid ( Deisenstein) was named in his honor.