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.
Terry Alfriend Terry Alfriend is an American engineer, currently the University Distinguished Professor and TEES Distinguished Research Professor at Texas A&M University and an Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Academy of Engineering, International Academy of Astronautics, American Astronomical Society and Editor-in-Chief of AAS-Springer journal "Journal of the Astronautical Sciences.