Auguste Charlois who discovered 317 Roxane named for Roxana from what area
317 Roxane 317 Roxane is an asteroid from the asteroid belt approximately 19 km in diameter. It was discovered by Auguste Charlois from Nice on September 11, 1891. The name was chosen by F. Bidschof, an assistant at the Vienna Observatory, at Charlois's request; Bidschof chose to name it after Roxana, the wife of Alexander the Great, and at first used the spelling Roxana.
Wilhelm Filchner Wilhelm Filchner (13 September 1877 – 7 May 1957) was a German explorer. He travelled in the Pamir ranges, Tibet and the Antarctic. Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is named after him.