Avi Blizovsky
17097) Ronneuman Discovered 1999 May 10 by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research program.
In a competition held in 2003 in Cleveland, Ohio, it was decided by MIT-Massachusetts Science and Engineering to name a heavenly gram after Ron Neumann from Israel.
Ron, a high school student from Ramat Gan when the competition was held in 2003, participated in the competition and won second place and a commendation from NASA. The sky element will be called Ronneuman 17097
The MIT website states that asteroid 17097 was discovered on May 10, 1999, by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research program (Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research program), known as LINEAR.
In doing so, Ron joins other celebrities who are also named after celestial bodies such as: John Lennon, Albert Einstein, Van Gogh. About four years ago, Israeli asteroid researcher Ilan Manolis won an asteroid named after him - Manolis 13615.
For information on the MIT website
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