13123 Tyson, discovered by Shoemaker and Levy, was named after Neil deGrasse Tyson.
It was discovered on May 16, 1994, by American astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker and Canadian astronomer David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named for Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and popular science communicator. 
