742 Edisona [SEP] discoverer or inventor
742 Edisona
742 Edisona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Franz Kaiser on February 23, 1913. It was named for inventor Thomas Edison.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family of asteroids that most likely formed as the result of a collisional breakup of a parent body.
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- Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets
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- 9496 Ockels (Wubbo Ockels, Dutch astronaut)
- 14143 Hadfield (Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut)
- 22901 Ivanbella (Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut)
- 135268 Haigneré (Claudie and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, French astronauts)
Science Other scientists, engineers and inventors.
- 335 Roberta (Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, entomologist)
- 742 Edisona (Thomas Edison, inventor)
- 775 Lumière (Auguste and Louis Lumière, cinematic pioneers)
- 777 Gutemberga (Johannes Gutenberg