Asteroid named after radio amateur
The International Astronomical Union has named a celestial body after a radio amateur.
Space physicist and radio amateur Asta Pellinen Wannberg, SM3UHV, is a professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University.
She has made a ground-breaking effort to use scattering radar when studying meteors that are activated when small particles penetrate the atmosphere.
The name given is Asteroid 11807 Wannberg.
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