Asteroid 17960, Liberatore, was discovered on May 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) Team at Socorro, New Mexico. It has a period of 3 years, 284 days and is about 2 2/5 miles in diameter.
It was named for Rio Rancho, New Mexico high-school student and science-fair contestant Katie Lynn Liberatore (born 1985), who was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her microbiology project, "Examining S. cerevisiae Mutations Phase II: DNA Damage Response & the Relationship to Cancer."
Katie Liberatore
The meaning of asteroid Liberatore seems to be to let go, set free, torn or cut loose; possibly, genetic mutations' relationship to cancer.