Myra


Asteroid 33799, Myra, was discovered on October 19, 1999 by Charles W. Juels at Fountain Hills, Arizona. It has a period of 4 years, 100 days.

It was named for educator Myra J. Halpin (born 1946), a high school teacher and college professor who eventually became Dean of Sciences at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, a public residential high school for science, math and technology in Durham, North Carolina. She was a finalist in the NASA's Teacher in Space program in the mid-1980s and the Educator Astronaut Teacher program in the mid-2000s competitions.

Myra Halpin


The meaning of asteroid Myra seems to be: "no right to get this close," trespassing.



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