Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958– ) is the youngest-ever director of New York’s Hayden Planetarium. He spearheaded the complete redesign of the planetarium that reopened in 2000. He also teaches astronomy at Princeton University. (M 41572) _ _.
Discovered on 16-5-1994 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S., Levy, D. H.