Tyson

Asteroid Number 13123
Discovered May 16, 1994 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (b. 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.