1462 Zamenhof monument or a place celebrating Zamenhof). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center before November 1977 (). 1462 Zamenhof 1462 Zamenhof, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 27 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Finland. The asteroid was named after L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto. It is a recognized Zamenhof-Esperanto object. "Zamenhof" is a Themistian asteroid that belongs to the Themis family (), a very large family of carbonaceous
Ludwik Silberstein structures ("struts", "ropes", or "membranes") that are responsible for holding masses against the attractive force of gravity in a static configuration. According to Martin Claussen, Ludwik Silberstein initiated a line of thought involving eddy currents in the atmosphere, or fluids generally. He says that Silberstein anticipated foundational work by Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862 – 1951). Ludwik Silberstein Ludwik Silberstein (1872 – 1948) was a Polish-American physicist who helped make special relativity and general relativity staples of university coursework. His textbook "The Theory of Relativity" was published by Macmillan in 1914 with a second edition, expanded to include general relativity, in 1924.