Katie Everett pocketed a $50,000 college scholarship and had a sub-planet that travels in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter named after her for winning respective national and international high school science contests. Read more
24548 Katieeverett (provisional designation: 2001 DW42) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on February 19, 2001. Read more