13208 Fraschetti

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13208 Fraschetti is an asteroid discovered on 5 April 1997 by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program at Haleakala, Maui, Hawaii.

It is named after George Fraschetti (born 1941), a technical advisor and contributor to the NEAT instruments. During his 33 years at the JPL, he has worked on many flagship projects, notably the Voyager and Galileo imaging systems and the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field and Planetary Cameras.

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