The asteroid 2029 Binomi was discovered on September 11, 1969 by the Swiss astronomer

Astronomer

An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...

 Prof. Paul Wild

Paul Wild (Swiss astronomer)

Professor Paul Wild of Berne, Switzerland, is an astronomer who discovered numerous comets and asteroids.- Career :Professor Wild was director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Berne from 1980 to 1991...

 at Zimmerwald observatory near Bern, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

. The asteroid was named Binomi by Wild after one of his students had answered in an astronomy

Astronomy

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 exam that a (virtual) mathematician "Binomi", who lived in the same time as (real) mathematician Bernoulli, had invented the Binomial equations, ignoring that binom simply comes from Latin Bi (two) and nomen (name, term).

Although Binomi has an orbit similar to the Vesta family

Vesta family

The Vesta or Vestian family of asteroids is a large and prominent grouping of mostly V-type asteroids in the inner asteroid belt in the vicinity of 4 Vesta...

 asteroids, it was found to be an unrelated interloper on the basis of its non-matching spectral type

Asteroid spectral types

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