Giblin                 7728   Ian Giblin, British physicist


(7728) Giblin = 1977 AW2
     Discovered 1977 Jan. 12 by E. Bowell at Palomar Mountain Observatory.
     Named in honor of Ian Giblin, a British physicist who has perfomed a
number of laboratory experiments to simulate hypervelocity impacts among
asteroids. Giblin has developed new data analysis tools to study their outcome
and to draw conclusions regarding the corresponding asteroidal events. Name
proposed and citation written by P. Farinella.