Tim Swindle has studied meteorites, and the asteroids they come from, since he began work on his PhD at Washington University. At UArizona, he was a faculty member and then director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, and is now director of the UArizona Space Institute. He was a member of the steering committee of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group, providing input from the scientific community about asteroids and comets, for 8 years, 3 as chair. Asteroid 8690 Swindle is named in his honor.