(17460) Mang = 1990 TC11
Herbert Mang (b. 1942) is professor of material sciences at the Vienna
University of Technology. He is a well-known expert in computational mechanics
and a friend of astronomy. Mang currently serves as president of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences in Vienna. The name was suggested by the first
discoverer.
A complete set of naming citations of the numbered minor planets is available in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, edited by Lutz Schmadel.