4942 Munroe Discovered 1987 Feb. 24 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. Randall Munroe (b. 1984) is a former NASA roboticist and the author of xkcd, a popular webcomic various themes including science, mathematics technology and computer science. NOTE: some special characters may not display properly (any characters within {} are an attempt to place the proper accent above a character) Reference: MPC batch dated 2013-07-22 Last Updated: 2014-08-13