Named in honor of Anthony N. Yeates, geologist with the Bureau of Mineral Resources of the Commonwealth of Australia. In the course of regional geologic mapping at the southern edge of the Great Sandy desert of Western Australia, Yeates led a team of geologists that discovered the Veevers meteorite crater. This site, discovered in 1975, is the fifteenth and latest recognized locality where meteorites have been found associated with an impact crater. (M 12809) _ _.