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| 523 | Ada | Named by the discoverer in honor of Ada Helme, a school friend and neighbor of the discoverer in Mon |
| 2926 | Caldeira | Named in honor of Felipe Caldeira, astronomer at the Valongo Observatory and professor at the Univer |
| 3041 | Webb | Named for Thomas William Webb, discoverer of S Ori. Like many other English clergymen of his days, h |
| 3175 | Netto | Named by the first discoverer in honor of the second, Edgar Rangel Netto, astronomer at the Valongo |
| 3568 | ASCII | Named for the computer character code, which is also the name of the principal magazine on microcomp |
| 4500 | Pascal | Named by the Minor Planet Names Committee for the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal |
| 5035 | Swift | Named in memory of Lewis Swift (1820–1913), famous U.S. comet hunter. The first of his 13 discoverie |
| 8080 | Intel | The Intel 8080 microprocessor is the ancestor of a series of microprocessor chips going from the 808 |
| 8558 | Hack | Named in honor of Margherita Hack (b. 1922), director of the Trieste Astronomical Observatory (1964- |
| 8666 | Reuter | Named for the German poet and social critic Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), co-founder of the new Low Germ |
| 9548 | Fortran | FORmula TRANslator, the first widely distributed symbolic programming language for digital computers |
| 9793 | Torvalds | Finnish computer scientist Linus Torvalds (b. 1969) created the Linux computer operating system used |
| 9885 | Linux | The Linux operating system was created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. The source code for Linux was pla |
| 9965 | GNU | GNU is the recursive acronym for “GNU is not Unix”. The GNU Project was created by Richard Stallman |
| 9998 | ISO | ISO, the Infrared Space Observatory, was launched on 1995 Nov. 17 to study the universe over a broad |
| 12323 | Haeckel | The naturalist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919), a professor of zoology in Jena, was the greatest German re |
| 15907 | Robot | The word “robot” was invented by Czech writer Josef Čapek for an artificial man in the famous play < |