nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
151 | Abundantia | This name is the personification of fulness, its main attribute is the horn of plenty. The naming re |
309 | Fraternitas | This is the Latin word for fraternity. (H 35; A. Schnell) The Beilage zum Astronomischen Kalender 18 |
315 | Constantia | This name describes a special attribute: “Mot latin qui signifie constance et perséevérance, quality |
367 | Amicitia | This planet is named with the Latin word for friendship. (H 40) See also the remarks to planet (356 |
370 | Modestia | Named for the quality of modesty, the freedom from conceit or vanity. (H 41) See also the remarks to |
376 | Geometria | The Latin word originally means “to measure the Earth”. It concerns a branch of mathematics that dea |
377 | Campania | Named after a region in southern Italy bordering on the Tyrrhenian sea and containing the city of Na |
380 | Fiducia | This is the Latin name for confidence. (H 42) See also the remarks to planet (356). |
424 | Gratia | This is the Latin name of grace. The three Graces Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia {see planets (47), |
474 | Prudentia | Named for the allegorical divinity personifying prudence, represented by a mirror surrounded by a sn |
652 | Jubilatrix | This planet was named at the occasion of the 1908 meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Vienn |
700 | Auravictrix | This planet is named in memory of the trips of the Schutte-Lanz Zeppelin No. 1. It is a Latin word m |
902 | Probitas | This name stands for the adherence to the highest principles and ideals. This has been assigned in h |
964 | Subamara | Amarus is the Latin word for bitter and the addition of the prefix sub yield the meaning ‘very bitte |
975 | Perseverantia | Named in honor of the discoverer after his death (1925). Perseverance was an essential trait of Pali |
996 | Hilaritas | The name stands for a happy or contented mind. This was an important quality of Palisa’s character w |
1200 | Imperatrix | Imperatrix is the Latin name for empress. Any reference to a person is unknown. (I. van Houten-Groen |
1201 | Strenua | This name was assigned in honor of Prof. Gustav Stracke (1887–1943), famous German astronomer at the |
1347 | Patria | This is the Latin word for native country or fatherland. (H 122) |
1459 | Magnya | The word, translated from Latin to Russian, means “clear, bright, wonderful”. (N. Solovaya; N. S. Ch |
1464 | Armisticia | Since this was the 21st anniversary of the signing of the armistice of World War I, the name was giv |
2989 | Imago | The Latin word for image, in various degrees of reality, from full appearance (as e.g. the mature st |
3021 | Lucubratio | The original meaning of this Latin word is “night work” (from lucubrum, meaning candle). Then it see |
3258 | Somnium | The Latin word for dream or vision. Title of Johannes Kepler’s {see planet (1134)} famous posthumou |
4323 | Hortulus | The name is Latin for a small, cozy garden, sheltering those flowers that gave their names to minor |
4967 | Glia | Name derived from the Latin word for ‘glue’. Glia are the cells providing support for the components |
5710 | Silentium | This is — by far — the shortest official naming citation ever published. |
6475 | Refugium | The name is Latin for a refuge, such as might come from examining the prime factors of (6475): (5) A |
7756 | Scientia | This Latin term for science or knowledge describes the purpose of the U.S. National Science Foundati |
8061 | Gaudium | Latin for joy, pleasure and delight, Gaudium is designed to compensate the gloom of (5708) Melanchol |
24665 | Tolerantia | Tolerantia, the Latin word for tolerance, means tolerating different ideological and religious opini |