nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
256 | Walpurga | Named after St. Walpurga {710?–777}, princess of Wessex, England who with her brothers went to Germa |
666 | Desdemona | Named for the wife of Othello in William Shakespeare’s {see planet (2985)} tragedy (written 1604). |
949 | Hel | Named for the Norse goddess of the dead and the queen of the underworld. (LDS) Name proposed by Mrs. |
1181 | Lilith | Named by the discoverer in honor of the French composer Mme. Marie Juliette Olga ‘Lili’ Boulanger (1 |
1370 | Hella | Named in honor of Helene Nowacki {1904–1972}, an astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, H |
1537 | Transylvania | Named for the section of the old Hungarian empire in which the discoverer was born. |
1930 | Lucifer | Named for the proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who was expelled from heaven. (M 4 |
2174 | Asmodeus | Named for the Babylonian god of lust. |
8813 | Leviathan | The Leviathan of Parsonstown is the nickname of the great reflecting telescope at Birr Castle, Count |
9084 | Achristou | Apostolos Christou (b. 1968), research astronomer at Armagh Observatory, is a gifted dynamicist, pro |
90482 | Orcus | Orcus was the Roman god of death, the counterpart of the Greek Pluto. Orcus collected the dead and |