nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
582 | Olympia | Named for the town in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese where Zeus {see planet (5731)} had a |
1022 | Olympiada | Named in honor of Olimpiada Albitskaya, the mother of the discoverer. (N. S. Chernykh) |
4356 | Marathon | Named after a village near Athens, near which the Athenian troops defeated the invading Persian army |
5181 | SURF | Named to honor Caltech’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, which was begun in |
6543 | Senna | Named in memory of Ayrton Senna Da Silva (1960–1994), Brazilian race-car driver. One of the greatest |
8732 | Champion | Born in Texas, Frank Champion (1884-1917) was an aviator who flew to Japan in a wooden airplane. He |
10346 | Triathlon | Since Pam Truty founded the Burn Lake Triathlon in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in 1984, the relay team o |
12426 | Racquetball | Racquetball evolved from the Mayan Meso American ball game played throughout Central America from 20 |
22440 | Bangsgaard | Nicolai Bangsgaard (b. 1976) is a Danish traveller and biker, who spent 1413 days cycling around the |