nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
140 | Siwa | Named for the Slavic goddess of fertility. This naming refers to the numerous Illyric population of |
244 | Sita | Named possibly for the wife of Rama in the Sanskrit epic The Ramayana. It is a symbol of the ideal s |
1166 | Sakuntala | Named by the discoverer (RI 895) for the heroine of a famous sanskrit drama by the Indian poet Kalid |
1170 | Siva | Named for the god of destruction and regeneration in the Hindu sacred triad (with Brahma and Vishnu) |
1958 | Chandra | Named for Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the Indian-born distinguished service professor at the Univers |
2211 | Hanuman | Named for the monkey-god in the mythology of India. Son of Vayu, Hanuman was gifted with almost unli |
2307 | Garuda | Named for a son of the sage Kasyapa and Vinata {see planet (2347)} in the mythology of India. Vinat |
2313 | Aruna | Named for a son of the sage Kasyapa and Vinata {see planet (2347)} in the mythology of India. Vinat |
2347 | Vinata | Named for a daughter of Prajapati and wife of the sage Kasyapa in the mythology of India. She laid o |
2415 | Ganesa | In the mythology of India, Ganesa is the son of Siva and Parvati {see planets (1170) and (2847), r |
2491 | Tvashtri | Named for the carpenter in the mythology of India, the divine power for construction in the world. H |
2628 | Kopal | Named in honor of Zdeněk Kopal {1914–1993}, astronomer, Czech-born chairman of the astronomy departm |
2629 | Rudra | Named for the destroyer aspect of Siva {see planet (1170)}, who in the mythology of India was both |
2815 | Soma | Named for the Soma cube, a three-dimensional mathematical game invented by the Danish writer Piet He |
2847 | Parvati | Named for the daughter of the Himalayas and wife of Siva {see planet (1170)} in the mythology of In |
3332 | Raksha | Named in memory of Yurij Mikhajlovich Raksha (1937–1980), gifted artist well known for his paintings |
4034 | Vishnu | Vishnu is the Hindu god of preservation. Name suggested by J. Meeus. |
4130 | Ramanujan | Named in memory of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), the Indian mathematical genius who has been clas |
4401 | Aditi | Aditi was an Indian goddess of the sky and the air. She was the mother of 33 gods and of the sun, an |
4466 | Abai | Named in honor of Abai Kunanbaev (1845–1904), Kazakh poet, philosopher and enlightener, founder of K |
4486 | Mithra | Named for the Indo-Iranian god of the heavenly light that led to mithraism, one of the last oriental |
4640 | Hara | Named in honor of Megumi Hara, professor at Aoyama-Gakuin University, and an authority on star names |
4784 | Samcarin | Samcarin is the Sanskrit word for wanderer. Name suggested by the SGAC Name An Asteroid Campaign. |
7754 | Gopalan | Gopalan Srinivasan (b. 1964) is a professor in the department of geology at the University of Toront |
7855 | Tagore | Named in memory of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer. Opposed to the Indian c |
10185 | Gaudi | The work of Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) was strongly influenced by “Art Nouveau” orna |
10819 | Mahakala | Mahakala, or “Great Time”, is one of the destructive aspects of Shiva in Vedic Hinduism, time being |
11400 | Raša | Raša is a river in the Istrian peninsula. |
12472 | Samadhi | Samadhi is the Sanskrit word for the mental state of unity of subject and object, characterized by t |
16116 | Balakrishnan | Named in honor of Jennifer Sayaka Balakrishnan for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Scien |
16214 | Venkatachalam | Named in honor of Vivek Venkatachalam for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent |
16215 | Venkatraman | Named in honor of Dheera Venkatraman for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent |
18104 | Mahalingam | Satish Mahalingam (b. 1985) was awarded second place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Eng |
20000 | Varuna | Varuna is one of the oldest of the vedic deities, the maker and upholder of heaven and earth. As su |
20301 | Thakur | Gaurav Subhash Thakur (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
20522 | Yogeshwar | Ranga Yogeshwar (b. 1959), a physicist and scientific journalist, works as editor and presenter of e |
21570 | Muralidhar | Vinayak Muralidhar (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and En |
21575 | Padmanabhan | Hamsa Padmanabhan (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Eng |
21649 | Vardhana | Anarghya A. Vardhana (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
21652 | Vasishtha | Dhruv Vasishtha (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engin |
22533 | Krishnan | Sheela Krishnan (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science com |
25636 | Vaishnav | Hetal Kanjibhai Vaishnav (b. 1992) was awarded second place in the 2009 Intel International Science |
26447 | Akrishnan | Akash Krishnan (b. 1994) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2010 Intel Internationa |
28508 | Kishore | Kishore Balasubramanian (b. 1996) was awarded second place in the 2011 Intel International Science a |
29353 | Manu | Manuela Vedovelli (b. 1969), a special friend of the first discoverer, obtained her degree in astron |
33590 | Sreelakshmi | Sreelakshmi Kutty (b. 1998) was awarded second place in the 2016 Intel International Science and Eng |
55753 | Raman | Indian physicist C. V. Raman (1888-1970) showed the inelastic scattering of photons traversing a mat |
78118 | Bharat | Bharat is the native name of India and derives from the wise and pious king Bharata of ancient Hindu |
398188 | Agni | Agni is the Vedic god of fire. He represents the vital spark of life, and the fire and brilliance of |