Named in memory of Arthur P. Norton (1876–1955), author of Norton’s Star Atlas, the most widely used publication of its type. Born in Cardiff, Wales, Norton was a geography teacher with a lifelong interest in astronomy. The first edition of his atlas, published in 1910, achieved immediate success, largely due to the use of a low-distortion projection of Norton’s devising. For the 1933 edition, Norton redrew the maps to incorporate new IAU constellation boundaries, and he extended the magnitude limit to 6.2. Many of today’s astronomers, amateur and professional, use the version first published in 1943, which has maps of epoch 1950.0 and limiting magnitude 6.35. The naming of this planet also celebrates the publication of the epoch 2000.0 edition of the atlas, the first edition not drawn by Norton. (M 15090) _ _.