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| 6391 | Africano | Named in honor of John L. Africano, astronomer with the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS), who h |
| 4339 | Almamater | Named in anticipation of the 650th anniversary of Charles University (Univerzita Karlova) in Prague. |
| 64 | Angelina | Named in remembrance of the astronomical station of Baron F. X. von Zach (1754–1832) {see planet (9 |
| 6710 | Apostel | Named in memory of the well-known Flemish philosopher Leo Apostel (1925–1995). He was a pupil of Cha |
| 19952 | Ashkinazi | Alexey Alexandrovich Ashkinazi (b. 1949) is deputy director for capital construction at CrAO. For 3 |
| 1154 | Astronomia | Named for the science which explores the celestial bodies. (H 108) |
| 59800 | Astropis | Since its first issue in 1994, the popular-science magagzine Astropis has earned an excellent |
| 700 | Auravictrix | This planet is named in memory of the trips of the Schutte-Lanz Zeppelin No. 1. It is a Latin word m |
| 11341 | Babbage | Intending to automate complex arithmetical calculations, British mathematician Charles Babbage (1791 |
| 36060 | Babuška | Prague-born mathematician Ivo Babuška (b. 1926) is a professor at University of Texas. He achieved g |
| 2549 | Baker | Named in honor of James G. Baker {1914– }, astrophysicist, innovator, advisor. To many he is best kn |
| 4808 | Ballaero | Ball Aerospace and Technology Corporation has contributed to the scientific investigation of minor p |
| 2031 | BAM | Named in honor of the heroic builders of the Baikal-Amur-Main railroad line. (M 4482) |
| 1896 | Beer | Named in honor of the astronomer Arthur Beer {1900–1980}, born in Bohemia in 1900, who worked at the |
| 10325 | Bexa | The iceberg B10A, which measures some 80 km by 40 km, broke off from the Thwaites glacier in Antarct |
| 1146 | Biarmia | Named by the discoverer after a legendary country in northern Russia near to the Finnish border. (H |
| 51895 | Biblialexa | The new Bibliotecha Alexandrina, opened in 2002, is an extraordinary cultural and scientific institu |
| 69263 | Big Ben | Big Ben, at Westminster, is the nickname of both the great bell and clock tower of the world's large |
| 19695 | Billnye | Bill Nye “The Science Guy”' (b. 1955) is one of the world's pre-eminent science educators. His pedag |
| 3924 | Birch | Named in honor of Peter V. Birch. An astronomer at the Perth Observatory since 1970, Birch made many |
| 9969 | Braille | Named in memory of Louis Braille (1809-1852), who invented the Braille language so that those who co |
| 2708 | Burns | Named in honor of Joseph A. Burns, planetary astronomer at Cornell University. Burns’ wide-ranging r |
| 5890 | Carlsberg | Named in honor of Carlsbergfondet, established in 1876 by Jacob Christian Jacobsen (1811–1887), phil |
| 4169 | Celsius | Named in memory of the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744), renowned for devising the ther |
| 1240 | Centenaria | Named on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Hamburg Observatory (1933 Oct. 31). (H 114) |
| 1571 | Cesco | Named in memory of Ronaldo P. Cesco, a former director of the La Plata Observatory, an outstanding m |
| 3035 | Chambers | Named in honor of John Eric Chambers (1969– ), graduate student at Manchester University, currently |
| 21454 | Chernoby | Grant Fabian Chernoby (b. 1988) was awarded second place in the 2006 Intel International Science and |
| 4580 | Child | Named in honor of Jack B. Child, software engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Asteroid Projec |
| 192158 | Christian | Christian Apitzsch (b. 1968) is the first-born son of the discoverer. Speaking five languages, he st |
| 9446 | Cicero | Named in memory of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.), Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar and writer. |
| 1307 | Cimmeria | Named after the ancient inhabitants of the Crimea peninsula. The Cimmerians were expelled by the Scy |
| 10861 | Ciske | Ciske Staring was a courier in Amsterdam for the Resistance during World War II. This naming is to |
| 3528 | Counselman | Named in honor of Charles C. Counselman III (1943– ), professor of planetary science at the Massachu |
| 4137 | Crabtree | William Crabtree (1610-1644), a cloth merchant in Salford, near Manchester, became the second person |
| 7000 | Curie | Named in memory of Marie Curie (1867–1934), the only person to receive Nobel prizes for both physics |
| 2919 | Dali | Named in honor of the great Spanish painter Salvador Dali (1904–1989), who in a career spanning over |
| 21073 | Darksky | Part of a worldwide initiative, Dark Sky Scotland promotes the use of Scotland's dark rural areas fo |
| 1991 | Darwin | Named in memory of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), the English naturalist who first established the theo |
| 3218 | Delphine | Named in honor of Delphine Jehoulet Delsemme, wife of astronomer Armand Delsemme {see planet (2954) |
| 10093 | Diesel | Named in memory of Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (1858-1913), German thermal engineer, who devoted mu |
| 9770 | Discovery | Discovery was the name of the spaceship in Arthur Clarke's novel and Stanley Kubrick's movie 2001 |
| 55555 | DNA | Deoxyribonucleic acid, the sine qua non of carbon-based life, is self-replicating, plays a ce |
| 29193 | Dolphyn | Flemish painter Willem Dolphyn (b. 1935), son of painter Victor Dolphyn and grandson of writer Wille |
| 142291 | Dompfaff | In the German catholic liturgy Dompfaff is the common name for a cardinal (priest). It is also the n |
| 127689 | Doncapone | Don Giuseppe Capone (1922-2009), from 1956 rector of the diocesan Seminar of Alatri, wrote several l |
| 1621 | Druzhba | Druzhba means friendship. (M 2740) Name proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Leningra |
| 9059 | Dumas | Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), the grandson of a French marquis and the son of a French general in Nap |
| 71489 | Dynamocamp | Dynamo Camp is the Italian location of the Hole in the Wall Association, a non-profit organisation t |
| 742 | Edisona | Named in honor of the great American scientist and inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931) immediate |
| 4404 | Enirac | Named in honor of the discoverer’s spouse Carine, herself an amateur astronomer. Always wanting to s |
| 9777 | Enterprise | The U.S.S. Enterprise was the spaceship that appeared (originally in 1966) in the popular science fi |
| 5261 | Eureka | Named for Eureka, an expression of joy after making a discovery. According to a story that is probab |
| 7536 | Fahrenheit | Named in memory of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736), German physicist who invented both the alc |
| 204873 | FAIR | The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) is an international science center for studying |
| 6271 | Farmer | Named in honor of Crofton Bernard Farmer, distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab |
| 11998 | Fermilab | The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory was founded in Batavia, Illinois, in 1967. Among the disc |
| 2314 | Field | Named in honor of George B. Field {1929– }, director of the Harvard College Observatory and Smithson |
| 4231 | Fireman | Named in memory of Edward Leonhard Fireman (1922–1990), on the staff of the Brookhaven National Labo |
| 3342 | Fivesparks | Named in honor of Newton and Margaret Mayall, who have enriched the literature for amateur astronome |
| 2588 | Flavia | The name is the feminine form of Flavius, a Roman gens, or patrilineal clan, which included the Empe |
| 21409 | Forbes | Michael Andrew Forbes (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science com |
| 11670 | Fountain | Glen Harold Fountain (b. 1942) is the project manager of the New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt mission. |
| 3506 | French | Named in honor of Linda M. French, planetary scientist at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and P |
| 4342 | Freud | Named in memory of Sigmund Freud (1865–1939), father of psychoanalysis. In 1885 he went to Paris and |
| 3642 | Frieden | This planet is given the German form of the goddess Pax {see planet (679)} in the hope for peace ar |
| 194982 | Furia | Amateur astronomer and naturalist Salvatore Furia (b. 1924) founded in 1956 in Varese the “Societa' |
| 1047 | Geisha | Named for the opera of the same name by Jones. The dictionary defines: a Japanese girl who is traine |
| 1728 | Goethe Link | Named in honor of Dr. Goethe Link, eminent surgeon of Indianapolis, Indiana, enthusiastic amateur as |
| 5839 | GOI | Named for Gosudarstvennyj Opticheskij Institut, the State Optical Institute, and its first director, |
| 3154 | Grant | Named in memory of Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822–1885), eighteenth president of the United States and |
| 4325 | Guest | Named in honor of John E. Guest, reader in Planetary Studies at University College, London, and a co |
| 113390 | Helvetia | Helvetia is an allegorical figure, similar to Justitia. She is a symbol for the nation of Switzerlan |
| 3656 | Hemingway | Named in honor of Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), great American writer. (M 22498) Hemingway received |
| 4758 | Hermitage | Named for one of the largest museums in the world, the unique depository in St. Petersburg of works |
| 1642 | Hill | Named in memory of George William Hill (1838–1914), American celestial mechanician whose works inclu |
| 365443 | Holiday | Billie Holiday (1915-1959), born Eleanora Fagan, was one of the greatest jazz singers and songwriter |
| 4323 | Hortulus | The name is Latin for a small, cozy garden, sheltering those flowers that gave their names to minor |
| 4950 | House | Named in honor of R. C. House, western novelist and journalist who has served, for the last 23 years |
| 2106 | Hugo | Named for the celebrated French writer Victor Hugo (1802–1885). (M 6833) Name proposed by J. Meeus. |
| 1200 | Imperatrix | Imperatrix is the Latin name for empress. Any reference to a person is unknown. (I. van Houten-Groen |
| 5615 | Iskander | Named in honor of Fazil’ Abdulovich Iskander (1929– ), well-known writer, poet, essayist, author of |
| 2763 | Jeans | Named in memory of the celebrated English astronomer James Hopwood Jeans (1877–1946), whose wide-ran |
| 15438 | Joegotobed | Joseph Gotobed (b. 1955) is network operations manager for the Lunar and Planetary Lab at the Univer |
| 652 | Jubilatrix | This planet was named at the occasion of the 1908 meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Vienn |
| 7083 | Kant | Named for the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), foremost thinker of the Enlightenm |
| 1987 | Kaplan | Named in memory of Samuil Aronovich Kaplan (1921-1978), head of the astrophysics department at the L |
| 21356 | Karlplank | Karl James Plank (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competit |
| 10290 | Kettering | The Kettering Group of amateur space sleuths, founded in the 1960s by G. E. Perry, monitored and ana |
| 6576 | Kievtech | Named for the Kiev Polytechnical Institute-National Technical University of Ukraine, on the hundredt |
| 2305 | King | Named in memory of Martin Luther King (1929-1968), the American civil rights leader who worked to br |
| 29391 | Knight | Kent Knight (1920-1994) was a founding member and past president of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club in |
| 1283 | Komsomolia | The name of the communistic youth organization of {the former} USSR. (M 838) |
| 29081 | Krymradio | This minor planet is being named on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the “Crimean radio” |
| 8114 | Lafcadio | Named in memory of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). Born of an Irish father and Greek mother on the Ioni |
| 30150 | Laseminara | Laurie Seminara mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition f |
| 1951 | Lick | Named in honor of James Lick (1796–1876) the founder of the Lick Observatory of the University of Ca |
| 1107 | Lictoria | The name is strictly connected with the symbol of the fascist party, which in Italian was called “Fa |
| 3153 | Lincoln | Named in memory of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), sixteenth president of the United States. Lincoln se |
| 7131 | Longtom | Longtom, the nine-pound cannon in Treasure Island, is the nickname of the Nikon 10-cm refract |
| 8298 | Loubna | Named in memory of the Moroccan-Belgian girl Loubna, whose young life came abruptly to an end. May |
| 51663 | Lovelock | James E. Lovelock (b. 1919) is a chemist, inventor, earth system scientist and author. He is best k |
| 7081 | Ludibunda | From the Latin ludibundus, meaning merry or joyful, Ludibunda is a frolicsome, playful woman, |
| 2094 | Magnitka | Named for the town of Magnitogorsk, one of the largest centers of metallurgy in the U.S.S.R. |
| 6236 | Mallard | In 1938 the British steam locomotive “Mallard” set the world's speed record of 203 km per hour for s |
| 27500 | Mandelbrot | Benoit Mandelbrot (b. 1924) is a French-American mathematician. He has studied geometric and physic |
| 1582 | Martir | The Spanish spelling of martyr, this name is also assigned as an homage to Eva Peron {see planet (1 |
| 454 | Mathesis | This Greek word for science was given to this planet at the anniversary of the founding of the Mathe |
| 5061 | McIntosh | Bruce A. McIntosh (b. 1929) worked at the National Research Council Canada. The radar meteor survey |
| 31477 | Meenakshi | Meenakshi Bose (b. 1997) was awarded second place in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engine |
| 3235 | Melchior | Named in honor of Paul Melchior, well-known geophysicist, general secretary of the IUGG since 1971 a |
| 22589 | Minor | Tom Minor mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition f |
| 1610 | Mirnaya | The name means peaceful. (M 2740) Name proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Leningrad |
| 5033 | Mistral | Named in memory of the great poet from the Provence, Frederic Mistral (1830–1914), whose entire life |
| 3768 | Monroe | Named for Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962), née Norma Jean Mortensen (also known as Baker), renowned glamo |
| 9769 | Nautilus | U.S. inventor Robert Fulton built a sailing ship/submarine called Nautilus in 1800. Jules Verne als |
| 1298 | Nocturna | Nocturna is the feminine adjective of nocturnus and means nightly. (H 119) Name proposed by G. Strac |
| 1691 | Oort | Named in honor of Jan Hendrik Oort {1900–1992}, director of the Leiden Observatory 1945–1970, former |
| 913 | Otila | Karl Reinmuth discovered so many minor planets that he often had difficulties to find proper names f |
| 30857 | Parsec | To the nearest integer, the number of this minor planet represents one parsec in units of a trillion |
| 3508 | Pasternak | Named in memory of Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1890–1960), famous poet and writer. (M 12017) Paster |
| 4804 | Pasteur | Named in memory of the great French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur (1822–1895), who proved |
| 9545 | Petrovedomosti | The oldest Russian daily newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (“St. Petersburg News”) was |
| 4185 | Phystech | Named in honor of the Moscow Physical and Technical Institute, the key institute in Russia for train |
| 6790 | Pingouin | Named for an Arctic bird, similar to the penguin of Antarctica. The pingouin become extinct in Newf |
| 134160 | Pluis | This minor planet is a tribute to all children with cancer. It is named for the discoverer's niece |
| 12874 | Poisson | Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781-1840) was a prolific French mathematician and inspiring teacher who left |
| 14312 | Polytech | Saint Petersburg State Technical University (former Polytechnical Institute), founded in 1899, is on |
| 1636 | Porter | Named for the U.S. astronomer Jermain Gildersleeve Porter (1852–1933), Director of the Cincinnati Ob |
| 18624 | Prevert | French poet and scriptwriter Jacques Prevert (1900-1977) portrayed love, joy and sorrow in ordinary |
| 1192 | Prisma | This planet was named in honor of the Bergedorf Spectral Catalogue. (H 111) |
| 21389 | Pshenichka | Paul Pshenichka (b. 1946), a 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair Excellence in Tea |
| 2122 | Pyatiletka | Named on the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the first five-year plan for the development of the |
| 113415 | Rauracia | This member of the Hilda group is the first unusual object discovered at the Jura Observatory. Raur |
| 30718 | Records | Brenda Records (b. 1946) served the Indiana University Astronomy Department for more than 20 years. |
| 2884 | Reddish | Named in honor of Vincent C. Reddish, former Astronomer Royal for Scotland and director of the Royal |
| 5239 | Reiki | Named in honor of Reiki Kushida, amateur astronomer and discoverer of supernova 1991bg, the first vi |
| 10119 | Remarque | Named in memory of Eric Maria Remarque (1898-1970) German novelist, chiefly known for his Im West |
| 10119 | Remarque | Named in memory of Eric Maria Remarque (1898-1970) German novelist, chiefly known for his Im West |
| 4511 | Rembrandt | Named after Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, the greatest Dutch painter of the 17th century, born in 160 |
| 11111 | Repunit | A repunit (“repeated unity”) is a number consisting solely of the digit 1. The name was introduced |
| 2303 | Retsina | Named on the occasion of the Patras IAU General Assembly in honor of the resined wine of Greece. (23 |
| 6401 | Roentgen | Named to commemorate the centennial of the discovery of x-rays by the German physicist Wilhelm Conra |
| 2516 | Roman | Named in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, a space-age astronomer who joined the staff of the National Aer |
| 2057 | Rosemary | Named in honor of Rosemary Birky Hoffmann Scholl, {first} wife of Hans Scholl {see planet (2959)}. |
| 8814 | Rosseven | William Brendan Parsons, Seventh Earl of Rosse (b. 1936), was inspired to restore the 1.8-m reflecti |
| 29700 | Salmon | George Salmon (1819-1904) was a fellow in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, and later a profes |
| 11757 | Salpeter | Edwin E. Salpeter (b. 1924), born in Austria, educated in Australia and the U.K., has been at Cornel |
| 4784 | Samcarin | Samcarin is the Sanskrit word for wanderer. Name suggested by the SGAC Name An Asteroid Campaign. |
| 1288 | Santa | Any reference of this name to a person or occurrence is unknown. Named by De Caro who computed the o |
| 428694 | Saule | |
| 29837 | Savage | Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917-1971), American statistician, wrote important papers on the foundations |
| 25156 | Shkolnik | Evgenya Shkolnik (b. 1976) is an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory. Her research focuses on the c |
| 1613 | Smiley | Named in honor of Charles Hugh Smiley {1903–1977}, interested mainly in orbit computations by Leusch |
| 129092 | Snowdonia | In the northwestern region of Wales a range of scenic landscapes from sandy beaches to wooded valley |
| 18876 | Sooner | A sooner is a person settling on land in the early American west before the land was officially open |
| 55477 | Soroban | The soroban, or abacus, is an important tool of Japanese culture, used to calculate and record numbe |
| 22622 | Strong | Joshua Strong mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competiti |
| 31043 | Sturm | Charles-François Sturm (1803-1855) was a Swiss-born French mathematician. He proved a theorem that |
| 1692 | Subbotina | This planet is named in honor of the late Prof. Mikhail F. Subbotin (1893–1966) who was Director of |
| 24611 | Svetochka | Svetlana Anatol'evna Biryukova (b. 1967), oldest daughter of the discoverer, graduated from Nizhnij |
| 33154 | Talent | David L. Talent was the contractor team leader for the NEAT camera transition to the 1.2-m AMOS tele |
| 3325 | TARDIS | The acronym TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space and derives from the long-runnin |
| 7608 | Telegramia | Named on the 75th anniversary of the publication of the first IAU Circular, which was issued on 1922 |
| 2244 | Tesla | Named in memory of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), the famous Yugoslav-born physicist well known for his n |
| 31939 | Thananon | Thananon Hiranwanichchakorn (b. 1998) was awarded best of category award and first place in the 2015 |
| 4288 | Tokyotech | Founded in 1881 as the Tokyo Vocational School, what is now the Tokyo Institute of Technology was ma |
| 4105 | Tsia | Named in honor of the ancient sun symbol used by Indians of the Zia Pueblo in central New Mexico (on |
| 202373 | Ubuntu | Ubuntu, a philosophy focusing on people's relations with each other, emphasizes unity. Its origin i |
| 4962 | Vecherka | Named for the popular St. Petersburg evening newspaper Vechernij Petersburg. The newspaper regularly |
| 22840 | Villarreal | Margo Villarreal mentored a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) |
| 5961 | Watt | James Watt (1736-1819) was a Scottish engineer whose improvements to the steam engine led to the rap |
| 12431 | Webster | Alan Reginald Webster (b. 1939), a professor in the department of electrical and computer engineerin |
| 4036 | Whitehouse | As a science journalist and particularly as BBC Online's Science Editor David Whitehouse (b. 1956) h |
| 274301 | Wikipedia | Wikipedia is a free, copyleft, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia launched in 2001. In 11 ye |
| 852 | Wladilena | Named in honor of the Russian Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (1870–1924). The name |
| 6827 | Wombat | Three species of this marsupial inhabit Australia and Tasmania. The common wombat is the most widesp |
| 1660 | Wood | Named in honor of H. E. Wood (1881–1946), second Director of the Republic (then Union) Observatory ( |
| 2843 | Yeti | Named to ensure reality for the mysterious “abominable snowman” that supposedly roams the Himalayan |
| 5784 | Yoron | Yoron island is located in the north of Okinawa prefecture. The name was suggested by Y. Ueno, who |
| 2165 | Young | Named in memory of Charles Augustus Young (1834–1908), known affectionately as “Twinkle” Young by th |
| 840 | Zenobia | The planet is probably named for the Slavic goddess of hunting. It is also the name of a queen of Pa |
| 4321 | Zero | Samuel Joel “Zero” Mostel (1915-1977) was an American actor, singer and artist. A Tony Award winner |
| 1700 | Zvezdara | The Serbian word for Observatory, this is the name of the section of the city of Belgrade in which t |