This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional.
Science
Astronomers
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340 Eduarda
Eduarda ( minor planet designation: 340 Eduarda) is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 25 September 1892 in Heidelberg. It was named after German banker and amateur astronomer Heinrich Eduard von Lade.
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792 Metcalfia
792 Metcalfia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf and was named after its discoverer. This is an X-type asteroid in the main belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar Syst ...
828 Lindemannia
828 Lindemannia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun with an orbital period of five years and 255 days. It was discovered on 29 August 1916 at the University of Vienna by Johann Palisa. It is named after Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, a British astron ...
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Adolph Friedrich Lindemann
Adolph Friedrich Lindemann (13 May 1846 – 25 August 1931) was a British engineer, businessman, and amateur astronomer of German origin.
Life
Lindemann was born in the Palatinate (region), Palatinate to a Roman Catholic family established in Als ...
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1955 McMath
1955 McMath, provisional designation , is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 22 September 1963, by Indiana University's Indiana Asteroid Program at it ...
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Robert Raynolds McMath
Robert Raynolds McMath (May 11, 1891 – January 2, 1962) was a U.S. solar astronomer.
Robert R. McMath (1891-1962) was a bridge engineer, businessman, and astronomer. Robert's father, Francis C. McMath, had made a fortune as a bridge build ...
Patrick Moore
Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore (; 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012) was an English amateur astronomer who attained prominence in that field as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter.
Moore was president of the Brit ...
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3184 Raab
3184 Raab, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid and a potentially slow rotator from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 22 August 1949, by South African astronomer Ernest L ...
Petr Horálek
Petr Horálek (born July 21, 1986) is a Czech astrophotographer, popularizer of astronomy and an artist.
Astronomy and Astrophotography
Early life
He worked as a volunteer of the Pardubice observatory in 1999–2010 and studied Theoretic ...
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9121 Stefanovalentini 91 may refer to:
Years
* 91 BC
* AD 91
* 1991
* 2091
* etc.
Transportation
* List of highways numbered
* 91 Line, a rail line
* Saab 91, an aircraft
Other uses
* 91 (number)
* '' 91:an'', a Swedish comic
* ''91'', a 2017 album by Jamie Grace
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22406 Garyboyle
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
(Gary Boyle, Canadian)
* 24898 Alanholmes (Alan W. Holmes, American)
* 29483 Boeker (Karolin Kleemann-Boeker and Andreas Boeker, German)
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32622 Yuewaichun
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
37729 Akiratakao
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Year 377 ( CCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Merobaudes (or, less frequently, year 11 ...
(Akira Takao, Japanese)
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49109 Agnesraab
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Year 491 ( CDXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Olybrius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 12 ...
(Agnes Raab, Austrian)
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60406 Albertosuci
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
(Alberto Suci, Italian)
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103422 Laurisirén
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. I ...
144907 Whitehorne
Year 1449 ( MCDXLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
* January 6 – Constantine XI Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine Emperor at Mistra; ...
107 Camilla
Camilla ( minor planet designation: 107 Camilla) is one of the largest asteroids from the outermost edge of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It is a member of the Sylvia family and located within the Cybele group. It was discovere ...
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Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction ...
162 Laurentia
162 Laurentia is a large and dark main-belt asteroid that was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on 21 April 1876, and named after Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, an amateur astronomer who discovered asteroid 51 Nemausa.
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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent
Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academ ...
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238 Hypatia
Hypatia (minor planet designation: 238 Hypatia) is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Russian astronomer Viktor Knorre on July 1, 1884, in Berlin. It was the third of his four asteroid discoveries. The name was given in honour ...
281 Lucretia
Lucretia (minor planet designation: 281 Lucretia) is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. It was discovered by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa on 31 October 1888 in Vienna, and is named after the middle name of Caroline He ...
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Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Caroline Lucretia Herschel (; 16 March 1750 – 9 January 1848) was a German born British astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigolle ...
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339 Dorothea
Dorothea (minor planet designation: 339 Dorothea) is a large main belt asteroid that was discovered by German astronomer Max Wolf on 25 September 1892 in Heidelberg.
This is a member of the dynamic Eos family The Eos family (''adj. Eoan'' ; ) is ...
349 Dembowska
Dembowska (minor planet designation: 349 Dembowska) is a large asteroid of the main belt, discovered on 9 December 1892, by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois while working at the observatory in Nice, France. It is named in honor of the Baron ...
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Ercole Dembowski
Ercole (Hercules) Dembowski (12 January 1812 – 19 January 1881) was an Italian astronomer.
He was born in Milan. He inherited the title of "Baron" as the son of Jan Dembowski (Dębowski), one of Napoleon's Polish generals. He served in th ...
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366 Vincentina
Vincentina (minor planet designation: 366 Vincentina) is a fairly large main belt asteroid.
Vincentina was discovered on 21 March 1893 by Auguste Charlois, and named after Vincenzo Cerulli, an Italian astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist i ...
511 Davida
Davida (minor planet designation: 511 Davida) is a large C-type asteroid. It is the one of the largest asteroids; approximately tied for 7th place, to within measurement uncertainties, and the 5th or 6th most massive. It was discovered by R. S. ...
676 Melitta
676 Melitta is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is classified as a main belt asteroid. The name, ''Melitta'', is the Attic Greek form of the name ''Melissa''—a reference both to the nymph of ancient Greek mythology, and to the minor planet's ...
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Philibert Jacques Melotte
Philibert Jacques Melotte (29 January 1880 – 30 March 1961) was a British astronomer whose parents emigrated from Belgium.
In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was ...
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729 Watsonia
729 Watsonia is a rare-type asteroid and namesake of the Watsonia family from the central region of the asteroid belt. It was named after the Canadian-American astronomer James C. Watson. ''Watsonia'' occulted the star 54 Leonis (HIP 53417, a ...
767 Bondia
767 Bondia ('' prov. designation:'' ''or'' ) is a Themis asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 23 September 1913, by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf at his observatory ...
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William Cranch Bond
William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 – January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory.
Upbringing
William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine (near Portland) on September 9, 1789. ...
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George Phillips Bond
George Phillips Bond (May 20, 1825February 17, 1865) was an American astronomer. He was the son of William Cranch Bond. Some sources give his year of birth as 1826.
His early interest was in nature and birds, but after his elder brother William ...
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768 Struveana
768 Struveana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The asteroid was named jointly in honor of Baltic German astronomers Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Wilhelm von Struve
Otto Wilhelm von Struve (May 7, 1819 (Julian calendar: April 25) ...
786 Bredichina
786 Bredichina (Minor planet provisional designation, ''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a carbonaceous and very large background asteroid, approximately in diameter, located in the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by German ...
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Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin
Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin (russian: Фёдор Александрович Бредихин, 8 December 1831 – 14 May 1904 (Julian calendar, O.S.: 1 May)) was a Russian astronomer. His surname is sometimes given as Bredichin in the lite ...
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806 Gyldenia
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
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Hugo Gyldén
Johan August Hugo Gyldén (May 29, 1841 in Helsinki – November 9, 1896 in Stockholm) was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics.
Gyldén was the son of Nils Abraham Gyldén, Professor of Classical philo ...
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818 Kapteynia
818 Kapteynia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. This asteroid is named for the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensi ...
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Jacobus Kapteyn
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was also among the fi ...
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819 Barnardiana
819 Barnardiana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun, discovered on March 3, 1916, by the German astronomer Max Wolf in Heidelberg
Heidelberg (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: ''Heidlberg'') is a city in the States of Germany, Germa ...
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Edward Emerson Barnard
Edward Emerson Barnard (December 16, 1857 – February 6, 1923) was an American astronomer. He was commonly known as E. E. Barnard, and was recognized as a gifted observational astronomer. He is best known for his discovery of the high proper mo ...
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827 Wolfiana
827 Wolfiana, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered at Vienna Observatory on 29 August 1916, by Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa, who ...
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Max Wolf
Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (21 June 1863 – 3 October 1932) was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was the chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-K ...
854 Frostia
854 Frostia is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the sun. It was discovered in 1916 by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky from Simeiz Observatory in Crimea and is named after Edwin Brant Frost, an American astronomer. This asteroid measures approximately ...
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Edwin Brant Frost
Edwin Brant Frost II (July 14, 1866 – May 14, 1935) was an American astronomer.
Biography
He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His father, Carlton Pennington Frost, was dean of Dartmouth Medical School.
Frost graduated from Dartmouth in ...
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855 Newcombia
855 Newcombia ('' prov. designation:'' ''or'' ) is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 3 April 1916, by astronomer Sergey Belyavsky at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula. The ...
856 Backlunda
856 Backlunda ( ''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a dark background asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 3 April 1916, by Russian astronomer Sergey Belyavsky at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsul ...
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Oskar Backlund
Johan Oskar Backlund (28 April 1846 – 29 August 1916) was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". In Russia, where he spent his entire career, he ...
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857 Glasenappia
857 Glasenappia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Russian astronomer Sergey Glazenap, who was often referred to as "S. de Glasenapp" in pre-Russian Revolution, Revolution publications.
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Sergey Glazenap
Sergey Pavlovich Glazenap (russian: Серге́й Павлович Глазенап; 13(25) September 1848 - 12 April 1937) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer, honorary member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929), and Hero of Socialist Labo ...
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872 Holda
872 Holda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.
The asteroid is named after Edward Singleton Holden
Edward Singleton Holden (November 5, 1846 – March 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and the fifth president of the University of Californi ...
Hugo von Seeliger
Hugo von Seeliger (23 September 1849 – 2 December 1924), also known as Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger, was a German astronomer, often considered the most important astronomer of his day.
Biography
He was born in Biala, completed high school in ...
Johann Palisa
Johann Palisa (6 December 1848 – 2 May 1925) was an Austrian astronomer, born in Troppau, Austrian Silesia, now Czech Republic. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gel ...
1000 Piazzia
1000 Piazzia, provisional designation ', is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 12 August 1923, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observato ...
1 Ceres
Ceres (; minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was the first asteroid discovered, on 1 January 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi at Palermo Astronomical Observatory in Sici ...
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1002 Olbersia
1002 Olbersia (Minor planet provisional designation, ''prov. designation'': ''or'' ) is a background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 15 August 1923, by Russian astronomer Vladimir Albitsky at the Sime ...
1004 Belopolskya
Belopolskya (minor planet designation: 1004 Belopolskya), provisional designation , is a dark Cybele asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was named for Russian astrophysicist Aristarkh Belopolsky. ...
1021 Flammario
1021 Flammario, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 11 March 1924, by German astronomer Max Wolf at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl Sta ...
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Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction ...
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-lea ...
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1040 Klumpkea
1040 Klumpkea, provisional designation ', is a Tirela asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 20 January 1925, by Russian–French astronomer Benjamin Jekhowsky at the Algiers Observa ...
1120 Cannonia
1120 Cannonia, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Pelageya Shajn at Simeiz in 1928, it was named after American astronomer Annie ...
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Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon (; December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of ...
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1123 Shapleya
1123 Shapleya, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 September 1928, by Russian astronomer Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Obs ...
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Harlow Shapley
Harlow Shapley (November 2, 1885 – October 20, 1972) was an American scientist, head of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952), and political activist during the latter New Deal and Fair Deal.
Shapley used Cepheid variable stars to estim ...
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1129 Neujmina
1129 Neujmina ( ''prov. designation'': ) is an Eos asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 8 August 1929, by astronomer Praskoviya Parchomenko at the Simeiz Observatory on the Crimean peninsula. The stony S-ty ...
1134 Kepler
1134 Kepler, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and eccentric Mars-crosser from the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 September 1929, by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory i ...
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler (; ; 27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630) was a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music. He is a key figure in the 17th-century Scientific Revolution, best known for his laws ...
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1186 Turnera
1186 Turnera, provisional designation , is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 36 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 1 August 1929, by South African astronomer Cyril Jackson (astronomer), Cyr ...
1215 Boyer
1215 Boyer, provisional designation , is a stony Eunomian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by astronomer Alfred Schmitt in 1932, who named it after French astronomer ...
1239 Queteleta
1239 Queteleta (), provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 February 1932, by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte at the ...
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Adolphe Quetelet
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introduc ...
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1241 Dysona
1241 Dysona, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 77 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 March 1932, by English astronomer Harry Edwin Wood at the Union Obser ...
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Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS, FRSE (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was an English astronomer and the ninth Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role ...
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1303 Luthera
1303 Luthera, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid and the parent body of the Luthera family, located in the outermost regions of the asteroid belt. It measures approximately 90 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 16 M ...
1322 Coppernicus
1322 Coppernicus, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg Observatory in 1934, the asteroid was later ...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (; pl, Mikołaj Kopernik; gml, Niklas Koppernigk, german: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic Church, Catholic cano ...
Joanny-Philippe Lagrula
Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870–1941) was a French astronomer. He was sometimes referred to as Philippe Lagrula.
In 1901, he wrote his thesis at the University of Lyon. At the time, occultations of the Pleiades by the Moon were important for m ...
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1455 Mitchella
1455 Mitchella, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid, slow rotator and suspected tumbler from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 June 1937, by astronomer Alfred Bohr ...
1501 Baade
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album) ...
1510 Charlois
1510 Charlois, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 22 February 1939, by French astronomer André Patry at Nice Obs ...
1529 Oterma
1529 Oterma, provisional designation , is a reddish, rare-type Hildian asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 56 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 January 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä ...
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Liisi Oterma
Liisi Oterma (; 6 January 1915 – 4 April 2001) was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.
She studied mathematics and astronomy at the University of Turku, and soon became Yrjö Väisälä's as ...
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1539 Borrelly
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Year 1539 ( MDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
* January – Toungoo–Hanthawaddy War – Battle of Naungyo, Burm ...
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Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly
Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (December 8, 1842 – February 28, 1926) was a French astronomer.
He joined the Marseille Observatory in 1864. In the course of his career, he discovered a number of asteroids and comets, including the periodic c ...
1573 Väisälä
1573 Väisälä, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid, slow rotator and suspected tumbler from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 27 October 1949, by Belgian ast ...
1578 Kirkwood
1578 Kirkwood, provisional designation , is a Hilda asteroid from the outermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 January 1951, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe ...
Paul Baize Paul Achille‐Ariel Baize (11 March 1901 – 6 October 1995) was a French pediatrician and amateur astronomer specialising in double star observations.
He started with his observations of double stars in 1925. Between 1933 and 1971 he was allow ...
André-Louis Danjon
André-Louis Danjon (; 6 April 1890 – 21 April 1967) was a French astronomer born in Caen to Louis Dominique Danjon and Marie Justine Binet.
Danjon devised a method to measure "earthshine" on the Moon using a telescope in which a prism spl ...
1601 Patry
Sixteen or 16 may refer to:
*16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17
*one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016
Films
* ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film
* ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ...
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André Patry
André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s.
Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. H ...
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1614 Goldschmidt
Events
January–June
* February – King James I of England condemns duels, in his proclamation ''Against Private Challenges and Combats''.
* April 5 – Pocahontas is forced into child marriage with English colonist John Rolfe in ...
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Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – August 30 or September 10 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous Fren ...
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1622 Chacornac
1622 Chacornac, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 15 March 1952, by French astronomer Alfred Schmitt at the Royal Observato ...
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Jean Chacornac
Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids.
He was born in Lyon and died in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, southeastern France. Working in Marseille and Paris, he discove ...
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1637 Swings
1637 Swings, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 50 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Joseph Hunaerts in 1936, it was named after Belgian astronomer Pol Swings.
Discovery
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Pol Swings
Pol F. Swings (24 September 1906 – 28 October 1983) was a Belgian astrophysicist who was known for his studies of the composition and structure of stars and comets. He used spectroscopy to identify the elements in astronomical bodies, and, ...
George William Hill
George William Hill (March 3, 1838 – April 16, 1914) was an American astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and t ...
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1655 Comas Solà
1655 Comas Solà, provisional designation , is a rare-type asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 36 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 November 1929, by Spanish astronomer of Catalan origin, Josep Comas ...
1686 De Sitter
Events
January–March
* January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on re ...
1677 Tycho Brahe
1677 Tycho Brahe, provisional designation , is a stony Marian asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 6 September 1940, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in ...
1691 Oort
1691 Oort, provisional designation , is a rare-type carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 33 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 9 September 1956, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth an ...
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Jan Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort ( or ; 28 April 1900 – 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer who made significant contributions to the understanding of the Milky Way and who was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. His ''New York Times'' obituary ...
1714 Sy
1714 Sy, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 25 July 1951, by French astronomer Louis Boyer at Algiers Observatory in Algeria, ...
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Frédéric Sy
Frédéric Sy was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, from 1887 to 1918. While working in Algier ...
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1741 Giclas
1741 Giclas ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a stony Koronis asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 January 1960, by IU's Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observa ...
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Henry L. Giclas
Henry Lee Giclas (December 9, 1910 – April 2, 2007) was an American astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham Jr. to work there. He also work ...
1745 Ferguson
Events
January–March
* January 7 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Austrian Army, under the command of Field Marshal Károly József Batthyány, makes a surprise attack at Amberg and the winter quarters of the Bavarian ...
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James Ferguson James Ferguson may refer to:
Entertainment
* Jim Ferguson (born 1948), American jazz and classical guitarist
* Jim Ferguson, American guitarist, past member of Lotion
* Jim Ferguson, American movie critic, Board of Directors member for the Broadca ...
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1761 Edmondson
1761 Edmondson, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 March 1952, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Obser ...
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Frank K. Edmondson
Frank Kelley Edmondson (August 1, 1912 – December 8, 2008) was an American astronomer.
Life and career
Edmondson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Seymour, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University in 1933 and received a fel ...
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1766 Slipher
1766 Slipher, provisional designation , is a Paduan asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 7 September 1962, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Li ...
1778 Alfvén
1778 Alfvén, also designated , is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 26 September 1960, by astronomers Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Hou ...
Otto Kippes
Otto Kippes (23 July 1905 – 2 February 1994) was a German Catholic priest and amateur astronomer, born in Bamberg, Bavaria. He was acknowledged especially for his work in asteroid orbit calculations, which brought him the Amateur Achievement A ...
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1803 Zwicky
1803 Zwicky, '' prov. designation'': , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 6 February 1967, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Obse ...
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Fritz Zwicky
Fritz Zwicky (; ; February 14, 1898 – February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer. He worked most of his life at the California Institute of Technology in the United States of America, where he made many important contributions in theoretical and ...
Norman Robert Pogson
Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stel ...
1832 Mrkos
1832 Mrkos, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 11 August 1969 by Russian astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astro ...
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Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos () (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czechs, Czech astronomer.
Biography
Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became ...
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1846 Bengt
1846 Bengt, provisional designation , is a dark asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by the Palomar–Leiden survey in 1960, it was named for Danish astronomer Bengt Strömgren. ...
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Bengt Strömgren
Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren (21 January 1908 – 4 July 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.
Life and career
Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents were Hedvig Strömgren (née Lidforss) and Elis Strömgren, wh ...
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1850 Kohoutek
1850 Kohoutek, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was named after Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek.
Discovery
''Kohoutek'' was discover ...
Pierre Lacroute
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
French astronomer)
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1877 Marsden
1877 Marsden, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Hildian asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 35 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered during the Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey in 1971, and named a ...
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Brian G. Marsden
Brian Geoffrey Marsden (5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010) was a British astronomer and the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).
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1896 Beer
Events
January–March
* January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end, as Jameson surrenders to the Boers.
* January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
* January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports that Wil ...
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Wilhelm Beer
Wilhelm Wolff Beer (4 January 1797 – 27 March 1850) was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Astronomy
Beer's fame derives from his hobby, astronomy. He built a private observatory with a ...
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1913 Sekanina
Events January
* January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos (1913), Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not ven ...
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Zdeněk Sekanina
Zdeněk Sekanina (born 12 June 1936) is a Czech-American astronomer and scientist.
In 1959, Sekanina studied astronomy at Charles University in Prague, where he graduated in 1963. After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, he emigrated ...
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1940 Whipple
1940 Whipple ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 2 February 1975, by the Harvard College Observatory at its George R. Aga ...
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Fred Lawrence Whipple
Fred Lawrence Whipple (November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years. Amongst his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the " dirty snowball" h ...
Peter van de Kamp
Piet van de Kamp (December 26, 1901 in Kampen (Overijssel), KampenLaurence W. Fredrick, Peter van de Kamp (1901–1995)', Publications of the Astronomical Socitiey of the Pacific 108:556–559, July 1996 – May 18, 1995 in Amsterdam), known a ...
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1983 Bok
1983 Bok ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a dark background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 9 June 1975, by American astronomer Elizabeth Roemer at the Catalina Station of the UA's Steward Observatory in ...
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Bart Bok
Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok (April 28, 1906 – August 5, 1983) was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for the discovery of Bok globules, ...
Tadeáš Hájek
Tadeáš Hájek z Hájku () (1 December 1525 in Prague – 1 September 1600 in Prague), also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was a Czech naturalist, personal physician of the Holy Roman ...
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1998 Titius
1998 Titius, provisional designation , is a metallic–carbonaceous asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 24 February 1938, by German astronomer Alfred Bohrmann at Heid ...
1999 Hirayama
1999 Hirayama ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a dark background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 27 February 1973, by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburger Bergedorf O ...
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Kiyotsugu Hirayama
was a Japanese astronomer, best known for his discovery that many asteroid orbits were more similar to one another than chance would allow, leading to the concept of asteroid families, now called " Hirayama families" in his honour.
Biography
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2000 Herschel
2000 Herschel, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and a tumbling slow rotator from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered 29 July 1960, by German astronomer Joachim Schubart at So ...
2003 Harding
2003 Harding, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered during the Palomar–Leiden survey on 24 September 1960, by astronomer ...
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Karl Ludwig Harding
Karl Ludwig Harding (29 September 1765 – 31 August 1834) was a German astronomer, who discovered 3 Juno, the third asteroid of the main-belt in 1804. The lunar crater '' Harding'' and the asteroid 2003 Harding are named in his honor. ...
2012 Guo Shou-Jing
2012 Guo Shou-Jing, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and Florian interloper from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 October 1964, by astronomers at the Purpl ...
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Guo Shoujing
Guo Shoujing (, 1231–1316), courtesy name Ruosi (), was a Chinese astronomer, hydraulic engineer, mathematician, and politician of the Yuan dynasty. The later Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1591–1666) was so impressed with the preserved astron ...
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2018 Schuster
Eighteen or 18 may refer to:
* 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19
* one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018
Film, television and entertainment
* ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short s ...
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Hans-Emil Schuster
Hans-Emil Schuster (born September 19, 1934 in Hamburg) is a German astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets, who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory (ESO), and ...
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2069 Hubble
2069 Hubble, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 29 March 1955, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory, ...
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Edwin Hubble
Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an Americans, American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.
Hubble proved that many objects ...
2097 Galle 97 may refer to:
* 97 (number)
Years
* 97 BC
* AD 97
* 1997
* 2097
Other uses
* 97%, the figure from a seminal study of scientific consensus on climate change (i.e. 97% of surveyed articles on climate change agreed that humans are causing globa ...
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Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the pl ...
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2099 Öpik
2099 Öpik, provisional designation , is a dark and eccentric asteroid and Mars-crosser from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5.1 kilometers in diameter.
The asteroid was discovered on 8 November 1977, by American astronome ...
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Ernst Julius Öpik
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
* Anton Ernst (1975-) ...
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2126 Gerasimovich
2126 Gerasimovich, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 August 1970, by Soviet astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Cr ...
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Boris Gerasimovich
Boris Petrovich Gerasimovich (russian: Борис Петрович Герасимович; – June 1937) was a Russian and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.
Biography
Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchuk (now in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) ...
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2136 Jugta 136 may refer to:
*136 (number)
*AD 136
*136 BC 136 may refer to:
*136 (number)
*AD 136
Year 136 ( CXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 136th Year of the Common Era (C ...
Charles Augustus Young
Charles Augustus Young (15 December 1834 – 4 January 1908) one of the foremost solar spectroscopist astronomers in the United States. He observed solar eclipses and worked on spectroscopy of the Sun. He observed a solar flare with a spectr ...
2227 Otto Struve
2227 Otto Struve, provisional designation , is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.7 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 13 September 1955, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Obse ...
2234 Schmadel
34 may refer to:
* 34 (number), the natural number following 33 and preceding 35
* one of the years 34 BC, AD 34, 1934, 2034
* 34 (album), ''34'' (album), a 2015 album by Dre Murray
* 34 (song), "#34" (song), a 1994 song by Dave Matthews Band
* "3 ...
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Lutz Schmadel
Lutz Dieter Schmadel (2 July 1942, in Berlin – 21 October 2016) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) of the University of Heidelberg.
His special interest was t ...
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2281 Biela 81 may refer to:
* 81 (number)
* one of the years 81 BC, AD 81, 1981, 2081
* Nickname for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and "A" is the first. See also
*
* List of highways numbered
A ''list'' is an ...
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Wilhelm von Biela
Baron Wilhelm von Biela (german: Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela; March 19, 1782 – February 18, 1856) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer.
Wilhelm von Biela was born in Roßla, Harz (Northern Germany). He was a descend ...
Jan Schilt
Jan Schilt (3 February 1894, Gouda – 9 January 1982, Englewood, New Jersey) was a Dutch-American astronomer, inventor of the Schilt photometer.
Biography
Schilt was born in 1894 in the Netherlands, and educated there under Jacobus Kapteyn. He ...
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2325 Chernykh
2325 Chernykh, provisional designation , is a dark Themistian asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 25 September 1979, by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Klet Observatory in ...
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Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (russian: Людми́ла Ива́новна Черны́х, June 13, 1935 in Shuya, Ivanovo Oblast – July 28, 2017) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer, wife and colleague of Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, and a ...
and
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh (russian: Никола́й Степа́нович Черны́х) (6 October 1931 – 25 May 2004Казакова, Р.К. Памяти Николая Степановича Черных'. Труды Государст ...
2439 Ulugbek
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Year 439 ( CDXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Festus (or, less frequently, year 1192 ' ...
2646 Abetti
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Year 646 ( DCXLVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 646 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era ...
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Antonio Abetti
Antonio Abetti (19 June 1846 – 20 February 1928) was an Italian astronomer.
Born in San Pietro di Gorizia ( Šempeter-Vrtojba), he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. He was married to Giovanna Colbac ...
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Giorgio Abetti
Prof Giorgio Abetti HFRSE (5 October 1882 – 24 August 1982) was an Italian Sun, solar astronomer.G. GodolABETTI, Giorgio Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian)
Life
He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. ...
2709 Sagan
2709 Sagan, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6.7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 21 March 1982, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anders ...
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Carl Sagan
Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is research on ext ...
2772 Dugan 77 may refer to:
* 77 (number)
* one of the years 77 BC, AD 77, 1977, 2077
Music
* 77 (band), a Spanish hard rock band
* ''77'' (Matt Kennon album)
* '' Talking Heads: 77'', debut album by Talking Heads
* ''77'' (Nude Beach album), an album by t ...
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Raymond Smith Dugan
Raymond Smith Dugan (May 30, 1878 – August 31, 1940) was an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. His parents were Jeremiah Welby and Mary Evelyn Smith and he was born in Montague in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
His undergr ...
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2780 Monnig 78 may refer to:
* 78 (number)
* one of the years 78 BC, AD 78, 1978, 2078
* 78 RPM phonograph (gramophone) record
* The 78, a proposed urban development in Chicago, Illinois, US
See also
*
* List of highways numbered 78
The following highways a ...
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Oscar Monnig Oscar E. Monnig (September 4, 1902 – May 4, 1999) was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.
Private life
Monnig was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the United States. In 1925 he received a law degr ...
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2801 Huygens
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
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Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, ( , , ; also spelled Huyghens; la, Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor, who is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of ...
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2813 Zappalà
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* June 22 – Battle of Versinikia: The Bulgars, led by Krum, ruler ('' khan'') of the Bulgarian Empire, defeat Emperor Michael I near Edirne (modern Turkey). The Byzantine army (26,000 men) i ...
2842 Unsöld 84 may refer to:
* 84 (number)
* one of the years 84 BC, AD 84, 1984, AD 2084
* Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
* Seksendört
Seksendört (also known as Grup 84 ...
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Albrecht Unsöld
Albrecht Otto Johannes Unsöld (20 April 1905 – 23 September 1995) was a German astrophysicist known for his contributions to spectroscopic analysis of stellar atmospheres.
Career
Albrecht Unsöld was born in Bolheim, Württemberg, Germany. ...
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2849 Shklovskij
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Year 849 ( DCCCXLIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* Summer – Battle of Ostia: A Saracen Arab fleet from Sardinia sets sail t ...
Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (born 1944) is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is known for his work on the shapes and spin properties of minor planets.
He has discovered three comets, P/1996 R2, C/1996 R3 and 308P/La ...
Ole Rømer
Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danish astronomer who, in 1676, made the first measurement of the speed of light.
Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between two fix ...
Luboš Perek
Luboš Perek (26 July 1919 – 17 September 2020) was a Czech astronomer best known for his ''Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae'' co-written in 1967 with Luboš Kohoutek. He worked on the distribution of mass in the galaxy, high-velocity st ...
3070 Aitken
3070 Aitken, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 4 April 1949, by astronomers of the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link ...
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Robert Grant Aitken
Robert Grant Aitken (December 31, 1864 – October 29, 1951) was an American astronomer.
Early life and education
Robert Grant Aitken was born in Jackson, California, to Scottish immigrant Robert Aitken and Wilhelmina Depinau. Aitken atten ...
3095 Omarkhayyam
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
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Omar Khayyám
Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīsābūrī (18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131), commonly known as Omar Khayyam ( fa, عمر خیّام), was a polymath, known for his contributions to mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, an ...
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3115 Baily
While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, which studies how ...
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Francis Baily
Francis Baily (28 April 177430 August 1844) was an English astronomer. He is most famous for his observations of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical S ...
John Goodricke
John Goodricke FRS (17 September 1764 – 20 April 1786) was an English amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol (Beta Persei) in 1782.
Life and work
John Goodricke, named after his great-grandfath ...
3169 Ostro
3169 Ostro, provisional designation , is a Hungaria family asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.
The asteroid was discovered on 4 June 1981, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowel ...
3174 Alcock
3174 Alcock ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's U.S. Anderson Mesa Station in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 26 ...
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George Alcock
George Eric Deacon Alcock, MBE (28 August 1912, in Peterborough, Northamptonshire – 15 December 2000) was an English astronomer. He was one of the most successful visual discoverers of novae and comets.
George’s interest in astronomy wa ...
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3216 Harrington
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
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Robert Sutton Harrington
Robert Sutton Harrington (October 21, 1942 – January 23, 1993) was an American astronomer who worked at the United States Naval Observatory (USNO). Harrington was born near Newport News, Virginia. His father was an archaeologist. He was marri ...
3255 Tholen
3255 Tholen, provisional designation ', is a stony asteroid, Mars-crosser and relatively fast rotator, that measures approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 2 September 1980, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa ...
3277 Aaronson
3277 Aaronson, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Mesa Station, near ...
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Marc Aaronson
Marc Aaronson (24 August 1950 – 30 April 1987) was an American astronomer.
Life
Aaronson was born in Los Angeles.
He was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BS in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 ...
Asaph Hall
Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double ...
George O. Abell
George Ogden Abell (March 1, 1927 – October 7, 1983) was an American educator. Teaching at University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, priorly he worked as a research astronomer, administrator, as a popularizer of science and of education, and ...
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3467 Bernheim
While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, which studies ho ...
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Robert Burnham Jr.
Robert Burnham Jr. (June 16, 1931 – March 20, 1993) was an American astronomer, best known for writing the classic three-volume ''Burnham's Celestial Handbook''. He is the discoverer of numerous asteroids including the Mars crossing asteroid 3 ...
Kenneth Edgeworth
Kenneth Essex Edgeworth (26 February 1880 – 10 October 1972) was an Irish army officer, engineer, economist and independent theoretical astronomer. He was born in Street, County Westmeath. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence o ...
3507 Vilas
35 or XXXV may refer to:
* 35 (number), the natural number following 34 and preceding 36
* one of the years 35 BC, AD 35, 1935, 2035
* ''XXXV'' (album), a 2002 album by Fairport Convention
* ''35xxxv'', a 2015 album by One Ok Rock
* "35" (song), ...
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Faith Vilas
Faith Vilas is an American planetary scientist and Director of the MMT Observatory in Arizona.
Career
Vilas earned her BA in Astronomy in 1973 at Wellesley College and her SM in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 1975 at MIT. She completed her Do ...
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3545 Gaffey In number theory, a perfect digit-to-digit invariant (PDDI; also known as a Munchausen number) is a natural number in a given number base b that is equal to the sum of its digits each raised to the power of itself. An example in base 10 is 3435, be ...
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Michael James Gaffey
Michael James Gaffey (born December 1, 1945) is a planetary scientist who specializes in deriving the mineralogies of asteroids from their reflectance spectra.
Biography
He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geology from the Univers ...
James V. Scotti
James Vernon Scotti (born 1960) is an American astronomer. He was born in Bandon, Oregon and graduated from Edmonds Woodway High School in Edmonds, Washington in 1978. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson, ...
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3673 Levy
3673 Levy, provisional designation , is a binary Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 August 1985, by American astronomer Edward Bowell at Lowell's Anderson Me ...
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David H. Levy
David Howard Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.
Biography
L ...
Takeshi Urata
was a Japanese astronomer. He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.
In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet (2090 Mizuho) in over fifty years, which he named after his daughter, Mizu ...
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3808 Tempel
38 may refer to:
*38 (number), the natural number following 37 and preceding 39
*one of the years 38 BC, AD 38, 1938, 2038
*.38, a caliber of firearms and cartridges
**.38 Special, a revolver cartridge
*'' Thirty-Eight: The Hurricane That Transfor ...
Eric Walter Elst
Eric Walter Elst (30 November 1936 – 2 January 2022) was a Belgian astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center ranks him among the top 10 discoverers of minor planets ...
Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova
Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova (russian: Тама́ра Миха́йловна Смирно́ва; 1935–2001) was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets and comets.
Career
From 1966 to 1988, Smirnova was a staff member of t ...
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchus of Samos (; grc-gre, Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, ''Aristarkhos ho Samios''; ) was an ancient Greek astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or ...
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4000 Hipparchus
4000 Hipparchus is a dark background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 4 January 1989, by Japanese astronomers Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the Kushiro Observatory on H ...
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Hipparchus
Hipparchus (; el, Ἵππαρχος, ''Hipparkhos''; BC) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry, but is most famous for his incidental discovery of the precession of the equi ...
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4001 Ptolemaeus
4001 Ptolemaeus, provisional designation , is a Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 2 August 1949, by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State O ...
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; grc-gre, Πτολεμαῖος, ; la, Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were of importanc ...
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4037 Ikeya
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
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Kaoru Ikeya
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered a number of comets.
As a young adult, Ikeya lived near Lake Hamana and worked for a piano factory. During his employment there, he made his first discovery in 1963 with an optical telescope he bu ...
)
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4062 Schiaparelli
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures.
In mathematics
Four is the smallest c ...
Annibale de Gasparis
Annibale de Gasparis (9 November 1819, Bugnara – 21 March 1892, Naples; ) was an Italian astronomer, known for discovering asteroids and his contributions to theoretical astronomy.
Biography
De Gasparis was born in 1819 in Bugnara to Ang ...
4587 Rees
4587 Rees, provisional designation ', is a Mars-crosser and former near-Earth object on an eccentric orbit from the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered during the second Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey on 30 September 1973 ...
4713 Steel
4713 Steel, provisional designation , is a rare-type Hungaria asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 26 August 1989, by Scottish–Australian astronomer Robert McNaught ...
(
Duncan Steel
Duncan I. Steel is a British space scientist. He has discoverer of minor planets, discovered several minor planets and has written four popular science books. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, which lists him as working a ...
)
*
4790 Petrpravec
4790 Petrpravec ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 9 August 1988, by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at the Palomar ...
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Petr Pravec
Petr Pravec (born September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, born in Třinec, Czech Republic.
Pravec is a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids, expert in photometric observations and rotational lightcurves a ...
Andrew Fraknoi
Andrew Fraknoi (born 1948) is a retired professor of astronomy recognized for his lifetime of work using everyday language to make astronomy more accessible and popular for both students and the general public. In 2017 Fraknoi retired from his po ...
5080 Oja
5080 Oja, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 2 March 1976, by astronomer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist at the Kvistaberg Statio ...
5100 Pasachoff 51 may refer to:
* 51 (number)
* The year
** 51 BC
** AD 51
** 1951
** 2051
* ''51'' (film), a 2011 American horror film directed by Jason Connery
* "Fifty-One
"Fifty-One" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the American television crim ...
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Prof Heinrich Christian Schumacher FRS(For) FRSE (3 September 1780 – 28 December 1850) was a German-Danish astronomer and mathematician.
Biography
Schumacher was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, near the German/Danish border. He was educated ...
)
*
5035 Swift
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...
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Lewis Swift
Lewis A. Swift (February 29, 1820 – January 5, 1913) was an American astronomer who discovered 13 comets and 1,248 previously uncatalogued nebulae. Only William Herschel discovered more nebulae visually.
Discoveries
Swift discovered or co-discov ...
)
*
5036 Tuttle
5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. It has attained significance throughout history in part because typical humans have five digits on eac ...
5392 Parker
Year 539 ( DXXXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Strategius without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1292 '' ...
5430 Luu
5430 Luu, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 12 May 1988, by American astronomer couple Carolyn Shoemaker, Carolyn and Eug ...
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Jane Luu
Jane X. Luu ( vi, ; born July 1963) is a Vietnamese-American astronomer and defense systems engineer. She was awarded the Kavli Prize (shared with David C. Jewitt and Michael Brown) for 2012 "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper Belt ...
)
*
5655 Barney
5655 Barney, provisional designation , is a Maria asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered during the second Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey in 1973, and named for American astronomer I ...
Vera Rubin
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin (; July 23, 1928 – December 25, 2016) was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studyi ...
Anaximander
Anaximander (; grc-gre, Ἀναξίμανδρος ''Anaximandros''; ) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus,"Anaximander" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 1, p. 403. a city of Ionia (in moder ...
)
*
6075 Zajtsev
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
(
Alexander L. Zaitsev
Aleksandr Leonidovich Zaitsev (russian: Александр Леонидович Зайцев; 19 May 1945 – 29 November 2021) was a Russian and Soviet radio engineer and astronomer from Fryazino. He worked on radar astronomy devices, near-Ear ...
Charles Dillon Perrine
Charles Dillon Perrine (July 28, 1867June 21, 1951) was an American astronomer at the Lick Observatory in California (1893-1909) who moved to Cordoba, Argentina to accept the position of Director of the Argentine National Observatory (1909-1936). ...
Thomas Bopp
Thomas Joel Bopp (October 15, 1949 – January 5, 2018) was an American amateur astronomer. In 1995, he discovered comet Hale–Bopp; Alan Hale discovered it independently at almost the same time, and it was thus named after both of them. At t ...
)
*
7291 Hyakutake
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube.
As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, ...
Ewen A. Whitaker
Ewen Adair Whitaker (22 June 1922 – 11 October 2016) was a British-born astronomer who specialized in Moon, lunar studies. During World War II he was engaged in quality control for the lead sheathing of hollow cables strung under the English Cha ...
8216 Melosh
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
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H. Jay Melosh
H. Jay Melosh (June 23, 1947 – September 11, 2020) was an American geophysicist specialising in impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. His P ...
8408 Strom 84 may refer to:
* 84 (number)
* one of the years 84 BC, AD 84, 1984, AD 2084
* Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated census-designated place in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
* Seksendört
Seksendört (also known as Grup 84 ...
Margherita Hack
Margherita Hack (; 12 June 1922 – 29 June 2013) was an Italian astrophysicist and scientific disseminator. The asteroid 8558 Hack, discovered in 1995, was named in her honour.
Biography
Hack was born in Florence. Her father Roberto Hack was ...
)
*
8690 Swindle
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Year 869 ( DCCCLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Summer – Emperor Basil I allies with the Frankish emperor Lo ...
Paul Boltwood
Paul Boltwood (1943 – September 25, 2017) was a Canadian amateur astronomer. He was engaged in developing hardware and software for deep sky imaging and in research of brightness variations in active galactic nuclei. He was also acknowledged for ...
Peter H. Smith
Peter Hopkinson Smith (born January 17, 1940) is a scholar of Latin American history, politics, economics, and diplomacy. He is a distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science and the Simon Bolivar Professor of Latin American Studies at ...
10633 Akimasa
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1 ...
Michael Perryman
Michael Perryman is a British astronomer, known for his work leading the Hipparcos and Gaia space astrometric projects.
Education
Michael Perryman studied theoretical physics at Cambridge University and received his doctorate from the Cavend ...
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...
Jaan Einasto
Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929) is an Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe.
Born Jaan Eisenschmidt in Tartu, the name "Einasto" is an anagram of "Estonia" (it was chosen by his p ...
Janet Akyüz Mattei
Janet Akyüz Mattei (January 2, 1943 – March 22, 2004) was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.
Biography
Mattei was born in Bodrum, Turkey t ...
11762 Vogel
Year 1176 ( MCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1176th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 176th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th ...
(
Hermann Carl Vogel
Hermann Carl Vogel (; ; 3 April 1841 – 13 August 1907) was a German astrophysicist. He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony. From 1882 to 1907 he was director of the Astrophysical Observatory, Potsdam. He made extensive discoveries ...
)
*
12621 Alsufi
12621 Alsufi, provisionally designated , is a carbonaceous Themistian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by astronomers during the Palomar–Leiden survey in 1960, and nam ...
(
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Sufi ( fa, عبدالرحمن صوفی; December 7, 903 – May 25, 986) was an iranianRobert Harry van Gent. Biography of al-Sūfī'. "The Persian astronomer Abū al-Husayn ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn ‘Umar al-Sūfī was born in ...
/ Azophi, Persian astronomer)
*
12742 Delisle
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. ...
14120 Espenak 141 may refer to:
* 141 (number), an integer
* AD 141, a year of the Julian calendar
* 141 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
{{numberdis ...
14322 Shakura 143 may refer to:
*143 (number), a natural number
*AD 143, a year of the 2nd century AD
*143 BC, a year of the 2nd century BC
* ''143'' (EP), a 2013 EP by Tiffany Evans
* ''143'' (album), a 2015 album by Bars and Melody
* ''143'' (2004 film), a 200 ...
152217 Akosipov
Fifteen or 15 may refer to:
*15 (number), the natural number following 14 and preceding 16
*one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015
Music
*Fifteen (band), a punk rock band
Albums
* ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005
* ''15'' (Ani Lorak album ...
Antonín Rükl
Antonín Rükl (September 22, 1932 – July 12, 2016) was a Czech astronomer, cartographer, and author.
He was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. As a student he developed what was to be a lifelong interest in astronomy. He graduated from the Czec ...
Christian Koeberl
Christian Köberl (born February 18, 1959 in Vienna) is a professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, Austria. From June 2010 to May 2020 he was director general of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. He is ...
)
*
16682 Donati
Events
January–March
* January 23 – The Triple Alliance of 1668 is formed between England, Sweden and the United Provinces of the Netherlands.
* February 13 – In Lisbon, a peace treaty is established between Afonso V ...
(
Giovanni Battista Donati
Giovanni Battista Donati (; 16 December 182620 September 1873) was an Italian astronomer.
Donati graduated from the university of his native city, Pisa, and afterwards joined the staff of the Observatory of Florence in 1852. He was appointed d ...
19139 Apian
19139 Apian, provisional designation ', is a bright background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 April 1989, by German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Sch ...
(
Peter Apian
Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on "cosmography", the field that d ...
30785 Greeley
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societie ...
(Ronald Greeley, American Planetary Geologist, Regents' Professor, Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona
* 32200 Seiicyoshida (Seiichi Yoshida, Japanese astronomer)
* 36445 Smalley (
Kyle E. Smalley
Sonia Keys (1961 – August 13, 2018), formerly known as Kyle Smalley, was an American amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. She worked as an astronomer and software developer at the Minor Planet Center. Asteroid 36445 Small ...
Vytautas Straižys
Vytautas Straižys (20 August 1936 – 19 December 2021) was a Lithuanian astronomer. In 1963–65 he and his collaborators created and developed the Vilnius photometric system, a seven-color intermediate band system, optimized for photometric s ...
, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of
Vilnius photometric system
Vilnius photometric system is a medium-band seven-colour photometric system (UPXYZVS), created in 1963 by Vytautas Straižys and his coworkers. This system was highly optimized for classification of stars from ground-based observations. The sy ...
Phil Plait
Philip Cary Plait (born September 30, 1964), also known as The Bad Astronomer, is an American astronomer, skeptic, and popular science blogger. Plait has worked as part of the Hubble Space Telescope team, images and spectra of astronomical objec ...
, American astronomer, known as TheBadAstronomer)
* 234750 Amymainzer (
Amy Mainzer
Amy Mainzer (born January 2, 1974) is an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy. She is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and the Principal Investigator for ...
4897 Tomhamilton
4897 Tomhamilton, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 August 1987, by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory, ...
(Thomas William Hamilton, American astronomer, author, and planetarium director)
* 9108 Toruyusa (Toru Yusa, Japanese planetarium director and comet chaser)
*
13123 Tyson
13123 Tyson, provisional designation , is a stony Phocaea asteroid and an asynchronous binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on May 16, 1994, by American astronomer ...
17601 Sheldonschafer
Year 176 ( CLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Aper (or, less frequently, year 929 '' Ab urbe condita'') ...
(Sheldon Schafer, Professor of astronomy and Director of the Riverview Museum Planetarium,
Peoria, IL
Peoria ( ) is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and the largest city on the Illinois River. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 113,150. It is the principal city of the Peoria Metropolitan Area in Cent ...
)
Relatives of astronomers
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42 Isis
Isis, minor planet designation: 42 Isis, is a large main-belt asteroid, measuring 100.2 km in diameter with a stony ( S-type) composition. It was discovered by English astronomer N.R. Pogson on 23 May 1856 at Oxford, and was his first aste ...
Norman Robert Pogson
Norman Robert Pogson, CIE (23 March 1829 – 23 June 1891) was an English astronomer who worked in India at the Madras observatory. He discovered several minor planets and made observations on comets. He introduced a mathematical scale of stel ...
; also Ancient Egyptian goddess
Isis
Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ...
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87 Sylvia
Sylvia (minor planet designation: 87 Sylvia) is the one of the largest asteroids (approximately tied for 7th place, to within measurement uncertainties). It is the parent body of the Sylvia family and member of Cybele group located beyond the m ...
Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction ...
; also Rhea Sylvia, the mythical mother of the twins
Romulus and Remus
In Roman mythology, Romulus and Remus (, ) are twin brothers whose story tells of the events that led to the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom by Romulus, following his fratricide of Remus. The image of a she-wolf suckling the ...
)
*
153 Hilda
Hilda ( minor planet designation: 153 Hilda) is a large asteroid in the outer main belt, with a diameter of 170 km. Because it is composed of primitive carbonaceous materials, it has a very dark surface. It was discovered by Johann Palisa ...
Theodor von Oppolzer
Theodor von Oppolzer (26 October 1841 – 26 December 1886) was an Austrian Empire, Austrian astronomer and mathematician of Bohemia, Bohemian origin.
The son of the physician Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Theodor was born in Prague. He completed h ...
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*
154 Bertha
Bertha (minor planet designation: 154 Bertha) is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by the French brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on 4 November 1875, but the credit for the discovery was given to Prosper. It is probably named after B ...
Camille Flammarion
Nicolas Camille Flammarion FRAS (; 26 February 1842 – 3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction ...
)
*
1280 Baillauda
1280 Baillauda, provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outermost region of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Eugène Delporte at Uccle Observatory in 1933, the asteroid was named af ...
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Jules Baillaud
Jules Baillaud (14 January 1876, Paris – 28 November 1960) was a French astronomer. Initially assistant astronomer in Lyon (1900–1904) and at the Paris observatory: assistant astronomer until 1925, he went on as astronomer from 1925 to 1947. Fr ...
, son of the astronomer
Benjamin Baillaud
Édouard Benjamin Baillaud (14 February 1848 – 8 July 1934) was a French astronomer.
Biography
Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure (1866-1869) and the University of Paris. He worked as an assi ...
)
*
1563 Noël
1563 Noël, provisional designation , is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 7 March 1943, by Belgian astronomer Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of ...
Sylvain Julien Victor Arend
Sylvain Julien Victor Arend (6 August 1902 – 18 February 1992) was a Belgian astronomer born in Robelmont, Luxembourg province, Belgium. His main interest was astrometry.
Together with Georges Roland, he discovered the bright comet C/1956 R ...
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* 3664 Anneres (Anna Theresia ("Anneres") Schmadel, the wife of astronomer
Lutz Schmadel
Lutz Dieter Schmadel (2 July 1942, in Berlin – 21 October 2016) was a German astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, who worked at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI) of the University of Heidelberg.
His special interest was t ...
5100 Pasachoff 51 may refer to:
* 51 (number)
* The year
** 51 BC
** AD 51
** 1951
** 2051
* ''51'' (film), a 2011 American horror film directed by Jason Connery
* "Fifty-One
"Fifty-One" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the American television crim ...
)
Biologists
*
1991 Darwin
1991 Darwin, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 5 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 6 May 1967, by Argentine astronomers Carlos Cesco and Arnold Klemola at ...
(
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...
, an English naturalist, geologist and biologist)
*
2496 Fernandus
__NOTOC__
Year 496 ( CDXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. In the Roman Empire, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paulus without colleague (or, less frequently, ye ...
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Fernandus Payne
Fernandus Payne (February 13, 1881 – October 13, 1977) was an American zoologist, geneticist and educator.
Panye was born in Shelbyville, Indiana. He received a B.Sc. from Valparaiso University in 1901 and a B.A. from Indiana University in 1 ...
4804 Pasteur
4804 Pasteur, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 2 December 1989, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at the ESO ...
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Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (, ; 27 December 1822 – 28 September 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, the latter of which was named afte ...
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the ...
, father of modern taxonomy)
* 8357 O'Connor (J. Dennis O'Connor, biological scientist and provost at the
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator (; 5 March 1512 – 2 December 1594) was a 16th-century geographer, cosmographer and Cartography, cartographer from the County of Flanders. He is most renowned for creating the Mercator 1569 world map, 1569 world map based on ...
)
*
19139 Apian
19139 Apian, provisional designation ', is a bright background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 April 1989, by German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Sch ...
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Peter Apian
Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on "cosmography", the field that d ...
)
Chemists
*
1449 Virtanen
1449 Virtanen, provisional designation , is a stony Florian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 9.2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 20 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Obse ...
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Artturi Ilmari Virtanen
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen (; 15 January 1895 – 11 November 1973) was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his research and inventions in agricultural and nutrition chemistry, especially for his fodder preserv ...
James R. Arnold
James Richard Arnold (May 5, 1923 – January 6, 2012) was the Harold C. Urey Professor of Chemistry (emeritus), and a noted pioneer in the field of planetary and space chemistry at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), wher ...
Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes transliterated as Mendeleyev or Mendeleef) ( ; russian: links=no, Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев, tr. , ; 8 February Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._27_January.html" ;"title="O ...
, father of the
periodic table
The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the (chemical) elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements. It is widely used in chemistry, physics, and other sciences, and is generally seen as an icon of ch ...
Humphry Davy
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet, (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a British chemist and inventor who invented the Davy lamp and a very early form of arc lamp. He is also remembered for isolating, by using electricity, several elements for t ...
4674 Pauling
4674 Pauling, provisional designation , is a spheroidal binary Hungaria asteroid from the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at the U.S Palomar ...
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Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling (; February 28, 1901August 19, 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific top ...
Harold Urey
Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the d ...
Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in ...
6032 Nobel
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number.
In mathematics
Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel ...
9680 Molina
Year 968 ( CMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* Emperor Nikephoros II receives a Bulgarian embassy led by Prince Boris (th ...
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle (; 25 January 1627 – 31 December 1691) was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of ...
John Dalton
John Dalton (; 5 or 6 September 1766 – 27 July 1844) was an English chemist, physicist and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into colour blindness, which he had. Colour b ...
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Computer scientists and programmers
*
9121 Stefanovalentini 91 may refer to:
Years
* 91 BC
* AD 91
* 1991
* 2091
* etc.
Transportation
* List of highways numbered
* 91 Line, a rail line
* Saab 91, an aircraft
Other uses
* 91 (number)
* '' 91:an'', a Swedish comic
* ''91'', a 2017 album by Jamie Grace
* ...
Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds ( , ; born 28 December 1969) is a Finnish software engineer who is the creator and, historically, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, used by Linux distributions and other operating systems such as Android. He also c ...
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*
9882 Stallman
Year 988 ( CMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Byzantine Empire
* Fall – Emperor Basil II, supported by a contingent of 6,000 Varangian ...
(
Richard M. Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman (; born March 16, 1953), also known by his initials, rms, is an American free software movement activist and programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in such a manner that its users have the freedom to u ...
)
*
21656 Knuth
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The First War of Villmergen, a civil war in the Confederation of Switzerland pitting its Protestant and Roman Catholic cantons against each other, breaks out but is resolved by March 7. The ...
John George Kemeny
John George Kemeny (born Kemény János György; May 31, 1926 – December 26, 1992) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. ...
Dennis Ritchie
Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 12, 2011) was an American computer scientist. He is most well-known for creating the C programming language and, with long-time colleague Ken Thompson, the Unix operating system and B p ...
187 Lamberta
Lamberta (minor planet designation: 187 Lamberta) is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Corsican-born French astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia on April 11, 1878, and named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert. It was the second o ...
Thorvald Nicolai Thiele
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1001 Gaussia
Gaussia (minor planet designation: 1001 Gaussia), provisional designation , is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 73 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 August 1923, by Soviet astrono ...
1005 Arago
Arago (minor planet designation: 1005 Arago), provisional designation , is a dark asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 55 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 September 1923, by Russian astronomer Sergey Be ...
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François Arago
Dominique François Jean Arago ( ca, Domènec Francesc Joan Aragó), known simply as François Arago (; Catalan: ''Francesc Aragó'', ; 26 February 17862 October 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of t ...
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1006 Lagrangea
Lagrangea (minor planet designation: 1006 Lagrangea), provisional designation , is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 30 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 12 September 1923, by R ...
1552 Bessel
1552 Bessel, provisional designation , is a stony Eoan asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 18 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observator ...
1858 Lobachevskij
1858 Lobachevskij (Minor planet provisional designation, ''prov. designation'': ) is a rare-type background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 18 August 1972, by So ...
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Nikolai Lobachevsky
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Лобаче́вский, p=nʲikɐˈlaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ ləbɐˈtɕɛfskʲɪj, a=Ru-Nikolai_Ivanovich_Lobachevsky.ogg; – ) was a Russian mathematician and geometer, kn ...
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1859 Kovalevskaya
1859 Kovalevskaya, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 40 kilometers in diameter.
It was discovered on 4 September 1972, by Russian–Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Zhurav ...
1996 Adams
1996 Adams, provisional designation , is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 October 1961, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observat ...
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John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams (; 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of ...
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1997 Leverrier
1997 Leverrier (Minor planet provisional designation, ''prov. designation'': ) is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 14 September 1963, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observat ...
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Urbain Le Verrier
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using ...
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2002 Euler
2002 Euler is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 29 August 1973, by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj, an ...
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Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler ( , ; 15 April 170718 September 1783) was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topology and made pioneering and influential discoveries in ma ...
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2010 Chebyshev
2010 Chebyshev, provisional designation , is a rare-type carbonaceous asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered on 13 October 1969, by Soviet astronomer Bella Burnash ...
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (; grc-gre, Ἐρατοσθένης ; – ) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria ...
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3600 Archimedes
36 may refer to:
* 36 (number), the natural number following 35 and preceding 37
* One of these years of Gregorian or Julian calendars:
** 36 BC, 1st century BCE
** AD 36, 1st century
** 1936, 20th century
** 2036, 21st century
Arts and entertain ...
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Archimedes
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Johannes Stöffler
Johannes Stöffler (also ''Stöfler, Stoffler, Stoeffler''; 10 December 1452 – 16 February 1531) was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tübingen.
Life
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4354 Euclides
4354 Euclides , provisional designation , is a dark Dorian asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 24 September 1960, by Dutch astronomer couple Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten on pho ...
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Euclid
Euclid (; grc-gre, Wikt:Εὐκλείδης, Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the ''Euclid's Elements, Elements'' trea ...
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4628 Laplace 46 may refer to:
* 46 (number)
* 46 (album), ''46'' (album), a 1983 album by Kino (band), Kino
* "Forty Six", a song by Karma to Burn from the album ''Appalachian Incantation'', 2010
* One of the years 46 BC, AD 46, 1946, 2046
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Pierre-Simon Laplace
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (; ; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French scholar and polymath whose work was important to the development of engineering, mathematics, statistics, physics, astronomy, and philosophy. He summarized ...
Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos ( grc, Πυθαγόρας ὁ Σάμιος, Pythagóras ho Sámios, Pythagoras the Samos, Samian, or simply ; in Ionian Greek; ) was an ancient Ionians, Ionian Ancient Greek philosophy, Greek philosopher and the eponymou ...
7057 Al-Fārābī
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As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, s ...
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Al-Farabi
Abu Nasr Muhammad Al-Farabi ( fa, ابونصر محمد فارابی), ( ar, أبو نصر محمد الفارابي), known in the Western world, West as Alpharabius; (c. 872 – between 14 December, 950 and 12 January, 951)PDF version was a reno ...
, scientist, cosmologist, mathematician and music scholar)
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7058 Al-Ṭūsī
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube (algebra), cube.
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Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Muẓaffar ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Muẓaffar al-Ṭūsī ( fa, شرفالدین مظفر بن محمد بن مظفر توسی; 1135 – 1213) was an Iranian peoples, Iranian Islamic mathematics, mathematician and Islamic as ...
, Persian mathematician)
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7655 Adamries
7655 Adamries, provisional designation , is a Nysa asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 28 December 1991, by German astronomer Freimut Börngen at Karl Schwarzschild ...
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Adam Ries
Adam Ries (17 January 1492 – 30 March 1559) was a German mathematician. He is also known by the name Adam Riese.
Life
Almost nothing is known about Ries' childhood, youth and education. The exact year of his birth is not known. The caption o ...
, German mathematician)
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8128 Nicomachus 81 may refer to:
* 81 (number)
* one of the years 81 BC, AD 81, 1981, 2081
* Nickname for the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. "H" is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and "A" is the first. See also
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* List of highways numbered
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Nicomachus
Nicomachus of Gerasa ( grc-gre, Νικόμαχος; c. 60 – c. 120 AD) was an important ancient mathematician and music theorist, best known for his works ''Introduction to Arithmetic'' and ''Manual of Harmonics'' in Greek. He was born in ...
9936 Al-Biruni
9936 Al-Biruni, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 24 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 8 August 1986, by Belgian and Bulgarian astronomers Eric Elst and Viole ...
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Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (973 – after 1050) commonly known as al-Biruni, was a Khwarazmian Iranian in scholar and polymath during the Islamic Golden Age. He has been called variously the "founder of Indology", "Father of Co ...
, Persian mathematician)
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9999 Wiles
9999 Wiles, provisional designation , is a Koronian asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 to 7 kilometers in diameter. It was named after British mathematician Andrew Wiles.
Discovery
''Wiles'' was discovered on ...
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...
, Persian mathematician)
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12493 Minkowski
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Hermann Minkowski
Hermann Minkowski (; ; 22 June 1864 – 12 January 1909) was a German mathematician and professor at Königsberg, Zürich and Göttingen. He created and developed the geometry of numbers and used geometrical methods to solve problems in number t ...
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14100 Weierstrass 141 may refer to:
* 141 (number), an integer
* AD 141, a year of the Julian calendar
* 141 BC
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Year 141 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Caepio and Pompeius (or, ...
Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī
Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the mono ...
, Persian mathematician)
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16765 Agnesi
16765 Agnesi, provisional designation , is a stony Eunomia asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 October 1996, by Italian-American amateur astronomer Paul Comba at his ...
19139 Apian
19139 Apian, provisional designation ', is a bright background asteroid from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 6 April 1989, by German astronomer Freimut Börngen at the Karl Sch ...
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Peter Apian
Petrus Apianus (April 16, 1495 – April 21, 1552), also known as Peter Apian, Peter Bennewitz, and Peter Bienewitz, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography. His work on "cosmography", the field that d ...
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27500 Mandelbrot
75 may refer to:
* 75 (number)
* one of the years 75 BC, AD 75, 1875 CE, 1975 CE, 2075 CE
* 75 (album), ''75'' (album), an album by Joe Zawinul
* M75 (disambiguation), including "Model 75"
* Highway 75, see List of highways numbered 75
*Alfa Ro ...
Émile Léonard Mathieu
Émile Léonard Mathieu (; 15 May 1835, in Metz – 19 October 1890, in Nancy) was a French mathematician. He is known for his work in group theory and mathematical physics. He has given his name to the Mathieu functions, Mathieu groups and Mathi ...
29552 Chern
Year 955 ( CMLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
* August 10 – Battle of Lechfeld: King Otto I ("the Great") defeats the Hungarians (al ...
Édouard Roche
Édouard Albert Roche (; 17 October 1820 – 27 April 1883) was a French astronomer and mathematician, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics. His name was given to the concepts of the Roche sphere, Roche limit, and Ro ...
59239 Alhazen 59 may refer to:
* 59 (number)
* one of the years 59 BC, AD 59, 1959, 2059
* ''59'' (album), by Puffy AmiYumi
* 59 (golf), a round of 59 in golf
* "Fifty Nine", a song by Karma to Burn from the album '' Arch Stanton'', 2014
* 59 Skipton–Harrogat ...
Arab
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...
Muslim
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scientist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher)
Galileo Galilei
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Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild (; 9 October 1873 – 11 May 1916) was a German physicist and astronomer.
Schwarzschild provided the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-r ...
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1069 Planckia
1069 Planckia, provisional designation , is a background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 28 January 1927, by astronomer Max Wolf at the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observato ...
1979 Sakharov
1979 Sakharov, provisionally designated , is a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4.5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered during the Palomar–Leiden survey in 1960, and named after Russian phys ...
2001 Einstein
2001 Einstein ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a bright Hungaria asteroid from the innermost region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland, on 5 March 1973. The X-type ...
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Albert Einstein
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2244 Tesla
2244 Tesla, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 October 1952, by Serbian astronomer Milorad Protić at the Belgrade Ob ...
2352 Kurchatov
35 or XXXV may refer to:
* 35 (number), the natural number following 34 and preceding 36
* one of the years 35 BC, AD 35, 1935, 2035
* ''XXXV'' (album), a 2002 album by Fairport Convention
* ''35xxxv'', a 2015 album by One Ok Rock
* "35" (song), ...
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Igor Kurchatov
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3581 Alvarez
3581 Alvarez, provisional designation ', is a carbonaceous asteroid and a very large Mars-crosser on an eccentric orbit from the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 23 April 1985, by American astronomer couple Carolyn a ...
3905 Doppler
3905 Doppler, provisional designation , is a stony asteroid and Binary asteroid, binary system from the middle region of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.
The asteroid was discovered on 28 August 1984, by Czech astronomer ...
Jaan Einasto
Jaan Einasto (born 23 February 1929) is an Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe.
Born Jaan Eisenschmidt in Tartu, the name "Einasto" is an anagram of "Estonia" (it was chosen by his p ...
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*11779 Zernike (Frits Zernike)
*12301 Eötvös (Loránd Eötvös)
*12320 Loschmidt (Johann Josef Loschmidt)
*12423 Slotin) (Louis Slotin)
*12628 Ackworthorr (Mary Ackworth Orr, solar physicist)
*12755 Balmer (Johann Jakob Balmer)
*12759 Joule (James Prescott Joule)
*12760 Maxwell (James Clerk Maxwell)
*12766 Paschen (Friedrich Paschen)
*12773 Lyman (Theodore Lyman IV, Theodore Lyman)
*12774 Pfund (August Herman Pfund)
*12775 Brackett (Frederick Sumner Brackett)
*13092 Schrödinger (Erwin Schrödinger)
*13093 Wolfgangpauli (Wolfgang Pauli)
*13149 Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg)
*13219 Cailletet (Louis Paul Cailletet)
*13478 Fraunhofer (Joseph von Fraunhofer)
*13531 Weizsäcker (Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker)
*13954 Born (Max Born)
*14413 Geiger (Hans Geiger)
*14468 Ottostern (Otto Stern)
*16583 Oersted (Hans Christian Ørsted)
*16761 Hertz (Heinrich Hertz)
*17649 Brunorossi (Bruno Rossi)
*18169 Amaldi (Edoardo Amaldi)
*19126 Ottohahn ( Otto Hahn), father of nuclear fission
*19178 Walterbothe (Walther Bothe)
*20081 Occhialini (Giuseppe Occhialini)
* 24988 Alainmilsztajn (Alain Milsztajn, French particle physicist)
*29137 Alanboss, (Alan Boss, American astrophysicist)
*29212 Zeeman (Pieter Zeeman)
*30828 Bethe (Hans Bethe)
*32809 Sommerfeld (Arnold Sommerfeld)
*37582 Faraday (Michael Faraday)
*48798 Penghuanwu (Peng Huanwu)
*52337 Compton (Arthur Compton)
*55753 Raman (C. V. Raman)
*58215 von Klitzing (Klaus von Klitzing)
*67085 Oppenheimer (J. Robert Oppenheimer)
*163244 Matthewhill (Matthew E. Hill)
*177770 Saulanwu (Sau Lan Wu)
*Astrobiologists
**2410 Morrison (David Morrison)
**9826 Ehrenfreund (Pascale Ehrenfreund)
**12859 Marlamoore (Marla Moore)
*Planetary scientists
**2710 Veverka (Joseph Veverka)
**4815 Anders (Edward Anders)
**7231 Porco (Carolyn Porco)
**8356 Wadhwa (Meenakshi Wadhwa, meteorite analyst)
**13358 Revelle (Douglas ReVelle)
**21774 O'Brien (David P. O'Brien)
**133432 Sarahnoble (Sarah K. Noble)
**274860 Emilylakdawalla (Emily Lakdawalla)
*Rocket scientists
**1590 Tsiolkovskaja (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky)
**1855 Korolev (Sergei Korolev)
**8062 Okhotsymskij (Dmitry Okhotsimsky)
**9252 Goddard (Robert Goddard)
**25143 Itokawa (Hideo Itokawa)
*Soyuz 11 crew members:
**1789 Dobrovolsky (Georgi Dobrovolski)
**1790 Volkov (Vladislav Volkov)
**1791 Patsayev (Viktor Patsayev)
*Other USSR/Russian cosmonauts
**1772 Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space)
**1836 Komarov (Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov, Vladimir Komarov)
*Apollo 11 crew members:
**6469 Armstrong (Neil Armstrong)
**6470 Aldrin (Buzz Aldrin, "Buzz" Aldrin)
**6471 Collins (Michael Collins (astronaut), Michael Collins)
*STS-51-L crew members:
**3350 Scobee (Dick Scobee, Francis "Dick" Scobee)
**3351 Smith (Michael J. Smith (astronaut), Michael J. Smith)
**3352 McAuliffe (Christa McAuliffe)
**3353 Jarvis (Gregory Jarvis)
**3354 McNair (Ronald McNair)
**3355 Onizuka (Ellison Onizuka)
**3356 Resnik (Judith Resnik)
*STS-107 crew members:
**51823 Rickhusband (Rick Husband)
**51824 Mikeanderson (Michael P. Anderson)
**51825 Davidbrown (David M. Brown)
**51826 Kalpanachawla (Kalpana Chawla)
**51827 Laurelclark (Laurel B. Clark)
**51828 Ilanramon (Ilan Ramon, first Israeli astronaut)
**51829 Williemccool (William C. McCool)
*Other United States, American astronauts:
**4763 Ride (Sally Ride)
**7749 Jackschmitt (Harrison H. Schmitt)
**12790 Cernan (Eugene Cernan)
**13606 Bean (Alan Bean)
**22442 Blaha (John E. Blaha)
*People's Republic of China, Chinese astronauts:
**9512 Feijunlong (Fei Junlong)
**9517 Niehaisheng (Nie Haisheng)
**21064 Yangliwei (Yang Liwei)
*Other astronauts:
**2552 Remek (Vladimír Remek, Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak cosmonaut)
**9496 Ockels (Wubbo Ockels, Netherlands, Dutch astronaut)
**14143 Hadfield (Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut)
**15006 Samcristoforetti (Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy, Italian astronaut)
**22901 Ivanbella (Ivan Bella, Slovakia, Slovak cosmonaut)
**37627 Lucaparmitano (Luca Parmitano, Italy, Italian astronaut)
**135268 Haigneré (Claudie Haigneré, Claudie and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, France, French astronauts)
**374354 Pesquet (Thomas Pesquet, France, French astronaut)
Other scientists, engineers and inventors
*335 Roberta (Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, entomologist)
*742 Edisona (Thomas Edison, inventor)
*775 Lumière (Auguste and Louis Lumière, cinematic pioneers)
*777 Gutemberga (Johannes Gutenberg, pioneer printer)
*2177 Oliver (Bernard M. Oliver, research scientist)
*2243 Lönnrot (Elias Lönnrot, physician, philologist, botanist, compiler of ''Kalevala'')
*2784 Domeyko (Ignacy Domeyko, mineralogist)
*2809 Vernadskij (Vladimir Vernadsky, mineralogist, pioneer geochemist)
*3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
*3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
*3701 Purkyně (Jan Evangelista Purkyně, physiologist)
*4217 Engelhardt (Wolf von Engelhardt, geologist)
*4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman (geochemist), Lawrence Grossman, geochemist)
*5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin, scientist)
*5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers, hot air balloon pioneers)
*5958 Barrande (Joachim Barrande, geologist and paleontologist)
*6175 Cori (Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemists)
*7552 Sephton (Mark Sephton, geochemist)
*8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
*9969 Braille (Louis Braille, inventor of braille)
*10093 Diesel (Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine).
*13609 Lewicki (Chris Lewicki), spacecraft systems engineer
*14345 Gritsevich (Maria Gritsevich, research scientist)
*15465 Buchroeder (Richard A. Buchroeder, optical engineer)
*16518 Akihikoito (Akihiko Ito, Japanese CCD astrophotographer)
*20259 Alanhoffman (Alan Hoffman, pioneer in infrared detectors)
*29227 Wegener (Alfred Wegener, geologist and meteorologist)
*37683 Gustaveeiffel (Gustave Eiffel, a French civil engineer and architect)
*44103 Aldana (Fernando Aldana Mayor, electrical engineer, professor and politician)
*52270 Noamchomsky (Noam Chomsky, an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist)
*61404 Očenášek (Ludvík Očenášek, handyman who constructed a monoplane, a radial engine for airplanes, and two-stage rockets)
*73079 Davidbaltimore (David Baltimore, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate)
*172850 Coppens (Yves Coppens, paleoanthropologist)
Monarchs and royalty
*12 Victoria (officially named after the Roman Victoria (mythology), goddess of victory, but also honours Victoria of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria)
*45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-Prince (moon), Petit-Prince in part for her son Napoléon Eugène, Prince Imperial
*115 Thyra (Thyra, consort of King Gorm the Old of Denmark)
*216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
*220 Stephania (Princess Stéphanie of Belgium)
*295 Theresia (Maria Theresa, Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire and Queen consort of Germany)
*326 Tamara (Tamar of Georgia, Queen Tamar of Georgia)
*344 Desiderata (Désirée Clary, Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway)
*359 Georgia (George II of Great Britain, King George II of Great Britain)
*392 Wilhelmina (Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands)
*525 Adelaide (Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Adelaide, consort of William IV of the United Kingdom)
*545 Messalina (Valeria Messalina, Messalina, Roman empress)
*546 Herodias (Herodias, wife of Herod II and mother of Salome)
*562 Salome (Salome, daughter of Herod II and Herodias)
*598 Octavia (Octavia the Younger, sister of Augustus)
*650 Amalasuntha (Amalasuntha, queen of the Ostrogoths)
*653 Berenike (Berenice II, Egyptian queen)
*689 Zita (Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma)
*816 Juliana (Juliana of the Netherlands, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands)
*823 Sisigambis (Sisygambis, mother of Darius III of Persia)
*831 Stateira (Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II), Stateira, wife of Artaxerxes II of Persia)
*832 Karin (Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden)
*888 Parysatis (Parysatis, wife of Darius II of Persia)
*911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon)
*1068 Nofretete (Nefertiti)
*1128 Astrid (Astrid of Sweden)
*2436 Hatshepsut (Pharaoh Hatshepsut)
*3362 Khufu (Pharaoh Khufu)
*4414 Sesostris (Greek version of Senusret, name of four pharaohs)
*4415 Echnaton (Pharaoh Akhenaten; German spelling of his name)
*4416 Ramses (Pharaoh Ramses II)
*4568 Menkaure (Pharaoh Menkaure)
*4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)
*4846 Tuthmosis (Thutmose, name of four pharaohs)
*4847 Amenhotep (Pharaoh Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV)
*4848 Tutenchamun (Pharaoh Tutankhamun)
*4906 Seneferu (Pharaoh Sneferu)
*5009 Sethos (Greek version of Seti, name of two pharaohs)
*5010 Amenemhet (Amenemhat (disambiguation), Amenemhet, name of four pharaohs)
*5242 Kenreimonin (Taira no Tokuko, Empress Dowager Kenrei)
*7117 Claudius (Emperor Claudius)
*7207 Hammurabi (Hammurabi)
*7208 Ashurbanipal (Ashurbanipal)
*7209 Cyrus (Cyrus II of Persia)
*7210 Darius (Darius I of Persia)
*7211 Xerxes (Xerxes I of Persia)
*7212 Artaxerxes (Artaxerxes II of Persia)
*8740 Václav (Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, Václav I, Duke of Bohemia)
*10293 Pribina (Pribina, ruler of Nitrian Principality)
*11014 Svätopluk (Svatopluk I, Svätopluk, ruler of Great Moravia)
*16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia)
*18349 Dafydd (Dafydd ap Llywelyn, prince of Wales)
*20969 Samo (Samo, ruler of Samo's Empire)
*25340 Segoves (Segoves, Celtic duke)
*44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary)
*48844 Belloves (Belloves, Celtic duke)
*53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I, ruler of Great Moravia)
*151834 Mongkut (King Mongkut, or Rama IV, the king of Siam)
*326290 Akhenaten (Akhenaten, a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt)
Nobility
*17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant)
Politicians and statespeople
*712 Boliviana (Simon Bolivar)
*852 Wladilena (Vladimir Lenin)
*886 Washingtonia (George Washington)
*932 Hooveria and 1363 Herberta (Herbert Hoover)
*944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)
*1569 Evita (Eva Perón, former First Lady of Argentina)
*1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak president)
*2351 O'Higgins (Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader)
*3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik)
*4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
*4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)
*5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin)
*7586 Bismarck (Otto von Bismarck)
*9275 Persson (Jöran Persson)
*11830 Jessenius (Jan Jesenius, Jan Jessenius)
*23238 Ocasio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) * Note: earned prior to election to U.S. House of Representatives
*188693 Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt)
Teachers
High school/technical school teachers
*3352 McAuliffe (Christa McAuliffe, high school teacher from New Hampshire, U.S.A.)
* 12787 Abetadashi (Tadashi Abe, high school teacher from Japan)
*13241 Biyo (Josette Biyo, high school teacher from Iloilo, Philippines)
*13928 Aaronrogers (Aaron Rogers, mathematics teacher from London, U.K.)
*14158 Alananderson (Alan Anderson, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.)
*14684 Reyes (Cynthia L. Reyes, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.)
*16265 Lemay (Ron LeMay, high school teacher from Wisconsin, U.S.A.)
*17225 Alanschorn (Alan Schorn, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.)
*20341 Alanstack (Alan Stack, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.)
*20342 Trinh (Jonathan Trinh, high school teacher from Texas, U.S.A.)
*20574 Ochinero (Marcia Collin Ochinero, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.)
*21395 Albertofilho (Alberto Filho, a technical school teacher from Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil)
*21435 Aharon (Terri Aharon, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.)
*22619 Ajscheetz (A. J. Scheetz, high school teacher from Connecticut, U.S.A.)
*22993 Aferrari (Andrew Ferrari, high school teacher from North Carolina, U.S.A.)
*23017 Advincula (Rigoberto Advincula, high school teacher from Texas, U.S.A.)
*23975 Akran (Erkan Akran, middle school teacher from Arkansas, U.S.A.)
*24032 Aimeemcarthy (Aimee McCarthy, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.)
*24052 Nguyen (Thuy-Anh Nguyen, teacher at Challenger School in Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.)
*24238 Adkerson (Timothy Adkerson, high school teacher from Missouri, U.S.A.)
*27286 Adedmondson (Adam Edmondson, high school teacher from Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
*27740 Obatomoyuki (Tomoyuki Oba, junior high school teacher and presenter at Geisei Observatory, Japan)
*27748 Lee (Thomas Lee, middle school teacher from California, U.S.A)
College/University professors
*6669 Obi (Shinya Obi, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and retired president of the The Open University of Japan, University of the Air)
*10051 Albee (Arden L. Albee, professor of geology and planetary sciences and dean of graduate studies at the California Institute of Technology)
*15870 Oburka (Oto Oburka, professor at Brno University of Technology and founder of the Nicholas Copernicus Observatory)
*153298 Paulmyers (PZ Myers, American scientist and associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM).)
War heroes and veterans
World War II heroes and veterans
*1793 Zoya (Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya)
*1907 Rudneva (Evgeniya Rudneva)
*2009 Voloshina (Vera Danilovna Voloshina, Russian partisan)
*2132 Zhukov (Georgy Zhukov)
*3348 Pokryshkin (Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin)
*11572 Schindler (Oskar Schindler, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people)
*17038 Wake (Nancy Wake, who served as a British spy)
*19384 Winton (Nicholas Winton, rescuer of 669 Jewish children)
*99949 Miepgies (Miep Gies, hid Anne Frank during World War II and discovered and preserved The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne's diary after her arrest and deportation.
Other war heroes
*1834 Palach (Jan Palach, Czech student who self-immolation, self-immolated in protest against Prague Spring, Soviet occupation of his country)
*20164 Janzajíc (Jan Zajíc, Czech student who self-immolation, self-immolated in protest against Prague Spring, Soviet occupation of his country)
Children who died in war
*2127 Tanya (Tanya Savicheva)
*5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)
*50413 Petrginz (Petr Ginz, Jewish boy who was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp)
Religion
*89 Julia (Julia of Corsica, martyr and patron saint, 5th century)
*127 Johanna (believed to be named after Joan of Arc)
*330 Adalberta (Adalbert Merx, German theologian and orientalist)
*898 Hildegard (Hildegard of Bingen, abbess, composer and polymath)
*1840 Hus (John Huss, Czech language, Czech Jan Hus, religious reformer)
*5275 Zdislava (Zdislava Berka, in Czech Zdislava z Lemberka)
*7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
*7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
*8661 Ratzinger (Joseph Alois Ratzinger – Pope Benedict XVI)
*20006 Albertus Magnus (Albertus Magnus, German theologian, philosopher and naturalist)
238 Hypatia
Hypatia (minor planet designation: 238 Hypatia) is a very large main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Russian astronomer Viktor Knorre on July 1, 1884, in Berlin. It was the third of his four asteroid discoveries. The name was given in honour ...
*2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
*3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
*3246 Bidstrup (Herluf Bidstrup, caricaturist)
*3566 Levitan (Isaac Levitan, painter)
*4426 Roerich (Nicholas Roerich, painter)
*4457 van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh, painter)
*4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
*4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol, photographer)
*4691 Toyen, (Toyen), painter and graphic artist)
*4942 Munroe (Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and cartoonist, creator of webcomic xkcd)
*5055 Opekushin (Alexander Opekushin, sculptor)
*5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha, painter and graphic artist)
*5363 Kupka (František Kupka, painter and graphic artist)
*5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
*6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)
*6584 Ludekpesek (Ludek Pesek, painter)
*6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)
*6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)
*6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)
*6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)
*6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)
*6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)
*6769 Brokoff (Jan Brokoff, Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)
*7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý, painter)
*7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian, painter and book illustrator)
*8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
*8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
*8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
*10189 Normanrockwell (Norman Rockwell, artist)
*10218 Bierstadt (Albert Bierstadt, Landscape artist)
*10343 Church (Frederick Edwin Church, painter)
*10372 Moran (Thomas Moran, landscape artist)
*10404 McCall (Robert T. McCall, space artist)
*13227 Poor (Kim Poor, space artist)
*13329 Davidhardy (David A. Hardy, space artist)
*13330 Dondavis (Don Davis (artist), Don Davis, astronomical artist)
*13543 Butler (Chris Butler (artist), Chris Butler, space artist)
*13562 Bobeggleton (Bob Eggleton, painter)
*14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek, painter and writer)
*17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada, painter)
*17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born, painter)
*20364 Zdeněkmiler (Zdeněk Miler, animator and illustrator)
*21501 Acevedo (Tony Acevedo, multimedia graphic designer)
*29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor)
*43724 Pechstein (Max Pechstein, painter)
*43775 Tiepolo (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter)
*46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter)
*48434 Maxbeckmann (Max Beckmann, painter)
*85411 Paulflora (Paul Flora, graphic artist)
*98127 Vilgusová (:cs:Hedvika Vilgusová, Hedvika Vilgusová, painter and illustrator of books for children)
*184878 Gotlib (Gotlib, Marcel Gottlieb, cartoonist)
Architects
*3062 Wren (Christopher Wren)
*5318 Dientzenhofer (Dientzenhofer family or architects, like Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer)
*6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi)
*6266 Letzel (Jan Letzel)
*6550 Parléř (Peter Parler, cs, Petr Parléř)
*19129 Loos (Adolf Loos)
*24666 Miesvanrohe (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)
*35233 Krčín (Jakub Krčín)
*218 Bianca (Bertha Schwarz, stage name Bianca Bianchi)
*5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti)
*6583 Destinn (Ema Destinnová, also known as Emmy Destinn)
*18460 Pecková (:cs:Dagmar Pecková, Dagmar Pecková)
*37573 Enricocaruso (Enrico Caruso)
*260508 Alagna (Roberto Alagna)
Others
*644 Cosima (Cosima Wagner, director of the Bayreuth Festival and wife of Richard Wagner)
*677 Aaltje (Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, soprano)
*5184 Cavaillé-Coll (Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, Organ builder)
*8471 Obrant (Arkadij Efimovich Obrant, ballet-master, producer, and teacher-humanist)
*9914 Obukhova (Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova, soloist at the Bolshoj Theater and People's Artist of the U.S.S.R.)
*11305 Ahlqvist (David Ahlqvist, Swedish artist, author, and musician)
*33434 Scottmanley (Scott Manley)
*58373 Albertoalonso (Alberto Alonso, Cuban choreographer and dance visionary)
Entertainment
Popular music
*1889 Pakhmutova (Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer)
*2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)
*2644 Victor Jara (Víctor Jara, musician)
*3738 Ots (Georg Ots, musician)
*3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)
* 8749 Beatles (The Beatles, band). In addition, there are four consecutively numbered minor planets named after the individual members of The Beatles:
**4147 Lennon (John Lennon)
**4148 McCartney (Paul McCartney)
**4149 Harrison (George Harrison)
**4150 Starr (Ringo Starr)
*4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)
*4422 Jarre (Maurice Jarre and Jean Michel Jarre, French composers)
*4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)
*(4738) 1985 RZ4, 4738 Jimihendrix (Jimi Hendrix, musician)
*(4749) 1989 WE1, 4749 Ledzeppelin (Led Zeppelin, the UK band)
*5656 Oldfield (Mike Oldfield, composer)
*5892 Milesdavis (Miles Davis, musician)
*5945 Roachapproach (Steve Roach (musician), Steve Roach, musician)
*6354 Vangelis (Vangelis, Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)
*6433 Enya (Enya, musician)
*7226 Kryl (Karel Kryl, musician)
*7707 Yes (Yes (band), Yes, band)
*7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)
*8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
*9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)
*10313 Vanessa-Mae (Vanessa-Mae, musician)
*12272 Geddylee (Geddy Lee, Canadian musician)
*13644 Lynnanderson (Lynn Anderson, an American country music singer)
*14024 Procol Harum (Procol Harum, band)
*15092 Beegees (Bee Gees, band)
*16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)
*17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)
*17473 Freddiemercury (Freddie Mercury, musician)
*18132 Spector (Phil Spector, musician)
*18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)
*19155 Lifeson (Alex Lifeson, Canadian musician)
*19367 Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd, band)
*19383 Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones, band)
*19398 Creedence (Creedence Clearwater Revival, band)
*21891 Andreabocelli (Andrea Bocelli, tenor singer)
*22521 ZZ Top (ZZ Top, band)
*23469 Neilpeart (Neil Peart, Canadian musician)
*23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)
*24997 Petergabriel (Peter Gabriel, musician)
*28151 Markknopfler (Mark Knopfler, a Scottish composer)
*40248 Yukikajiura (Yuki Kajiura, a Japanese composer)
*40775 Kalafina (Kalafina, a Japanese vocal group). In addition, there are four minor planets named after the individual members and former member of Kalafina:
**41199 Wakanaootaki (Wakana Ootaki)
**42271 Keikokubota (Keiko Kubota)
**44475 Hikarumasai (Hikaru Masai)
**47466 Mayatoyoshima (Maya Toyoshima – former member)
*41981 Yaobeina (Yao Beina, singer)
*42522 Chuckberry (Chuck Berry, an American guitarist, singer and songwriter)
*44016 Jimmypage (Jimmy Page, musician)
*52344 Yehudimenuhin (Yehudi Menuhin, violist and conductor)
*52665 Brianmay (Brian May, musician, a member of band Queen (band))
*65769 Mahalia, (Mahalia Jackson, singer)
*72801 Manzanera, (Phil Manzanera, musician)
*72802 Wetton, (John Wetton, musician)
*79896 Billhaley (Bill Haley (musician), Bill Haley, musician)
*81947 Fripp (Robert Fripp, musician, leader of King Crimson)
*81948 Eno (Brian Eno, musician)
*90125 Chrissquire (Chris Squire, musician, a member of band Yes (band))
*91287 Simon-Garfunkel (Simon and Garfunkel, band)
*94291 Django (Django Reinhardt, musician)
*110393 Rammstein (Rammstein, band)
*144296 Steviewonder (Stevie Wonder, a blind American songwriter and singer)
*242516 Lindseystirling (Lindsey Stirling, an American violinist)
*243002 Lemmy (Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, British rock musician, member of Hawkwind, The Head Cat, and Motörhead)
*249516 Aretha (Aretha Franklin, musician)
*250840 Motörhead (The British heavy metal group Motörhead)
*List of minor planets: 257001–258000#248, 257248 Chouchiehlun (Chou Chieh Lun, mostly referred to as Jay Chou, a Taiwanese musician and singer-songwriter)
*274213 Satriani (Joe Satriani, guitarist)
*292872 Anoushankar (Anoushka Shankar, a sitar musician)
*327695 Yokoono (Yoko Ono, musician)
*337044 Bobdylan (Bob Dylan, musician)
*342843 Davidbowie (David Bowie, musician)
*365443 Holiday (Billie Holiday, jazz musician)
*495181 Rogerwaters (Roger Waters, musician, one of Pink Floyd founders)
*495253 Hanszimmer (Hans Zimmer, a German composer)
*10026 Sophiexeon (Sophie (musician), Sophie Xeon, a Scottish electronic producer)
Film, TV and Theatre
*2374 Vladvysotskij, (Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)
*2816 Pien, (Armand Pien (1920–2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
*3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson, Talk Show Host)
*3768 Monroe (Marilyn Monroe, an American actress, model, and singer)
*3998 Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka, pioneering Japanese comic artist and animator)
*4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)
*4495 Dassanowsky (Elfi Dassanowsky, Austrian-born singer, studio founder, producer)
*4535 Adamcarolla (Adam Carolla, comedian, television and radio host)
*4536 Drewpinsky (Drew Pinsky, television and radio host, actor)
*4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, ''Star Trek'' creator)
*4864 Nimoy (Leonard Nimoy, of ''Star Trek'' fame)
*4901 Ó Briain (Dara Ó Briain, comedian and science presenter)
*5608 Olmos (Edward James Olmos, actor)
*6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)
*6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)
*6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)
*7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)
*7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)
*7307 Takei (George Takei, actor)
*8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)
*8347 Lallaward (Lalla Ward, actress)
*8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress)
*8664 Grigorijrichters (Grigorij Richters, film director and co-founder of Asteroid Day)
*8883 Miyazakihayao (Hayao Miyazaki, animator)
*9081 Hideakianno (Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, film director and actor)
*9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)
*9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)
*Monty Python members:
**9617 Grahamchapman (Graham Chapman)
**9618 Johncleese (John Cleese)
**9619 Terrygilliam (Terry Gilliam)
**9620 Ericidle (Eric Idle)
**9621 Michaelpalin (Michael Palin)
**9622 Terryjones (Terry Jones)
*9974 Brody (Adrien Brody)
*10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)
*10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)
*11333 Forman (Miloš Forman, film director)
*11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)
*12561 Howard (Ron Howard, actor, director, producer)
*12562 Briangrazer (Brian Grazer, producer)
*12818 Tomhanks (Tom Hanks, actor, producer)
*12820 Robinwilliams (Robin Williams, actor, comedian)
*13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)
*132904 Notkin (Geoffrey Notkin, TV science educator, film producer)
*13441 Janmerlin (Jan Merlin, actor and author)
*15131 Alanalda (Alan Alda, actor, director, screenwriter, author)
*17023 Abbott (Bud Abbott, actor, producer, comedian)
*17062 Bardot (Brigitte Bardot, a French former actress, singer and fashion model)
*17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)
*19291 Karelzeman (Karel Zeman, film director)
*19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)
*19695 Billnye (Bill Nye, TV science educator)
*22903 Georgeclooney (George Clooney, actor)
*25930 Spielberg (Steven Spielberg, American film director)
*26733 Nanavisitor (Nana Visitor, actress)
*26734 Terryfarrell (Terry Farrell (actress), Terry Farrell, actress)
*26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)
*27899 Letterman (David Letterman, talk show host)
*29132 Bradpitt (Brad Pitt, actor)
*28600 Georgelucas (George Lucas, the director of the films ''American Graffiti'' and ''Star Wars'')
*28980 Chowyunfat (Chow Yun-fat, actor)
*31556 Shatner (William Shatner, actor)
*38461 Jiřítrnka (Jiří Trnka, puppet maker and puppet-film director)
*39557 Gielgud (John Gielgud, actor)
*64291 Anglee (Ang Lee, film director)
*68410 Nichols (Nichelle Nichols, actress)
*71000 Hughdowns (Hugh Downs, Television and radio anchorman)
*78453 Bullock (Sandra Bullock, an American actress and producer)
*110026 Hamill (Mark Hamill, actor)
*116939 Jonstewart (Jon Stewart, comedian and TV host)
*132874 Latinovits (Zoltán Latinovits, actor)
*133161 Ruttkai (Éva Ruttkai, actress)
*166614 Zsazsa (Zsa Zsa Gábor, actress and socialite)
*224693 Morganfreeman (Morgan Freeman, actor)
*231307 Peterfalk (Peter Falk, actor)
*261690 Jodorowsky (Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French filmmaker)
*262876 Davidlynch (David Lynch, American filmmaker)
*560354 Chrisnolan (Christopher Nolan, film director)
*1909 Alekhin (Alexander Alekhine, chess world champion)
*4538 Vishyanand (Viswanathan Anand, chess world champion)
*2472 Bradman (Donald Bradman, cricketer)
*3027 Shavarsh (Shavarsh Karapetyan, finswimmer)
*5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig, baseball player)
*6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens, athlete)
*7835 Myroncope (Myron Cope, sportscaster and journalist)
*10634 Pepibican (Josef Bican, called "Pepi", football player)
*10675 Kharlamov (Valeri Kharlamov, hockey player)
*12373 Lancearmstrong (Lance Armstrong, cyclist)
*12413 Johnnyweir (Johnny Weir, figure skater)
*12414 Bure (Pavel Bure, ice hockey player)
*14282 Cruijff (Johan Cruijff, Dutch football player)
*33179 Arsènewenger (Arsène Wenger, football manager)
*78071 Vicent (Francesc Vicent, chess writer)
*79647 Ballack (Michael Ballack, German footballer)
*82656 Puskás (Ferenc Puskás, football player)
*85386 Payton (Walter Payton, American football player)
*90414 Karpov (Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion)
*316020 Linshuhow (Jeremy Lin, basketball player)
Other entertainers
*3163 Randi (James Randi, magician and skeptic)
Contest winners
Broadcom MASTERS
*2015 winner
**31641 Cevasco (Hannah Olivia Cevasco, a middle school student from California, U.S.A)
Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge
*2001 winners
**15155 Ahn (Ryan J. Ahn, a middle school student from Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
**15559 Abigailhines (Abigail M. Hines, a middle school student from Indiana, U.S.A.)
*2002 winners
**13434 Adamquade (Adam Robert Quade, a middle school student from Minnesota, U.S.A.)
*2003 winners
**19564 Ajburnetti (Anthony James Burnetti, a middle school student from Maryland, U.S.A.)
*2004 winners
**20503 Adamtazi (Adam Ryoma Tazi, a middle school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
*2005 winners
**21850 Abshir (Iftin Mohamed Abshir, a middle school student from Colorado, U.S.A.)
**21933 Aaronrozon (Aaron Alexander Rozon, a middle school student from Hawaii, U.S.A.)
*2006 winners
**22638 Abdulla (Almas Ugurgizi Abdulla, a middle school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
**22656 Aaronburrows (Aaron Phillip Burrows, a middle school student from Texas, U.S.A.)
**22786 Willipete (William Garrett Pete, a middle school student from Minnesota, U.S.A.)
*2007 winners
**23768 Abu-Rmaileh (Muhammad Akef Abu-Rmaileh, a middle school student from Arkansas, U.S.A.)
**23924 Premt (Prem Thottumkara, a middle school student from Illinois, U.S.A)
Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
*2002 winners
**10237 Adzic (Vladislav Adzic, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
**11685 Adamcurry (Adam Michael Curry, high school student from Colorado, U.S.A.)
**11697 Estrella (Allan Noriel Estrella, high school student from Manila, Philippines)
**12088 Macalintal (Jeric Valles Macalintal, high school student from Manila, Philippines)
**12522 Rara (Prem Vilas Fortran Rara, high school student from Iligan, Philippines)
**12553 Aaronritter (Aaron M. Ritter, high school student from Indiana, U.S.A.)
**13241 Biyo (Josette Biyo, high school teacher from Iloilo, Philippines, former Executive Director of the Philippine Science High School System)
*2003 winners
**16999 Ajstewart (Andrew James Stewart, high school student from NSW, Australia)
**17984 Ahantonioli (Alexandra Hope Antonioli, high school student from Montana, U.S.A.)
**18084 Adamwohl (Adam Richard Wohl, high school student from North Dakota, U.S.A.)
**18142 Adamsidman (Adam Daniel Sidman, high school student from Colorado, U.S.A.)
**18796 Acosta (Iyen Abdon Acosta, high school student from Maryland, U.S.A.)
**19444 Addicott (Charles Michael Addicott, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
**19488 Abramcoley (Abram Levi Coley, high school student from Montana, U.S.A.)
**21395 Albertofilho (Alberto Filho, a technical school teacher from Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil)
*2004 winners
**20779 Xiajunchao (Junchao Xia, high school student from Shanghai, China)
**20780 Chanyikhei (Chan Yik Hei, high school student from Hong Kong, China)
**20813 Aakashshah (Aakash Shah, high school student from New Jersey, U.S.A.)
*2005 winners
**21483 Abdulrasool (Ameen Abdulrasool, high school student from Illinois, U.S.A.)
**21712 Obaid (Sami Obaid, college student from Quebec, Canada.)
**21758 Adrianveres (Adrian Veres, high school student from Quebec, Canada)
*2006 winners
**21400 Ahdout (Zimra Payvand Ahdout, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
**21623 Albertshieh (Albert David Shieh, high school student from Arizona, U.S.A.)
**21725 Zhongyuechen (Zhong Yuechen, Middle School student from Beijing, China)
*2007 winners
**23113 Aaronhakim (Aaron Hakim, high school student from Ontario, Canada)
**23238 Ocasio-Cortez (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
**23306 Adamfields (Adam Chaplin Fields, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
*2008 winners
**24520 Abramson (Ronit Batya Roth Abramson, high school student from California, U.S.A.)
**24346 Lehienphan (Le Hien Thi Phan, high school student from Georgia, U.S.A.)
*2009 winners
**25638 Ahissar (Shira Ahissar, high school student from Rehovot, Israel.)
**25642 Adiseshan (Tara Anjali Adiseshan, high school student from Virginia, U.S.A.)
**25677 Aaronenten (Aaron Christopher Enten, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
*2010 winners
**26386 Adelinacozma (Adelina Corina Cozma, high school student from Ontario, Canada)
**26447 Akrishnan (Akash Krishnan, high school student from Oregon, U.S.A.)
**26462 Albertcui (Albert Cui, high school student from Utah, U.S.A.)
**26544 Ajjarapu (Avanthi Sai Ajjarapu, high school student from Iowa, U.S.A.)
**26557 Aakritijain (Aakriti Jain, high school student from California, U.S.A.)
**26737 Adambradley (Adam Bradley Halverson, high school student from South Dakota, U.S.A.)
**26740 Camacho (Martin Ayalde Camacho, high school student from Minnesota, U.S.A.)
**28400 Morgansinko (Morgan Walker Sinko, high school student from Texas. U.S.A.)
*2011 winners
**28167 Andrewkim (Andrew Wooyoung Kim, high school student from Georgia, U.S.A.)
**28439 Miguelreyes (Miguel Arnold Silverio Reyes, high school student from Quezon City, Philippines)
**28442 Nicholashuey (Nicholas Michael Huey, high school student from Missouri, U.S.A.)
**28443 Crisara (Alexander Raymond Crisara, high school student from Texas, U.S.A.)
**28444 Alexrabii (Jahan Rabii, high school student from Texas, U.S.A.)
**28446 Davlantes (Christopher Joseph Davlantes, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
**28447 Arjunmathur (Arjun Mathur, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
**28449 Ericlau (Eric Lau, high school student from Georgia, U.S.A.)
**28450 Saravolz (Sara Ellen Volz, high school student from Colorado, U.S.A.)
**28451 Tylerhoward (Tyler Trettel Howard, high school student from Kansas, U.S.A.)
**28452 Natkondamuri (Nathan Sai Kondamuri, high school student from Indiana, U.S.A.)
**28453 Alexcecil (Alexander Michael Cecil, high school student from North Carolina, U.S.A.)
**List of minor planets: 28001-29000, 28511 Marggraff (Blake Christopher Marggraff, high school student from California, U.S.A.)
**28538 Ruisong (Rui Song, high school student from Saskatchewan, Canada)
*2014 winners
**Justin Lafazan, (high school student from Syosset, New York)
**31460 Jongsowfei, (Faye Jong Sow Fei, high school student from Sarawak, Malaysia)
Intel Science Talent Search
* 2002 Winners
**16113 Ahmed (Tahir Ahmed, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
**16215 Venkatraman (Dheera Venkatraman, high school senior)
**16214 Venkatachalam (Vivek Venkatachalam, high school senior)
**16238 Chappe (Sean Chappe, high school teacher from New Jersey, U.S.A.)
* 2003 Winners
**15421 Adammalin (Adam Mikah Malin, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
* 2005 Winners
**21411 Abifraeman (Abigail Ann Fraeman, a high school senior from Maryland, U.S.A.)
**21413 Albertsao (Albert Tsao, a high school senior from Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
* 2006 Winners
**22551 Adamsolomon (Adam Ross Solomon, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
* 2008 Winners
**24121 Achandran (Ashok Chandran, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
* 2009 Winners
**25410 Abejar (Patrick Jeffrey Abejar, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
**25422 Abigreene (Abigail Sara Greene, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
* 2010 Winners
**25966 Akhilmathew (Akhil Mathew, a high school senior from New Jersey, U.S.A.)
**25979 Alansage (Alan Robert Sage, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
**27239 O'Dorney (Evan Michael O'Dorney, a high school senior from California, U.S.A.)
* 2011 Winners
**27072 Aggarwal (Amol Aggarwal, a high school senior from California, U.S.A.)
**27257 Tang-Quan (David Tang-Quan, a high school senior from California, U.S.A)
* 2012 Winners
**26200 Van Doren (Benjamin Van Doren, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
Editors and publishers
*305 Gordonia (James Gordon Bennett Jr., publisher of the ''New York Herald'')
*6282 Edwelda (Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson, Filipino editors of ''Sky & Telescope'')
*Editors of the Japanese monthly astronomical magazine ''Gekkan Tenmon Guide'':
**9067 Katsuno (Gentaro Katsuno)
**11928 Akimotohiro (Hiroyuki Akimoto)
Discoverers' relatives
*2839 Annette (Annette Tombaugh, the discoverer's daughter)
*3044 Saltykov (Nikita Saltykov, one of the discoverers' grandfathers)
*10588 Adamcrandall (Adam Crandall Rees, the discoverer's stepson)
*12848 Agostino (Agostino Boattini, the discoverer's father)
*13691 Akie (Akie Asami, the discoverer's wife)
*19524 Acaciacoleman (Acacia Coleman, the discoverer's granddaughter)
*60001 Adélka (Adélka Kotková, the discoverer's daughter)
Others
*83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari, immortalized in Dante Alighieri, Dante's ''Divine Comedy'')
*156 Xanthippe (Xanthippe, wife of Socrates)
*323 Brucia (Catherine Wolfe Bruce, astronomical philanthropist)
*609 Fulvia (Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony)
*719 Albert (Albert Salomon von Rothschild, banker and benefactor of the Vienna Observatory)
*904 Rockefellia (John D. Rockefeller, philanthropist)
*1038 Tuckia (Edward Tuck, philanthropist)
*1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof, father of Esperanto)
*3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva)
*3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, peace activist)
*4318 Baťa (Tomáš Baťa, founder of the Bata Shoes Company)
*4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
*4987 Flamsteed (Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, a direct descendant of the brother of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal of England)
*6235 Burney (Venetia Burney, suggested the name "Pluto" for the planet discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930)
*7166 Kennedy (Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow)
*19718 Albertjarvis (Albert G. Jarvis, inventor)
*69275 Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter)
*80652 Albertoangela (Alberto Angela, Italian science writer)
*241528 Tubman (Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist)
*249521 Truth (Sojurner Truth, American abolitionist)
*316201 Malala (Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education)
Fictional characters
Characters in classic fiction
*92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella ''Undine (novella), Undine'' by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)
*171 Ophelia (Ophelia, love interest of Prince Hamlet in William Shakespeare’s ''Hamlet'')
*211 Isolda (Iseult, lover of the Arthurian knight Tristan)
*264 Libussa (Libuše, mythical Bohemians (tribe), Bohemian prophetess)
*588 Achilles (Achilles, Greek hero of the Iliad)
*617 Patroclus (Patroclus, Greek hero of the Iliad)
*624 Hektor (Hector, Trojan hero of the Iliad)
*911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon, Greek hero of the Iliad)
*1143 Odysseus (Odysseus, legendary king of Ithaca)
*1172 Äneas (Aeneas, prince of Troy)
*1966 Tristan (Arthurian knight)
*2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)
*2054 Gawain (Arthurian knight)
*2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)
*2095 Parsifal (Arthurian knight)
*2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen)
*2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England)
*2598 Merlin (Merlin (wizard), Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)
*3102 Krok (Duke Krok, Krok, mythical Bohemians (tribe), Bohemian duke, father of Libuše, Kazi (Czech legend), Kazi and Teta (Czech legend), Teta)
*3180 Morgan (Morgan le Fay, enchantress in Arthurian legend)
*3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote, hero of the novel ''Don Quixote de la Mancha'' by Miguel de Cervantes)
*5797 Bivoj (Bivoj, mythical Bohemians (tribe), Bohemian hero)
*7695 Přemysl (Přemysl, the Ploughman, Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynasty)
*9551 Kazi (Kazi (Czech legend), Kazi, Bohemians (tribe), Bohemian mythical female healer)
*9713 Oceax (Oceax, son of Nauplius of Euboea and brother of Palamedes)
*10764 Rübezahl (Rübezahl, Czech language, Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains)
*12927 Pinocchio (Pinocchio, a fictional character and the main protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by the Italian writer Carlo Collodi.
*15374 Teta (Teta (Czech legend), Teta, mythical Bohemians (tribe), Bohemian prophetess)
*24601 Valjean (Jean Valjean, protagonist of the novel ''Les Misérables'' by Victor Hugo)
*38086 Beowulf (Beowulf)
Characters in modern fiction
*1683 Castafiore (Bianca Castafiore, the diva in Hergé's ''The Adventures of Tintin'')
*2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan (Star Trek), Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat)
*2521 Heidi (title character in Johanna Spyri's well-known book ''Heidi'')
*2991 Bilbo (Bilbo Baggins, hero of ''The Hobbit'')
*4512 Sinuhe (title hero of ''The Egyptian'' by Mika Waltari)
*Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle:
**5048 Moriarty (Professor Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes)
**5049 Sherlock (Sherlock Holmes, detective)
**5050 Doctorwatson (Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)
*Characters created by Lewis Carroll in ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice in Wonderland'':
**6042 Cheshirecat (the Cheshire cat)
**6735 Madhatter (the The Hatter, Mad Hatter)
**6736 Marchare (the March Hare)
*Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in ''Jabberwocky'':
**7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)
*7796 Járacimrman (Jára Cimrman, a fictional Czech genius)
*7896 Švejk (The Good Soldier Švejk, Josef Švejk, the good soldier)
*9007 James Bond (James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming)
*10160 Totoro (Totoro (character), Totoro, character in the 1988 Japanese animated film ''My Neighbor Totoro'')
*12410 Donald Duck (Donald Duck, a funny animal cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions
*12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow)
*12796 Kamenrider (Kamen Rider, Japanese hero created by Shotaro Ishinomori)
*18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' series)
*18996 Torasan (Tora-san, vagabond protagonist of the ''Otoko wa Tsurai yo'' film series)
*20496 Jeník (Jeník, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera ''The Bartered Bride'')
*20497 Mařenka (Mařenka, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera ''The Bartered Bride'')
*Comic strip characters by Goscinny and Uderzo:
**29401 Asterix (Asterix)
**29402 Obelix (Obélix)
*29471 Spejbl (Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
*29472 Hurvínek (Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
*33377 Večerníček (Večerníček, animated character inviting Czech Republic, Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale)
*46737 Anpanman (hero of the Japanese ''Anpanman'' picture book series whose head is made of bread filled with sweet bean paste)
*58345 Moomintroll (Moomintroll, hero of books by Tove Jansson)
*98494 Marsupilami (Marsupilami, character created by André Franquin)
*99942 Apophis (Apophis (Stargate), Apophis, character from sci-fi TV show ''Stargate SG-1'')
*Petit-Prince (moon), Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia (The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
See also
*List of minor planets
*List of exceptional asteroids
*List of minor planets named after animals and plants
*List of minor planets named after places
*List of minor planets named after rivers
*Meanings of minor planet names
*Stars named after people
*List of people with craters of the Moon named after them
References
*Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser" http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi (accessed 15 December 2012).
*Kleť Observatory. "Kleť numbered minor planets" (9 May 2004). http://www.klet.org/names/ (accessed 12 May 2004).
*Minor Planet Center. "Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List" (21 April 2011). http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/MPNames.html (was updated 4 June 2011).
*Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. "Asteroids with a Canadian Connection" http://www.rasc.ca/canadian-asteroids (accessed 25 September 2013).
*Schmadel, Lutz D. ''Dictionary of Minor Planet Names'' (2nd ed.). Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
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