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| 1566 | Icarus | The discoverer has assigned to this unusual planet the name of the mythological boy who escaped impr |
| 1620 | Geographos | The name, meaning Geographer, has been assigned by the discoverers to honor the National Geographic |
| 1685 | Toro | Named, as companion to (1580) Betulia, to honor the maiden name of Mrs. Herrick, and because of its |
| 1862 | Apollo | This object is named for the god of the Sun, child of Zeus and Leto {see planets (5731) and (68)}. |
| 1863 | Antinous | Antinous was one of the many unwelcome suitors for Penelope’s {see planet (201)} hand while her hus |
| 1864 | Daedalus | Named for the builder of King Minos’ {see planet (6239)} labyrinth, who was subsequently imprisoned |
| 1865 | Cerberus | Named for the three-headed dog that guarded the entrance to Hades. His capture (and subsequent retur |
| 1866 | Sisyphus | Named for the cruel king of Corinth, punished by being given the task of rolling a large stone up to |
| 1981 | Midas | Named for the Phrygian king supposed to have the gift of transforming all that he touched to gold. A |
| 2063 | Bacchus | This Apollo-type object is named for the god of wine and merriment, son of Jupiter and Semele {see p |
| 2101 | Adonis | This Apollo-type minor planet was named previously for the lover of Aphrodite {see planet (1388)}. |
| 2102 | Tantalus | Named for the king of Sipylus, who was punished by being immersed to his neck in water and prevented |
| 2135 | Aristaeus | This Apollo object is named for the son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene. |
| 2201 | Oljato | Named for the place of Moonlight Water near Monument Valley, Utah, on the Navajo Indian Reservation. |
| 2212 | Hephaistos | This Apollo-type object is named for the god of fire and blacksmiths. |
| 2329 | Orthos | Named for Orthos, the two-headed dog from Greek mythology. Together with his master Eurytion, this d |
| 3103 | Eger | Named for a famous Hungarian city. In 1762 its bishop, Count Karoly Esterhazy, established a univers |
| 3200 | Phaethon | This object associated with the Geminid meteor stream has the smallest known perihelion distance for |
| 3360 | Syrinx | In 1918 the Danish composer Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) composed the tone poem Pan and Syrinx, b |
| 3361 | Orpheus | Named for the poet and musician of Greek mythology who almost rescued his wife Eurydice from Hades b |
| 3752 | Camillo | Named for the young son of Turno, king of the earliest Romans. The name also honors the son of the s |
| 3838 | Epona | Named for the Gaulish goddess of horses and horseriders, specifically with respect to those on Palom |
| 4015 | Wilson-Harrington | This Apollo object, which is identical with the single-apparition periodic comet 1949 III = 1949g (w |
| 4034 | Vishnu | Vishnu is the Hindu god of preservation. Name suggested by J. Meeus. |
| 4179 | Toutatis | Named after the Gaulish god, protector of the tribe. This totemic deity is well known because of the |
| 4183 | Cuno | Following the theme that several earth-approaching minor planets have four-letter masculine names, t |
| 4197 | Morpheus | Morpheus is a god of dreams who appears in Ovid's “Metamorphoses”. He has the ability to mimic any h |
| 4257 | Ubasti | Ubasti, also called Bastet or Bast, was an ancient Egyptian goddess worshipped in the form of a cat. |
| 4341 | Poseidon | In Greek mythology, Poseidon, a brother of Zeus {see planet (5731)}, was lord of the sea and of ear |
| 4450 | Pan | Originally a shepherd god of Arcady, Pan developed into a hunter, fisherman and warrior. He was wors |
| 4486 | Mithra | Named for the Indo-Iranian god of the heavenly light that led to mithraism, one of the last oriental |
| 4544 | Xanthus | This is another Greek name for Apollo {see planet (1862)} meaning the ‘Fair’; as such, Xanthus deli |
| 4581 | Asclepius | Named for the Greek god of healing and medicine, son of Apollo by Coronis {see planets (1862) and |
| 4660 | Nereus | Named for the ancient Greek god Nereus, a son of Pontus and Gaia {see planet (1184)}. A benevolent |
| 4769 | Castalia | Named for Castalia, a nymph pursued by Apollo {see planet (1862)}. Fleeing his attention, she dived |
| 5011 | Ptah | In Egyptian religion Ptah was the creator of the universe and a patron of craftsmen, especially scul |
| 5143 | Heracles | Heracles, son of Zeus and the Theban princess Alcmena {see planets (5731) and (82)}, united the fi |
| 5731 | Zeus | Originally Zeus was the god of the sky and of atmospheric phenomena, of winds, clouds, rain and thun |
| 5786 | Talos | A cousin of Icarus {see planet (1566)}, Talos was murdered by his uncle, Daedalus {see planet (186 |
| 6063 | Jason | Jason, the son of Aeson of Thessaly, was educated by Chiron {see planet (2060)}, the wisest of the |
| 6239 | Minos | Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa {see planets (5731) and (52)}. As king of Crete, he distingui |
| 6489 | Golevka | Named to honor the success of the multinational radar observations of this minor planet in June 1995 |
| 7092 | Cadmus | Named for the son of the Phoenician king Agenor {see planet (1873)}, and the brother of Europa {see |
| 9162 | Kwiila | Kwiila is one of the First People in the Luiseno creation story. Kwiila means “black oak”, which is |
| 10563 | Izhdubar | Izhdubar was an ancient Chaldean sun-god. He was responsible for slaying the dreaded dragon Tiamat, |
| 11066 | Sigurd | Sigurd was the most famous of all Norse heroes and played the principal part in the Volsungasaga. H |
| 11311 | Peleus | Peleus, king of the Myrmidons in Thessaly, helped Heracles conquer Troy. He was married to the godd |
| 11500 | Tomaiyowit | Tomaiyowit is Earth Mother in the Luiseno creation story. She, together with Tukmit, gave birth to |
| 11885 | Summanus | Summanus was the Etruscan or Roman deity responsible for nocturnal lightning and thunder, as Jupiter |
| 12711 | Tukmit | Tukmit is Father Sky in the Luiseno creation story. He was made from nothingness and together with |
| 12923 | Zephyr | The word zephyr derives from the name of the ancient Greek god of the west wind, Zephyros. The name |
| 14827 | Hypnos | Hypnos was the Greek god of sleep and twin brother of death. He entered the sleep of mortals and ga |
| 24761 | Ahau | Kinich Ahau was a Mayan sun god. He was the patron god of the city Itzamal and supposedly visited t |
| 25143 | Itokawa | Hideo Itokawa (1912-1999) is regarded as the Father of Japanese rocketry. An aerospace engineer, It |
| 37655 | Illapa | Illapa was the thunder or weather god of the Incas. Hailing rain down from the celestial river (the |
| 38086 | Beowolf | One of the oldest surviving texts from early Britain describes the adventures of Beowulf, a great Sc |
| 54509 | YORP | This naming collectively honors Ivan O. Yarkovsky, John A. O'Keefe, V. V. Radzievskij and Stephen J. |
| 69230 | Hermes | Hermes was the messenger of the gods, son of Zeus and Maia. His attributes are the most complex and |
| 85585 | Mjolnir | According to Norse mythology, Mjolnir was the hammer of Thor, god of thunder and defender of the wor |