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| 366 | Vincentina | Named by the orbit computer Prof. G. Boccardi to honor the Italian astronomer Vincenzo Cerulli (1859 |
| 676 | Melitta | Melitta is the Attic form of the Greek Melissa, daughter of the Cretan king Melissus and sister of A |
| 729 | Watsonia | Named in honor of the American astronomer James Craig Watson (1838–1880), director of the Ann Arbor |
| 768 | Struveana | Named in honor of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve (1793–1864), Otto Wilhelm Struve (1819–1905), direc |
| 819 | Barnardiana | Named in honor of the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard (1857–1923), great observer and sta |
| 827 | Wolfiana | Named in honor of Max {Franz Josef Cornelius} Wolf (1863–1932), professor of astronomy at the Univer |
| 914 | Palisana | Named in honor of the famous Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa (1848–1925), observer at the Marine O |
| 999 | Zachia | Named in honor of the astronomer and mathematician Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach (1754–1832). He was |
| 1000 | Piazzia | Named in honor of Giuseppe Piazzi (1746–1826), Theatin monk and director of the observatories of Pal |
| 1002 | Olbersia | Named in honor of Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758–1840) who was a physician in Bremen and a k |
| 1111 | Reinmuthia | Named in honor of Karl Reinmuth {1892–1979}, a tireless observer on the staff of the Heidelberg Köni |
| 1129 | Neujmina | Named by the discoverer (RI 369) in honor of Grigory N. Neujmin (1885–1946), astronomer at the Pulko |
| 1134 | Kepler | Named in honor of the famous German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) on the occasion of the 30 |
| 1164 | Kobolda | Named in honor of Hermann Albert Kobold {1858–942}, astronomer at Kiel and editor of the Astronomisc |
| 1241 | Dysona | Named in honor of Sir Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), Astronomer Royal of England, director of the G |
| 1280 | Baillauda | Named in honor of Jules Baillaud (1876–1960), astronomer at the Paris Observatory and director of th |
| 1303 | Luthera | Named in honor of the German astronomer Karl Theodor Robert Luther (1822–1900) who, at the Bilk Obse |
| 1412 | Lagrula | Named in honor of Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870–1941), director of the Quito and Algiers Observatori |
| 1440 | Rostia | Named probably in honor of the German amateur astronomer, poet, and popularizer Johann Leonhard Rost |
| 1463 | Nordenmarkia | Named in honor of the Swedish astronomer N. V. E. Nordenmark (1867–1962) whose writings created incr |
| 1477 | Bonsdorffia | Named in honor of Ilmari Bonsdorff {1879–1950}, Finnish astronomer and founder and director of the G |
| 1492 | Oppolzer | Named in honor of Hofrath Professor Theodor Ritter von Oppolzer (1841–1886), professor of astronomy |
| 1501 | Baade | Named in memory of Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (1893–1960), German-born astronomer who joined the |
| 1510 | Charlois | Named in memory of Auguste Charlois (1864–1910), assistant at the Nice Observatory from 1881 and sub |
| 1527 | Malmquista | Named in honor of the Swedish astronomer G. Malmquist (1893–1982), director of the Uppsala Observato |
| 1529 | Oterma | This member of the Hilda Group is named in honor of Liisi Oterma (1915–2001), astronomer at, and sin |
| 1530 | Rantaseppa | Named in memory of Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius (1925–1975), astronomer at the Turku Astronomical-Opti |
| 1539 | Borrelly | Named in honor of Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly (1842–1926), astronomer at the Marseilles Observat |
| 1542 | Schalen | Named in honor of Carl Adam Wilhelm Schalén {1902–1993} of the Lund Institute of Astronomy. Sometime |
| 1544 | Vinterhansenia | Named in honor of Miss Julie M. Vinterhansen (1890–1960), astronomer at the Copenhagen Observatory. |
| 1545 | Thernoe | Named in honor of Karl August Thernöe, formerly an astronomer at the Copenhagen Observatory who work |
| 1551 | Argelander | Named in honor of F. W. A. Argelander (1799–1875), director of the ancient observatory of Turku (Abo |
| 1552 | Bessel | Named in honor of the eminent German astronomer F. W. Bessel (1789–1846), who measured the first ste |
| 1558 | Jarnefelt | Named in honor of Gustaf J. Järnefelt, director of the Helsinki Observatory from 1945 to 1969, who h |
| 1563 | Noel | Named in honor of Emanuel Arend, son of the discoverer. (H 138) |
| 1573 | Vaisala | This planet is named in honor of Prof. Yrjö Väisälä {1891–1971}, Director of the Turku Observatory. |
| 1578 | Kirkwood | This planet has been named in honor of Daniel Kirkwood {1814–1895}, professor of mathematics at Indi |
| 1600 | Vyssotsky | Named in honor of Prof. Alexander Vyssotsky (1888–1973) who joined the faculty of the University of |
| 1614 | Goldschmidt | Named in memory of Hermann Goldschmidt (1802–1866), German-born astronomer who observed in Paris and |
| 1622 | Chacornac | Named in memory of Jean Chacornac (1823–1873), astronomer at Marseilles and later Paris, co-discover |
| 1655 | Comas Sola | Named by the Fabra Observatory in memory of Josep Comas Sola (1868-1937), first director of the Fabr |
| 1677 | Tycho Brahe | Named for the great Danish-born astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601). (M 4236) Brahe is also honored b |
| 1686 | De Sitter | Named in honor of the late Prof. Willem de Sitter {1872–1934}, who was director of the Leiden Observ |
| 1693 | Hertzsprung | Named in honor of the late Prof. E. Hertzsprung {1873–1967}, who was Director of the Leiden Observat |
| 1714 | Sy | Named in memory of Frederic Sy, a computer at the Paris Observatory during 1879–1887 and an assistan |
| 1745 | Ferguson | Named in honor of James Ferguson (1797–1867), a civil engineer, member of the Northwest Boundary Sur |
| 1776 | Kuiper | Named in honor of G. P. Kuiper {1905–1973}, former Director of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at |
| 1803 | Zwicky | Named in memory of Fritz Zwicky (1898–1974), a Swiss citizen, who as a professor at Caltech, Pasaden |
| 1830 | Pogson | Named in memory of Norman Robert Pogson (1829–1891), astronomer at Oxford and later at Madras, disco |
| 1831 | Nicholson | Named in memory of Seth Barnes Nicholson (1891–1963), discoverer of four of Jupiter’s satellites and |
| 1850 | Kohoutek | Named in honor of the Czech astronomer, Lubos Kohoutek {1935– }, on the staff of the observatory at |
| 1877 | Marsden | Named in honor of Brian G. Marsden {1937– }, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, in recognition o |
| 1940 | Whipple | Named in honor of Fred L.Whipple {1906– }, Harvard astronomer since 1931, professor since 1950 and d |
| 1995 | Hajek | Named in honor of Tadeas Hajek (Hagecius, 1525–1600), Czech humanist astronomer regarded today as on |
| 1998 | Titius | Named in memory of Johann Daniel Titius (1729–1796), who made the initial formulation of the Titius- |
| 1999 | Hirayama | Named in memory of Kiyotsugu Hirayama (1874–1943), discoverer of the so-called Hirayama families of |
| 2000 | Herschel | Just as (1000) honors Giuseppe Piazzi, the discoverer of the first minor planet, so (2000) honors Wi |
| 2003 | Harding | Named in memory of Karl Ludwig Harding (1765–1834), the discoverer of (3) Juno. (M 4238) Harding is |
| 2005 | Hencke | Named in honor of Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793–1866), postmaster at Driesen, the discoverer of (5) Astra |
| 2018 | Schuster | Named in honor of Hans-Emil Schuster {1934- }, astronomer at the European Southern Observatory, who |
| 2074 | Shoemaker | Named by the discoverer to honor her colleague and friend Eugene M. Shoemaker {1928–1997}. An outsta |
| 2075 | Martinez | Named in memory of Hugo Arturo Martinez (1890-1976), astronomer at the La Plata Observatory for many |
| 2099 | Opik | Named in honor of Ernst J. Opik {1893–1985} on the occasion of his 85th birthday. Over a career span |
| 2325 | Chernykh | Named in honor of Ludmila I. Chernykh and Nikolaj S. Chernykh, astronomers at the Crimean Astrophysi |
| 2507 | Bobone | Named in memory of Jorge Bobone (1901–1958), some time director of the Córdoba Observatory, well kno |
| 2602 | Moore | Named in honor of Patrick Moore {1924– }, astronomer, broadcaster, and writer. For some years direct |
| 2635 | Huggins | Named for William Huggins (1824–1910), pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy. Huggins stated that the |
| 2709 | Sagan | Named in honor of Carl Sagan {1934–1996}, planetary scientist at Cornell University. He has been act |
| 2772 | Dugan | Named in memory of the American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan (1878–1940), perhaps best known as a |
| 2801 | Huygens | Named in memory of Christian Huygens (1629–1695), celebrated Dutch physicist and astronomer, well kn |
| 2813 | Zappala | Named in honor of Vincenzo Zappalà, astronomer at the Pino Torinese Observatory. Zappalà’s work on m |
| 2845 | Franklinken | Named in honor of Kenneth Linn Franklin, astronomer at the Hayden Planetarium-American Museum in New |
| 2917 | Sawyer Hogg | Named in honor of Helen Sawyer Hogg {1905–1993}, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University o |
| 3022 | Dobermann | Named in honor of Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann (1834–1894), German zoologist and amateur astronome |
| 3070 | Aitken | he Lick Observatory (1930–1935), and as associate director under W. W. Campbell {see planet (2751)} |
| 3131 | Mason-Dixon | Named for Charles Mason (1730–1787) and Jeremiah Dixon (1773–1779), British astronomers who observed |
| 3169 | Ostro | Named in honor of Steven J. Ostro, planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the Calif |
| 3171 | Wangshouguan | Named in honor of Wang Shouguan, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and an unfailing friend o |
| 3174 | Alcock | Named in honor of the outstanding British amateur astronomer George E. D. Alcock {1912–2000}, visual |
| 3216 | Harrington | Named in honor of Robert S. Harrington {1942–1993}, astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Wash |
| 3269 | Vibert-Douglas | Named in memory of Alice Vibert Douglas (1894–1988), the pioneer in the teaching of astronomy at McG |
| 3277 | Aaronson | Named in memory of Marc Aaronson (1950–1987), associate professor of astronomy at the University of |
| 3282 | Spencer Jones | Named in memory of Harold Spencer Jones (1890–1960), successively astronomical assistant at the Roya |
| 3673 | Levy | Named in honor of David H. Levy {1948– }, comet discoverer and observer, recognized for his persever |
| 3722 | Urata | Named in honor of Takeshi Urata (1947– ), one of the most active amateur astronomers in Japan and th |
| 3808 | Tempel | Named in memory of Wilhelm Ernst Tempel (1821–1889), discoverer of sixteen comets, five minor planet |
| 3936 | Elst | Named in honor of Eric W. Elst (1936– ), Belgian astronomer at the Observatory at Uccle. For many ye |
| 3999 | Aristarchus | Named by the Minor Planet Names Committee for one of the earliest (3rd century B.C.) astronomers of |
| 4037 | Ikeya | Named in honor of Kaoru Ikeya, one of the most eminent Japanese amateur astronomers. Since 1963 he h |
| 4062 | Schiaparelli | Named in memory of Giovanni Virgilio Schiaparelli (1835–1910), discoverer of the connection between |
| 4279 | De Gasparis | Named in memory of Annibale De Gasparis (1819–1892), Italian astronomer, director of the Observatory |
| 4364 | Shkodrov | Named for Vladimir Shkodrov, professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and an astronomer at the |
| 4593 | Reipurth | Named in honor of Bo Reipurth, staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in charge of th |
| 4987 | Flamsteed | John Flamsteed (1646-1719), the first Astronomer Royal, is renowned for his systematic telescopic po |
| 5035 | Swift | Named in memory of Lewis Swift (1820–1913), famous U.S. comet hunter. The first of his 13 discoverie |
| 5036 | Tuttle | Named for Horace P. Tuttle (1837–1923), astronomer at Harvard and — after serving in the U.S. Navy d |
| 5757 | Ticha | Named in honor of Jana Tichá, Czech astronomer, director of the Kleť Observatory since 1992. Under h |
| 6006 | Anaximandros | Named for the great Greek philosopher Anaximander of Miletus (610–546 B.C.). A pupil of Thales {see |
| 7291 | Hyakutake | Yuji Hyakutake (b. 1950) discovered comets C/1995 Y1 and C/1996 B2 visually from the town of Aira, i |
| 7359 | Messier | Named in memory of Charles Messier (1730–1817), French astronomer and first “comet hunter”. He found |
| 9133 | d'Arrest | Named in memory of Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822-1875), German astronomer. As an assistant astronom |
| 9134 | Encke | Named in memory of Johann Franz Encke (1791-1865), eminent German astronomer. Beginning in 1816, En |
| 9307 | Regiomontanus | Named for the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476), originally cal |
| 9936 | Al-Biruni | The Persian scientist Al-Biruni (973-1048) made important contributions to anthropology, mathematics |
| 10478 | Alsabti | Abdul Athem Alsabti (b. 1945) introduced astronomy teaching into Iraq in 1970, was project leader in |
| 213771 | Johndee | John Dee (1527-1608), English mathematician, astronomer, navigation expert, the author of Mathema |
| 281067 | Barmby | |