nr ↓ | name ↓ | Name Source ↓ |
30 | Urania | Named for the Muse of astronomy {see also planet (18)}. (H 5; AN 39, 92 (1854)) Named by A. de Morg |
1067 | Lunaria | Named after any of a genus of European plants of the mustard family with cordate leaves and broad si |
1206 | Numerowia | Named in honor of the Russian astronomer Boris Vasil’evich Numerov (1891–1941), the founder and dire |
2037 | Tripaxeptalis | A whimsical name, suggested by the fact that (2037) = 3 x (679) Pax = 7 x (291) Alice. |
2830 | Greenwich | Named for the Royal Greenwich Observatory on the occasion of the centennial of its adoption as the p |
3142 | Kilopi | The name acknowledges the fact that the number of this planet is the approximate circumference of a |
3163 | Randi | Named in honor of the American magician James Randi (1928– ); (real name Randall James Hamilton Zwin |
4141 | Nintanlena | Named in honor of Nina, Tanya and Elena, wife and daughters of Kiev astronomer K. I. Churyumov {see |
4239 | Goodman | Named in honor of Neville J. Goodman, a member of the British Astronomical Association since 1944. P |
6465 | Zvezdotchet | Named for the Russian amateur astronomers’ magazine Zvezdotchet (Stargazer) and its readers. (M 2914 |
6600 | Qwerty | Qwerty is a popular name for the standard Roman-alphabet typewriter keyboard, based on the first six |
6765 | Fibonacci | Named in memory of Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa (c. 1170–1240), the first “western” mathematician, who |
7461 | Kachmokiam | Named in honor of Katherine Galindo, Christine Galindo, Molly Thompson, Kimberley Galindo and Amy Ga |
7805 | Moons | Named in memory of Michèle Moons (1951-1998), well known for her work on celestial mechanics done at |
8589 | Stellaris | Named for Botaurus stellaris, or bittern. |
8958 | Stargazer | This name honors in general those who since time immemorial have gazed up at the night sky in wonder |
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 |
10216 | Popastro | The U.K. Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2003. It was es |
10847 | Koch | The German physician Robert Koch (1843-1910) is the chief founder of the methodology of modern bacte |
13579 | Allodd | The number of this minor planet consists of all odd digits, in increasing order. The name was sugge |
20461 | Dioretsa | As befits the first numbered asteroid in a retrograde orbit, Dioretsa is the word asteroid spelled b |
24626 | Astrowizard | David V. Rodrigues (b. 1952) has dedicated his life to explaining the riches of the universe to anyo |
24680 | Alleven | The number of this minor planet consists of the even digits in order. The name was suggested by J. M |
25129 | Uranoscope | Uranoscope is a French amateur observatory, created in 1983 by Christian Bourdeille in Gretz Armainv |
55753 | Raman | Indian physicist C. V. Raman (1888-1970) showed the inelastic scattering of photons traversing a mat |
213771 | Johndee | John Dee (1527-1608), English mathematician, astronomer, navigation expert, the author of Mathema |
274020 | Skywalker | Skywalker is the family name of the fictional characters Luke and Anakin in the Star Wars universe. |