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| 153 | Hilda | Named in honor of (probably the eldest) daughter of the Austrian astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer (18 |
| 190 | Ismene | |
| 334 | Chicago | Named by the discoverer at an astronomical congress in Chicago to honor this great city. (AN 134, 16 |
| 361 | Bononia | This is the Latin name for the city of Bologna {see planet (2601)} in north central Italy and of Bo |
| 499 | Venusia | Named for the insula Venusia, or Hveen, island in the Sound between Denmark and Sweden, provided by |
| 748 | Simeisa | Named for the Simeis Observatory and the town of Simeis, Crimea, where the planet was first discover |
| 958 | Asplinda | Named in honor of Bror Ansgar Asplind {1890–1954}, the Swedish computer of planetary orbits. (H 92) |
| 1038 | Tuckia | Named in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tuck, philantropists. He is the son of the founder of the Repu |
| 1144 | Oda | See the remarks to planet (913). |
| 1162 | Larissa | Named for the city in eastern Thessaly {see planet (1161)}, Greece. (H 108) The name Larissa has al |
| 1180 | Rita | Any reference of this name to a person or occurrence is unknown. |
| 1202 | Marina | Named in honor of Mrs. Marina Davidovna Lavrova-Berg (1898–1943), scientific collaborator at the Pul |
| 1212 | Francette | Named in honor of the wife of the discoverer. (H 112) |
| 1256 | Normannia | This planet is probably named for the inhabitants of Normandy. (H 115) |
| 1268 | Libya | Named for the country in northern Africa bordering the Mediterranean sea. (H 116) |
| 1269 | Rollandia | Named in honor of the French writer and 1915 Nobel laureate Romain Rolland (1866–1944). (H 116) |
| 1345 | Potomac | Named for the river on which Washington, D.C. is located. The river flows from West Virginia into th |
| 1439 | Vogtia | Named in honor of the Heidelberg astronomer Heinrich Vogt (1890–1968). In 1929, Vogt became professo |
| 1512 | Oulu | Named in honor of the birthplace of the discoverer, a town in northern Finland. (M 2278) |
| 1529 | Oterma | This member of the Hilda Group is named in honor of Liisi Oterma (1915–2001), astronomer at, and sin |
| 1578 | Kirkwood | This planet has been named in honor of Daniel Kirkwood {1814–1895}, professor of mathematics at Indi |
| 1746 | Brouwer | Named in honor of the late Prof. Dirk Brouwer (1902–1966), Director of the Yale University Observato |
| 1748 | Mauderli | Named by the discoverer in honor of Prof. Sigmund Mauderli (1876–1962) who was Director of the Astro |
| 1754 | Cunningham | Named in honor of Leland E. Cunningham {1904–1989}, a prolific computer of comet orbits with F. L. W |
| 1877 | Marsden | Named in honor of Brian G. Marsden {1937– }, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, in recognition o |
| 1902 | Shaposhnikov | Named in honor of Vladimir Grigorevich Shaposhnikov (1905–1942), an expert in astrometry. Before the |
| 1911 | Schubart | Named in honor of Joachim Schubart {1928– }, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, who has developed avera |
| 1941 | Wild | Named in honor of Paul Wild, of the Astronomical Institute, Berne University, whose principal work i |
| 2067 | Aksnes | Named in honor of Kaare Aksnes {1938– }, celestial mechanician at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse |
| 2246 | Bowell | Named in honor of Edward L. G. Bowell, Lowell Observatory astronomer who has made and who continues |
| 2312 | Duboshin | Named in honor of Georgij Nikolaevich Duboshin {1904–1986}, distinguished authority on celestial mec |
| 2483 | Guinevere | Named for the heroine of the Arthurian legends, the wife of King Arthur {see planet (2597)}, but th |
| 2624 | Samitchell | Named in memory of Samuel Alfred Mitchell (1874–1960), a faculty member of Columbia University from |
| 2760 | Kacha | Named for the flying school in Kacha, a settlement in the Crimea, where some Soviet cosmonauts recei |
| 2959 | Scholl | Named in honor of Hans Scholl {1942– }, former astronomer at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Hei |
| 3134 | Kostinsky | Named in honor of Sergej Konstantinovich Kostinsky (1867–1936), one of the founders of astrophotogra |
| 3202 | Graff | Named in honor of Gareth (Graff) Vaughan Williams {1965– }, of Leighton Buzzard, England, where he h |
| 3254 | Bus | Named in honor of S. J. (“Bobby”) Bus {1956– }, currently a research assistant at Lowell Observatory |
| 3290 | Azabu | Named for the former site of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory. (M 11442) See also the comment for |
| 3415 | Danby | Named in honor of John Michael Anthony Danby {1929– }, celestial mechanician and sometime oboeist in |
| 3514 | Hooke | English experimental scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is known for his law of elasticity, the spri |
| 3557 | Sokolsky | Named in honor of Andrej Georgievich Sokolskij, director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy i |
| 3561 | Devine | Named in honor of John Devine Hazelton, son-in-law of the discoverer and grandson of Colonel John De |
| 3571 | Milanstefanik | Named in memory of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919), astronomer and meteorologist. He worked at |
| 3577 | Putilin | Named in memory of Ivan Ivanovich Putilin (1893–1954), assistant professor at the Kiev State Univers |
| 3655 | Eupraksia | Named for the wife of the thirteenth-century prince Fyodor Ryazansky. She preferred death to being t |
| 3694 | Sharon | Named in honor of Sharon Rachel Vinick, a great source of joy and inspiration to the discoverer. (M |
| 3843 | OISCA | Named for the Organization for Industrial, Spiritual and Cultural Advancement, founded by Yonosuke N |
| 3923 | Radzievskij | Named in honor of Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Radzievskij, professor at the Nizhegorodskij Pedagogical |
| 3990 | Heimdal | Named after the god of dawn and light in Norse mythology, son of Odin {see planet (3989)}, born of |
| 4196 | Shuya | Named for the discoverer’s birthplace, a town in Central Russia. The discoverer dedicates this name |
| 4230 | van den Bergh | Named in honor of Sidney van den Bergh (1929– ), Dutch-born Canadian astronomer, former director of |
| 4255 | Spacewatch | Named for the Spacewatch program and its many supporters. The program uses a 2048 × 2048 CCD in the |
| 4317 | Garibaldi | Named in memory of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807–1882), fighter for human rights and hero of many battles |
| 4446 | Carolyn | Named in honor of Carolyn Spellmann Shoemaker, comet and asteroid discoverer. Shoemaker began search |
| 4495 | Dassanowsky | Austrian-born film pioneer, Elfi Dassanowsky (1924-2007) co-founded the Belvedere Film studio in Vie |
| 4757 | Liselotte | Named after Elisabeth Charlotte von der Pfalz (1652–1722), known under her penname of Liselotte. A d |
| 5368 | Vitagliano | Aldo Vitagliano (b. 1948), of the University of Naples, wrote the software program “Solex” based on |
| 5439 | Couturier | Named in honor of Pierre Couturier (b. 1942), president of the Observatoire de Paris. An expert in c |
| 5603 | Rausudake | Named for the mountain in the Shiretoko range in Hokkaido {see planets (3867) and (3720), respecti |
| 5661 | Hildebrand | This Hilda group member is named in honor of the well-known Canadian geologist Alan R. Hildebrand (1 |
| 5711 | Eneev | Timur Magometovich Eneev (b. 1924), applied mathematician and celestial mechanician at the Keldysh I |
| 5928 | Pindarus | Named for the Greek lyric poet Pindarus (c. 520–446 B.C.), long the mainstay of Greek poetry. He liv |
| 6124 | Mecklenburg | Named for a district in northern Germany, characterized by deposits of glacial moraines and hundreds |
| 6237 | Chikushi | This is the old name of the Fukuoka region in northern Kyushu. During 1944--1947 the Chikushi Astron |
| 6984 | Lewiscarroll | Named after English fairy-tale author and mathematician Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 183 |
| 7027 | Toshihanda | Toshihiro Handa (b. 1959) is a research associate at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Tokyo |
| 7174 | Semois | The Semois, a river in Wallonia, rises near the city of Arlon, Luxembourg. It flows from the Ardenne |
| 7394 | Xanthomalitia | Leonid Vasil'evich Xanthomaliti (Ksanfomaliti; b. 1932), radiometrist, photo-metrist, polarimetrist |
| 8086 | Peterthomas | Named in honor of Peter C. Thomas (b. 1946), planetary scientist at Cornell University. Thomas has b |
| 8130 | Seeberg | Named for the Seeberg Observatory, situated upon a well-marked hill close to the town of Gotha. In |
| 8550 | Hesiodos | Hesiodos (c. 700 B.C.), an early Greek poet, told the story of Pandora, who out of curiosity opened |
| 8551 | Daitarabochi | According to myth, the giant Daitarabochi built Mt. Fuji using nearby soil. The area from which he |
| 8721 | AMOS | Named for the Air Force Maui Optical Station (AMOS), the research and development arm of the Maui Sp |
| 8743 | Kèneke | Kèneke is Flemish for “small child”, and it is only from her photographs that the discoverer knows a |
| 8915 | Sawaishujiro | Shujiro Sawai (b. 1966) is an engineer in charge of the chemical propulsion system of MUSES-C, the J |
| 9121 | Stefanovalentini | Stefano Valentini (b. 1955) is an Italian amateur astronomer and able computer programmer well known |
| 9661 | Hohmann | Walter Hohmann (1880-1945) was a German civil engineer and member of the Society for Space Travel. H |
| 9829 | Murillo | Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (1618-1682) created many religious paintings for churches. The painter fr |
| 10063 | Erinleeryan | Erin Lee Ryan (b. 1981) is a research scientist with the SETI Institute whose work includes spectral |
| 10296 | Rominadisisto | Romina Paula Di Sisto (b. 1970) is an astronomer at the La Plata University of Argentina whose resea |
| 10331 | Peterbluhm | Computer specialist Peter Bluhm (1942-1997) was known for his efforts in electronic communication am |
| 10608 | Mameta | Katsuhiko Mameta (b. 1958) is one of Japan's top meteor observers. He is an active amateur astronom |
| 11249 | Etna | Etna is the stratovolcano mountain above the Sicilian city of Catania. Its height is 3350 meters, an |
| 11274 | Castillo-Rogez | Julie Castillo-Rogez (b. 1974) is a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory who has per |
| 11542 | Solikamsk | Solikamsk is a city in the Perm region of Russia on the Kama river, well-known for its saltmines. I |
| 11739 | Baton Rouge | Baton Rouge, the Louisiana state capital, is located on the banks of the Mississippi river and deriv |
| 12006 | Hruschka | František Hruschka (1819-1888) invented the centrifugal honey extractor and demonstrated it at an ex |
| 12896 | Geoffroy | Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) established in Philosophie anat-omique (2 volumes, |
| 13897 | Vesuvius | Naples' Mount Vesuvius is the famous volcano that destroyed the cities Pompeii and Herculanum in 79 |
| 14669 | Beletic | James William Beletic (b. 1956), a talented physician, led the European Southern Observatory's Optic |
| 14845 | Hegel | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is a very important philosopher of German idealism. The m |
| 15068 | Wiegert | Paul Wiegert (b. 1967) studied at Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, York University an |
| 15231 | Ehdita | Ehdita Stanislavovna P'ekha (b. 1937) is a Russian singer. She gave concerts in more than 20 countr |
| 15278 | Pâquet | Paul Pâquet (b. 1937) has contributed to earth-rotation studies and interpretation of the earth rota |
| 15417 | Babylon | Babylon, one of the most famous cities of antiquity, was the capital of southern Mesopotamia, the re |
| 15671 | Suzannedébarbat | Suzanne Débarbat (b. 1928) is an astronomer of the Observatory of the Paris. She contributed to the |
| 15783 | Briancox | Brian Edward Cox (b. 1968), an English particle physicist, is advanced fellow of physics and astrono |
| 16232 | Chijagerbs | James “Gerbs” Bauer (b. 1968) is a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory whose resear |
| 16915 | Bredthauer | Richard Bredthauer (b. 1946) has been a CCD designer for the last 23 years, providing high-performan |
| 17305 | Caniff | Milton Caniff (1907-1988) was a U.S. master cartoonist who created the comic strips Terry and the |
| 17428 | Charleroi | Charleroi, built in 1666 on both sides of the Sambre river, is the largest city in Wallonia. Traces |
| 19034 | Santorini | Santorini is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. The old name of the island is Thera. The 1950 erupt |
| 20038 | Arasaki | Yoshikuni Arasaki (b. 1953) has been chief of the Okinawa Prefecture Ishigaki Youth House since 2017 |
| 21047 | Hodierna | Giovanni Battista Hodierna (1597-1660) was a catholic priest who taught mathematics and astronomy in |
| 21128 | Chapuis | Grégoire Chapuis (1761-1794) was a surgeon dedicated to educating the poor by establishing evening |
| 21804 | Václavneumann | Václav Neumann (1920-1995) was the head conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra during 1968-19 |
| 22647 | Lévi-Strauss | French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) introduced structuralism as th |
| 23405 | Nisyros | Nisyros is the easternmost volcano of the Aegean arc of Greece. Active since antiquity, large erupti |
| 24701 | Elyu-Ene | Elyu-Ene (“Large River”) is the original Evenk name for the Lena River. One of the longest in the w |
| 25800 | Glukhovsky | Lisa Doreen Glukhovsky (b. 1986), a 2004 Talent finalist, was awarded first place and Best in Catego |
| 25869 | Jacoby | George Jacoby (b. 1948) is currently Deputy DIrector for Technology at Lowell Observatory, responsib |
| 26761 | Stromboli | Stromboli is a volcanic island off northern Sicily, in the Mediterranean Sea. In antiquity the volc |
| 29053 | Muskau | The landscaped park at Muskau sits astride the Neisse river on the border between Poland and Germany |
| 31020 | Skarupa | Valerie Skarupa (b. 1966) was the AMOS Program Manager for many years, ensuring that funding and sup |
| 31097 | Nucciomula | Alfonso Maria Giovanni Mula (b. 1956), born in Agrigento, Sicily, is a well-known art critic, poet a |
| 31338 | Lipperhey | Dutch lensmaker Hans Lipperhey (1570-1619), known for his invention of Dutch perspective glass, was |
| 32724 | Woerlitz | The park at Woerlitz, near Dessau, is an exceptional German example of eighteenth-century landscape |
| 34919 | Imelda | Imelda Gentile is a cousin of Heidelberg astronomer J. Schubart. |
| 36182 | Montigiani | Montigiani Roberto (1944-2002) lived in Scandicci, near Florence. A friend of the discoverer, he die |
| 37452 | Spirit | Spirit is one of NASA's successful 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers. It explored rocks and minerals in |
| 38046 | Krasnoyarsk | The Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk was founded in 1628 as a trading post along the Yenisei river. In |
| 38470 | Deleflie | Florent Deleflie (b. 1975) is a French astronomer at IMCCE of the Paris Observatory, specializing in |
| 38684 | Velehrad | According to tradition, Velehrad was the seat of the great Moravian princes and of Archbishop Method |
| 39382 | Opportunity | Opportunity is one of NASA's successful 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers. It explored rock layers in th |
| 39405 | Mosigkau | The castle at Mosigkau near Dessau, with its garden, is a relic of the Rococo period in Germany. It |
| 39415 | Janeausten | Jane Austen (1775-1817) was one of the greatest English novelists. Her novel Pride and Prejudice< |
| 39427 | Charlottebrontë | Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) was a renowned English novelist and poet, best known for her remarkable |
| 40227 | Tahiti | Tahiti, the largest island in French Polynesia, was discovered by Samuel Wallis in 1767. Bougainvil |
| 41488 | Sindbad | Sindbad was the legendary sailor from Baghdad who had numerous fantastic adventures during The Se |
| 48529 | von Wrangel | Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel (1797-1870), a Baltic German explorer and one of the founders of the Rus |
| 51178 | Geraintjones | Geraint H. Jones (b. 1970) is head of planetary science at University College London's Mullard Space |
| 51983 | Hönig | Sebastian F. Hönig (b. 1978) adroitly searched SOHO and NEAT images during 2000-2003 and was credite |
| 55196 | Marchini | Alessandro Marchini (b. 1965) is a computer scientist in the physics department and director of the |
| 58095 | Oranienstein | Oranienstein is a German baroque castle on the Lahn river near Diez. |
| 58279 | Kamerlingh | In 1908 Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926) was the first experimental scientist to l |
| 61042 | Noviello | Jessica Noviello (b. 1992) completed her Ph.D. research at Arizona State University studying surface |
| 65244 | Ianwong | Ian Wong (b. 1990) is a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, |
| 65821 | De Curtis | Antonio De Curtis (1898-1967), nicknamed “Totò”, was an Italian artist, comedian, film and |
| 65859 | Mädler | German astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler (1794-1874) succeeded Struve as director of the Dorpat |
| 73769 | Delphi | According to myth, the city of Delphi was at the centre of the world. Delphi lies on the south-west |
| 78867 | Isakowitz | Matthew Scott Isakowitz (1987–2017), was a rising star in space commercialization. His path, from Pr |
| 84011 | Jean-Claude | Jean-Claude George Pelle (b. 1942) is a passionate amateur astronomer who operates an observatory on |
| 89903 | Post | Cecil Post (b. 1917) is an amateur astronomer and former engineer in the antenna section of the phys |
| 90502 | Buratti | Bonnie J. Buratti (b. 1952), a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studies p |
| 96086 | Toscanos | Toscanos is the site of ruins of a Phoenician colony (first millennium B.C.) on the Mediterranean co |