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- 340 Eduarda340 Eduarda340 Eduarda is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg....
(Heinrich Eduard von LadeHeinrich Eduard von LadeHeinrich Eduard von Lade was a German banker and amateur astronomer.He was born in Geisenheim, located along the banks of the Rhine river, the son of a wine merchant. He worked as a banker and exporter in Hamburg and Paris, and by the age of 44 he had earned enough to retire.In 1861 he built a...
, German) - 792 Metcalfia792 Metcalfia-External links:*...
(Joel Hastings MetcalfJoel Hastings MetcalfJoel Hastings Metcalf was an American astronomer.Metcalf graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 1892. He served as a Unitarian minister in Burlington, Vermont and then later in Taunton, Massachusetts, Winchester, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.He discovered or co-discovered several comets,...
, American) - 828 Lindemannia828 Lindemannia828 Lindemannia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named for the astronomer Adolph Friedrich Lindemann.-External links:*...
(Adolph Friedrich LindemannAdolph Friedrich LindemannAdolph Friedrich Lindemann was a German-born, British engineer, businessman, and amateur astronomer.-Life:Lindemann was born in the Palatinate to a Roman Catholic family established in Alsace-Lorraine under the Comte de Lindemann, who had married into the Cyprien-Fabre shipping family...
, German-British) - 2602 Moore2602 Moore2602 Moore is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered in 1982 by E. Bowell. It is named after Patrick Moore, the TV astronomer....
(Sir Patrick MoorePatrick MooreSir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...
) - 9121 Stefanovalentini9121 StefanovalentiniAsteroid 9121 Stefanovalentini was discovered on 24 February 1998 by Silvano Casulli at the Colleverde Observatory in Italy. It is a main belt asteroid. It is named in honor of Italian amateur astronomer Stefano Valentini....
(Stefano ValentiniStefano ValentiniStefano Valentini, born in 1955 in Rome, Italy, is an Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer.He is known for his freewares WinAstrometry and waEphemeris, a minor planets ephemeris...
, Italian) - 12787 Abetadashi12787 Abetadashi12787 Abetadashi is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1238.3984000 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 20, 1995.-References:...
(Tadashi AbeTadashi Abe (astronomer)Tadashi Abe is a Japanese amateur astronomer who taught high school from 1966 to 2004. He poured his considerable observational talents into the field of astronomical photometry, producing a number of scientific papers and a thesis based on his discoveries. Minor planet 12787 Abetadashi is named...
, Japanese) - 13624 Abeosamu13624 Abeosamu13624 Abeosamu is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1995 by T. Okuni at Nanyo....
(Osamu Abe, Japanese) - 24898 Alanholmes24898 Alanholmes- External links :...
(Alan W. Holmes, American) - 37729 Akiratakao37729 Akiratakao37729 Akiratakao is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1536.3154896 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 14, 1996.-References:...
(Akira Takao, Japanese) - 49109 Agnesraab49109 Agnesraab49109 Agnesraab is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1998 by R. Linderholm at Lime Creek.- External links :*...
(Agnes Raab, Austrian) - 60406 Albertosuci60406 Albertosuci60406 Albertosuci is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Luciano Tesi and Andrea Boattini at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory in San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy, on February 3, 2000. It is named after Alberto Suci, an Italian amateur astronomer.-External links:...
(Alberto Suci, Italian) - 103422 Laurisirén103422 Laurisirén103422 Laurisirén is an asteroid. It was discovered by the Nyrölä Observatory on January 9, 2000. Its provisional designation was '. It was named after Lauri Sirén, Finnish amateur astronomer and founder of the amateur astronomical association Jyväskylän Sirius. It has an absolute magnitude of...
(Lauri Sirén, Finnish)
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- 107 Camilla107 Camilla107 Camilla is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It orbits within the Cybele Group, beyond most main-belt asteroids. It has a very dark surface and primitive carbonaceous composition. It was discovered by N. R...
(Camille FlammarionCamille FlammarionNicolas Camille Flammarion 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 novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics. He also published the magazine...
; also CamillaCamilla (mythology)In Roman mythology, Camilla of the Volsci was the daughter of King Metabus and Casmilla. Driven from his throne, Metabus was chased into the wilderness by armed Volsci, his infant daughter in his hands. The river Amasenus blocked his path, and, fearing for the child's welfare, Metabus bound her to...
, mythological VolsciVolsciThe Volsci were an ancient Italic people, well known in the history of the first century of the Roman Republic. They then inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from...
an queen) - 162 Laurentia162 Laurentia162 Laurentia is a large and dark main-belt asteroid.It was discovered by brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on April 21, 1876, and named after A. Laurent, an amateur astronomer who discovered asteroid 51 Nemausa....
(A. LaurentA. LaurentA. Laurent was a Frenchman who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858.He never made any more asteroid discoveries and not much more seems to be known about him...
) - 238 Hypatia238 Hypatia238 Hypatia is a very large main-belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material. Like many asteroids of this type, its surface is very dark in colour....
(Hypatia) - 281 Lucretia281 Lucretia281 Lucretia is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on October 31, 1888 in Vienna. It is named for the middle name of Caroline Herschel, one of the first female astronomers.-References:...
(Caroline Lucretia HerschelCaroline HerschelCaroline Lucretia Herschel was a German-British astronomer, the sister of astronomer Sir Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel with whom she worked throughout both of their careers. Her most significant contribution to astronomy was the discovery of several comets and in particular the periodic comet...
) - 339 Dorothea339 Dorothea339 Dorothea is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1892 in Heidelberg, Germany....
(Dorothea KlumpkeDorothea KlumpkeDorothea Klumpke Roberts was an astronomer.-Biography:Her father, John Gerard Klumpke , was a German immigrant who had come to California in 1850 with the Gold Rush and had later become a successful realtor in San Francisco...
) - 349 Dembowska349 DembowskaAsteroid 349 Dembowska is named in honor of the Baron Hercules Dembowski, an Italian astronomer who made significant contributions to research on double and multiple stars. The asteroid was discovered over a century ago on December 9, 1892, by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois while working at...
(Ercole DembowskiErcole DembowskiErcole Dembowski was an Italian astronomer.He was born in Milan. He inherited the title of "Baron" as the son of Jan Dembowski , one of Napoleon's Polish generals. He served in the navy of Austria-Hungary until 1843.He was a tireless observer of double stars and made tens of thousands of...
) - 366 Vincentina366 Vincentina366 Vincentina is a fairly large main belt asteroid.Vincentina was discovered on March 21, 1893 by Auguste Charlois, and named after Vincenzo Cerulli, an Italian astronomer.- References :...
(Vincenzo CerulliVincenzo CerulliVincenzo Cerulli was an Italian astronomer who owned a private observatory in Teramo, where he was born.Cerulli compiled a star catalog with Elia Millosevich...
) - 511 Davida511 Davida511 Davida is a large main-belt C-type asteroid. It was discovered by R. S. Dugan in 1903. It is one of the ten most massive asteroids. It is approximately 270–310 km in diameter and comprises an estimated 1.5% of the total mass of the asteroid belt...
(David Peck ToddDavid Peck ToddDavid Peck Todd was a noted American astronomer. He produced a complete set of photographs of the 1882 transit of Venus.-Biography:...
) - 676 Melitta676 Melitta-External links:*...
(Philibert Jacques MelottePhilibert Jacques MelottePhilibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium.In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was not given its present name until 1975.The asteroid 676 Melitta, the only one he discovered, is...
) - 729 Watsonia729 Watsonia729 Watsonia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the Canadian-American astronomer James C. Watson.-External links:*...
(James Craig WatsonJames Craig WatsonJames Craig Watson was a Canadian-American astronomer born in the village of Fingal, Ontario Canada. His family relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1850....
) - 761 Brendelia761 Brendelia-External links:*...
(Martin BrendelMartin BrendelOtto Rudolf Martin Brendel was a German astronomer.The asteroid 761 Brendelia is named after Brendel.-References:...
) - 767 Bondia767 Bondia- External links :*...
(William Cranch BondWilliam Cranch BondWilliam Cranch Bond was an American astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory.- Upbringing :William Cranch Bond was born in Falmouth, Maine on September 9, 1789...
and George Phillips BondGeorge Phillips BondGeorge Phillips Bond was an American astronomer. He was the son of William Cranch Bond. Some sources give his year of birth as 1826....
) - 768 Struveana768 Struveana768 Struveana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The asteroid was named jointly in honor of Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Otto Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve.-External links:*...
(Otto Wilhelm von StruveOtto Wilhelm von StruveOtto Wilhelm von Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is normally given as Otto Vasil'evich Struve...
, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von StruveFriedrich Georg Wilhelm von StruveFriedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Danish-Baltic German astronomer from a famous dynasty.-Life:...
and Karl Hermann Struve) - 784 Pickeringia784 Pickeringia-External links:*...
(Edward Charles PickeringEdward Charles PickeringEdward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist, brother of William Henry Pickering.Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations .Pickering attended Boston Latin School, and received his B.S. from...
and William Henry PickeringWilliam Henry PickeringWilliam Henry Pickering was an American astronomer, brother of Edward Charles Pickering. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1883.-Work:...
) - 786 Bredichina786 Bredichina-External links:*...
(Fyodor Aleksandrovich BredikhinFyodor Aleksandrovich BredikhinFyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin was a Russian astronomer...
) - 806 Gyldenia806 Gyldenia806 Gyldenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Hugo Gyldén.-External links:*...
(Hugo GyldénHugo GyldénJohan August Hugo Gyldén was a Finland-Swedish astronomer primarily known for work in celestial mechanics....
) - 818 Kapteynia818 KapteyniaThis asteroid is named for the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn.818 Kapteynia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...
(Jacobus KapteynJacobus KapteynJacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation....
) - 819 Barnardiana819 Barnardiana-External links:*...
(Edward Emerson Barnard) - 827 Wolfiana827 Wolfiana-External links:*...
(Max WolfMax WolfMaximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer and a pioneer in the field of astrophotography...
) - 834 Burnhamia834 Burnhamia-External links:*...
(Sherburne Wesley BurnhamSherburne Wesley BurnhamSherburne Wesley Burnham was an American astronomer.He worked at Yerkes Observatory. All his working life, he served during the day as a court reporter and was an amateur astronomer, except for four years as a full-time astronomer at Lick Observatory.He served as a military stenographer in the...
) - 854 Frostia854 Frostia854 Frostia is an asteroid orbiting the Sun. It is named after Edwin Brant Frost, an American astronomer.A satellite, designated S/2004 1, was identified based on lightcurve observations in July 2004 by Raoul Behrend, Laurent Bernasconi, Alain Klotz, and Russell I. Durkee...
(Edwin Brant FrostEdwin Brant Frost-Biography:He was born in Brattleboro, Vermont. His father, Carlton Pennington Frost, was dean of Dartmouth Medical School.Frost graduated from Dartmouth in 1886. He continued his education as a post-graduate student in chemistry and in 1887 became an instructor in physics while only 21 years old...
) - 855 Newcombia855 Newcombia-External links:*...
(Simon NewcombSimon NewcombSimon Newcomb was a Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician. Though he had little conventional schooling, he made important contributions to timekeeping as well as writing on economics and statistics and authoring a science fiction novel.-Early life:Simon Newcomb was born in the town of...
) - 856 Backlunda856 Backlunda-External links:*...
(Oskar BacklundOskar BacklundJohan Oskar Backlund 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 is known as Oskar Andreevich Baklund...
) - 857 Glasenappia857 Glasenappia-External links:*...
(Sergey Glazenap) - 872 Holda872 Holda-External links:*...
(Edward S. Holden) - 892 Seeligeria892 Seeligeria-External links:*...
(Hugo von SeeligerHugo von SeeligerHugo von Seeliger , also known as Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger, was a German astronomer, often considered the most important astronomer of his day....
) - 914 Palisana914 Palisana914 Palisana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa.-External links:*...
(Johann PalisaJohann PalisaJohann Palisa was an Austrian astronomer, born in Opava in Austrian Silesia .He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids, discovering 122 in all, from 136 Austria in 1874 to 1073 Gellivara in 1923...
) - 993 Moultona993 Moultona993 Moultona is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.-External links:*...
(Forest Ray MoultonForest Ray MoultonForest Ray Moulton was an American astronomer.He was born in Le Roy, Michigan, and was educated at Albion College. After graduating in 1894 , he performed his graduate studies at the University of Chicago and gained a Ph.D. in 1899...
) - 995 Sternberga995 Sternberga995 Sternberga is a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1923 by Sergei Belyavsky at Simeiz Observatory.-External links:*...
(Pavel Shternberg) - 999 Zachia999 Zachia999 Zachia is a main-belt asteroid named after Austrian astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach.-External links:*...
(Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach) - 1000 Piazzia1000 Piazzia1000 Piazzia, discovered in 1923, is a main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was the 1000th minor planet to be numbered, and was named in honour of Giuseppe Piazzi, who discovered the first asteroid, 1 Ceres....
(Giuseppe PiazziGiuseppe PiazziGiuseppe Piazzi was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo – Giuseppe S...
, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres) - 1002 Olbersia1002 Olbersia1002 Olbersia is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on August 15, 1923. It was named after Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers.-References:...
(Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus OlbersHeinrich Wilhelm Matthäus OlbersHeinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers was a German physician and astronomer.-Life and career:Olbers was born in Arbergen, near Bremen, and studied to be a physician at Göttingen. After his graduation in 1780, he began practicing medicine in Bremen, Germany...
) - 1004 Belopolskya1004 Belopolskya1004 Belopolskya is an asteroid. It was discovered by Sergei Belyavsky on September 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OS. It is named after the astronomer Aristarkh Belopolsky....
(Aristarkh Belopolsky) - 1021 Flammario1021 Flammario1021 Flammario is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 11, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 RG. It was named after the celebrated French astronomer Camille Flammarion....
(Camille FlammarionCamille FlammarionNicolas Camille Flammarion 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 novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics. He also published the magazine...
) - 1024 Hale1024 Hale1024 Hale is an asteroid. It was discovered by George Van Biesbroeck on December 2, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 YO13. It was named after George Ellery Hale....
(George Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery HaleGeorge Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...
) - 1040 Klumpkea1040 Klumpkea1040 Klumpkea is an asteroid. It was discovered by Benjamin Jekhowsky on January 20, 1925. Its provisional designation was 1925 BD. It was named after Dorothea Klumpke Roberts....
(Dorothea KlumpkeDorothea KlumpkeDorothea Klumpke Roberts was an astronomer.-Biography:Her father, John Gerard Klumpke , was a German immigrant who had come to California in 1850 with the Gold Rush and had later become a successful realtor in San Francisco...
) - 1111 Reinmuthia1111 Reinmuthia1111 Reinmuthia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth on February 11, 1927 at Heidelberg, Germany. Its provisional designation was 1927 CO. It was named in honor of its discoverer, who had discovered more than 380 now numbered minor planets.-References:...
(Karl Wilhelm ReinmuthKarl Wilhelm ReinmuthKarl Wilhelm Reinmuth was a German astronomer.He was a prolific discoverer of asteroids , beginning with 796 Sarita in 1914, working at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl astronomical observatory on the Königstuhl hill above Heidelberg, Germany from 1912 to 1957.His most notable...
) - 1120 Cannonia1120 Cannonia1120 Cannonia is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Pelageya Fedorovna Shajn on September 11, 1928 at Simeis. Its provisional designation was 1928 RV. It was independently discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin at Simeis two days later, and ten days later by Eugène...
(Annie Jump CannonAnnie Jump CannonAnnie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C...
) - 1123 Shapleya1123 Shapleya1123 Shapleya is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It makes a revolution around the Sun once every 3 years. The time it takes to complete one rotation is greater than 20 hours. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin on September 21, 1928. It was named after Harlow Shapley, the...
(Harlow ShapleyHarlow ShapleyHarlow Shapley was an American astronomer.-Career:He was born on a farm in Nashville, Missouri, and dropped out of school with only the equivalent of a fifth-grade education...
) - 1129 Neujmina1129 Neujmina1129 Neujmina is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 35 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 8 hours. It was discovered by Praskovjya Parchomenko at Simeis on August 8, 1929...
(Grigory Neujmin) - 1134 Kepler1134 Kepler1134 Kepler is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on September 25, 1929. Its provisional designation was 1929 SA. It was named after Johannes Kepler....
(Johannes KeplerJohannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican...
) - 1186 Turnera1186 Turnera1186 Turnera is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 1, 1929 by C. Jackson at Johannesburg .- External links :...
(Herbert Hall TurnerHerbert Hall TurnerHerbert Hall Turner was a British astronomer and seismologist.-Biography:Herbert Hall Turner was educated at Clifton College and Trinity College, Cambridge., In 1884 he accepted the post of Chief Assistant at Greenwich Observatory and stayed there for nine years...
) - 1215 Boyer1215 Boyer1215 Boyer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1932 by Alfred Schmitt at Algiers.Schmitt named the asteroid in honor of his colleague in Algiers, Louis Boyer.- External links :*...
(Louis BoyerLouis Boyer (astronomer)Louis Boyer was a French astronomer.He worked at the Algiers Observatory and discovered a number of asteroids.The asteroid 1215 Boyer was named after him by his colleague in Algiers, Alfred Schmitt...
) - 1239 Queteleta1239 Queteleta1239 Queteleta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 4, 1932 by E. Delporte at Uccle.- External links :*...
(Adolphe QueteletAdolphe QueteletLambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences...
) - 1241 Dysona1241 Dysona1241 Dysona is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1932, by Harry Edwin Wood at Johannesburg .- External links :*...
(Sir Frank Watson DysonFrank Watson DysonSir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in testing Einstein's theory of general relativity.- Biography :Dyson was born in Measham, near...
) - 1303 Luthera1303 Luthera1303 Luthera is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1928 by Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann at Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory.- External links :*...
(Karl Theodor Robert LutherKarl Theodor Robert LutherKarl Theodor Robert Luther , normally published as Robert Luther, was a German astronomer who searched for asteroids while working in Düsseldorf....
) - 1412 Lagrula1412 Lagrula1412 Lagrula is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1937 by L. Boyer at Algiers.- External links :*...
(Joanny-Philippe LagrulaJoanny-Philippe LagrulaJoanny-Philippe Lagrula 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 measuring the correspondence of the Moon's actual position with...
) - 1455 Mitchella1455 Mitchella1455 Mitchella is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 5, 1937 by A. Bohrmann at Heidelberg University.- External links :*...
(Maria MitchellMaria MitchellMaria Mitchell was an American astronomer, who in 1847, by using a telescope, discovered a comet which as a result became known as the "Miss Mitchell's Comet". She won a gold medal prize for her discovery which was presented to her by King Frederick VII of Denmark. The medal said “Not in vain do...
) - 1501 Baade1501 Baade1501 Baade is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1938 by Wachmann, A. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Walter Baade) - 1510 Charlois1510 Charlois1510 Charlois is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 22, 1939 by André Patry at Nice.- External links :*...
(Auguste CharloisAuguste CharloisAuguste Honoré Charlois was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working in Nice.His first discovery was the asteroid 267 Tirza in 1887...
) - 1529 Oterma1529 Oterma1529 Oterma is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 26, 1938 by Y. Väisälä at Turku. It was named after Liisi Oterma.- External links :*...
(Liisi OtermaLiisi OtermaLiisi Oterma was a Finnish astronomer, the first woman to get a Ph.D. degree in astronomy in Finland.She discovered or co-discovered some comets, including periodic comets 38P/Stephan-Oterma and 39P/Oterma, and quite a number of asteroids. The asteroid 1529 Oterma was named in her honour.-...
) - 1539 Borrelly1539 Borrelly1539 Borrelly is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 29, 1940 by Patry, A. at Nice.- External links :*...
(Alphonse Louis Nicolas BorrellyAlphonse Louis Nicolas BorrellyAlphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly was a French astronomer.Working in Marseille, he discovered asteroids and comets.He discovered the periodic comet 19P/Borrelly.The asteroid 1539 Borrelly was named in his honour....
) - 1551 Argelander1551 Argelander1551 Argelander is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 24, 1938 by Yrjö Väisälä at the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Turku, Finland. It is named after Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, a 19th century head of the observatory at Turku.- External links :*...
(Friedrich Wilhelm ArgelanderFriedrich Wilhelm ArgelanderFriedrich Wilhelm August Argelander was a German astronomer. He is known for his determinations of stellar brightnesses, positions, and distances.- Life and work :...
) - 1573 Väisälä1573 Väisälä1573 Väisälä is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1333.4672727 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 27, 1949, and is named after the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä.-References:...
(Yrjö VäisäläYrjö VäisäläYrjö Väisälä was a Finnish astronomer and physicist.His main contributions were in the field of optics, but he was also very active in geodetics, astronomy and optical metrology...
) - 1578 Kirkwood1578 Kirkwood1578 Kirkwood, also known as 1944 DF, 1949 TF, 1951 AT and 1952 FK, is an asteroid which was discovered January 10, 1951 at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. This program was conceived and directed by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University. The...
(Daniel KirkwoodDaniel KirkwoodDaniel Kirkwood was an American astronomer.Born in Harford County, Maryland, he was graduated in mathematics from the York County Academy in York, Pennsylvania in 1838...
) - 1591 Baize1591 Baize1591 Baize is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 31, 1951 by Arend, S. at Uccle.- External links :*...
(Paul BaizePaul BaizePaul Baize 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 allowed to observe from the Paris Observatory. He made 20,044 measures over 47 years...
) - 1594 Danjon1594 Danjon1594 Danjon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 23, 1949 by Boyer, L. at Algiers.- External links :*...
(André-Louis Danjon) - 1600 Vyssotsky1600 Vyssotsky1600 Vyssotsky is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 918.2610207 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 22, 1947.-References:...
(Emma T. R. Williams VyssotskyEmma VyssotskyEmma Vyssotsky , born Emma T. R. Williams in Media, Pennsylvania was an American astronomer.-Biography:She received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard College in 1930...
) - 1601 Patry1601 Patry1601 Patry is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 18, 1942 by L. Boyer at Algiers.- External links :*...
(André PatryAndré PatryAndré Patry was a French astronomer.Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working at the Observatoire de Nice aged 17. He studied asteroids and discovered several himself. The Asteroid 1601 Patry is named after him.-Obituary:*...
) - 1614 Goldschmidt1614 Goldschmidt1614 Goldschmidt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 18, 1952 by Alfred Schmitt at Uccle.- External links :*...
(Hermann Mayer Salomon GoldschmidtHermann Mayer Salomon GoldschmidtHermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt 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 French astronomer Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy...
) - 1622 Chacornac1622 Chacornac1622 Chacornac is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 15, 1952 by Alfred Schmitt at Uccle.- External links :*...
(Jean ChacornacJean ChacornacJean Chacornac was a French astronomer.He was born in Lyon and died in St Jean en Royans. Working in Marseille and Paris, he discovered six asteroids. The asteroid 1622 Chacornac and the crater Chacornac on the Moon are named in his honour....
) - 1637 Swings1637 Swings1637 Swings is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 28, 1936 by J. Hunaerts at Uccle.It is named after Pol Swings, a Belgian astronomer.- External links :*...
(Pol SwingsPol SwingsPol F. Swings 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, in particular, comets...
) - 1642 Hill1642 Hill1642 Hill is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1951 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(George William HillGeorge William HillGeorge William Hill , was an American astronomer and mathematician.Hill was born in New York City, New York to painter and engraver John William Hill. and Catherine Smith Hill. He moved to West Nyack with his family when he was eight years old. After attending high school, Hill graduated from...
) - 1655 Comas Solá1655 Comas Solá1655 Comas Solà is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1693.5024076 days . It has an average orbital speed of 17.85430271 km/s.The asteroid was discovered on November 28, 1929 at the Fabra Observatory....
(Josep Comas SoláJosep Comas SoláJosep Comas i Solà was a Catalan Spanish astronomer.He observed planets including Mars and Saturn, measuring the period of rotation of the latter...
) - 1686 De Sitter1686 De Sitter1686 De Sitter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1935 by Van Gent, H. at Johannesburg .- External links :*...
(Willem de SitterWillem de SitterWillem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer.-Life and work:Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa...
) - 1677 Tycho Brahe1677 Tycho Brahe1677 Tycho Brahe is an asteroid in the main asteroid belt, of the group . It is named for the pre-telescopic era astronomer Tycho Brahe .- See also :*Asteroids list...
(Tycho BraheTycho BraheTycho Brahe , born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations...
) - 1691 Oort1691 Oort1691 Oort is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1956 by Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It was named after the Dutch astronomer Jan Oort.- External links :...
(Jan OortJan OortJan Hendrik Oort was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name....
) - 1693 Hertzsprung1693 Hertzsprung1693 Hertzsprung is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1935 by Van Gent, H. at Johannesburg .- External links :*...
(Ejnar HertzsprungEjnar HertzsprungEjnar Hertzsprung was a Danish chemist and astronomer.Hertzsprung was born in Copenhagen. In the period 1911–1913, together with Henry Norris Russell, he developed the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram....
) - 1714 Sy1714 Sy1714 Sy is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1502.1767167 days . The asteroid was discovered on July 25, 1951.- References :...
(Frédéric SyFrédéric SyFrédéric Sy was a French astronomer.He worked at the Paris Observatory from 1879 to 1887, and as the assistant astronomer at the Algiers Observatory from 1887 to 1918...
) - 1741 Giclas1741 Giclas1741 Giclas is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named after American astronomer Henry L. Giclas....
(Henry L. GiclasHenry L. GiclasHenry Lee Giclas was an American astronomer.He worked at Lowell Observatory using the blink comparator, and hired Robert Burnham, Jr. to work there.He discovered a number of comets, including periodic comet 84P/Giclas....
) - 1743 Schmidt1743 Schmidt1743 Schmidt is a Main-belt asteroid that was discovered on September 24, 1960 at Palomar by C.J. van Houten, Lewis Daly and Bernhard Schmidt . It was the first asteroid to be co-discovered by three people.....
(Bernhard SchmidtBernhard SchmidtBernhard Woldemar Schmidt was a German optician. In 1930 he invented the Schmidt telescope which corrected for the optical errors of spherical aberration, coma, and astigmatism, making possible for the first time the construction of very large, wide-angled reflective cameras of short exposure time...
) - 1745 Ferguson1745 Ferguson1745 Ferguson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 17, 1941 by Willis, J. at Washington.- External links :*...
(James FergusonJames Ferguson (astronomer)James Ferguson was an American astronomer and engineer born in Scotland who made the first discovery of an asteroid from North America . Starting in 1847, he worked at the U.S...
) - 1761 Edmondson1761 Edmondson1761 Edmondson is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 30, 1952 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana. It is named for astronomer Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University, the program's founder and director....
(Frank K. EdmondsonFrank K. EdmondsonFrank K. Edmondson was an American astronomer.-Life and career:Edmondson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and grew up in Seymour, Indiana...
) - 1766 Slipher1766 Slipher1766 Slipher is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named for Vesto Melvin Slipher....
(V. M. SlipherVesto SlipherVesto Melvin Slipher was an American astronomer. His brother Earl C. Slipher was also an astronomer and a director at the Lowell Observatory....
and E. C. SlipherEarl C. SlipherEarl Charles Slipher was an American astronomer. He was the brother of astronomer Vesto Slipher.Slipher was born in Mulberry, Indiana. He first joined Lowell Observatory in 1908 and became a noted planetary astronomer, concentrating on Mars. He published Photographic History of Mars ...
) - 1776 Kuiper1776 Kuiper1776 Kuiper is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Gerard KuiperGerard KuiperGerard Peter Kuiper , Netherlands – December 24, 1973, Mexico City) was a Dutch-American astronomer after whom the Kuiper belt was named.-Early life:...
) - 1778 Alfvén1778 Alfvén1778 Alfvén is a main belt asteroid, discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It was named after Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén.-References:...
(Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén) - 1780 Kippes1780 Kippes1780 Kippes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1906 by A. Kopff at Heidelberg. It was named after German amateur astronomer Otto Kippes, acknowledged for his work in asteroid orbit calculations.- External links :*...
(Otto KippesOtto KippesOtto Kippes was a German Catholic priest and amateur astronomer. He was acknowledged especially for his work in asteroid orbit calculations, which brought him the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1991. The main belt asteroid 1780 Kippes was named in his honour...
) - 1803 Zwicky1803 Zwicky1803 Zwicky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1967 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...
(Fritz ZwickyFritz ZwickyFritz Zwicky 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 observational astronomy.- Biography :Fritz Zwicky was born in Varna, Bulgaria to a Swiss father....
) - 1830 Pogson1830 Pogson1830 Pogson is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 17, 1968 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald. It is named after the astronomer N.R. Pogson.- External links :*...
(Norman Robert Pogson) - 1831 Nicholson1831 Nicholson1831 Nicholson is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 17, 1968 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald. It is named after the astronomer Seth B. Nicholson.- External links :*...
(Seth Barnes NicholsonSeth Barnes NicholsonSeth Barnes Nicholson was an American astronomer.Nicholson was born in Springfield, Illinois and was raised in rural Illinois...
) - 1832 Mrkos1832 Mrkos1832 Mrkos is an outer main belt asteroid discovered on August 11, 1969 by L. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named after the astronomer Antonín Mrkos.- External links :*...
(Antonín MrkosAntonín MrkosAntonín Mrkos was a Czech astronomer, born in Střemchoví, Czechoslovakia.- 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 a staff member at the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory in Slovakia...
) - 1846 Bengt1846 Bengt1846 Bengt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is also known as "Bengts hest".- External links :*...
(Bengt StrömgrenBengt StrömgrenBengt Georg Daniel Strömgren was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist.Bengt Strömgren was born in Gothenburg. His parents were Hedvig Strömgren and Svante Elis Strömgren, who was professor of astronomy at the University of Copenhagen and director of the University Observatory in Copenhagen...
) - 1850 Kohoutek1850 Kohoutek1850 Kohoutek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 23, 1942 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Luboš KohoutekLuboš KohoutekLuboš Kohoutek is a Czech astronomer.Kohoutek has been interested with astronomy since high school. He studied physics and astronomy at universities in Brno and Prague...
) - 1877 Marsden1877 Marsden1877 Marsden is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 24, 1971 by C. J. Van Houten at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Brian G. MarsdenBrian G. MarsdenBrian Geoffrey Marsden was a British astronomer born in Cambridge, England, and educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, New College, Oxford and Yale University. Dr...
) - 1886 Lowell1886 Lowell1886 Lowell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 21, 1949 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Percival LowellPercival LowellPercival Lawrence Lowell was a businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death...
) - 1896 Beer1896 Beer1896 Beer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by Kohoutek, L. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Wilhelm Beer) - 1913 Sekanina1913 Sekanina1913 Sekanina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1928 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Zdeněk Sekanina) - 1940 Whipple1940 Whipple1940 Whipple is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1975 by Harvard College at Agassiz Station.- External links :*...
(Fred Lawrence WhippleFred Lawrence WhippleFred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for over 70 years...
) - 1965 van de Kamp1965 van de Kamp1965 van de Kamp is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden, on Palomar Observatory Schmidt plates taken by Tom Gehrels.- External links :*...
(Peter van de KampPeter van de KampPiet van de Kamp , known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, was a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States. He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972...
) - 1983 Bok1983 Bok1983 Bok is an asteroid discovered June 9, 1975 by Elizabeth Roemer. It is named for astronomer Bart Jan Bok.See also: List of asteroids...
(Bart BokBart BokBart Jan Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer.He was born in the Netherlands, but spent a good deal of his childhood days growing up in what was then known as the Dutch East Indies. He was educated at the Leiden and Groningen Universities. In 1929 he married fellow astronomer Dr...
) - 1995 Hajek1995 Hajek1995 Hajek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by Kohoutek, L. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Tadeáš HájekTadeáš HájekTadeáš Hájek z Hájku , also known as Tadeáš Hájek of Hájek, Thaddaeus Hagecius ab Hayek or Thaddeus Nemicus, was the personal physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II and a Bohemian astronomer.Tadeáš Hájek was the son of Šimon Hájek from an old Prague family...
) - 1998 Titius1998 Titius1998 Titius is an asteroid. It is named after the German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius, best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law along with Johann Elert Bode....
(Johann Daniel TitiusJohann Daniel TitiusJohann Daniel Titius was a German astronomer and a professor at Wittenberg.Titius was born in Konitz , Royal Prussia, and died in Wittenberg...
) - 1999 Hirayama1999 Hirayama1999 Hirayama is an asteroid. It is named after Kiyotsugu Hirayama, the 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....
(Kiyotsugu HirayamaKiyotsugu Hirayamawas 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....
) - 2000 Herschel2000 Herschel2000 Herschel is an asteroid discovered on July 29, 1960 by Joachim Schubart. It is named in honour of the English astronomer of German origin Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel who discovered Uranus....
(William HerschelWilliam HerschelSir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS, German: Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Wilhelm first followed his father into the Military Band of Hanover, but emigrated to Britain at age 19...
) - 2003 Harding2003 Harding2003 Harding is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Karl Ludwig HardingKarl Ludwig HardingKarl Ludwig Harding was a German astronomer notable for having discovered the asteroid 3 Juno.-Biography:...
) - 2005 Hencke2005 Hencke2005 Hencke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1973 by Wild, P. at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...
(Karl Ludwig HenckeKarl Ludwig HenckeKarl Ludwig Hencke was a German amateur astronomer. He is sometimes confused with Johann Franz Encke, another German astronomer....
) - 2012 Guo Shou-Jing2012 Guo Shou-Jing2012 Guo Shou-Jing is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1964 by Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking. It is named after the Chinese astronomer Guo Shoujing .- External links :*...
(Guo ShoujingGuo ShoujingGuo Shoujing , courtesy name Ruosi , was a Chinese astronomer, engineer, and mathematician born in Xingtai, Hebei who lived during the Yuan Dynasty...
) - 2018 Schuster2018 Schuster2018 Schuster is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1931 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Hans-Emil SchusterHans-Emil SchusterHans-Emil Schuster is a German astronomer who retired in October 1991. He worked at Hamburg Observatory at Bergedorf and European Southern Observatory , and was former acting director of La Silla Observatory...
) - 2069 Hubble2069 Hubble2069 Hubble is a dark-colored main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory on March 29, 1955. The asteroid was named after the famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble.-External links:**...
(Edwin HubbleEdwin HubbleEdwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer who profoundly changed the understanding of the universe by confirming the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way - our own galaxy...
) - 2074 Shoemaker2074 Shoemaker2074 Shoemaker is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 17, 1974 by Eleanor F. Helin at Palomar. It was named after Helin's fellow astronomer Gene Shoemaker.- External links :*...
(Eugene Shoemaker) - 2097 Galle2097 Galle2097 Galle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 11, 1953 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Johann Gottfried GalleJohann Gottfried GalleJohann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer 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 planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at...
) - 2099 Öpik2099 Öpik2099 Öpik is a Mars crosser asteroid, named after Estonian astronomer Ernst Julius Öpik.-Orbital data:Epoch J2000.0*semimajor axis: 2.303 AU*perihelion 1.470 AU*aphelion 2.002 AU*eccentricity: 0.362*inclination of orbit: 26.957 degree...
(Ernst Julius Öpik) - 2126 Gerasimovich2126 Gerasimovich2126 Gerasimovich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1970 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It was named in honor of Boris Gerasimovich, a Russian astronomer.- References :...
(Boris GerasimovichBoris GerasimovichBoris Petrovich Gerasimovich was a Russian and Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist.Gerasimovich was born in Kremenchuk .From 1917 until 1933 he worked at the Kharkov University observatory...
) - 2136 Jugta2136 Jugta2136 Jugta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 24, 1933 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Jay U. GunterJay U. GunterJune U. Gunter , better known as Jay U. Gunter or J. U. Gunter, was an American pathologist and amateur astronomer.-Life and professional career:Jay U. Gunter was born in Sanford, North Carolina...
) - 2165 Young2165 Young2165 Young is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named for American astronomer Charles Augustus Young.-External links:...
(Charles Augustus YoungCharles Augustus YoungCharles Augustus Young was an American astronomer.He graduated from Dartmouth and later became a professor there in 1865, remaining until 1877 when he went to Princeton....
) - 2198 Ceplecha2198 Ceplecha- External links :*...
(Zdeněk Ceplecha) - 2227 Otto Struve2227 Otto Struve2227 Otto Struve is the name of an asteroid which was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named for the astronomer Otto Struve , who discovered two asteroids himself ....
(Otto StruveOtto StruveOtto Struve was a Russian astronomer. In Russian, his name is sometimes given as Otto Lyudvigovich Struve ; however, he spent most of his life and his entire scientific career in the United States...
) - 2281 Biela2281 Biela2281 Biela is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by Kohoutek, L. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Wilhelm von Biela) - 2308 Schilt2308 Schilt2308 Schilt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1967 by C. U. Cesco and A. R. Klemola at the Yale-Columbia Southern Station, El Leoncito. It is named for Jan Schilt, one of the founders of the Station.- External links :...
(Jan SchiltJan SchiltJan Schilt 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...
) - 2325 Chernykh2325 Chernykh2325 Chernykh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1979 by A. Mrkos at the Klet Observatory.- External links :*...
(Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich ChernykhNikolai Stepanovich ChernykhNikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast...
) - 2383 Bradley2383 Bradley2383 Bradley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 5, 1981 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...
(James BradleyJames BradleyJames Bradley FRS was an English astronomer and served as Astronomer Royal from 1742, succeeding Edmund Halley. He is best known for two fundamental discoveries in astronomy, the aberration of light , and the nutation of the Earth's axis...
) - 2439 Ulugbek2439 Ulugbek2439 Ulugbek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 21, 1977 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Ulugh BegUlugh BegUlugh Bek was a Timurid ruler as well as an astronomer, mathematician and sultan. His commonly-known name is not truly a personal name, but rather a moniker, which can be loosely translated as "Great Ruler" or "Patriarch Ruler" and was the Turkic equivalent of Timur's Perso-Arabic title Amīr-e...
) - 2635 Huggins2635 Huggins2635 Huggins is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 21, 1982 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(William HugginsWilliam HugginsSir William Huggins, OM, KCB, FRS was an English amateur astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy.-Biography:...
) - 2646 Abetti2646 Abetti2646 Abetti is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by Chernykh, N. at Nauchnyj.-References:...
(Antonio AbettiAntonio AbettiAntonio Abetti was an Italian astronomer.Born in San Pietro di Gorizia , he earned a degree in mathematics and engineering at the University of Padua. Later he became director of the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri and a professor at the University of Florence...
and Giorgio AbettiGiorgio AbettiGiorgio Abetti was an Italian solar astronomer.He was born in Padua, the son of noted astronomer Antonio Abetti. He was educated at the Universities of Padua and of Rome....
) - 2688 Halley2688 Halley2688 Halley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 25, 1982 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Edmond HalleyEdmond HalleyEdmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...
) - 2709 Sagan2709 Sagan2709 Sagan is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1982. It is named after the late astronomer Carl Sagan.Sagan is an S-type asteroid, meaning that it is stony in composition....
(Carl SaganCarl SaganCarl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
) - 2751 Campbell2751 Campbell2751 Campbell is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.7152179 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.1739676 and an orbital period of 1363.4843145 days .Campbell has an average orbital speed of 19.20184334 km/s and an inclination of 1.48689°....
(William Wallace CampbellWilliam Wallace CampbellWilliam Wallace Campbell was an American astronomer, and director of Lick Observatory from 1900 to 1930. He specialized in spectroscopy.-Biography:...
) - 2772 Dugan2772 Dugan2772 Dugan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 14, 1979 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Raymond Smith DuganRaymond Smith DuganRaymond Smith Dugan was an American astronomer and a graduate of Amherst College in Massachusetts .Dugan obtained his Masters Degree from Amherst College in 1902, and then received his Ph.D...
) - 2780 Monnig2780 Monnig2780 Monnig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 28, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring. It was named after Oscar Monnig, an American amateur astronomer acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.- External links :*...
(Oscar MonnigOscar MonnigOscar E. Monnig was an American amateur astronomer, acknowledged for his contributions to meteoritics.-Private life:...
) - 2801 Huygens2801 Huygens2801 Huygens is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Hendrik van Gent in 1935. It belongs to the Gefion family of asteroids. It is named after Christiaan Huygens, the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist....
(Christiaan Huygens) - 2813 Zappalà2813 Zappalà2813 Zappalà is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2030.3075284 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 24, 1981.-References:...
(Vincenzo ZappalàVincenzo ZappalàVincenzo Zappalà is an Italian astronomer.He has discovered numerous asteroids, and 2813 Zappalà is named in his honour.-External links:* *...
) - 2842 Unsöld2842 Unsöld2842 Unsöld is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1545.9427120 days . The asteroid was discovered on July 25, 1950.-References:...
(Albrecht UnsöldAlbrecht UnsöldAlbrecht Otto Johannes Unsöld was a German astrophysicist known for his contributions to spectroscopic analysis of stellar atmospheres.-Career:...
) - 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky)
- 2874 Jim Young2874 Jim Young2874 Jim Young is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(James Whitney YoungJames Whitney YoungJames Whitney Young is an American astronomer who made significant contributions to the field of asteroid research. After nearly 47 years with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at their Table Mountain Facility, Young retired July 16, 2009....
) - 2875 Lagerkvist2875 Lagerkvist2875 Lagerkvist is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1983 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Claes-Ingvar LagerkvistClaes-Ingvar LagerkvistClaes-Ingvar Lagerkvist is a Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is known for his work on the shapes and spin properties of minor planets....
) - 2897 Ole Römer2897 Ole Römer2897 Ole Römer is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1230.1054785 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 2, 1932.-References:...
(Ole Rømer) - 2900 Luboš Perek2900 Luboš Perek2900 Luboš Perek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1923.2155138 days .The asteroid was discovered on January 14, 1972.-References:...
(Luboš PerekLuboš PerekLuboš Perek is a Czech astronomer, born in 1919.He is most renowned for his Catalogue of Galactic Planetary Nebulae with Luboš Kohoutek in 1967...
) - 2917 Sawyer Hogg2917 Sawyer Hogg2917 Sawyer Hogg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1980 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Helen Battles Sawyer HoggHelen Sawyer HoggHelen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters...
) - 2996 Bowman2996 Bowman2996 Bowman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1954 by Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn.- External links :*...
(Fred N. Bowman) - 3070 Aitken3070 Aitken3070 Aitken is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 4, 1949 by Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn.- External links :*...
(Robert Grant AitkenRobert Grant AitkenRobert Grant Aitken was an American astronomer.He worked at Lick Observatory in California. He systematically studied double stars, measuring their positions and calculating their orbits around one another...
) - 3078 Horrocks3078 Horrocks3078 Horrocks is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Jeremiah HorrocksJeremiah HorrocksJeremiah Horrocks , sometimes given as Jeremiah Horrox , was an English astronomer who was the only person to predict, and one of only two people to observe and record, the transit of Venus of 1639.- Life and work :Horrocks was born in Lower Lodge, in...
) - 3095 Omarkhayyam3095 Omarkhayyam3095 Omarkhayyam is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1980 by L. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. This minor planet was named in honor of the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám.- External links :*...
(Omar KhayyámOmar KhayyámOmar Khayyám was aPersian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology....
) - 3115 Baily3115 Baily3115 Baily is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 3, 1981 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Francis BailyFrancis BailyFrancis Baily was an English astronomer, most famous for his observations of 'Baily's beads' during an eclipse of the Sun.-Life:Baily was born at Newbury in Berkshire in 1774...
) - 3116 Goodricke3116 Goodricke3116 Goodricke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1983 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(John GoodrickeJohn GoodrickeJohn Goodricke FRS was an eminent and profoundly deaf amateur astronomer. He is best known for his observations of the variable star Algol in 1782.- Life and work :...
) - 3123 Dunham3123 Dunham3123 Dunham is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1981 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .Named in honor of David W. Dunham, American astronomer and organizer ofthe International Occultation Timing Association...
(David Waring Dunham) - 3169 Ostro3169 Ostro3169 Ostro is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on June 4, 1981 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff . It is named in honor of American astronomer Steven J. Ostro.- External links :*...
(Steven J. OstroSteven J. OstroSteven J. Ostro was an American scientist specializing in Radar Astronomy. He worked at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ostro led radar observations of numerous asteroids, as well as the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and Mars and its satellites...
) - 3174 Alcock3174 Alcock3174 Alcock is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(George AlcockGeorge AlcockGeorge Eric Deacon Alcock was an English astronomer. He was one of the most successful visual discoverers of novae and comets....
) - 3216 Harrington3216 Harrington3216 Harrington is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1980 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Robert Sutton HarringtonRobert Sutton HarringtonRobert Sutton Harrington was an American astronomer who worked at the United States Naval Observatory . Harrington was born near Newport News, Virginia. His father was an archaeologist. He was married to Betty-Jean Maycock in 1976, with two daughters, Amy and Ann.Harrington worked at the USNO....
) - 3236 Strand3236 Strand3236 Strand is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff . It is named for Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, an astronomer and former director of the U.S. Naval Observatory.- External links :*...
(Kaj Aage Gunnar StrandKaj Aage Gunnar StrandKaj Aage Gunnar Strand was a Danish astronomer who worked in Denmark and the United States He was Scientific Director of the U.S. Naval Observatory from 1963 to 1977. He specialized in astrometry, especially work on double stars and stellar distances. -Life:Kaj Strand was born February 27, 1907 in...
) - 3255 Tholen3255 Tholen3255 Tholen is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on September 2, 1980 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(David J Tholen) - 3267 Glo3267 Glo3267 Glo is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on January 3, 1981 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Eleanor "Glo" HelinEleanor F. HelinEleanor Francis "Glo" Helin was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near Earth Asteroid Tracking program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Some sources give her name as Eleanor Kay Helin...
) - 3277 Aaronson3277 Aaronson3277 Aaronson is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 8, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Lowell Observatory....
(Marc AaronsonMarc AaronsonMarc Aaronson was an American astronomer.-Education:Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BSc in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 at Harvard University with a dissertation on the near-infrared aperture photometry of galaxies...
) - 3282 Spencer Jones3282 Spencer Jones3282 Spencer Jones is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1949 by Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn.- External links :*...
(Harold Spencer JonesHarold Spencer JonesSir Harold Spencer Jones KBE FRS was an English astronomer. Although born "Jones", his surname became "Spencer Jones"....
) - 3299 Hall3299 Hall3299 Hall is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1980 by Shoemaker, C. at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Asaph HallAsaph HallAsaph Hall III was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars in 1877...
) - 3337 Miloš3337 Miloš3337 Miloš is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1752.2271050 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 26, 1971 by Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory. It is named for Czech astronomer Miloš Tichý.-References:...
(Miloš TichýMiloš TichýMiloš Tichý is a Czech astronomer. He is married to Jana Tichá.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He works together with his wife at Kleť Observatory. The asteroid 3337 Miloš is named after him....
) - 3449 Abell3449 Abell3449 Abell is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1978 by Helin, E. F. and Bus, S. J. at Palomar.-Notes:Named for astronomer George O. Abell, who taught for many years at the Summer Science Program, which teaches astronomy to high school students using an asteroid observation...
(George O. Abell) - 3467 Bernheim3467 Bernheim3467 Bernheim is an asteroid. It was discovered on September 26, 1981 by Norman G. Thomas of Lowell Observatory and was named to honour Robert Burnham, Jr., Thomas' former co-worker at Lowell and the author of Burnham's Celestial Handbook...
(Robert Burnham, Jr.Robert Burnham, Jr.Robert Burnham, Jr. was an American astronomer. He is best known for writing the classic three-volume Burnham's Celestial Handbook.-Early work:...
) - 3487 Edgeworth3487 Edgeworth3487 Edgeworth is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28, 1978 by H. L. Giclas at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Kenneth EdgeworthKenneth EdgeworthKenneth Essex Edgeworth, DSO, MC was an Irish astronomer, economist and engineer. He is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1940s in much the same manner as Gerard Kuiper would publish ten years later...
) - 3549 Hapke3549 Hapke3549 Hapke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 30, 1981 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Bruce William HapkeBruce William HapkeBruce Hapke is a noted American planetary scientist. An expert in bidirectional reflectance spectroscopy, Hapke has been described as the father of planetary remote sensing.- Career :...
) - 3594 Scotti3594 Scotti3594 Scotti is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1983 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(James V. ScottiJames V. ScottiJames Vernon Scotti is an American astronomer. He was born in Bandon, Oregon and graduated from Woodway Senior High in Edmonds, Washington in 1978. He received his B.Sc. in Astronomy from the University of Arizona in Tucson in 1983. Ever since that time, he has worked on the Spacewatch project,...
) - 3673 Levy3673 Levy3673 Levy is an asteroid discovered on August 22, 1985 by Edward L. G. Bowell and named after Canadian astronomer David H. Levy. In December 2007, astronomers discovered that 3673 Levy is a binary asteroid having a satellite roughly 28% of its size orbiting every 21.6 hours.-References:...
(David H. LevyDavid H. LevyDavid H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:...
) - 3722 Urata3722 Urata3722 Urata is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 29, 1927 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It was named after Takeshi Urata, a Japanese astronomer.- External links :...
(Takeshi UrataTakeshi Uratais a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, observing at Nihondaira Observatory.In 1978 he became the first amateur to discover a minor planet in over fifty years. He named it after it his daughter, Mizuho. His pioneering feat led to an upsurge in such discoveries. In the...
) - 3808 Tempel3808 Tempel3808 Tempel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 24, 1982 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelErnst Wilhelm Leberecht TempelErnst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , normally known as Wilhelm Tempel, was a German astronomer who worked in Marseille until the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, then later moved to Italy....
) - 3847 Šindel3847 Šindel3847 Šindel is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2032.3180343 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 16, 1982.-References:...
(Jan ŠindelJan ŠindelJan Šindel was a professor at Charles University and became the rector of the University in 1410. He lectured on mathematics and astronomy....
) - 3866 Langley3866 Langley3866 Langley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 20, 1988 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Samuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont LangleySamuel Pierpont Langley was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation...
) - 3936 Elst3936 Elst3936 Elst is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Eric Walter ElstEric Walter ElstEric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far ....
) - 3999 Aristarchus3999 Aristarchus3999 Aristarchus is a small main belt asteroid. It measures 8.26 km in diameter. It was discovered by Takuo Kojima in 1989. It is named after Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician....
(Aristarchus of SamosAristarchus of SamosAristarchus, or more correctly Aristarchos , was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe...
) - 4000 Hipparchus4000 Hipparchus4000 Hipparchus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 4, 1989 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...
(HipparchusHipparchusHipparchus, the common Latinization of the Greek Hipparkhos, can mean:* Hipparchus, the ancient Greek astronomer** Hipparchic cycle, an astronomical cycle he created** Hipparchus , a lunar crater named in his honour...
) - 4001 Ptolemaeus4001 Ptolemaeus4001 Ptolemaeus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 2, 1949 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(PtolemyPtolemyClaudius Ptolemy , was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He lived in Egypt under Roman rule, and is believed to have been born in the town of Ptolemais Hermiou in the...
) - 4037 Ikeya4037 Ikeya4037 Ikeya is a 10 km asteroid named after a Japanese amateur astronomer, Kaoru Ikeya. It was discovered in 1982 by K. Suzuki and T.Urata.-References:* *...
(Kaoru IkeyaKaoru Ikeyais 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 built himself within his low budget...
) - 4062 Schiaparelli4062 Schiaparelli4062 Schiaparelli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 28, 1989 at the Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna. It is named after Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli.- External links :*...
(Giovanni SchiaparelliGiovanni SchiaparelliGiovanni Virginio Schiaparelli was an Italian astronomer and science historian. He studied at the University of Turin and Berlin Observatory. In 1859-1860 he worked in Pulkovo Observatory and then worked for over forty years at Brera Observatory...
) - 4169 Celsius4169 Celsius4169 Celsius is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1980 by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Anders CelsiusAnders CelsiusAnders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France. He founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741, and in 1742 he proposed the Celsius...
) - 4279 De Gasparis4279 De Gasparis4279 De Gasparis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 19, 1982 by Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna.- External links :*...
(Annibale de GasparisAnnibale de GasparisAnnibale de Gasparis was an Italian astronomer. From 1864 to 1889 he was the director of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte in Naples.He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1851....
) - 4364 Shkodrov4364 Shkodrov4364 Shkodrov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1978 by Eleanor F. Helin and Schelte J. Bus at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov) - 4549 Burkhardt4549 Burkhardt4549 Burkhardt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Gernot Burkhardt) - 4567 Bečvář4567 Becvár4567 Bečvář is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1518.5011011 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 17, 1982.-References:...
(Antonín BečvářAntonín BečvářAntonín Bečvář was a Czech astronomer who was active in Slovakia. He was born in Stará Boleslav. Among his chief achievements is the foundation of the Skalnaté Pleso Observatory and the discovery of the comet C/1947 F2 .Bečvář is particularly important for his star charts: he led the compilation...
) - 4587 Rees4587 Rees4587 Rees is an Amor asteroid discovered on September 30, 1973 at the Palomar Observatory by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels. The Provisional designation given to 4587 Rees was 3239 T-2. It has a rotation period of 7.7886 hours. 4587 Rees was named in...
(Martin Rees, Baron Rees of LudlowMartin Rees, Baron Rees of LudlowMartin John Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS is a British cosmologist and astrophysicist. He has been Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge since 2004...
) - 4593 Reipurth4593 ReipurthThe asteroid 4593 Reipurth was discovered on March 16, 1980, by Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist. It was named in honor of Bo Reipurth, then a staff astronomer at the European Southern Observatory in charge of the Schmidt Telescope...
(Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer) - 4790 Petrpravec4790 Petrpravec4790 Petrpravec is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Petr PravecPetr PravecPetr Pravec is a Czech astronomer, born in Třinec, a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids using lightcurve photometric studies. He is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations called BinAst to look for multiplicity in the NEA and inner main-belt populations...
) - 4866 Badillo4866 Badillo4866 Badillo is Main Belt asteroid discovered on November 10, 1988 by T. Kojima at Chiyoda.It was named after a Filipino Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory, Fr. Victor L. Badillo.- External links :*...
(Fr. Victor L. Badillo, Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory) - 5080 Oja5080 Oja5080 Oja is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1976 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at Kvistaberg. Named after the Swedish astronomer of Estonian descent Tarmo Oja.- External links :*...
(Tarmo OjaTarmo OjaTarmo Oja is a professor in astronomy at Uppsala University who studies galactic structure and variable stars. An asteroid, 5080 Oja, is named after him. He worked at the Kvistaberg Observatory until his retirement in 1999...
) - 5704 Schumacher5704 Schumacher5704 Schumacher is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 17, 1950 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(Heinrich Christian SchumacherHeinrich Christian SchumacherHeinrich Christian Schumacher was a German-Danish astronomer.-Biography:He was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, and studied at Kiel, Jena, Copenhagen, and Göttingen. In 1810, he became adjunct professor of astronomy in Copenhagen...
) - 5035 Swift5035 Swift5035 Swift is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 18, 1991 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...
(Lewis Swift) - 5036 Tuttle5036 Tuttle5036 Tuttle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 31, 1991 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...
(Horace Parnell TuttleHorace Parnell TuttleHorace Parnell Tuttle was an American astronomer, a Civil War veteran and brother of astronomer Charles Wesley Tuttle ....
) - 5392 Parker5392 Parker5392 Parker is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on January 12, 1986 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Donald C. ParkerDonald C. ParkerDonald C. Parker, also known as Don Parker, is an American retired physician and amateur astronomer, specializing in the research of the Solar System and planetary photography...
) - 5726 Rubin5726 Rubin5726 Rubin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Vera RubinVera RubinVera Rubin is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves...
) - 5757 Tichá5757 Tichá5757 Tichá is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1838.0559372 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 6, 1967. It is named after Czech astronomer Jana Tichá.-References:...
(Jana TicháJana TicháJana Tichá is a Czech astronomer. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory. She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially Near-Earth objects...
) - 5943 Lovi5943 Lovi5943 Lovi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of Flagstaff. It is named in honor of the deceased Hungarian-American astronomer George Lovi , a columnist for Sky & Telescope magazine who prepared their star charts 1968 to 1992, and did the...
(George Lovi, astronomical columnist and planetarium educator) - 6006 Anaximandros6006 Anaximandros6006 Anaximandros is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by Elst, E. W. at La Silla.- External links :*...
(AnaximanderAnaximanderAnaximander was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher who lived in Miletus, a city of Ionia; Milet in modern Turkey. He belonged to the Milesian school and learned the teachings of his master Thales...
) - 6075 Zajtsev6075 Zajtsev6075 Zajtsev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.Quote from Minor Planet Circular No 25445, 1995 :"Named in honor of Alexander L. Zaitsev, Chief Scientist of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics, Russia...
(Alexander L. Zaitsev) - 6076 Plavec6076 Plavec6076 Plavec is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1980 by L. Brozek at Klet.- External links :*...
(Miroslav Plavec) - 6391 Africano6391 Africano6391 Africano is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1990, by E. F. Helin at the Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(John L. Africano) - 6398 Timhunter6398 Timhunter6398 Timhunter is a main belt asteroid. It is named for the American astronomer Tim Hunter.- External links :...
(Tim HunterTim Hunter (astronomer)Timothy B. Hunter, better known as Tim Hunter, is an American radiologist and amateur astronomer.- Education and profession :Tim Hunter received his M.D. degree from Northwestern University in 1968. He teaches as a professor of radiology and orthopaedic surgery at the University of Arizona College...
) - 6696 Eubanks6696 Eubanks6696 Eubanks is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1986 by Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard.It is named after Marshall Eubanks of the US Naval Observatory, In honor of his contributions to astronomy and geodesy, among them his development of the navy radio interferometry network and...
(Marshall Eubanks) - 6779 Perrine6779 Perrine6779 Perrine is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 20, 1990 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.It is named for Charles Dillon Perrine .- External links :*...
(Charles Dillon PerrineCharles Dillon PerrineCharles Dillon Perrine was an American astronomer living in Argentina.Born in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of Peter and Elizabeth McCauley Perrine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, "The Huguenot", he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National...
) - 7086 Bopp7086 Bopp7086 Bopp is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on October 5, 1991 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Thomas BoppThomas BoppThomas J. Bopp D.Sc is best known as co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1995. He was a manager at a construction materials factory and an amateur astronomer at the time of the comet discovery. It was the first comet he had observed....
) - 7291 Hyakutake7291 Hyakutake7291 Hyakutake is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 13, 1991 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato. It is named after Yuji Hyakutake.- External links :*...
(Yuji HyakutakeYuji Hyakutakewas a Japanese amateur astronomer who discovered Comet Hyakutake on January 30, 1996 while using 25×150 binoculars.His only other discovery was comet C/1995 Y1. The media has stated that Hyakutake became interested in astronomy after seeing Comet Ikeya-Seki .He died in 2002, at age 51, of an...
) - 7359 Messier7359 Messier7359 Messier is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 16, 1996 by Miloš Tichý at Klet. It is named for the French astronomer Charles Messier .- External links :*...
(Charles MessierCharles MessierCharles Messier was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects"...
) - 7948 Whitaker7948 Whitaker7948 Whitaker is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 24, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Ewen A. Whitaker) - 8216 Melosh8216 Melosh8216 Melosh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 27, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.The asteroid is named for geophysicist and planetary scientist Jay Melosh.- External links :*...
(H. Jay MeloshH. Jay MeloshDr. H. Jay Melosh is an American geophysicist, renowned as an expert on impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. Dr. Melosh's research interests include impact craters, planetary tectonics, and the...
) - 8391 Kring8391 Kring8391 Kring is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 20, 1993 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(David A. Kring) - 8408 Strom8408 Strom8408 Strom is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Robert G. Strom) - 8690 Swindle8690 Swindle8690 Swindle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Timothy D. Swindle) - 8785 Boltwood8785 Boltwood8785 Boltwood is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...
(Paul BoltwoodPaul BoltwoodPaul Boltwood is a Canadian amateur astronomer. He is 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 his studies of near-nucleus activity in Comet Hyakutake.In 1995 he was awarded the...
) - 9122 Hunten9122 Hunten9122 Hunten is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Donald M. Hunten) - 9133 d'Arrest9133 d'Arrest9133 d'Arrest is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Heinrich Louis d'ArrestHeinrich Louis d'ArrestHeinrich Louis d'Arrest was a German astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest....
) - 9134 Encke9134 Encke9134 Encke is an asteroid-belt asteroid discovered on 24 September 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden University, on photographic plates from the Palomar Observatory....
(Johann Franz EnckeJohann Franz EnckeJohann Franz Encke was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn.-Biography:Encke was born in Hamburg, where his father was a...
) - 9207 Petersmith9207 Petersmith9207 Petersmith is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1994 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Peter H. Smith) - 9494 Donici9494 Donici-External links:*...
(Nicolae DoniciNicolae DoniciNicolae Donici was a Romanian astronomer born in Bessarabia. Nicolae Donici was born into an old family of Romanian nobles from Bessarabia in the Petricani region of Chişinău. He graduated from the University in Odessa...
, Romanian astronomer) - 10633 Akimasa10633 Akimasa10633 Akimasa is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 20, 1998 by P. Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :* -References:...
(Akimasa NakamuraAkimasa Nakamurais a Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He has worked extensively at the Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory near Kuma, Ehime Prefecture, where he remains a staff member...
, Japanese astronomer) - 10950 Albertjansen10950 Albertjansen10950 Albertjansen is an outer main belt asteroid. It was named for German astronomer Albert Jansen.- References :...
(Albert Jansen, German astronomer) - 11577 Einasto11577 Einasto11577 Einasto is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on February 8, 1994. It is named for Jaan Einasto, an Estonian astrophysicist.-External links:*...
(Jaan EinastoJaan EinastoJaan Einasto is an eminent Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the cellular structure of the Universe....
) - 11762 Vogel11762 Vogel11762 Vogel is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1807.5113847 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960....
(Hermann Carl VogelHermann Carl VogelHermann Carl Vogel was a German astronomer. He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.Vogel pioneered the use of the spectroscope in astronomy...
) - 12742 Delisle12742 Delisle12742 Delisle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 26, 1992 by E. W. Elst at Caussols.- External links :*...
(Joseph-Nicolas DelisleJoseph-Nicolas DelisleJoseph-Nicolas Delisle was a French astronomer.-Life:He was one of the 11 sons of Claude Delisle . Like many of his brothers, among them Guillaume Delisle, he initially followed classical studies. Soon however, he moved to astronomy under the supervision of Joseph Lieutaud and Jacques Cassini...
) - 14124 Kamil14124 Kamil14124 Kamil is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 28, 1998 by Lenka Kotková at Ondřejov Observatory. The asteroid was named in honour of Czech astronomer Kamil Hornoch, in the time of the discovery a successful amateur variable star observer from Lelekovice, later employed at Ondřejov.-...
(Kamil HornochKamil HornochKamil Hornoch is a Czech amateur astronomer who discovered dozens of novae in nearby galaxies. The main belt asteroid 14124 Kamil is named in his honour.-Astronomy:...
) - 14120 Espenak14120 Espenak14120 Espenak is a main-belt asteroid. It has an estimated diamter of 13.20 kilometers. Density and rotational period are not yet known....
(Fred EspenakFred EspenakFred Espenak is an American astrophysicist. He works at the Goddard Space Flight Center. He is best known for his work on eclipse predictions....
) - 14322 Shakura14322 Shakura14322 Shakura is an asteroid about 6 km large, which was discovered by Nikolai S. Chernykh in 1978. It is named after Nikolai I. Shakura, the well-known Russian astronomer....
(Nikolai Ivanovich ShakuraNikolai Ivanovich ShakuraNikolai Ivanovich Shakura was born in Belarus SSR on October 7, 1945. He is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University...
) - 15395 Rükl15395 Rükl15395 Rükl is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2036.2580636 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 21, 1997....
(Antonín RüklAntonín RüklAntonín Rükl is an astronomer, cartographer, and author from the Czech Republic.He was born in Čáslav, Czechoslovakia. As a student he developed what was to be a life-long interest in Astronomy...
) - 15420 Aedouglass15420 Aedouglass15420 Aedouglass is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 28, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :...
(Andrew Ellicott Douglass, American astronomer) - 15467 Aflorsch15467 Aflorsch15467 Aflorsch is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 15, 1999 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols.- External links :*...
(Alphonse Florsch, French astronomer) - 15955 Johannesgmunden15955 Johannesgmunden15955 Johannesgmunden is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 26, 1998 by E. Meyer at the Davidschlag Observatory, Linz. It is named after the astronomer Johannes von Gmunden.- External links :*...
(John of Gmunden) - 16682 Donati16682 Donati16682 Donati is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 18, 1994 by M. Cavagna and V. Giuliani at Sormano.- External links :*...
(Giovanni Battista DonatiGiovanni Battista DonatiGiovanni Battista Donati ; 16 December 1826, Pisa, Italy – 20 September 1873, Florence, Italy) 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...
) - 18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer)
- 19139 Apian19139 Apian19139 Apian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 6, 1989 by F. Borngen at the astronomical observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg, Germany....
(Peter ApianPetrus ApianusPetrus Apianus , also known as Peter Apian, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.The lunar crater Apianus and minor planet 19139 Apian are named in his honour....
) - 24988 Alainmilsztajn24988 Alainmilsztajn24988 Alainmilsztajn is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey in Caussols, Alpes-Maritimes, France, on June 19, 1998. It is named after Alain Milsztajn, a French particle physicist and astronomer.-External links:...
(Alain Milsztajn, French astronomer) - 36445 Smalley36445 Smalley36445 Smalley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 23, 2000 by L. Robinson at Sunflower Observatory. It was named for Kyle E. Smalley.- External links :*...
(Kyle E. SmalleyKyle E. SmalleyKyle E. Smalley is an American amateur astronomer. He is engaged in the study of near-Earth asteroids and developed procedures to search lost asteroids. He is a member of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City and most of his observations he has made at their Powell Observatory. He also works as a...
) - 68730 Straizys68730 Straizys68730 Straizys is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 15, 2002 by K. Černis and J. Zdanavičius at the Moletai Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...
(Vytautas StraižysVytautas StraižysVytautas Straižys is a Lithuanian astronomer. In 1963-1965 he and his collaborators created and developed the Vilnius photometric system - a seven color intermediate band system, optimized for photometric stellar classification. In 1996 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Lithuanian...
, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of Vilnius photometric systemVilnius photometric systemThe Vilnius photometric system is a medium-band seven-colour photometric system , created in 1963 by Vytautas Straižys and his coworkers. This system was highly optimized for classification of stars from ground based observations...
) - 72021 Yisunji72021 Yisunji72021 Yisunji is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 4, 2000 by Y.-B. Jeon and B.-C. Lee at Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory. It was named after Yi Sun Ji, an astronomer in Joseon dynasty.- External links :*...
(Yi, Sunji, Korean astronomer in 15th century) - 92893 Michaelperson92893 Michaelperson92893 Michaelperson is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Susan D. Kern at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile on August 27, 2000. It is named after Michael J. Person, a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.-External links:...
(Michael Person, American astronomer) - 95593 Azusienis95593 Azusienis95593 Azusienis is an asteroid. It was discovered by the Moletai Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University on March 16, 2002. Its provisional designation was 2002 FU10. It was named after Lithuanian astronomer Algimantas Ažusienis.-External links:...
(Algimantas Ažusienis, Lithuanian astronomer) - 99503 Leewonchul99503 Leewonchul99503 Leewonchul is an asteroid. It was discovered by Young-Beom Jeon and Byung-Chol Lee on February 16, 2002. Its provisional designation was 2002 DB1. It was named after Korean astronomer Lee, Won Chul.-External links:*...
(Lee, Wonchul, Korean astronomer) - 106817 Yubangtaek106817 Yubangtaek106817 Yubangtaek is an asteroid. It was discovered by Young-Beom Jeon and Byung-Chol Lee on December 6, 2000. Its provisional name was '. It was named after Yu, Bangtaek, a 13th-century Korean Joseon Dynasty astronomer, co-author of the stone star chart Cheonsangyeolchabunyajido. It has an...
(Yu, Bangtaek, Korean astronomer in 13th century) - 11156 Al-Khwarismi11156 Al-Khwarismi11156 Al-Khwarismi is a main belt asteroid discovered on December 31, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-KhwārizmīMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...
, Persian astronomer) - 165347 Philplait165347 Philplait165347 Philplait is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Jeff Medkeff on November 23, 2000 at Junk Bond Observatory. 165347 Philplait is named after Phil Plait, an astronomer, educator and author....
(Phil Plait, American astronomer) - 234750 Amymainzer234750 Amymainzer234750 Amymainzer is an outer main belt asteroid. It was discovered by NEAT on July 8, 2002 at Palomar Observatory. 234750 Amymainzer is named after Amy Mainzer, an American astronomer, specializing in astrophysical instrumentation and infrared astronomy....
(Amy MainzerAmy MainzerAmy Mainzer 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 the NEOWISE project to study minor planets. She has appeared a number of...
, American astronomer)
Planetarium directors
- 4897 Tomhamilton4897 Tomhamilton4897 Tomhamilton is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin at the Palomar Observatory on August 22, 1987. Research shows that it was previously recorded on photographs taken as early as 1950, and was even logged as 1971QV1.It is named after Thomas Wm...
(Thomas William Hamilton, American astronomer and planetarium director) - 9108 Toruyusa9108 Toruyusa9108 Toruyusa is a Main Belt minor planet, with the provisional designation 1997 AZ6, discovered by Takao Kobayashi at Oizumi Observatory. It is named for Toru Yusa , director of the planetarium and observatory at the Osaki Lifelong Learning Center in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan...
(Toru Yusa, Japanese planetarium director and comet chaser) - 13123 Tyson13123 Tyson13123 Tyson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 16, 1994 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium.- External links :*...
(Neil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse TysonNeil deGrasse Tyson is an American astrophysicist, a science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History...
, American astronomer and planetarium director)
Relatives of astronomers
- 42 Isis42 Isis42 Isis is a large main-belt asteroid, measuring 100.2km in diameter. It was discovered by N.R. Pogson on May 23, 1856, at Oxford. It was Pogson's first asteroid discovery....
(Elizabeth Isis Pogson, daughter of the astronomer Norman Robert Pogson; also Ancient Egyptian goddess IsisIsisIsis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
) - 87 Sylvia87 Sylvia87 Sylvia is one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the belt . Sylvia is remarkable for being the first asteroid known to possess more than one moon....
(Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion, first wife of the astronomer Camille FlammarionCamille FlammarionNicolas Camille Flammarion 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 novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics. He also published the magazine...
; also Rhea Sylvia, the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and RemusRomulus and RemusRomulus and Remus are Rome's twin founders in its traditional foundation myth, although the former is sometimes said to be the sole founder...
) - 153 Hilda153 Hilda153 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 on November 2, 1875 from the Austrian Naval Observatory at Pula...
(Hilda von Oppolzer, daughter of the astronomer Theodor von OppolzerTheodor von OppolzerTheodor von Oppolzer was an Austrian astronomer and mathematician.The son of the physician Johann Ritter von Oppolzer, Theodor was born in Prague, at the time part of the Austrian Empire. He completed his graduate studies in medicine at the University of Vienna, gaining a Ph.D. in 1865...
) - 154 Bertha154 Bertha154 Bertha is a very dark and very large outer main-belt asteroid.It was discovered by brothers Paul Henry and Prosper Henry on November 4, 1875, but the credit from the discovery was given to Prosper. It is probably named after Berthe Martin-Flammarion, sister of the astronomer Camille Flammarion....
(Berthe Martin-Flammarion, sister of the astronomer Camille FlammarionCamille FlammarionNicolas Camille Flammarion 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 novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics. He also published the magazine...
) - 1280 Baillauda1280 Baillauda1280 Baillauda is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 18, 1933 by Delporte, E. at Uccle. Baillauda has a diameter of 50.83 km and turns on itself in 12.6 hours....
(Jules BaillaudJules BaillaudJules Baillaud is a French astronomer. Initially assistant astronomer in Lyon and at the Paris observatory: assistant astronomer until 1925, he went on as astronomer from 1925 to 1947. From 1937 to 1947 he was also the director of the Pic du Midi observatory and directed the Carte du Ciel from...
, son of the astronomer Benjamin BaillaudBenjamin BaillaudÉdouard Benjamin Baillaud was a French astronomer.-Biography:Born in Chalon-sur-Saône, Baillaud studied at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Paris. He worked as an assistant at the Paris Observatory beginning in 1872...
) - 1563 Noël1563 Noël1563 Noël is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1184.8564680 days .The asteroid was discovered on March 7, 1943.-References:...
(Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
Biologists
- 2496 Fernandus2496 Fernandus2496 Fernandus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1953 by Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn.- External links :*...
(Fernandus PayneFernandus PayneFernandus Payne 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 1905, and a M.A. in 1906...
, zoologist) - 2766 Leeuwenhoek2766 Leeuwenhoek2766 Leeuwenhoek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 23, 1982 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Anton van LeeuwenhoekAnton van LeeuwenhoekAntonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, Netherlands. He is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and considered to be the first microbiologist...
, pioneering cell biologist) - 8357 O'Connor8357 O'Connor- External links :*...
(J. Dennis O'Connor, biological scientist and provost at the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionThe Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...
) - 9364 Clusius9364 Clusius9364 Clusius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 23, 1992 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Carolus Clusius, botanist) - 15565 Benjaminsteele15565 Benjaminsteele15565 Benjaminsteele is a main-belt asteroid. It was named in honor of Benjamin C. Steele for achievement as a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge , a middle school science competition...
(Benjamin Steele, biologist)
Cartographers
- 4798 Mercator4798 Mercator4798 Mercator is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at La Silla....
(Gerardus MercatorGerardus Mercatorthumb|right|200px|Gerardus MercatorGerardus Mercator was a cartographer, born in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, part of the Holy Roman Empire. He is remembered for the Mercator projection world map, which is named after him...
) - 19139 Apian19139 Apian19139 Apian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 6, 1989 by F. Borngen at the astronomical observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg, Germany....
(Peter ApianPetrus ApianusPetrus Apianus , also known as Peter Apian, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.The lunar crater Apianus and minor planet 19139 Apian are named in his honour....
)
Chemists
- 1449 Virtanen1449 Virtanen1449 Virtanen is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1210.0044377 days . It was discovered on February 20, 1938 by Yrjö Väisälä at Iso-Heikkilä Observatory in Turku, Finland. It is named after the Finnish chemist Artturi Ilmari Virtanen.-References:...
(Artturi Ilmari VirtanenArtturi Ilmari VirtanenArtturi Ilmari Virtanen was a Finnish chemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.-Early life:Virtanen was born in Helsinki, Finland. He completed his school education at the Classical Lyceum in Viipuri, Finland. He married the botanist Lilja Moisio in 1920 and had two sons with her...
) - 3069 Heyrovský3069 Heyrovský3069 Heyrovský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1317.6460254 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 16, 1982. It's named by Jaroslav Heyrovský.-References:...
(Jaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...
) - 3899 Wichterle3899 Wichterle3899 Wichterle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 17, 1982 by M. Mahrova at Klet Observatory.- External links :...
(Otto WichterleOtto WichterleOtto Wichterle was a Czech chemist, best known for his invention of modern soft contact lenses.-Biography:His father Karel was co-owner of a successful farm-machine factory and small car plant but Otto chose science for his career...
) - 4564 Clayton4564 Clayton4564 Clayton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...
(Robert Clayton) - 4716 Urey4716 Urey4716 Urey is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 30, 1989 by S. J. Bus at Cerro Tololo.- External links :...
(Harold UreyHarold UreyHarold Clayton Urey was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934...
) - 5697 Arrhenius5697 Arrhenius5697 Arrhenius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Svante ArrheniusSvante ArrheniusSvante August Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist, originally a physicist, but often referred to as a chemist, and one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry...
) - 6032 Nobel6032 Nobel6032 Nobel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 4, 1983 by Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named after Alfred Nobel, Swedish industrialist and founder of the Nobel Prize.- External links :*...
(Alfred NobelAlfred NobelAlfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. He is the inventor of dynamite. Nobel also owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments...
) - 6826 Lavoisier6826 Lavoisier6826 Lavoisier is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Antoine LavoisierAntoine LavoisierAntoine-Laurent de Lavoisier , the "father of modern chemistry", was a French nobleman prominent in the histories of chemistry and biology...
) - 9680 Molina9680 Molina9680 Molina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1960, by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groenefeld on plates taken by T. Gehrels with the Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Mario Molina, a Mexican-born chemist and co-recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in...
(Mario Molina)
Computer scientists and programmers
- 9121 Stefanovalentini9121 StefanovalentiniAsteroid 9121 Stefanovalentini was discovered on 24 February 1998 by Silvano Casulli at the Colleverde Observatory in Italy. It is a main belt asteroid. It is named in honor of Italian amateur astronomer Stefano Valentini....
(Stefano ValentiniStefano ValentiniStefano Valentini, born in 1955 in Rome, Italy, is an Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer.He is known for his freewares WinAstrometry and waEphemeris, a minor planets ephemeris...
) - 9793 Torvalds9793 Torvalds9793 Torvalds is an asteroid discovered on January 16, 1996 by Spacewatch.The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds, a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel.- See also :...
(Linus TorvaldsLinus TorvaldsLinus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
) - 9882 Stallman9882 Stallman9882 Stallman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1994 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.It is named for computer scientist Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project.- External links :...
(Richard M. Stallman) - 21656 Knuth21656 Knuth21656 Knuth is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1999 by P. Pravec and P. Kušnirák at the Ondřejov Observatory. It is named after Donald Knuth, a renowned computer scientist and mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University....
(Donald KnuthDonald KnuthDonald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
)
Mathematicians
- 187 Lamberta187 Lamberta187 Lamberta is a large and very dark main-belt asteroid. It has a composition of primitive carbonaceous materials.It was discovered by J. Coggia on April 11, 1878. It was the second of his five asteroid discoveries. It is named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert....
(Johann Heinrich LambertJohann Heinrich LambertJohann Heinrich Lambert was a Swiss mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer.Asteroid 187 Lamberta was named in his honour.-Biography:...
) - 843 Nicolaia843 Nicolaia843 Nicolaia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was a lost asteroid for 65 years before being rediscovered by Heidelberg Astronomisches Rechen-Institut in 1981. -External links:* -External links:...
(Thorvald Nicolai ThieleThorvald N. ThieleThorvald Nicolai Thiele was a Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem. He was the first to propose a mathematical theory of Brownian motion...
) - 1001 Gaussia1001 Gaussia-External links:*...
(Carl Friedrich GaussCarl Friedrich GaussJohann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum...
) - 1005 Arago1005 Arago1005 Arago is an asteroid. It was discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky on September 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OT. It is named after mathematician François Arago.-External links:...
(François AragoFrançois AragoFrançois Jean Dominique Arago , known simply as François Arago , was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician.-Early life and work:...
) - 1006 Lagrangea1006 Lagrangea1006 Langrangea is an asteroid discovered by Sergei Ivanovich Belyavsky on September 12, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OU. It is named after mathematician Joseph Louis Lagrange.-External links:...
(Joseph Louis LagrangeJoseph Louis LagrangeJoseph-Louis Lagrange , born Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia, was a mathematician and astronomer, who was born in Turin, Piedmont, lived part of his life in Prussia and part in France, making significant contributions to all fields of analysis, to number theory, and to classical and celestial mechanics...
) - 1552 Bessel1552 Bessel1552 Bessel is a Main Belt asteroid.It was discovered on February 24, 1938 by Yrjö Väisälä at Turku, Finland. It was named in honor of the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel....
(Friedrich BesselFriedrich Bessel-References:* John Frederick William Herschel, A brief notice of the life, researches, and discoveries of Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, London: Barclay, 1847 -External links:...
) - 1858 Lobachevskij1858 Lobachevskij1858 Lobachevskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 18, 1972 by L. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.It is named for mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky.- External links :...
(Nikolai Lobachevsky) - 1859 Kovalevskaya1859 Kovalevskaya1859 Kovalevskaya is an asteroid discovered September 4, 1972 by L. V. Zhuravleva. The asteroid was named in honor of Sofia Kovalevskaya, a Russian mathematician. It is an outer main-belt asteroid with a diameter of 46.02 kilometers....
(Sofia KovalevskayaSofia KovalevskayaSofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya , was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe.She was also one of the first females to...
) - 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi1888 Zu Chong-Zhi1888 Zu Chong-Zhi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 9, 1964 by Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking.- External links :*...
(Zu ChongzhiZu ChongzhiZu Chongzhi , courtesy name Wenyuan , was a prominent Chinese mathematician and astronomer during the Liu Song and Southern Qi Dynasties.-Life and works:...
) - 1996 Adams1996 Adams1996 Adams is the name of an asteroid that was discovered at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana by the Indiana Asteroid Program. It is named in honour of John Couch Adams, British mathematician and astronomer who, simultaneously with Urbain Le Verrier, predicted the existence and...
(John Couch AdamsJohn Couch AdamsJohn Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch"....
) - 1997 Leverrier1997 Leverrier1997 Leverrier is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program and was named after Urbain Le Verrier, the French mathematician who, simultaneously with John Couch Adams, predicted the existence and position of the planet Neptune....
(Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier) - 2002 Euler2002 Euler2002 Euler is an asteroid named after the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler. The asteroid was discovered on August 29, 1973, by Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova....
(Leonhard EulerLeonhard EulerLeonhard Euler was a pioneering Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory. He also introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, particularly for mathematical analysis, such as the notion...
) - 2010 Chebyshev2010 Chebyshev2010 Chebyshev is an asteroid from the asteroid belt discovered on October 13, 1969 by Burnasheva, B. at Nauchnyj.-References:...
(Pafnuti Chebyshev) - 2587 Gardner2587 Gardner2587 Gardner is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 17, 1980 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Martin GardnerMartin GardnerMartin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion...
) - 3251 Eratosthenes3251 Eratosthenes3251 Eratosthenes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(EratosthenesEratosthenesEratosthenes of Cyrene was a Greek mathematician, poet, athlete, geographer, astronomer, and music theorist.He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it...
) - 3600 Archimedes3600 Archimedes3600 Archimedes is a small main belt asteroid, belonging to the Rafita family. It was discovered by Lyudmila Vasil'evna Zhuravleva in 1978. It is named after Archimedes, the ancient Greek scientist...
(ArchimedesArchimedesArchimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an...
) - 4283 Stöffler4283 Stöffler4283 Stöffler is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1317.9074704 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 23, 1988.-References:...
(Johannes StöfflerJohannes StöfflerJohannes Stöffler was a German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments and professor at the University of Tübingen.-Life:...
) - 4354 Euclides4354 Euclides4354 Euclides is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory. It is named after the Greek mathematician Euclid.-References:...
(EuclidEuclidEuclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
) - 4628 Laplace4628 Laplace4628 Laplace is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1986 by E. W. Elst at Rozhen....
(Pierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste...
) - 5956 d'Alembert5956 d'Alembert5956 d'Alembert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 13, 1988 by Elst, E. W. at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Jean le Rond d'AlembertJean le Rond d'AlembertJean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...
) - 6765 Fibonacci6765 Fibonacci6765 Fibonacci is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on January 20, 1982 by Ladislav Brožek at Kleť Observatory.- External links :...
(Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa) - 6143 Pythagoras6143 Pythagoras6143 Pythagoras is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 14, 1993 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(PythagorasPythagorasPythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him...
) - 9999 Wiles9999 Wiles9999 Wiles is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun every 4.8 years.It was discovered by C. J. van Houten, I. van Houten-Groeneveld and T. Gehrels on September 29, 1973. Given the provisional designation 4196 T-2, it was renamed 9999 Wiles in honour of Andrew J. Wiles, who proved...
(Andrew WilesAndrew WilesSir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...
) - 11156 Al-Khwarismi11156 Al-Khwarismi11156 Al-Khwarismi is a main belt asteroid discovered on December 31, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-KhwārizmīMuhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi'There is some confusion in the literature on whether al-Khwārizmī's full name is ' or '. Ibn Khaldun notes in his encyclopedic work: "The first who wrote upon this branch was Abu ʿAbdallah al-Khowarizmi, after whom came Abu Kamil Shojaʿ ibn Aslam." . 'There is some confusion in the literature on...
, Persian mathematician) - 12493 Minkowski12493 Minkowski12493 Minkowski is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 4, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Hermann MinkowskiHermann MinkowskiHermann Minkowski was a German mathematician of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.- Life and work :Hermann Minkowski was born...
) - 14100 Weierstrass14100 Weierstrass14100 Weierstrass is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Karl WeierstrassKarl WeierstrassKarl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis".- Biography :Weierstrass was born in Ostenfelde, part of Ennigerloh, Province of Westphalia....
) - 16765 Agnesi16765 Agnesi16765 Agnesi is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Maria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana AgnesiMaria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher. Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus. She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna...
) - 19139 Apian19139 Apian19139 Apian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 6, 1989 by F. Borngen at the astronomical observatory of the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg, Germany....
(Peter ApianPetrus ApianusPetrus Apianus , also known as Peter Apian, was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.The lunar crater Apianus and minor planet 19139 Apian are named in his honour....
) - 27500 Mandelbrot27500 Mandelbrot27500 Mandelbrot is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 12, 2000 by P. G. Comba at Prescott. It is named for mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.- External links :...
(Benoît MandelbrotBenoît MandelbrotBenoît B. Mandelbrot was a French American mathematician. Born in Poland, he moved to France with his family when he was a child...
) - 27947 Emilemathieu27947 Emilemathieu27947 Emilemathieu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 9, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Émile Léonard MathieuÉmile Léonard MathieuÉmile Léonard Mathieu was a French mathematician. He is most famous for his work in group theory and mathematical physics. He has given his name to the Mathieu functions, Mathieu groups and Mathieu transformation...
) - 28516 Möbius28516 Möbius28516 Möbius is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1571.4431759 days .The asteroid was discovered on February 27, 2000....
(August Ferdinand MöbiusAugust Ferdinand MöbiusAugust Ferdinand Möbius was a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.He is best known for his discovery of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It was independently discovered by Johann Benedict...
) - 29552 Chern29552 Chern29552 Chern is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Chinese–American mathematician Shiing-shen Chern.-References:...
(Shiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen ChernShiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese American mathematician, one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.-Early years in China:...
) - 38237 Roche38237 Roche- External links :*...
(Édouard RocheÉdouard RocheÉdouard Albert Roche was a French astronomer and mathematician, who is best known for his work in the field of celestial mechanics...
) - 50033 Perelman50033 Perelman50033 Perelman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 2000 by S. Sposetti at Gnosca. It is named for Grigori Perelman, the Russian mathematician who proved the Poincaré conjecture.- External links :...
(Grigori PerelmanGrigori PerelmanGrigori Yakovlevich Perelman is a Russian mathematician who has made landmark contributions to Riemannian geometry and geometric topology.In 1992, Perelman proved the soul conjecture. In 2002, he proved Thurston's geometrization conjecture...
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Physicists
- 697 Galilea697 Galilea697 Galilea is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named in honour of Galileo Galilei, as it was discovered just after the 300th anniversary of his discovery of the Galilean moons.-External links:*...
(Galileo GalileiGalileo GalileiGalileo Galilei , was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism...
) - 837 Schwarzschilda837 Schwarzschilda837 Schwarzschilda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. it is named after Karl Schwarzschild, a physicist and astronomer who had died earlier that year....
(Karl SchwarzschildKarl SchwarzschildKarl Schwarzschild was a German physicist. He is also the father of astrophysicist Martin Schwarzschild.He is best known for providing the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity, for the limited case of a single spherical non-rotating mass, which he accomplished...
) - 1069 Planckia1069 Planckia1069 Planckia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on January 28, 1927. Its provisional designation was 1927 BC. It was named after physicist Max Planck....
(Max PlanckMax PlanckMax Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, ForMemRS, was a German physicist who actualized the quantum physics, initiating a revolution in natural science and philosophy. He is regarded as the founder of the quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918.-Life and career:Planck came...
) - 1565 Lemaitre1565 Lemaître1565 Lemaître is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1352.5541294 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 25, 1948.-References:...
(Georges LemaîtreGeorges LemaîtreMonsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble...
) - 1979 Sakharov1979 Sakharov1979 Sakharov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.It is named in honour of a distinguished Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov....
(Andrei SakharovAndrei SakharovAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. He earned renown as the designer of the Soviet Union's Third Idea, a codename for Soviet development of thermonuclear weapons. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and civil reforms in the...
) - 2001 Einstein2001 Einstein2001 Einstein is an inner main belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1973. It is a member of the Hungaria family. It is named in honour of the German-American physicist and Nobelist Albert Einstein....
(Albert EinsteinAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
) - 2244 Tesla2244 Tesla2244 Tesla is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on October 22, 1952 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, now Serbia....
(Nikola TeslaNikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
) - 2352 Kurchatov2352 Kurchatov2352 Kurchatov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 10, 1969 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Igor KurchatovIgor KurchatovIgor Vasilyevich Kurchatov , was a Soviet nuclear physicist who is widely known as the director of the Soviet atomic bomb project. Along with Georgy Flyorov and Andrei Sakharov, Kurchatov is widely remembered and dubbed as the "father of the Soviet atomic bomb" for his directorial role in the...
) - 3069 Heyrovský3069 Heyrovský3069 Heyrovský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1317.6460254 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 16, 1982. It's named by Jaroslav Heyrovský.-References:...
(Jaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav HeyrovskýJaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor. Heyrovský was the inventor of the polarographic method, father of the electroanalytical method, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1959...
) - 3905 Doppler3905 Doppler3905 Doppler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 28, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet and named for Christian Doppler.- External links :*...
(Christian DopplerChristian DopplerChristian Andreas Doppler was an Austrian mathematician and physicist.-Life and work:Christian Doppler was raised in Salzburg, Austria, the son of a stonemason. Doppler could not work in his father's business because of his generally weak physical condition...
) - 3949 Mach3949 Mach3949 Mach is a minor planet. It was discovered by Antonín Mrkos on October 20, 1985 at the Kleť Observatory in Czech Republic. It is named for physicist Ernst Mach.-External links:*...
(Ernst MachErnst MachErnst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...
) - 4065 Meinel4065 MeinelMeinel is an S-type asteroid of the Flora family native to the Main Belt. It was discovered on September 24, 1960 at Palomar Observatory by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels...
(Aden MeinelAden MeinelAden B. Meinel was an American astronomer. He retired in 1993 as a Distinguished Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He also held the rank of Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences...
) - 4530 Smoluchowski4530 Smoluchowski4530 Smoluchowski is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Roman Smoluchowski, Polish born physicist and astrophysicist) - 5103 Diviš5103 Diviš5103 Diviš is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1665.3827799 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 4, 1986.-References:...
(Prokop Václav DivišVáclav Prokop DivišVáclav Prokop Diviš was a Czech priest, theologian and natural scientist.Diviš was born March 26 1698 in Helvíkovice, Bohemia . It has been claimed that the lightning rod he erected in 15 June 1754 was invented independently of Benjamin Franklin, but this has been disputed by other scholars...
) - 5224 Abbe5224 Abbe5224 Abbe is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 21, 1982 by Ziener and K. Kirsch at Tautenburg .Named in memory of Ernst Karl Abbe , director of the Jena Observatory from 1877 to 1900. He was known for his fundamental contributions tooptics...
(Ernst Abbe) - 5668 Foucault5668 Foucault5668 Foucault is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1984 by Antonín Mrkos at Klet. It is named for the French physicist Léon Foucault.-External links:*...
(Léon FoucaultLéon FoucaultJean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation...
) - 7000 Curie7000 Curie7000 Curie is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 6, 1939 by Fernand Rigaux at Uccle. It was named after French-Polish scientist Marie Curie.- External links :*...
(Maria Skłodowska-Curie) - 7279 Hagfors7279 Hagfors7279 Hagfors is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...
(Tor Hagfors) - 7495 Feynman7495 Feynman7495 Feynman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 22, 1995 by Klet at Klet.- External links :*...
(Richard FeynmanRichard FeynmanRichard Phillips Feynman was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics...
) - 7672 Hawking7672 HawkingAsteroid 7672 Hawking was named after Stephen Hawking....
(Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
) - 8000 Isaac Newton8000 Isaac Newton8000 Isaac Newton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1986 by Henri Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. It is named after British mathematician Sir Isaac Newton.- External links :*...
(Isaac NewtonIsaac NewtonSir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...
) - 8103 Fermi8103 Fermi8103 Fermi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1994 at Farra d'Isonzo, Italy. It was named for the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.-References:...
(Enrico FermiEnrico FermiEnrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...
) - 9253 Oberth9253 Oberth9253 Oberth is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1971 Mar. 25 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels.- External links :*...
(Hermann OberthHermann OberthHermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics.- Early life :...
) - 10506 Rydberg10506 Rydberg- External links :*...
(Johannes RydbergJohannes RydbergJohannes Robert Rydberg, , , was a Swedish physicist mainly known for devising the Rydberg formula, in 1888, which is used to predict the wavelengths of photons emitted by changes in the energy level of an electron in a hydrogen atom.The physical constant known as the...
) - 10979 Fristephenson10979 Fristephenson10979 Fristephenson is a small main belt asteroid named for F. Richard Stephenson, a British astronomer at the University of Durham.It was discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden University, analysing photographs made by Tom...
(Professor F. Richard Stephenson) - 11451 Aarongolden11451 Aarongolden11451 Aarongolden is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1979 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at the European Southern Observatory.- References :...
(Aaron Golden, Irish astrophysicist) - 11577 Einasto11577 Einasto11577 Einasto is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on February 8, 1994. It is named for Jaan Einasto, an Estonian astrophysicist.-External links:*...
(Jaan EinastoJaan EinastoJaan Einasto is an eminent Estonian astrophysicist and one of the discoverers of the cellular structure of the Universe....
) - 12320 Loschmidt12320 Loschmidt12320 Loschmidt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1992 by E. W. Elst at Caussols.- External links :*...
(Johann Josef LoschmidtJohann Josef LoschmidtJan or Johann Josef Loschmidt , who referred to himself mostly as 'Josef' , was a notable Austrian scientist who performed groundbreaking work in chemistry, physics , and crystal forms.Born in Carlsbad, a town located in the Austrian Empire , Loschmidt...
) - 12628 Ackworthorr12628 Ackworthorr12628 Ackworthorr is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on March 25, 1971. It is named after Mary Ackworth Orr, wife of John Evershed.-External links:...
(Mary Ackworth Orr, solar physicist) - 13092 Schrödinger13092 Schrödinger13092 Schrödinger is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1154.7766744 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1992....
(Erwin SchrödingerErwin SchrödingerErwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist who was one of the fathers of quantum mechanics, and is famed for a number of important contributions to physics, especially the Schrödinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933...
) - 13149 Heisenberg13149 Heisenberg13149 Heisenberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Werner HeisenbergWerner HeisenbergWerner Karl Heisenberg was a German theoretical physicist who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory...
) - 20081 Occhialini20081 Occhialini20081 Occhialini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 12, 1994 by V. Goretti and M. Tombelli at Cima Ekar.- External links :*...
(Giuseppe OcchialiniGiuseppe OcchialiniGiuseppe Paolo Stanislao "Beppo" Occhialini ForMemRS was an Italian physicist, who contributed to the discovery of the pion or pi-meson decay in 1947, with César Lattes and Cecil Frank Powell . At the time of this discovery, they were all working at the H. H...
) - 24988 Alainmilsztajn24988 Alainmilsztajn24988 Alainmilsztajn is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey in Caussols, Alpes-Maritimes, France, on June 19, 1998. It is named after Alain Milsztajn, a French particle physicist and astronomer.-External links:...
(Alain Milsztajn, French particle physicist) - 29137 Alanboss29137 Alanboss29137 Alanboss is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 18, 1987 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar. The asteroid is named after astrophysicist Alan Boss.- External links :*...
, (Alan BossAlan BossAlan P. Boss is a United States astrophysicist and NASA scientist.-Life and career:Educated at the University of South Florida and the University of California, Santa Barbara, Boss is a prominent scientist in stellar and planetary system formation and the study of extrasolar planets who has made...
, American astrophysicist) - 30828 Bethe30828 Bethe30828 Bethe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1990 by Freimut Börngen and Lutz D. Schmadel at Tautenburg. It is named after German-American Nobel laureate Hans Bethe.- External links :*...
(Hans BetheHans BetheHans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and...
) - 37582 Faraday37582 Faraday37582 Faraday is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Michael FaradayMichael FaradayMichael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....
) - 48798 Penghuanwu48798 Penghuanwu48798 Penghuanwu is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1680.6680319 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 6, 1997.-References:...
(Peng HuanwuPeng HuanwuPeng Huanwu was a renowned theoretical physicist of China, a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences , and a leader of Chinese nuclear weaponry projects....
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Physiologists
- 1007 Pawlowia1007 Pawlowia1007 Pawlowia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on October 5, 1923. Its provisional designation was 1923 OX. It is named after Ivan Pavlov....
(Ivan PavlovIvan PavlovIvan Petrovich Pavlov was a famous Russian physiologist. Although he made significant contributions to psychology, he was not in fact a psychologist himself but was a mathematician and actually had strong distaste for the field....
) - 15262 Abderhalden15262 Abderhalden15262 Abderhalden is an outer main belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.-References:...
(Emil AbderhaldenEmil AbderhaldenEmil Abderhalden was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1920s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on fraud or simply the result of a lack of scientific rigor remains unclear...
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Space exploration
- Astrobiologists
- 2410 Morrison2410 Morrison2410 Morrison is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 1981 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...
(David Morrison) - 9826 Ehrenfreund9826 Ehrenfreund- External links :*...
(Pascale Ehrenfreund) - 12859 Marlamoore12859 Marlamoore- External links :*...
(Marla Moore)
- 2410 Morrison
- Planetary scientists
- 2710 Veverka2710 Veverka2710 Veverka is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1379.4413125 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 23, 1982. It was named after astronomer Joseph Veverka.-References:...
(Joseph VeverkaJoseph VeverkaJoseph Veverka is the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, professor of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a focus on physical studies of satellite surfaces and planetary rings...
) - 4815 Anders4815 Anders4815 Anders is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...
(Edward Anders) - 7231 Porco7231 Porco7231 Porco is an asteroid named after Carolyn C. Porco.It was discovered by American astronomer Edward L. G. Bowell....
(Carolyn PorcoCarolyn PorcoCarolyn C. Porco is an American planetary scientist known for her work in the exploration of the outer solar system, beginning with her imaging work on the Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the 1980s. She leads the imaging science team on the Cassini mission currently in...
) - 8356 Wadhwa8356 Wadhwa8356 Wadhwa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 3, 1989 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Meenakshi Wadhwa, meteorite analyst) - 13358 Revelle13358 Revelle13358 Revelle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1998 Oct. 14, by LONEOS at the Anderson Mesa Station. The asteroid was called 13358 Revelle in honor of Douglas ReVelle.- External links :*...
(Douglas ReVelleDouglas ReVelleDouglas O. ReVelle was an American scientist. He worked for the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory....
) - 21774 O'Brien21774 O'Brien21774 O'Brien is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on September 3, 1999. It is named after David O'Brien, a scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson,...
(David P. O'Brien)
- 2710 Veverka
- Rocket scientists
- 1590 Tsiolkovskaja1590 Tsiolkovskaja1590 Tsiolkovskaja is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 1, 1933 by G. Neujmin at Simeis.- External links :*...
(Konstantin TsiolkovskyKonstantin TsiolkovskyKonstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was an Imperial Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory. Along with his followers the German Hermann Oberth and the American Robert H. Goddard, he is considered to be one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics...
) - 1855 Korolev1855 Korolev1855 Korolev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1969 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Sergei Korolev) - 8062 Okhotsymskij8062 Okhotsymskij8062 Okhotsymskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.It was named after the Russian space scientist Dmitry Okhotsimsky.- External links :*...
(Dmitry Okhotsimsky) - 9252 Goddard9252 Goddard- External links :*...
(Robert Goddard) - 25143 Itokawa25143 Itokawa25143 Itokawa is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.-Discovery and naming:...
(Hideo ItokawaHideo Itokawawas a pioneer of Japanese rocketry and of the Japanese space program. In Japan, he was popularly known as Dr. Rocket, and he has been described in the media as the father of Japanese space development....
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- 1590 Tsiolkovskaja
- Soyuz 11Soyuz 11Soyuz 11 was the first manned mission to arrive at the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The mission arrived at the space station on June 7, 1971 and departed on June 30, 1971. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurized during preparations for re-entry, killing the...
crew members:- 1789 Dobrovolsky1789 Dobrovolsky1789 Dobrovolsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 19, 1966 by Chernykh, L. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Georgi Dobrovolski) - 1790 Volkov1790 Volkov1790 Volkov is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1223.7667329 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 9, 1967.-References:...
(Vladislav VolkovVladislav VolkovVladislav Nikolayevich Volkov was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 11 missions. The second mission terminated fatally.-Biography:...
) - 1791 Patsayev1791 Patsayev1791 Patsayev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1967 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Viktor PatsayevViktor PatsayevViktor Ivanovich Patsayev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 11 mission and had the unfortunate distinction of being part of the second crew to die during a space flight...
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- 1789 Dobrovolsky
- Other USSR/RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n cosmonauts- 1772 Gagarin1772 Gagarin1772 Gagarin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1968 by Chernykh, L. at Nauchnyj.The asteroid is named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.- External links :*...
(Yuri GagarinYuri GagarinYuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
, the first human in space) - 1836 Komarov1836 Komarov1836 Komarov is a main belt asteroid discovered on July 26, 1971 by N. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, USSR. It is named after the cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov.- External links :*...
(Vladimir Komarov)
- 1772 Gagarin
- Apollo 11Apollo 11In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...
crew members:- 6469 Armstrong6469 Armstrong6469 Armstrong is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 14, 1982 by Mrkos, A. at Klet. It is named after Neil Armstrong.- External links :...
(Neil ArmstrongNeil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong is an American former astronaut, test pilot, aerospace engineer, university professor, United States Naval Aviator, and the first person to set foot upon the Moon....
) - 6470 Aldrin6470 Aldrin6470 Aldrin is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 14, 1982 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.- External links :*...
("Buzz" AldrinBuzz AldrinBuzz Aldrin is an American mechanical engineer, retired United States Air Force pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing in history...
) - 6471 Collins6471 Collins6471 Collins is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1983 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.It is named after the Apollo 11 command module pilot Michael Collins.- External links :*...
(Michael CollinsMichael Collins (astronaut)Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...
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- 6469 Armstrong
- STS-51-LSTS-51-LSTS-51-L was the twenty-fifth flight of the American Space Shuttle program, which marked the first time an ordinary civilian, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, had flown aboard the Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Challenger, which lifted off from the Launch Complex 39-B on 28 January...
crew members:- 3350 Scobee3350 Scobee3350 Scobee is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1980 by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa station of the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff. It is named after the late Dick Scobee, commander of the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger destroyed during launch of the STS-51-L mission...
(Francis "Dick" ScobeeDick ScobeeFrancis Richard "Dick" Scobee was an American astronaut. He was killed commanding the Space Shuttle Challenger, which suffered catastrophic booster failure during launch of the STS-51-L mission.-Early life:...
) - 3351 Smith3351 Smith33151 Smith is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1980 by Edward Bowell from the Lowell Observatory in Anderson Mesa, at southwest from Flagstaff ....
(Michael J. Smith) - 3352 McAuliffe3352 McAuliffe3352 McAuliffe is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981. It is named in memory of Christa McAuliffe, the civilian astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster...
(Christa McAuliffeChrista McAuliffeChrista McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster....
) - 3353 Jarvis3353 Jarvis3353 Jarvis is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1981 by Edward L. G. Bowell at Flagstaff . It is named in memory of Gregory Jarvis, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster...
(Gregory JarvisGregory JarvisGregory Bruce Jarvis was an American engineer who died during the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where he was serving as Payload Specialist.-Education:...
) - 3354 McNair3354 McNair3354 McNair is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1294.8501472 days .The asteroid was discovered on February 8, 1984.It is named in memory of Ronald McNair, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster...
(Ronald McNairRonald McNairRonald Ervin McNair, Ph.D. was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L.-Background:...
) - 3355 Onizuka3355 Onizuka3355 Onizuka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 8, 1984 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff . It is named in memory of Ellison Onizuka, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. The asteroids 3350 Scobee, 3351 Smith, 3352 McAuliffe, 3353 Jarvis, 3354 McNair...
(Ellison OnizukaEllison Onizukawas a Japanese American astronaut from Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C, before losing his life to the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, where he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L...
) - 3356 Resnik3356 Resnik3356 Resnik is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1984 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff . It is named in memory of Judith Resnik, one of the astronauts who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. The asteroids 3350 Scobee, 3351 Smith, 3352 McAuliffe, 3353 Jarvis, 3354 McNair and 3355...
(Judith Resnik)
- 3350 Scobee
- STS-107STS-107-Mission parameters:*Mass:**Orbiter Liftoff: **Orbiter Landing: **Payload: *Perigee: *Apogee: *Inclination: 39.0°*Period: 90.1 min- Insignia :...
crew members:- 51823 Rickhusband51823 Rickhusband51823 Rickhusband is an asteroid named for astronaut Rick Husband, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51823 Rickhusband was discovered on July 18, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.-External links:* *...
(Rick D. Husband) - 51824 Mikeanderson51824 Mikeanderson51824 Mikeanderson is an asteroid named for astronaut Mike Anderson, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51824 Mikeanderson was discovered on July 19, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.- External links :* *...
(Michael P. Anderson) - 51825 Davidbrown51825 Davidbrown51825 Davidbrown is an asteroid named for astronaut David Brown, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51825 Davidbrown was discovered on July 19, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.-External links:* *...
(David M. Brown) - 51826 Kalpanachawla51826 Kalpanachawla51826 Kalpanachawla is an asteroid named for Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51826 Kalpanachawla was discovered on July 19, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program....
(Kalpana ChawlaKalpana ChawlaKalpana Chawla was an Indian-American astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.-Early life:...
) - 51827 Laurelclark51827 Laurelclark51827 Laurelclark is an asteroid named for astronaut Laurel Clark, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51827 Laurelclark was discovered on July 20, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.-External links:* *...
(Laurel B. ClarkLaurel B. Clark- References :...
) - 51828 Ilanramon51828 Ilanramon51828 Ilanramon is an asteroid named for astronaut Ilan Ramon, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51828 Ilanramon was discovered on July 20, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.-External links:* * -References:...
(Ilan RamonIlan RamonIlan Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut....
, first IsraeliIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
astronaut) - 51829 Williemccool51829 Williemccool51829 Williemccool is an asteroid named for astronaut Willie McCool, who was killed in the STS-107 space shuttle reentry disaster on February 1, 2003. 51829 Williemccool was discovered on July 21, 2001 at Palomar Observatory by the JPL Near Earth Asteroid Tracking Program.-External links:* *...
(William C. McCoolWilliam C. McCoolWilliam Cameron "Willie" McCool was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107...
)
- 51823 Rickhusband
- Other AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
astronauts:- 4763 Ride4763 Ride4763 Ride is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 22, 1983 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Sally RideSally RideSally Kristen Ride is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983 became the first American woman—and then-youngest American, at 32—to enter space...
) - 7749 Jackschmitt7749 Jackschmitt7749 Jackschmitt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 12, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...
(Harrison H. Schmitt) - 12790 Cernan12790 Cernan12790 Cernan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1995 by telescopes at the Klet Observatory in the Czech Republic.- External links :*...
(Eugene Cernan) - 13606 Bean13606 Bean13606 Bean is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 11, 1994 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Alan BeanAlan BeanAlan LaVern Bean is a former NASA astronaut, engineer, and painter. Bean was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3. He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at the age of thirty-seven years in...
)
- 4763 Ride
- ChinesePeople's Republic of ChinaChina , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...
astronauts:- 9512 Feijunlong9512 Feijunlong9512 Feijunlong is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1966 Feb. 13, by at the Purple Mountain Observatory.- External links :*...
(Fei JunlongFei JunlongColonel Fei Junlong is a Chinese military pilot and an astronaut. He flew on the second manned spaceflight of the Shenzhou program....
) - 9517 Niehaisheng9517 Niehaisheng9517 Niehaisheng is a main-belt asteroid discovered on Nov. 3 1977 by the Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanjing, China. It is named after the Chinese astronaut Nie Haisheng, who and Fei Junlong were the crew of Shenzhou 6 launched on Oct. 12 2005 and made a series of scientific experiments in...
(Nie HaishengNie HaishengColonel Niè Hǎishèng is a Chinese military pilot and CNSA astronaut .-Military career:Nie was born in Yangdang town of Zaoyang, Hubei Province. After graduating from high school he joined the People's Liberation Army Air Force and became a fighter pilot. During his training at the PLAAF's No...
) - 21064 Yangliwei21064 Yangliwei21062 Yangliwei is an asteroid named after Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei. It was discovered in 1991 and named in 2005.-References:*...
(Yang LiweiYang LiweiYáng Lìwěi is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send people into space.-Background:...
)
- 9512 Feijunlong
- Other astronauts:
- 2552 Remek2552 Remek2552 Remek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1978 by Antonín Mrkos at Kleť Observatory and named after Czechoslovak cosmonaut Vladimír Remek.- External links :*...
(Vladimír RemekVladimír RemekVladimír Remek is the first Czechoslovak in space and the first cosmonaut from a country other than the Soviet Union or the United States. As of 2004, with the entry of the Czech Republic into the European Union Vladimír Remek is considered to be the first astronaut from the EU...
, CzechoslovakCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
cosmonaut) - 9496 Ockels9496 Ockels-External links:*...
(Wubbo OckelsWubbo OckelsProf. Dr. Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a Dutch physicist and a former ESA astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight on a space shuttle , making him the first Dutch citizen in space. He was not the first Dutch-born astronaut, as he is preceded by the naturalized American Lodewijk van den Berg, who...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
astronaut) - 22901 Ivanbella22901 Ivanbella22901 Ivanbella is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1999 by P. Kušnirák and P. Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Ivan BellaIvan BellaIvan Bella is a Slovak Air Force officer who became the first Slovak citizen to fly in space...
, SlovakSlovakiaThe Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...
cosmonaut)
- 2552 Remek
Other scientists, engineers and inventors
- 335 Roberta335 Roberta335 Roberta is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an F-type asteroid.It was discovered by Anton Staus on September 1, 1892 in Heidelberg. It was his only asteroid discovery....
(Carl Robert Osten-Sacken, entomologist) - 635 Vundtia635 Vundtia- External links :*...
(Wilhelm WundtWilhelm WundtWilhelm Maximilian Wundt was a German physician, psychologist, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology"...
, pioneer psychologist) - 742 Edisona742 Edisona-External links:*...
(Thomas EdisonThomas EdisonThomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
, inventor) - 775 Lumière775 Lumière-External links:*...
(Auguste and Louis LumièreAuguste and Louis LumièreThe Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean , were among the earliest filmmakers in history...
, cinematic pioneers) - 777 Gutemberga777 Gutemberga-External links:*...
(Johannes Gutenberg, pioneer printer) - 2177 Oliver2177 Oliver2177 Oliver is a small asteroid named after Bernard M. Oliver, researcher at Hewlett-Packard....
(Bernard M. OliverBernard M. OliverBernard M. Oliver , aka Barney Oliver, was a scientist who made contributions in many fields, including radar, television, and computers. He was the founder and director of Hewlett Packard laboratories until his retirement in 1981. He is also a recognized pioneer in the search for...
, research scientist) - 3256 Daguerre3256 Daguerre3256 Daguerre is a main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Brian A. Skiff and Norman G. Thomas in 1981. It is named after Louis Daguerre, the French inventor of the daguerrotype, an early form of photography. Daguerre measures 24.38 km in diameter....
(Louis DaguerreLouis DaguerreLouis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.- Biography :...
, photographic pioneer) - 3313 Mendel3313 Mendel3313 Mendel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet, and named after Gregor Mendel.- External links :*...
(Gregor MendelGregor MendelGregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...
, father of genetics) - 3701 Purkyně3701 Purkyne3701 Purkyně is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1709.9521256 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 20, 1985.-References:...
(Jan Evangelista PurkyněJan Evangelista PurkyneJan Evangelista Purkyně was a Czech anatomist and physiologist. He was one of the best known scientists of his time. His son was the painter Karel Purkyně...
, physiologist) - 4217 Engelhardt4217 Engelhardt4217 Engelhardt is an asteroid, discovered on January 24, 1988 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. Its provisional designation was 1988 BO2. It is named after the Baltic German geologist and mineralogist Wolf von Engelhardt ....
(Wolf von EngelhardtWolf von EngelhardtWolf Jürgen Baron von Engelhardt was a German geologist and mineralogist.He was a descendant of a Baltic German noble family Engelhardt.The asteroid 4217 Engelhardt is named in his honour.-References:...
, geologist) - 4342 Freud4342 Freud4342 Freud is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 21, 1987 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Sigmund FreudSigmund FreudSigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
, father of psychoanalysis) - 4565 Grossman4565 Grossman4565 Grossman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...
(Lawrence Grossman, geochemist) - 5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1986 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.- External links :*...
(Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
, scientist) - 5864 Montgolfier5864 Montgolfier5864 Montgolfier is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1983 by N. G. Thomas at Flagstaff.-External links:*...
(Montgolfier brothersMontgolfier brothersJoseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were the inventors of the montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. The brothers succeeded in launching the first manned ascent, carrying Étienne into the sky...
, hot air balloonHot air balloonThe hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...
pioneers) - 5958 Barrande5958 Barrande5958 Barrande is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 29, 1989 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Joachim BarrandeJoachim BarrandeJoachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris...
, geologist and paleontologist) - 6175 Cori6175 Cori6175 Cori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 4, 1983 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Carl Ferdinand CoriCarl Ferdinand CoriCarl Ferdinand Cori was a Czech biochemist and pharmacologist born in Prague who, together with his wife Gerty Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, received a Nobel Prize in 1947 for their discovery of how glycogen – a derivative of glucose – is broken down and...
and Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemists) - 7552 Sephton7552 Sephton7552 Sephton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...
(Mark Sephton, geochemist) - 8373 Stephengould8373 Stephengould8373 Stephengould is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1, 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. The asteroid was named after the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay...
(Stephen Jay GouldStephen Jay GouldStephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....
, evolutionist and essayist) - 11519 Adler11519 Adler11519 Adler is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 8, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Alfred AdlerAlfred AdlerAlfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna...
, psychologist) - 15465 Buchroeder15465 Buchroeder15465 Buchroeder is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 15, 1999 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Richard A. Buchroeder, optical engineer) - 16518 Akihikoito16518 Akihikoito16518 Akihikoito is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 16, 1990 by T. Hioki and S. Hayakawa at Okutama.- External links :*...
(Akihiko Ito, Japanese CCD astrophotographer) - 20259 Alanhoffman20259 Alanhoffman20259 Alanhoffman is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 24, 1998 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols.-External links:*...
(Alan Hoffman, pioneer in infrared detectors) - 29227 Wegener29227 Wegener29227 Wegener is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 29, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Alfred WegenerAlfred WegenerAlfred Lothar Wegener was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.He is most notable for his theory of continental drift , proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth...
, geologist and meteorologist) - 61404 Ocenásek61404 Ocenásek61404 Ocenásek is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional designation was 2000 QM9.It was discovered on August 26, 2000 by P. Pravec and P. Kusnirák at Ondrejov....
(Ludvík Ocenásek, handyman who constructed a monoplane, a radial engine for airplanes, and two-stage rockets) - 73079 Davidbaltimore73079 Davidbaltimore73079 Davidbaltimore is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional designation was 2002 GX8.It was discovered on April 14, 2002 at the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking project at Palomar Observatory.The asteroid was named after David Baltimore 73079 Davidbaltimore is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional...
(David BaltimoreDavid BaltimoreDavid Baltimore is an American biologist, university administrator, and Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He served as president of the California Institute of Technology from 1997 to 2006, and is currently the Robert A. Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech...
, Nobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineNobel Prize in Physiology or MedicineThe Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the field of life science and medicine. It is one of five Nobel Prizes established in 1895 by Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, in his will...
Laureate)
Monarchs and royalty
- 12 Victoria12 Victoria12 Victoria is a large main-belt asteroid.It was discovered by J. R. Hind on September 13, 1850.Victoria is officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but the name also honours Queen Victoria. The goddess Victoria was the daughter of Styx by the Titan Pallas...
(officially named after the Roman goddess of victoryVictoria (mythology)In ancient Roman religion, Victoria was the personified goddess of victory. She is the Roman equivalent of the Greek goddess Nike, and was associated with Bellona. She was adapted from the Sabine agricultural goddess Vacuna and had a temple on the Palatine Hill...
, but also honours Queen VictoriaVictoria of the United KingdomVictoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
) - 45 Eugenia45 Eugenia45 Eugenia is a large main-belt asteroid. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It is also the second known triple asteroid, after 87 Sylvia.- Discovery :...
(Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-PrincePetit-Prince (moon)Eugenia I Petit-Prince is the larger, outer moon of asteroid 45 Eugenia. It was discovered in 1998 by astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Initially, it received the provisional designation S/1998 1. Petit-Prince was the first asteroid moon to be discovered...
in part for her son Napoléon Eugène, Prince ImperialNapoléon Eugène, Prince ImperialNapoléon, Prince Imperial, , Prince Imperial, Fils de France, was the only child of Emperor Napoleon III of France and his Empress consort Eugénie de Montijo... - 115 Thyra115 Thyra115 Thyra is a fairly large and bright inner main-belt asteroid. Named for Thyra, the consort of King Gorm the Old of Denmark. It was discovered by J. C. Watson on August 6, 1871.- References :...
(ThyraThyraThyra was the consort of King Gorm the Old of Denmark. She is believed to have led an army against the Germans. Gorm and Thyra were the parents of King Harald Bluetooth....
, consort of King Gorm the OldGorm the OldGorm the Old , also called Gorm the Sleepy , was the first historically recognized King of Denmark, reigning from to his death . He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the Jelling Stones in honour of his wife Thyra. Gorm was born before 900 and died .-Ancestry and reign:Gorm is the reported...
of DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
) - 216 Kleopatra216 Kleopatra216 Kleopatra is a trinary main-belt asteroid that was discovered by Johann Palisa on April 10, 1880, in Pola. It is named after Cleopatra, Queen of Ancient Egypt....
(Cleopatra VII of EgyptCleopatra VII of EgyptCleopatra VII Philopator was the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, a family of Greek origin that ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period...
) - 220 Stephania220 Stephania220 Stephania is a Main belt asteroid. It is a P-type asteroid, meaning it is relatively dark and composed of organic rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on May 19, 1881 in Vienna...
(Princess Stéphanie of BelgiumPrincess Stéphanie of BelgiumStéphanie was a Belgium princess by birth, and then made Crown Princess of Austria through her marriage to the heir of the Habsburg dynasty, Archduke Rudolf...
) - 295 Theresia295 Theresia295 Theresia is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on August 17, 1890 in Vienna....
(Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire and Queen consort of Germany) - 326 Tamara326 Tamara326 Tamara is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on March 19, 1892 in Vienna.-External links:...
(Queen Tamar of GeorgiaTamar of GeorgiaTamar , of the Bagrationi dynasty, was Queen Regnant of Georgia from 1184 to 1213. Tamar presided over the "Golden age" of the medieval Georgian monarchy...
) - 344 Desiderata344 Desiderata344 Desiderata is a very large main-belt asteroid. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on November 15, 1892, in Nice....
(Queen Desideria of Sweden and NorwayDésirée ClaryBernardine Eugénie Désirée Clary , one-time fiancée of Napoleon Bonaparte, was a Frenchwoman who became Queen of Sweden and Norway as the consort of King Charles XIV John, a former French General. She officially changed her name there to Desideria, a Latin version of her original name...
) - 359 Georgia359 Georgia359 Georgia is a typical Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an X-type asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 10, 1893 in Nice. It was named by the daughter of Felix Klein at a meeting of the Astronomische Gesselschaft in 1902 held at the Georg August University of Göttingen,...
(King George II of Great BritainGeorge II of Great BritainGeorge II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death.George was the last British monarch born outside Great Britain. He was born and brought up in Northern Germany...
) - 392 Wilhelmina392 Wilhelmina392 Wilhelmina is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Max Wolf on November 4, 1894 in Heidelberg, Germany....
(Queen Wilhelmina of the NetherlandsWilhelmina of the NetherlandsWilhelmina was Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948. She ruled the Netherlands for fifty-eight years, longer than any other Dutch monarch. Her reign saw World War I and World War II, the economic crisis of 1933, and the decline of the Netherlands as a major colonial...
) - 525 Adelaide (Queen AdelaideAdelaide of Saxe-MeiningenPrincess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and of Hanover as spouse of William IV of the United Kingdom. Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, is named after her.-Early life:Adelaide was born on 13 August 1792 at Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany...
, consort of William IV of the United KingdomWilliam IV of the United KingdomWilliam IV was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of Hanover from 26 June 1830 until his death...
) - 545 Messalina545 Messalina545 Messalina is a minor planet orbiting the Sun....
(Messalina, Roman empress) - 546 Herodias546 Herodias546 Herodias is a C-type asteroid orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family. However, it is not a family member but an un-related interloper in the region because its composition is inconsistent with membership. Its diameter is about 66 km, its albedo around 0.053, and its rotation...
(HerodiasHerodiasHerodias was a Jewish princess of the Herodian Dynasty. Asteroid 546 Herodias is named after her.-Family relationships:*Daughter of Aristobulus IV...
, wife of Herod IIHerod IIHerod II was the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest . For a brief period he was his father's heir...
and mother of SalomeSalomeSalome , the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament...
) - 562 Salome562 Salome-External links:*...
(SalomeSalomeSalome , the Daughter of Herodias , is known from the New Testament...
, daughter of Herod IIHerod IIHerod II was the son of Herod the Great and Mariamne II, the daughter of Simon Boethus the High Priest . For a brief period he was his father's heir...
and HerodiasHerodiasHerodias was a Jewish princess of the Herodian Dynasty. Asteroid 546 Herodias is named after her.-Family relationships:*Daughter of Aristobulus IV...
) - 598 Octavia598 Octavia-External links:*...
(Claudia OctaviaClaudia OctaviaClaudia Octavia was an Empress of Rome. She was a great-niece of the Emperor Tiberius, paternal first cousin of the Emperor Caligula, daughter of the Emperor Claudius, and stepsister and first wife of the Emperor Nero...
, Roman empress) - 650 Amalasuntha650 Amalasuntha- External links :*...
(AmalasunthaAmalasunthaAmalasuntha was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534....
, queen of the Ostrogoths) - 653 Berenike653 Berenike653 Berenike is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 27, 1907 by Joel Hastings Metcalf at Taunton, Massachusetts. It is named after Berenice II of Egypt, after whom the constellation Coma Berenices is also named.- References :...
(Berenice IIBerenice IIBerenice II was the daughter of Magas of Cyrene and Queen Apama II, and the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes, the third ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt....
, Egyptian queen) - 689 Zita689 Zita-External links:*...
(Empress Zita of Bourbon-ParmaZita of Bourbon-ParmaPrincess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria...
) - 816 Juliana816 Juliana816 Juliana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It measures 59.85k in diameter. It was discovered on February 8, 1916 by Max Wolf at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl Observatory in Heidelberg, Germany....
(Queen Juliana of the NetherlandsJuliana of the NetherlandsJuliana was the Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands between 1948 and 1980. She was the only child of Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry...
) - 823 Sisigambis823 Sisigambis823 Sisigambis is an asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 17 km and it has an albedo of 0.179 . Its rotation period is unknown but appears to be greater than at least 12 hours.-External links:*...
(SisygambisSisygambisSisygambis was the daughter of king Artaxerxes II Memnon, who married Arsames of Ostanes and was the mother of Darius III of Persia, whose reign was ended during the wars of Alexander the Great....
, mother of Darius III of PersiaDarius III of PersiaDarius III , also known by his given name of Codomannus, was the last king of the Achaemenid Empire of Persia from 336 BC to 330 BC....
) - 831 Stateira831 Stateira-External links:*...
(StateiraStateira (wife of Artaxerxes II)Stateira was the wife of king Artaxerxes II of Persia.Asteroid 831 Stateira is named in her honour.- Biography :Stateira was the daughter of the Persian nobleman Hydarnes. She married Artaxerxes II, the oldest son of Darius II of Persia and his wife Parysatis...
, wife of Artaxerxes II of PersiaArtaxerxes II of PersiaArtaxerxes II Mnemon was king of Persia from 404 BC until his death. He was a son of Darius II of Persia and Parysatis.-Reign:...
) - 832 Karin832 Karin832 Karin is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Queen Karin Månsdotter It is the largest member of the Karin Cluster, which is named after it. Found in 2002, the Karin cluster is notable for being very young...
(Karin MånsdotterKarin MånsdotterKarin Månsdotter was Queen of Sweden, first a mistress and then the spouse of King Eric XIV of Sweden...
, wife of Eric XIV of SwedenEric XIV of Sweden-Family and descendants:Eric XIV had several relationships before his marriage. With Agda Persdotter he had four daughters:#Margareta Eriksdotter , married 1592 to Olov Simonsson, vicar of Horn....
) - 888 Parysatis888 Parysatis-External links:*...
(ParysatisParysatisParysatis was the 5th-century BCE illegitimate daughter of Artaxerxes I, Emperor of Persia and Andia of Babylon.She was the half-sister of Xerxes II, Sogdianus and Darius II...
, wife of Darius IIDarius IIDarius II , was king of the Persian Empire from 423 BC to 405 BC.Artaxerxes I, who died on December 25, 424 BC, was followed by his son Xerxes II. After a month and a half Xerxes II was murdered by his brother Secydianus or Sogdianus...
of Persia) - 911 Agamemnon911 Agamemnon911 Agamemnon is a trojan asteroid that orbits the Sun at the same distance as the planet Jupiter. It is located in the leading Lagrangian point ....
(AgamemnonAgamemnonIn Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area...
) - 1068 Nofretete1068 Nofretete1068 Nofretete is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 RK. It is now named after Nefertiti, wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep IV.-External links:*...
(NefertitiNefertitiNefertiti was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only...
) - 1128 Astrid1128 Astrid1128 Astrid is a main belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 35 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It was discovered by Eugène Joseph Delporte at Uccle, Belgium on March 10, 1929. It was named for H.M. Astrid, Queen of the Belgians. Its...
(Astrid of SwedenAstrid of SwedenAstrid of Sweden was Queen of the Belgians as the wife of King Leopold III.-Early life:Princess Astrid of Sweden was born in Stockholm on 17 November 1905...
) - 2436 Hatshepsut2436 Hatshepsut2436 Hatshepsut is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Hatshepsut, the ancient Egyptian female Pharaoh....
(Pharaoh HatshepsutHatshepsutHatshepsut also Hatchepsut; meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies;1508–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
) - 3362 Khufu3362 Khufu]3362 Khufu is a near-Earth asteroid. It was discovered by R. Scott Dunbar and Maria A. Barucci at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on August 30, 1984. Its provisional designation was 1984 QA. It is named after Khufu, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh.Khufu crosses the orbits...
(Pharaoh KhufuKhufuKhufu , also known as Cheops or, in Manetho, Suphis , was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt's Old Kingdom. He reigned from around 2589 to 2566 BC. Khufu was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. He is generally accepted as being the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of...
) - 4414 Sesostris4414 Sesostris4414 Sesostris is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Greek version of SenusretSenusretSenusret is the name of several Ancient Egyptians:* Senusret I, pharaoh * Senusret II, pharaoh * Senusret III, pharaoh * Senusret IV, pharaoh...
, name of three pharaohs) - 4415 Echnaton4415 Echnaton4415 Echnaton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Pharaoh AkhenatenAkhenatenAkhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC...
; German spelling of his name) - 4416 Ramses4416 Ramses4416 Ramses is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(pharaoh Ramses II) - 4568 Menkaure4568 Menkaure4568 Menkaure is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1983 by Norman G. Thomas at Flagstaff.- External links :...
(Pharaoh Menkaure) - 4721 Atahualpa4721 Atahualpa4721 Atahualpa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Atahuallpa) - 4846 Tuthmosis4846 Tuthmosis4846 Tuthmosis is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(ThutmoseThutmoseThutmose is an Anglicization of the Egyptian name dhwty-ms, usually translated as "Born of the god Thoth". It may refer to several individuals from the 18th Dynasty:*Thutmose I, third pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty*Thutmose II Thutmose (also rendered Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes,...
, name of four pharaohs) - 4847 Amenhotep4847 Amenhotep4847 Amenhotep is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(pharaoh Amenhotep IVAkhenatenAkhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC...
) - 4848 Tutenchamun4848 Tutenchamun4848 Tutenchamun is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 30, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(pharaoh TutankhamunTutankhamunTutankhamun , Egyptian , ; approx. 1341 BC – 1323 BC) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty , during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom...
) - 4906 Seneferu4906 Seneferu4906 Seneferu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Pharaoh SneferuSneferuSneferu, also spelled as Snephru, Snefru or Snofru , was the founder of the Fourth dynasty of Egypt. Estimates of his reign vary, with for instance The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt suggesting a reign from around 2613 BC to 2589 BC, a reign of 24 years, while Rolf Krauss suggests a 30-year reign...
) - 5009 Sethos5009 Sethos5009 Sethos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Greek version of Seti, name of two pharaohs) - 5010 Amenemhet5010 Amenemhêt5010 Amenemhêt is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory.-References:...
(Amenemhet, name of four pharaohs) - 5242 Kenreimonin5242 KenreimoninFor Empress Kenreimon-In see Taira no Tokuko5242 Kenreimonin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 18, 1991 by Inoda and Urata at Karasuyama.- External links :*...
(Empress Dowager KenreiTaira no TokukoFor the asteroid, see 5242 Kenreimonin, later known as , was the last Heike Imperial survivor from the modest vessel carrying the emperor in the great naval battle of Dan-no-ura....
) - 7117 Claudius7117 Claudius7117 Claudius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Emperor ClaudiusClaudiusClaudius , was Roman Emperor from 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor. He was born at Lugdunum in Gaul and was the first Roman Emperor to be born outside Italy...
) - 7207 Hammurabi7207 Hammurabi7207 Hammurabi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(HammurabiHammurabiHammurabi Hammurabi Hammurabi (Akkadian from Amorite ʻAmmurāpi, "the kinsman is a healer", from ʻAmmu, "paternal kinsman", and Rāpi, "healer"; (died c...
) - 7208 Ashurbanipal7208 Ashurbanipal7208 Ashurbanipal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960, by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(AshurbanipalAshurbanipalAshurbanipal |Ashur]] is creator of an heir"; 685 BC – c. 627 BC), also spelled Assurbanipal or Ashshurbanipal, was an Assyrian king, the son of Esarhaddon and the last great king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire...
) - 7209 Cyrus7209 Cyrus7209 Cyrus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Cyrus II of Persia) - 7210 Darius7210 Darius7210 Darius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Darius I of PersiaDarius I of PersiaDarius I , also known as Darius the Great, was the third king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire...
) - 7211 Xerxes7211 Xerxes7211 Xerxes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 25, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Xerxes I of PersiaXerxes I of PersiaXerxes I of Persia , Ḫšayāršā, ), also known as Xerxes the Great, was the fifth king of kings of the Achaemenid Empire.-Youth and rise to power:...
) - 7212 Artaxerxes7212 Artaxerxes7212 Artaxerxes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Artaxerxes II of PersiaArtaxerxes II of PersiaArtaxerxes II Mnemon was king of Persia from 404 BC until his death. He was a son of Darius II of Persia and Parysatis.-Reign:...
) - 8740 Václav8740 Václav8740 Václav is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1794.2209936 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 12, 1998.-References:...
(Václav I, Duke of Bohemia, of VáclavVáclavVáclav is a Czech male first name of Slavic origin, sometimes translated into English as Wenceslaus or Wenceslas . These forms are derived from the old Slavic/Czech form of this name: Vencslav.- People :...
) - 10293 Pribina10293 Pribina10293 Pribina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 5, 1986 by M. Antal at Piwnice.- External links :*...
(PribinaPribinaPribina was a Slavic prince whose adventurous career, recorded in the Conversion of the Bavarians and the Carantanians , illustrates the political volatility of the Franco–Slavic frontiers of his time...
, ruler of Nitrian Principality) - 11014 Svätopluk11014 Svätopluk11014 Svätopluk is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1577.3450487 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 23, 1982....
(SvätoplukSvatopluk ISvatopluk I or Zwentibald I was the greatest ruler of Moravia that attained its maximum territorial expansion in his reign . His career had already started in the 860s, when he governed a principality, the location of which is still a matter of debate among historians, within Moravia under the...
, ruler of Great MoraviaGreat MoraviaGreat Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it. There is some controversy as...
) - 16951 Carolus Quartus16951 Carolus Quartus16951 Carolus Quartus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 19, 1998 by P. Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Charles IV, Holy Roman EmperorCharles IV, Holy Roman EmperorCharles IV , born Wenceslaus , was the second king of Bohemia from the House of Luxembourg, and the first king of Bohemia to also become Holy Roman Emperor....
and King of BohemiaBohemiaBohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
) - 18349 Dafydd18349 Dafydd18349 Dafydd is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Henry E. Holt at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on July 25, 1990. It is named after Dafydd ap Llywelyn, the Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246.-External links:...
(Dafydd ap LlywelynDafydd ap LlywelynDafydd ap Llywelyn was Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246. He was for a time recognised as Prince of Wales.- Descent :...
, prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
) - 20969 Samo20969 Samo20969 Samo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 17, 1979 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(SamoSamoSamo was a Frankish merchant from the "Senonian country" , probably modern Soignies, Belgium or Sens, France. He was the first ruler of the Slavs whose name is known, and established one of the earliest Slav states, a supra-tribal union usually called Samo's empire, realm, kingdom, or tribal...
, ruler of Samo’s Empire) - 25340 Segoves25340 Segoves25340 Segoves is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on September 10, 1999 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...
(Segoves, CeltCeltThe Celts were a diverse group of tribal societies in Iron Age and Roman-era Europe who spoke Celtic languages.The earliest archaeological culture commonly accepted as Celtic, or rather Proto-Celtic, was the central European Hallstatt culture , named for the rich grave finds in Hallstatt, Austria....
ic duke) - 44613 Rudolf44613 Rudolf44613 Rudolf is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1999 by P. Pravec and Peter Kušnirák at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Rudolph II, Holy Roman EmperorHoly Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...
, king of BohemiaBohemiaBohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...
and HungaryHungaryHungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
) - 48844 Belloves48844 Belloves48844 Belloves is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 18, 1998 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...
(Belloves, Celtic duke) - 53285 Mojmír53285 Mojmír53285 Mojmír is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1820.6600307 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 24, 1999....
(Mojmír IMojmír IMojmir I or Moimir I was the first known ruler of the Moravian Slavs . In modern scholarship, the creation of the early medieval state known as "Great" Moravia is attributed either to his or to his successors' expansionist policy...
, ruler of Great MoraviaGreat MoraviaGreat Moravia was a Slavic state that existed in Central Europe and lasted for nearly seventy years in the 9th century whose creators were the ancestors of the Czechs and Slovaks. It was a vassal state of the Germanic Frankish kingdom and paid an annual tribute to it. There is some controversy as...
)
Politicians and Statesmen
- 712 Boliviana712 Boliviana-External links:*...
(Simon BolivarSimón BolívarSimón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
) - 852 Wladilena852 Wladilena852 Wladilena is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Russian Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.-External links:*...
(Vladimir LeninVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
) - 886 Washingtonia886 Washingtonia-External links:*...
(George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonGeorge Washington was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799. He led the American victory over Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army from 1775 to 1783, and presided over the writing of...
) - 932 Hooveria932 Hooveria932 Hooveria is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named for president Herbert Hoover.-External links:*...
(Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
) - 944 Hidalgo944 Hidalgo944 Hidalgo is a small Solar System body with a semi-major axis beyond Jupiter's and an orbital period of 13.77 years. This makes it a centaur, but it was discovered in 1920 and has hence traditionally been considered an asteroid....
(Miguel HidalgoMiguel HidalgoMiguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla y Gallaga Mandarte Villaseñor , more commonly known as Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla or simply Miguel Hidalgo, was a Mexican priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.In 1810 Hidalgo led a group of peasants in a revolt against the dominant...
) - 1841 Masaryk1841 Masaryk1841 Masaryk is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf. It is named after Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the first Czech president.- External links :*...
(Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st CzechoslovakCzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...
president) - 2351 O'Higgins2351 O'Higgins2351 O'Higgins is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1964 by Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn.- External links :*...
(Bernardo O'HigginsBernardo O'HigginsBernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who, together with José de San Martín, freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile , he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder...
, Chilean independence leader) - 3571 Milanštefánik3571 Milanštefánik3571 Milanštefánik is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2850.7056922 days .The asteroid was discovered on March 15, 1982.-References:...
(Milan Rastislav ŠtefánikMilan Rastislav ŠtefánikMilan Rastislav Štefánik , Kingdom of Hungary – May 4, 1919 in Ivanka pri Dunaji, Czechoslovakia) was a Slovak politician, diplomat, and astronomer. During World War I, he was General of the French Army, at the same time the Czechoslovak Minister of War, one of the leading members of the...
) - 4317 Garibaldi4317 Garibaldi4317 Garibaldi is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1980 by Zdeňka Vávrová at Klet.- External links :*...
(Giuseppe GaribaldiGiuseppe GaribaldiGiuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian military and political figure. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot revolutionaries, and fled Italy after a failed insurrection. Garibaldi took part in the War of the Farrapos and the Uruguayan Civil War leading the Italian Legion, and...
) - 4927 O'Connell4927 O'Connell4927 O'Connell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1982 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Daniel O'ConnellDaniel O'ConnellDaniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847; often referred to as The Liberator, or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century...
) - 5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1986 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.- External links :*...
(Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
) - 9275 Persson9275 Persson9275 Persson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1980 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Jöran PerssonJöran PerssonJöran Persson, alternatively Göran Persson , was King Eric XIV of Sweden's favorite, most trusted, counsellor and head of the King's network of spies. He was widely seen as a Machiavellian figure, and of holding too much influence over Eric...
) - 11830 Jessenius11830 Jessenius11830 Jessenius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jan JesseniusJan JeseniusJan Jesenius was a Slovak physician, politician and philosopher...
)
High school/technical school teachers
- 3352 McAuliffe3352 McAuliffe3352 McAuliffe is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981. It is named in memory of Christa McAuliffe, the civilian astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster...
(Christa McAuliffeChrista McAuliffeChrista McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster....
, high school teacher from New Hampshire, U.S.A.) - 12787 Abetadashi12787 Abetadashi12787 Abetadashi is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1238.3984000 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 20, 1995.-References:...
(Tadashi AbeTadashi Abe (astronomer)Tadashi Abe is a Japanese amateur astronomer who taught high school from 1966 to 2004. He poured his considerable observational talents into the field of astronomical photometry, producing a number of scientific papers and a thesis based on his discoveries. Minor planet 12787 Abetadashi is named...
, high school teacher from Japan) - 13241 Biyo13241 Biyo13241 Biyo is an asteroid named after Filipino teacher Dr. Josette Biyo, a high school teacher cited for winning the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the first Asian teacher to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award.-External links:...
(Josette BiyoJosette BiyoDr. Josette T. Biyo is a Filipino educator who received the Intel Excellence Award. Presently, she is the Executive Director of the Philippine Science High School System. She was the first Asian to win the award in the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair at Louisville, Kentucky...
, high school teacher from Iloilo, Philippines) - 13928 Aaronrogers13928 Aaronrogers13928 Aaronrogers is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1987 by E. Bowell at the Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa Station.- References :...
(Aaron Rogers, mathematics teacher from London, U.K.) - 14158 Alananderson14158 Alananderson14158 Alananderson is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico.- External links :*...
(Alan Anderson, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.) - 14684 Reyes14684 Reyes14684 Reyes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Cynthia L. Reyes, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.) - 17225 Alanschorn17225 Alanschorn17225 Alanschorn is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Alan Schorn, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.) - 20341 Alanstack20341 Alanstack20341 Alanstack is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro...
(Alan Stack, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.) - 20574 Ochinero20574 Ochinero20574 Ochinero is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro....
(Marcia Collin Ochinero, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.) - 21395 Albertofilho21395 Albertofilho21395 Albertofilho is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Alberto Filho, a technical school teacher from Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil) - 21435 Aharon21435 Aharon21435 Aharon is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Terri Aharon, high school teacher from New York, U.S.A.) - 22619 Ajscheetz22619 Ajscheetz22619 Ajscheetz is a main belt asteroid discovered on May 22, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(A. J. Scheetz, high school teacher from Connecticut, U.S.A.) - 22993 Aferrari22993 Aferrari22993 Aferrari is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Andrew Ferrari, high school teacher from North Carolina, U.S.A.) - 23017 Advincula23017 Advincula23017 Advincula is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Rigoberto Advincula, high school teacher from Texas, U.S.A.) - 23975 Akran23975 Akran23975 Akran is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1320.6588239 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 12, 1998.-References:...
(Erkan Akran, middle school teacher from Arkansas, U.S.A.) - 24032 Aimeemcarthy24032 Aimeemcarthy24032 Aimeemcarthy is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1668.4868622 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 8, 1999 and named for Aimee McCarthy, the American mentor of a 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge finalist .-References:...
(Aimee McCarthy, middle school teacher from Florida, U.S.A.) - 24238 Adkerson24238 Adkerson24238 Adkerson is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1346.4418423 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 7, 1999.-References:...
(Timothy Adkerson, high school teacher from Missouri, U.S.A.) - 27286 Adedmondson (Adam Edmondson, high school teacher from Pennsylvania, U.S.A.)
- 27740 Obatomoyuki27740 Obatomoyuki27740 Obatomoyuki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...
(Tomoyuki Oba, junior high school teacher and presenter at Geisei Observatory, Japan)
College/University professors
- 6669 Obi6669 Obi6669 Obi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 5, 1994 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...
(Shinya Obi, professor emeritus at the University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
and retired president of the University of the Air) - 10051 Albee10051 Albee10051 Albee is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on August 23, 1987 by E. F. Helin at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Arden L. Albee, a Caltech professor of geology and planetary sciences who has been involved in many Mars-related science missions.- External links :...
(Arden L. Albee, professor of geology and planetary sciences and dean of graduate studies at the California Institute of TechnologyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyThe California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
) - 15870 Oburka15870 Oburka15870 Obůrka is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1563.7110616 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 16, 1996....
(Oto Oburka, professor at Brno University of TechnologyBrno University of TechnologyBrno University of Technology is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic...
and founder of the Nicholas Copernicus Observatory)
World War II heroes and veterans
- 1793 Zoya1793 Zoya1793 Zoya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 28, 1968 by Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Soviet world war 2 hero Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.- External links :*...
(Zoya KosmodemyanskayaZoya KosmodemyanskayaZoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya, alternatively Romanised as Kosmodem'yanskaya was a Soviet partisan, and a Hero of the Soviet Union...
) - 1907 Rudneva1907 Rudneva1907 Rudneva is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 11, 1972 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Evgeniya RudnevaEvgeniya RudnevaEvgeniya Maksimovna Rudneva , also known as Zhenya Rudneva was a Soviet military air navigator, a Hero of the Soviet Union, a member of the Moscow branch of the Astronomical-Geodesical Society of the USSR, and head of the Solar Department. She was Ukrainian, born into the family of an office worker...
) - 2009 Voloshina2009 Voloshina2009 Voloshina is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1968 by T.M. Smirnova.-References:* * * See also: List of asteroids...
(Vera Danilovna Voloshina, Russian partisan) - 2132 Zhukov2132 Zhukov2132 Zhukov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named after Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov.- External links :*...
(Georgy ZhukovGeorgy ZhukovMarshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov , was a Russian career officer in the Red Army who, in the course of World War II, played a pivotal role in leading the Red Army through much of Eastern Europe to liberate the Soviet Union and other nations from the Axis Powers' occupation...
) - 3348 Pokryshkin3348 Pokryshkin3348 Pokryshkin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Aleksandr Ivanovich PokryshkinAleksandr Ivanovich PokryshkinAlexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was a Marshal of the Soviet Air Force. He was made a Hero of the Soviet Union on three separate occasions ....
) - 11572 Schindler11572 Schindler11572 Schindler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. According to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory database, the asteroid was named after Oskar Schindler, whose actions during World War II were featured in Steven Spielberg's film...
(Oskar SchindlerOskar SchindlerOskar Schindler was an ethnic German industrialist born in Moravia. He is credited with saving over 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.He is the subject of the...
, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people) - 19384 Winton19384 Winton19384 Winton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1998 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet Observatory. It is named after Nicholas Winton - a Briton that organized a rescue mission to save 669 of mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from their horrific fate in Nazi concentration camps...
(Nicholas WintonNicholas WintonSir Nicholas George Winton, MBE is a British humanitarian who organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe...
, rescuer of 669 Jewish children) - 99949 Miepgies99949 Miepgies99949 Miepgies is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 2007 by T. Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. It is named after Miep Gies - a Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis during World War II, and who discovered and preserved Anne's diary after Anne Frank's arrest and...
(Miep GiesMiep GiesMiep Gies was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and several family friends in an attic annex above Anne's father's place of business from the Nazis during World War II...
, hid Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and discovered and preserved Anne's diary after her arrest and deportation.
Other war heroes
- 1834 Palach1834 Palach1834 Palach is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1969 by Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg-Bergedorf Observatory, West Germany. It was named in memory of the Czech anti-Soviet protester Jan Palach.- External links :*...
(Jan PalachJan PalachJan Palach was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.- Death :...
, Czech student who self-immolatedSelf-immolationSelf-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest...
in protest against Soviet occupationPrague SpringThe Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II...
of his country) - 20164 Janzajíc20164 Janzajíc20164 Janzajíc is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1228.3974787 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 9, 1996....
(Jan ZajícJan ZajícJan Zajíc was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest...
, Czech student who self-immolatedSelf-immolationSelf-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest...
in protest against Soviet occupationPrague SpringThe Prague Spring was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II...
of his country)
Children died in war
- 2127 Tanya2127 Tanya2127 Tanya is a main belt asteroid, discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh on May 29, 1971. She named her discovery in memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva, who died after the Siege of Leningrad and wrote a well-known diary.Orbital Information:...
(Tanya SavichevaTanya SavichevaTatiana Nikolayevna Savicheva , commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva was a Soviet child diarist who endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.- Early life :...
) - 5535 Annefrank5535 Annefrank5535 Annefrank is an inner main-belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1942. It is named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp...
(Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
) - 50413 Petrginz50413 Petrginz50413 Petrginz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 27, 2000, by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet. It is named after Holocaust victim Petr Ginz.- External links :*...
(Petr GinzPetr GinzPetr Ginz was a Czechoslovak boy of Jewish descent who was deported to the Terezín concentration camp during the Holocaust...
, Jewish boy who died in Auschwitz concentration campAuschwitz concentration campConcentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
)
Religion
- 89 Julia89 Julia89 Julia is a large main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on August 6, 1866. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries; the other was 91 Aegina. It is believed to be named after Saint Julia of Corsica. A stellar occultation by Julia was observed on December...
(Julia of CorsicaJulia of CorsicaSaint Julia of Corsica , also known as Saint Julia of Carthage, and more rarely Saint Julia of Nonza, was a virgin martyr who is venerated as a Christian saint. The date of her death is most probably on or after AD 439. She, along with Saint Devota, are the patron saints of Corsica in the Roman...
, martyr and patron saint, 5th century) - 127 Johanna127 Johanna127 Johanna is a large main-belt asteroid. It has a very dark surface and is probably a primitive composition of carbonates. It was discovered by P. M. Henry on November 5, 1872, and is believed to be named after Joan of Arc.-References:...
(believed to be named after Joan of ArcJoan of ArcSaint Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" , is a national heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. A peasant girl born in eastern France who claimed divine guidance, she led the French army to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War, which paved the way for the...
) - 873 Mechthild873 Mechthild-External links:*...
(Mechthild of MagdeburgMechthild of MagdeburgMechthild of Magdeburg , a Beguine, was a medieval mystic, whose book Das fließende Licht der Gottheit described her visions of God....
, medieval mystic) - 898 Hildegard898 Hildegard-External links:*...
(Hildegard of BingenHildegard of BingenBlessed Hildegard of Bingen , also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and...
, abbess, composer and polymath) - 1840 Hus1840 Hus1840 Hus is a main belt asteroid discovered in 1971 by the Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It is named after Jan Hus, the fifteenth century Bohemian theologian and reformer.-External links:*...
(John Huss, CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
Jan Hus, religious reformer) - 5275 Zdislava5275 Zdislava5275 Zdislava is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 28, 1986 by Z. Vavrova at Klet Observatory.- External links :*...
(Zdislava BerkaZdislava BerkaZdislava Berka was the wife of Havel of Markvartice, Duke of Lemberk is a Czech saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She was a particularly austere and generous woman who founded a convent.-Biography:...
, in Czech Zdislava z Lemberka) - 7100 Martin Luther7100 Martin Luther7100 Martin Luther is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on plates taken by Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory. It is named for German theologian and religious reformer Martin Luther.- External links :...
(Martin LutherMartin LutherMartin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
) - 7256 Bonhoeffer7256 Bonhoeffer7256 Bonhoeffer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 11, 1993 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plans by members of the Abwehr to assassinate Adolf Hitler...
) - 8661 Ratzinger8661 Ratzinger8661 Ratzinger is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1990 by Lutz D. Schmadel and Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. Named after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI.- External links :*...
(Joseph Alois Ratzinger – Pope Benedict XVIPope Benedict XVIBenedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
) - 20006 Albertus Magnus20006 Albertus Magnus20006 Albertus Magnus is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 11, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Albertus Magnus, German theologian, philosopher and naturalist)
Explorers
- 54 Alexandra54 Alexandra54 Alexandra is a very large and dark main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Hermann Goldschmidt on September 10, 1858, and named after the German explorer Alexander von Humboldt; it was the first asteroid to be named after a male....
(Alexander von HumboldtAlexander von HumboldtFriedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt...
, naturalist and explorer) - 327 Columbia327 Columbia327 Columbia is a typical Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on March 22, 1892 in Nice....
(Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents in the...
) - 853 Nansenia853 Nansenia853 Nansenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Norwegian polar explorer Fritjof Nansen.-External links:*...
(Fridtjof NansenFridtjof NansenFridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian explorer, scientist, diplomat, humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In his youth a champion skier and ice skater, he led the team that made the first crossing of the Greenland interior in 1888, and won international fame after reaching a...
, polar explorer) - 876 Scott876 Scott-External links:*...
(Robert Falcon ScottRobert Falcon ScottCaptain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
, polar explorer) - 1065 Amundsenia1065 Amundsenia1065 Amundsenia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1926 PD. It is now named after Roald Amundsen. It has a diameter of 30 kilometres.-External links:*...
(Roald AmundsenRoald AmundsenRoald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....
, polar explorer) - 2473 Heyerdahl2473 Heyerdahl2473 Heyerdahl is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered byNikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1977. It is named after Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer....
(Thor HeyerdahlThor HeyerdahlThor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a background in zoology and geography. He became notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition, in which he sailed by raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands...
, explorer and writer) - 2785 Sedov2785 Sedov2785 Sedov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 31, 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Georgy SedovGeorgy SedovGeorgy Yakovlevich Sedov was a Russian Arctic explorer.Born in the village of Krivaya Kosa of Taganrog district in a fisherman's family. In 1898, Sedov finished navigation courses in Rostov-on-Don and acquired the rank of long voyage navigator...
, ArcticArcticThe Arctic is a region located at the northern-most part of the Earth. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Greenland, the United States, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The Arctic region consists of a vast, ice-covered ocean, surrounded by treeless permafrost...
explorer) - 3130 Hillary3130 Hillary3130 Hillary is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1981 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Edmund HillaryEdmund HillarySir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE , was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest – see Timeline of climbing Mount Everest...
, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below]) - 3357 Tolstikov3357 Tolstikov3357 Tolstikov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 21, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.Was named in honour of Yevgeny Tolstikov.- External links :...
(Yevgeny TolstikovYevgeny TolstikovYevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov was a Soviet polar explorer, awarded by the Hero of the Soviet Union title. He led the Third Soviet Antarctic Expedition and one of the first manned drifting ice station in the Arctic....
, polar explorer) - 4055 Magellan4055 Magellan4055 Magellan is an Amor asteroid discovered on February 24, 1985, by E. Helin at Palomar.-See also:* V-type asteroid* HED meteorite* 4 Vesta* 3908 Nyx* 3551 Verenia- External links :*...
(Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" ....
, circumnavigator) - 6481 Tenzing6481 Tenzing6481 Tenzing is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1988 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Tenzing NorgayTenzing NorgayPadma Bhushan, Supradipta-Manyabara-Nepal-Tara Tenzing Norgay, GM born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer...
, Sherpa [see Hillary, above]) - 6542 Jacquescousteau6542 Jacquescousteau6542 Jacquescousteau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1985 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves CousteauJacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water...
, marine explorer) - 8291 Bingham8291 Bingham8291 Bingham is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1992 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Hiram Bingham IIIHiram Bingham IIIHiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...
, explorer) - 15425 Welzl15425 Welzl15425 Welzl is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1998 by P. Pravec at Ondrejov.- External links :*...
(Jan WelzlJan Eskymo WelzlJan Welzl was a Moravian traveller, adventurer, hunter, gold-digger, Eskimo chief and Chief Justice in New Siberia and later story-teller and writer...
, Arctic explorer)
Historians
- 879 Ricarda879 Ricarda-External links:*...
(Ricarda HuchRicarda HuchRicarda Huch was a pioneering German intellectual. Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play. Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.- Life :...
) - 3092 Herodotus3092 Herodotus3092 Herodotus is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(HerodotusHerodotusHerodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the 5th century BC . He has been called the "Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a...
) - 3097 Tacitus3097 Tacitus3097 Tacitus is a main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, the ancient Roman historian....
(TacitusTacitusPublius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...
) - 5946 Hrozný5946 Hrozný5946 Hrozný is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1308.2206332 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 28, 1984....
(Bedřich HroznýBedrich HroznýBedřich Hrozný was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He deciphered the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology. Though of Czech origin, he published his work in German or French.Hrozný was born in Lysá nad...
, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist) - 6174 Polybius6174 Polybius6174 Polybius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1983 by N. G. Thomas at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(PolybiusPolybiusPolybius , Greek ) was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his work, The Histories, which covered the period of 220–146 BC in detail. The work describes in part the rise of the Roman Republic and its gradual domination over Greece...
) - 6304 Josephus Flavius6304 Josephus Flavius6304 Josephus Flavius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 2, 1989 by E. W. Elst at La Silla....
(JosephusJosephusTitus Flavius Josephus , also called Joseph ben Matityahu , was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded Jewish history, with special emphasis on the 1st century AD and the First Jewish–Roman War, which resulted in the Destruction of...
) - 16413 Abulghazi16413 Abulghazi16413 Abulghazi is an asteroid. It was discovered on 28 January 1987 by E. W. West, at La Silla Observatory, Chile.-References:...
(Abulghazi BahadurAbulghazi BahadurAbulghazi Bahadur was khan of the Khanate of Khiva from 1643-1663. Having spent ten years in Persia before becoming khan, he was very well educated. Under his rule Khiva experienced a golden age. He had successfully repelled the Kalmyk raiders...
) - 40444 Palacký40444 Palacký40444 Palacký is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1857.2740603 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 12, 1999.-References:...
(František PalackýFrantišek PalackýFrantišek Palacký was a Czech historian and politician.-Biography:...
)
Other social scientists
- 1861 Komenský1861 Komenský1861 Komenský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1917.4515790 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 24, 1970.-References:...
(Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), teacher of nations) - 12838 Adamsmith12838 Adamsmith12838 Adamsmith is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1792.4116461 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 9, 1997.-References:...
(Adam SmithAdam SmithAdam Smith was a Scottish social philosopher and a pioneer of political economy. One of the key figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Smith is the author of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations...
, social philosopher) - 13916 Bernolák13916 Bernolák13916 Bernolák is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1388.1867620 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 23, 1982.-References:...
(Anton BernolákAnton BernolákAnton Bernolák Anton Bernolák Anton Bernolák (1 October 1762 in Slanica (a now inundated village near Námestovo – 15 January 1813 in Nové Zámky) was a Slovak linguist and Catholic priest and the author of the first Slovak language standard.-Life:...
, linguist) - 40440 Dobrovský40440 Dobrovský40440 Dobrovský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1930.4897148 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 11, 1999.-References:...
(Josef DobrovskýJosef DobrovskýJosef Dobrovský was a Bohemian philologist and historian, one of the most important figures of the Czech national revival.- Life & Work :...
, linguist)
Philosophers
- 423 Diotima423 Diotima423 Diotima is a one of the largest main-belt asteroids. It is classified as a C-type asteroid and is probably composed of primitive carbonaceous material....
(Diotima of MantineaDiotima of MantineaDiotima of Mantinea is a female seer who plays an important role in Plato's Symposium. Her ideas are the origin of the concept of Platonic love. Since the only source concerning her is Plato, it is uncertain whether she was a real historical personage or merely a fictional creation...
) - 2807 Karl Marx2807 Karl Marx2807 Karl Marx is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh in 1969. It is named after Karl Marx, the German philosopher whose theories comprise the basis of modern communist thought....
(Karl MarxKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
) - 2950 Rousseau2950 Rousseau2950 Rousseau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 9, 1974 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...
(Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
) - 5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin5102 Benfranklin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1986 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.- External links :*...
(Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
) - 5148 Giordano5148 Giordano5148 Giordano is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Giordano BrunoGiordano BrunoGiordano Bruno , born Filippo Bruno, was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician and astronomer. His cosmological theories went beyond the Copernican model in proposing that the Sun was essentially a star, and moreover, that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited...
) - 5329 Decaro5329 Decaro5329 Decaro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 21, 1989 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.- External links :*...
(Mario De CaroMario De CaroMario De Caro is an Italian philosopher , who teaches Moral Philosophy at Università Roma Tre. Since 2000, he has also been teaching at Tufts University. He is interested in moral philosophy, the free-will controversy, theory of action, history of science, and Donald Davidson's and Hilary Putnam's...
) - 5450 Sokrates5450 Sokrates5450 Sokrates is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(SocratesSocratesSocrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
) - 5451 Plato5451 Plato5451 Plato is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(PlatoPlatoPlato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
) - 6001 Thales6001 Thales6001 Thales is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1988 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(ThalesThalesThales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Miletus in Asia Minor, and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition...
) - 6123 Aristoteles6123 Aristoteles6123 Aristoteles is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1987 by Eric Walter Elst at Rozhen. The asteroid was named in honor of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.- External links :*...
(AristotleAristotleAristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...
) - 6629 Kurtz6629 Kurtz6629 Kurtz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1982 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...
(Paul KurtzPaul KurtzPaul Kurtz is a prominent American skeptic and secular humanist. He has been called "the father of secular humanism." He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, having previously also taught at Vassar, Trinity, and Union colleges, and the New School for...
) - 7009 Hume7009 Hume7009 Hume is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 21, 1987 by E.W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(David HumeDavid HumeDavid Hume was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
) - 7010 Locke7010 Locke7010 Locke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 28, 1987 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(John LockeJohn LockeJohn Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...
) - 7012 Hobbes7012 Hobbes7012 Hobbes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1988 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Thomas HobbesThomas HobbesThomas Hobbes of Malmesbury , in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy...
) - 7014 Nietzsche7014 Nietzsche7014 Nietzsche is an asteroid discovered April 4, 1989 by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory near Pedernales, Chile. The asteroid has an orbital period of 3 years and 142 days. It was named in honor of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche....
(Friedrich NietzscheFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a 19th-century German philosopher, poet, composer and classical philologist...
) - 7015 Schopenhauer7015 Schopenhauer7015 Schopenhauer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 1990 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Arthur SchopenhauerArthur SchopenhauerArthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal...
) - 7056 Kierkegaard7056 Kierkegaard7056 Kierkegaard is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. The asteroid was named in honour of the prolific Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.- External links :*...
(Søren KierkegaardSøren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher, theologian and religious author. He was a critic of idealist intellectuals and philosophers of his time, such as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel...
) - 7083 Kant7083 Kant7083 Kant is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 4, 1989 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Immanuel KantImmanuel KantImmanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
) - 7142 Spinoza7142 Spinoza7142 Spinoza is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 12, 1994 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Baruch SpinozaBaruch SpinozaBaruch de Spinoza and later Benedict de Spinoza was a Dutch Jewish philosopher. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of Spinoza's work was not fully realized until years after his death...
) - 8318 Averroes8318 Averroes8318 Averroes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(AverroesAverroes' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...
or Ibn Rushd) - 19730 Machiavelli19730 Machiavelli19730 Machiavelli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 7, 1999 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills. It is named for Italian philosopher and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli....
(Niccolò MachiavelliNiccolò MachiavelliNiccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. He is one of the main founders of modern political science. He was a diplomat, political philosopher, playwright, and a civil servant of the Florentine Republic...
) - 21665 Frege21665 Frege21665 Frege is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1999 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...
(Gottlob FregeGottlob FregeFriedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was a German mathematician, logician and philosopher. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern logic, and made major contributions to the foundations of mathematics. He is generally considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, for his writings on...
) - 73687 Thomas Aquinas73687 Thomas Aquinas73687 Thomas Aquinas is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Thomas AquinasThomas AquinasThomas Aquinas, O.P. , also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino, was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Communis, or Doctor Universalis...
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General authors
- 254 Augusta254 Augusta254 Augusta is a typical small Main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid. The Augusta family of asteroids is named after it as it is the first-numbered member of the family.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on March 31, 1886 in Vienna....
Auguste von LittrowAuguste von LittrowAuguste von Littrow, née von Bischoff-Altenstein was a German-Austrian author and women's movement leader.... - 1931 Čapek1931 Capek1931 Čapek is a main belt asteroid. It has an eccentricity of 0.2732038 and an orbital period of 1478.3027655 days .This asteroid was discovered on August 22, 1969 by Luboš Kohoutek.-References:...
(Karel ČapekKarel CapekKarel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
) - 2681 Ostrovskij2681 Ostrovskij2681 Ostrovskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1975 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Nikolai OstrovskyNikolai OstrovskyNikolai Alexeevich Ostrovsky was a Soviet socialist realist writer, who published his works during the Stalin era...
) - 3047 Goethe3047 Goethe3047 Goethe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Johann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long...
) - 3412 Kafka3412 Kafka3412 Kafka is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Randolph L. Kirk and Donald James Rudy in 1983. It is named after Franz Kafka, the Austrian-Czech writer. Its period is about 1212 days , so it is passed by Earth about every 523 days ....
(Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
) - 4112 Hrabal4112 Hrabal4112 Hrabal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1981 by M. Mahrová at Klet.- External links :*...
(Bohumil HrabalBohumil HrabalBohumil Hrabal was a Czech writer, regarded as one of the best writers of the 20th century.- Life and work :...
) - 5418 Joyce5418 Joyce5418 Joyce is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 29, 1981 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(James JoyceJames JoyceJames Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
) - 5535 Annefrank5535 Annefrank5535 Annefrank is an inner main-belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1942. It is named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp...
(Anne FrankAnne FrankAnnelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
) - 5666 Rabelais5666 Rabelais5666 Rabelais is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named for the French satirist François Rabelais.- External links :*...
(François RabelaisFrançois RabelaisFrançois Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...
) - 5676 Voltaire5676 Voltaire5676 Voltaire is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1430.7047683 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1986, by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina. It is named in honor of the eighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire....
(VoltaireVoltaireFrançois-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...
) - 6984 Lewiscarroll6984 Lewiscarroll6984 Lewiscarroll is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 4, 1994 by H. Shiozawa and T. Urata at Fujieda.- External links :*...
(Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
or Charles Dodgson) - 7328 Casanova7328 Casanova7328 Casanova is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Giacomo CasanovaGiacomo CasanovaGiacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...
) - 8315 Bajin8315 Bajin8315 Bajin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 25, 1997 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. The asteroid in named afrer Chinese writer Ba Jin.- External links :*...
(Bajin) - 8379 Straczynski8379 Straczynski8379 Straczynski is an asteroid discovered on September 27, 1992 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory by the Spacewatch project. It was named in honour of science fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the television series Babylon 5.... | Previous asteroid | 8379 Straczynski | Next...
(J. Michael StraczynskiJ. Michael StraczynskiJoseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,...
) - 8382 Mann8382 Mann8382 Mann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(brothers Heinrich MannHeinrich MannLuiz Heinrich Mann was a German novelist who wrote works with strong social themes. His attacks on the authoritarian and increasingly militaristic nature of pre-World War II German society led to his exile in 1933.-Life and work:Born in Lübeck as the oldest child of Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann...
and Thomas MannThomas MannThomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...
) - 13406 Sekora13406 Sekora13406 Sekora is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 2, 1999 by Lenka Šarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory. The asteroid is named after the Czech writer Ondřej Sekora.- External links :*...
(Ondřej SekoraOndřej SekoraOndřej Sekora was a Czech painter, illustrator, writer, journalist and entomologist. He is known mainly as an author of children books. Sekora was also one of the first propagators of rugby in Czechoslovakia....
) - 26314 Škvorecký26314 Škvorecký26314 Škvorecký is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1474.3181156 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 16, 1998....
(Josef ŠkvoreckýJosef ŠkvoreckýJosef Škvorecký, CM is a leading contemporary Czech writer and publisher who has spent much of his life in Canada. He and his wife were long-time supporters of Czech dissident writers before the fall of communism in that country...
) - 40106 Erben40106 Erben40106 Erben is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 20, 1998 by P. Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Karel Jaromír ErbenKarel Jaromír ErbenKarel Jaromír Erben was a Czech historian, poet and writer of the mid-19th century, best known for his collection Kytice , which contains poems based on traditional and folkloric themes....
) - 44597 Thoreau44597 Thoreau44597 Thoreau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...
(Henry David ThoreauHenry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist...
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Novelists
- 348 May348 May348 May is a large Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on November 28, 1892 in Nice....
(Karl MayKarl MayKarl Friedrich May was a popular German writer, noted mainly for adventure novels set in the American Old West, and similar books set in the Orient and Middle East . In addition, he wrote stories set in his native Germany, in China and in South America...
) - 2362 Mark Twain2362 Mark Twain2362 Mark Twain is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1976 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. This asteroid is named after a famous American writer and author Mark Twain.- External links :*...
(Mark TwainMark TwainSamuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
) - 2448 Sholokhov2448 Sholokhov2448 Sholokhov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 18, 1975 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Mikhail Sholokhov) - 2578 Saint-Exupéry2578 Saint-Exupéry2578 Saint-Exupéry is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Tamara M. Smirnova on November 2, 1975. It is named after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French aviator and writer. The name is appropriate, as Saint-Exupéry's best-known character, The Little Prince, lives on an asteroid.In...
(Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...
) - 2625 Jack London2625 Jack London2625 Jack London is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1976 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Jack LondonJack LondonJohn Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
) - 2675 Tolkien2675 Tolkien2675 Tolkien is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by M. Watt in 1982. It is named after J.R.R. Tolkien, a philologist, university professor, and author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings....
(J.R.R. Tolkien) - 3453 Dostoevsky3453 Dostoevsky3453 Dostoevsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1981 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Fyodor DostoevskyFyodor DostoevskyFyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian writer of novels, short stories and essays. He is best known for his novels Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov....
) - 3628 Božněmcová3628 Božnemcová3628 Božněmcová is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1478.2672540 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 25, 1979.-References:* * * See also: List of asteroids...
(Božena NěmcováBožena NemcováBožena Němcová was a Czech writer of the final phase of the Czech National Revival movement.-Biography:...
) - 3836 Lem3836 Lem3836 Lem is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh on 22 September 1979 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It was named after Stanisław Lem, a Polish science fiction, philosophical and satirical writer....
(Stanisław Lem) - 4124 Herriot4124 Herriot4124 Herriot is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1986 by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová at Kleť Observatory. It is named after British veterinarian and author James Herriot.- External links :*...
(James HerriotJames HerriotJames Herriot was the pen name of James Alfred Wight, OBE, FRCVS also known as Alf Wight , an English veterinary surgeon and writer, who used his many years of experiences as a veterinarian to write a series of books of stories about animals and their owners...
) - 4266 Waltari4266 Waltari4266 Waltari is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 28, 1940 by Yrjö Väisälä at Turku.- External links :*...
(Mika WaltariMika WaltariMika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian .- Early life :...
) - 4370 Dickens4370 Dickens4370 Dickens is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1982 by Ted Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Charles DickensCharles DickensCharles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic...
) - 4474 Proust4474 Proust4474 Proust is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 24, 1981 by Henri Debehogne at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Marcel ProustMarcel ProustValentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental À la recherche du temps perdu...
) - 4923 Clarke4923 Clarke4923 Clarke is an asteroid. It was discovered on March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus who also discovered 5020 Asimov on the same day. It orbits within the main asteroid belt....
(Arthur C. ClarkeArthur C. ClarkeSir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
) - 5020 Asimov5020 Asimov5020 Asimov is an asteroid discovered March 2, 1981 by Schelte J. Bus, who also discovered 4923 Clarke on the same day. It is named after Isaac Asimov, the prolific American science fiction author. On average, the asteroid has an apparent magnitude of 9.4....
(Isaac AsimovIsaac AsimovIsaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...
) - 6223 Dahl6223 Dahl6223 Dahl is an asteroid discovered 3 September 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. It was named in honor of the Welsh author Roald Dahl.See also: List of asteroids....
(Roald DahlRoald DahlRoald Dahl was a British novelist, short story writer, fighter pilot and screenwriter.Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in which he became a flying ace and intelligence agent, rising to the rank of Wing Commander...
) - 6371 Heinlein6371 Heinlein6371 Heinlein is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 15, 1985 by Bowell, E. at Anderson Mesa, named for Dieter Heinlein.- External links :*...
(Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. HeinleinRobert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
) - 6440 Ransome6440 Ransome6440 Ransome is an asteroid discovered in 1988 by Antonín Mrkos and named after the British children's author Arthur Ransome. It is in a 3.85 year orbit around the sun....
(Arthur RansomeArthur RansomeArthur Michell Ransome was an English author and journalist, best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. These tell of school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. Many of the books involve sailing; other common subjects...
) - 7016 Conandoyle7016 Conandoyle7016 Conandoyle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 30, 1991 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...
(Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan DoyleSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
) - 7232 Nabokov7232 Nabokov7232 Nabokov is an asteroid discovered October 20, 1985, by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in České Budějovice, Czech Republic. It was named in honor of novelist Vladimir Nabokov.-External links:...
(Vladimir NabokovVladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was a multilingual Russian novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist...
) - 7390 Kundera7390 Kundera- External links :*...
(Milan KunderaMilan KunderaMilan Kundera , born 1 April 1929, is a writer of Czech origin who has lived in exile in France since 1975, where he became a naturalized citizen in 1981. He is best known as the author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and The Joke. Kundera has written in...
) - 7644 Cslewis7644 Cslewis7644 Cslewis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1988 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(C. S. LewisC. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
) - 9766 Bradbury9766 Bradbury9766 Bradbury is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 24, 1992 by the Spacewatch project at Kitt Peak. It was named after science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, author of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.- External links :*...
(Ray BradburyRay BradburyRay Douglas Bradbury is an American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and for the science fiction stories gathered together as The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man , Bradbury is one of the most celebrated among 20th...
) - 10177 Ellison10177 Ellison10177 Ellison is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 10, 1996 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It is named after American science fiction writer Harlan Ellison.- External links :*...
(Harlan EllisonHarlan EllisonHarlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
) - 10251 Mulisch10251 Mulisch10251 Mulisch is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1301.6191419 days . It was named after Harry Mulisch, a Dutch author.The asteroid was discovered on March 26, 1971.-References:...
(Harry MulischHarry MulischHarry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections. These have been translated into more than 20 languages....
) - 10733 Georgesand10733 Georgesand- External links :*...
(George SandGeorge SandAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George Sand , was a French novelist and memoirist.-Life:...
) - 10930 Jinyong10930 Jinyong10930 Jinyong is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1998 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. It is named after Chinese author Jin Yong, whose birthdate falls on the same day the asteroid was discovered....
(JinyongJinyongLouis Cha, GBM, OBE , better known by his pen name Jin Yong, is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief....
) - 11020 Orwell11020 Orwell11020 Orwell is an asteroid. It was discovered on July 31, 1984 by Antonín Mrkos at the Czech observatory in Kleť.George Orwell is the pseudonym of British writer Eric Blair , forever associated with the year of discovery, 1984, due to the enduring popularity of his dystopian novel Nineteen...
(George OrwellGeorge OrwellEric Arthur Blair , better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist...
) - 11379 Flaubert11379 Flaubert11379 Flaubert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1998 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Gustave FlaubertGustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert was a French writer who is counted among the greatest Western novelists. He is known especially for his first published novel, Madame Bovary , and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style.-Early life and education:Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821, in Rouen,...
) - 17776 Troska17776 Troska17776 Troska is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1998 by Petr Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory. It is named after Czech sci-fi writer J. M. Troska.- External links :* *...
(J. M. Troska) - 25399 Vonnegut25399 Vonnegut25399 Vonnegut is an asteroid discovered on November 11, 1999 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills. The asteroid is named after Kurt Vonnegut. The asteroid was discovered on Vonnegut's birthday, November 11, and received the designation VN20 in 1999. The asteroid is located in the main asteroid belt...
(Kurt VonnegutKurt VonnegutKurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a 20th century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle , Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions blend satire, gallows humor and science fiction. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association.-Early...
) - 25924 Douglasadams25924 Douglasadams25924 Douglasadams is an asteroid from the asteroid belt. It was discovered by LINEAR on February 19, 2001 and given the provisional designation...
(Douglas AdamsDouglas AdamsDouglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
) - 77185 Cherryh77185 Cherryh77185 Cherryh is a main belt asteroid. Its provisional designation was 2001 FE9.It was discovered on March 20, 2001 at the George Observatory in Needville, Texas by amateur astronomers and Alex Cruz of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club Asteroid Discovery Team...
(C. J. CherryhC. J. CherryhCarolyn Janice Cherry , better known by the pen name C. J. Cherryh, is a United States science fiction and fantasy author...
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Poets
- 1875 Neruda1875 Neruda1875 Neruda is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1969 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Jan NerudaJan NerudaJan Nepomuk Neruda was a Czech journalist, writer and poet, one of the most prominent representatives of Czech Realism and a member of "the May school".-Early life:...
) - 2106 Hugo2106 Hugo2106 Hugo is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1936, by Marguerite Laugier at Nice.The name Hugo, proposed by Jean Meeus, was received in honour of the French writer Victor Hugo.- External links :*...
(Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
) - 2208 Pushkin2208 Pushkin2208 Pushkin is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.It was named after the leading writer of Russia, Pushkin.- External links :*...
(Aleksandr PushkinAleksandr PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature....
) - 2222 Lermontov2222 Lermontov2222 Lermontov is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...
(Mikhail LermontovMikhail LermontovMikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", became the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death in 1837. Lermontov is considered the supreme poet of Russian literature alongside Pushkin and the greatest...
) - 2604 Marshak2604 Marshak2604 Marshak is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 13, 1972 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Samuil MarshakSamuil MarshakSamuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...
) - 3067 Akhmatova3067 Akhmatova3067 Akhmatova is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1982 by Karachkina, L. G. and Zhuravleva, L. V. at Nauchnyj. It is named after the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.- External links :*...
(Anna AkhmatovaAnna AkhmatovaAnna Andreyevna Gorenko , better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova , was a Russian and Soviet modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon.Harrington p11...
) - 4110 Keats4110 Keats4110 Keats is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 13, 1977 by Edward L. G. Bowell at Palomar.- External links :*...
(John KeatsJohn KeatsJohn Keats was an English Romantic poet. Along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, he was one of the key figures in the second generation of the Romantic movement, despite the fact that his work had been in publication for only four years before his death.Although his poems were not...
) - 4369 Seifert4369 Seifert4369 Seifert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 30, 1982 by Ladislav Brožek at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jaroslav SeifertJaroslav SeifertJaroslav Seifert was a Nobel Prize winning Czech writer, poet and journalist.Born in Žižkov, a suburb of Prague in what was then part of Austria-Hungary, his first collection of poems was published in 1921...
) - 4635 Rimbaud4635 Rimbaud4635 Rimbaud is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1988 by E. W. Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory.- External links :*...
(Arthur RimbaudArthur RimbaudJean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
) - 7855 Tagore7855 Tagore7855 Tagore is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Rabindranath TagoreRabindranath TagoreRabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
) - 9495 Eminescu9495 Eminescu9495 Eminescu is an asteroid named after Romanian poet Mihai Eminescu.It was discovered in 1971 at the Palomar Observatory. It circles the Sun in 1,180.13 days , at an average distance from the Earth of 250 million Kilometers. Its diameter is does not exceed 6 km...
(Mihai EminescuMihai EminescuMihai Eminescu was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul , the official newspaper of the Conservative Party...
) - 11306 Åkesson11306 Åkesson11306 Åkesson is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on March 17, 1993. It is named after Sonja Åkesson, a Swedish writer, poet, and artist of the 20th century.-References:...
(Sonja ÅkessonSonja ÅkessonSonja Åkesson was a Swedish poet, writer, and artist.Sonja Åkesson first discovered her talent for writing at 28 after moving to Stockholm, after her divorce from Nils Westberg, a carpenter. They had two children at the time of the divorce and Sonja was expecting a baby...
) - 12163 Manilius (Marcus ManiliusMarcus ManiliusMarcus Manilius was a Roman poet, astrologer, and author of a poem in five books called Astronomica.-Criticism:The author of Astronomica is neither quoted nor mentioned by any ancient writer. Even his name is uncertain, but it was probably Marcus Manilius; in the earlier books the author is...
) - 18624 Prévert18624 Prévert18624 Prévert is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2007.7191223 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 27, 1998....
(Jacques PrévertJacques PrévertJacques Prévert was a French poet and screenwriter. His poems became and remain very popular in the French-speaking world, particularly in schools. Some of the movies he wrote are extremely well regarded, with Les Enfants du Paradis considered one of the greatest films of all time.-Life and...
) - 59830 Reynek59830 Reynek59830 Reynek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 10, 1999 by J. Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet.- External links :*...
(Bohuslav ReynekBohuslav ReynekBohuslav Reynek was one of the most important Bohemian poets, writers, painters and translators of the 20th century.-Education and personal life:...
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Playwrights
- 496 Gryphia496 Gryphia496 Gryphia is an S-type asteroid belonging to the Flora family in the Main Belt. Its diameter is about 15 km and it has an albedo of 0.168 ....
(Andreas GryphiusAndreas GryphiusAndreas Gryphius was a German lyric poet and dramatist.Asteroid 496 Gryphia is named in his honour.-Life and career:...
) - 615 Roswitha615 Roswitha-External links:*...
(Hrotsvitha) - 2930 Euripides2930 Euripides2930 Euripides is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Euripides, the ancient Greek dramatist....
(EuripidesEuripidesEuripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
) - 2985 Shakespeare2985 Shakespeare2985 Shakespeare is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1983. It is named after William Shakespeare, the English renaissance dramatist and poet....
(William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
) - 2921 Sophocles2921 Sophocles2921 Sophocles is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Sophocles, the ancient Greek tragic dramatist....
(SophoclesSophoclesSophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides...
) - 2934 Aristophanes2934 Aristophanes2934 Aristophanes is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Aristophanes, the ancient Greek comic dramatist....
(AristophanesAristophanesAristophanes , son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaus, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete...
) - 3046 Molière3046 Molière3046 Molière is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2029.6 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960.-References:...
(MolièreMolièreJean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
playwright) - 3079 Schiller3079 Schiller3079 Schiller is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Friedrich SchillerFriedrich SchillerJohann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
playwright) - 5696 Ibsen5696 Ibsen5696 Ibsen is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Henrik IbsenHenrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...
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Satirists
- 2734 Hašek2734 Hašek2734 Hašek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2053.7166710 days .The asteroid was discovered on April 1, 1976.-References:...
(Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HašekJaroslav Hašek was a Czech humorist, satirist, writer and socialist anarchist best known for his novel The Good Soldier Švejk, an unfinished collection of farcical incidents about a soldier in World War I and a satire on the ineptitude of authority figures, which has been translated into sixty...
) - 3244 Petronius3244 Petronius3244 Petronius is an asteroid found in the main belt, a member of the Flora family of asteroids. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels in 1960. It is named after Petronius Arbiter, the ancient Roman satirist and author of the Satyricon....
(PetroniusPetroniusGaius Petronius Arbiter was a Roman courtier during the reign of Nero. He is generally believed to be the author of the Satyricon, a satirical novel believed to have been written during the Neronian age.-Life:...
) - 15017 Cuppy15017 CuppyAsteroid 15017 Cuppy, a main-belt object previously known as 1998 SS25, was discovered on September 22, 1998, by Edward L. G. Bowell of the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search , Anderson Mesa Station. It was named in September 2003 for Will Cuppy , American humorist and journalist.-...
(Will CuppyWill CuppyWilliam Jacob "Will" Cuppy was an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures.-Early life:...
) - 15946 Satinský15946 Satinský15946 Satinský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1608.1523317 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 8, 1998 by Adrián Galád and Alexander Pravda at the Modra Observatory in Slovakia. It is named after Slovak comedian Július Satinský....
(Július SatinskýJúlius SatinskýJúlius Satinský was a Slovak actor, comedian, singer, showman and writer. He is mostly remembered in Slovakia as member of the legendary comedian duo Milan Lasica - Július Satinský, however his scope of interest was wide.Asteroid 15946 Satinský is named after him.- Life :He studied drama theory at...
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Other
- 4049 Noragal'4049 Noragal'4049 Noragal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 31, 1973 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj. Named after Nora Gal, Soviet translator.- External links :*...
(Nora GalNora GalNora Gal , full name Eleonora Yakovlevna Galperina was a Soviet translator, literary critic, and translation theorist.She was born on April 27, 1912 in Odessa. Her father was a medical doctor. As a child, she moved to Moscow with her family. After several unsuccessful attempts she was admitted to...
, Russian translator) - 12608 Aesop12608 Aesop12608 Aesop is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, on September 24, 1960. It is named after the Greek fabulist Aesop.-External links:...
(AesopAesopAesop was a Greek writer credited with a number of popular fables. Older spellings of his name have included Esop and Isope. Although his existence remains uncertain and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a...
, fabulist)
Visual arts
- 2730 Barks2730 Barks2730 Barks is an asteroid discovered by Ted Bowell in 1981. The asteroid was named for comic book artist Carl Barks who wrote "Island in the Sky", an Uncle Scrooge adventure.-External links:*...
(Carl BarksCarl BarksCarl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...
, cartoonist) - 3001 Michelangelo3001 Michelangelo3001 Michelangelo is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1982. It is named after Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Italian renaissance artist.Michelangelo's closest approaches to Mars are just over 0.6 AU.-References:...
(Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor) - 3246 Bidstrup3246 Bidstrup3246 Bidstrup is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1976 by Chernykh, N. at Nauchnyj. The asteroid was named after Herluf Bidstrup - Danish caricaturist and member of Communist Party of Denmark.- External links :*...
(Herluf BidstrupHerluf BidstrupHerluf Bidstrup - Danish cartoonist. Today almost forgotten in the West. He travelled to the former DDR and the Soviet Union. In addition to political cartoons he produced other works depicting everyday life and human foibles. He is still very popular in Russia.-Art:Herulf Bitstrup was one of the...
, caricaturist) - 3566 Levitan3566 Levitan3566 Levitan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 24, 1979 by L. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Isaac LevitanIsaac LevitanIsaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".-Youth:...
, painter) - 4511 Rembrandt4511 Rembrandt4511 Rembrandt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1935 by Hendrik van Gent at Johannesburg.- External links :*...
(Rembrandt van Rijn, painter) - 4671 Drtikol4671 Drtikol4671 Drtikol is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1988 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(František DrtikolFrantišek DrtikolFrantišek Drtikol was a Czech photographer of international renown. He is especially known for his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits.- Life and work :...
, photographer) - 4691 Toyen4691 Toyen4691 Toyen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1983 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
, (ToyenToyenMarie Čermínová , known as Toyen, was a Czech painter, draftsperson and illustrator and a member of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
), painter and graphic artist) - 5055 Opekushin5055 Opekushin5055 Opekushin is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1986 by Lyudmila Chernykh at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named after a Russian sculptor Alexander Opekushin.- External links :*...
(Alexander OpekushinAlexander OpekushinAlexander Mikhailovich Opekushin was s Russian sculptor. Among his works are part of the sculptures of the Millennium of Russia monument in Velikiy Novgorod , the monument to Alexander Pushkin in Moscow , the monument to Mikhail Lermontov in Pyatigorsk , the monument to Alexander II in Moscow...
, sculptor) - 5122 Mucha5122 Mucha5122 Mucha is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 1989, by A. Mrkos at Klet....
(Alfons MuchaAlfons MuchaAlfons Maria Mucha , known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.-Early years:...
, painter and graphic artist) - 5363 Kupka5363 Kupka5363 Kupka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 19, 1979 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(František KupkaFrantišek KupkaFrantišek Kupka was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism...
, painter and graphic artist) - 5800 Pollock5800 Pollock5800 Pollock is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1982 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jackson PollockJackson PollockPaul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
, painter) - 6056 Donatello6056 Donatello6056 Donatello is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(DonatelloDonatelloDonato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi , also known as Donatello, was an early Renaissance Italian artist and sculptor from Florence...
, painter) - 6592 Goya6592 Goya6592 Goya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1986 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Francisco GoyaFrancisco GoyaFrancisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown, and through his works was both a commentator on and chronicler of his era...
, painter) - 6674 Cézanne6674 Cézanne6674 Cézanne is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1408.1632318 days . It has an average orbital speed of 18.99659847 km/s.The asteroid was discovered on March 26, 1971 at the Palomar Observatory.-References:...
(Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
, painter) - 6676 Monet6676 Monet6676 Monet is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
, painter) - 6677 Renoir6677 Renoir6677 Renoir is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to...
, painter) - 6701 Warhol6701 Warhol6701 Warhol is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 14, 1988 by A. Mrkos at Klet Observatory. It is named after artist Andy Warhol.- External links :*...
(Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
, artist) - 6768 Mathiasbraun6768 Mathiasbraun6768 Mathiasbraun is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1983 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver) - 6769 Brokoff6769 Brokoff6769 Brokoff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1985 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Johann BrokoffJan BrokoffJan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, was a baroque-era sculptor and carver.Brokoff was of German origin, born in Spišská Sobota, today in Slovakia, then in Royal Hungary, and later working and living in Bohemia...
, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver) - 7701 Zrzavý7701 Zrzavý7701 Zrzavý is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1610.1009144 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 14, 1990....
(Jan ZrzavýJan ZrzavýJan Zrzavý was a leading Czech painter, graphic artist, and illustrator of the 20th century.-Biography:He was born in Okrouhlice near Německý Brod in Bohemia . He studied privately in Prague and then attended the UMPRUM there for 2 years starting in 1907, before being expelled...
, painter) - 7867 Burian7867 Burian7867 Burian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Zdeněk BurianZdenek BurianZdeněk Michael František Burian was a Czech painter and book illustrator whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstructions during a remarkable career spanning five decades...
, painter and book illustrator) - 8236 Gainsborough8236 Gainsborough8236 Gainsborough is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Thomas GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
, landscape and portrait artist) - 8237 Constable8237 Constable8237 Constable is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(John ConstableJohn ConstableJohn Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...
, painter) - 8240 Matisse8240 Matisse8240 Matisse is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Henri MatisseHenri MatisseHenri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...
, painter) - 10189 Normanrockwell10189 Normanrockwell10189 Normanrockwell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 15, 1996 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It is named after American artist Norman Rockwell.- External links :*...
(Norman RockwellNorman RockwellNorman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...
, artist) - 10218 Bierstadt10218 Bierstadt10218 Bierstadt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1997 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It was named after American landscape painter Albert Bierstadt.- External links :*...
(Albert BierstadtAlbert BierstadtAlbert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion...
, Landscape artist) - 10343 Church10343 Church10343 Church is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1991 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Federic Edward Church, painter) - 10372 Moran10372 Moran10372 Moran is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 26, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Thomas MoranThomas MoranThomas Moran from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist...
, landscape artist) - 10404 McCall10404 McCall10404 McCall is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 22, 1997 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Robert T. McCall, space artist) - 13227 Poor13227 Poor13227 Poor is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1997 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Kim Poor, space artist) - 13329 Davidhardy13329 Davidhardy13329 Davidhardy is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.It is named after British astronomical and science-fiction artist David A. Hardy .- External links :*...
(David A. HardyDavid A. HardyDavid A. Hardy , is the longest-established living space artist, having illustrated his first book in 1954....
, space artist) - 13330 Dondavis13330 Dondavis13330 Dondavis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.It is named for the space artist Don Davis .- External links :*...
(Don Davis, astronomical artist) - 13543 Butler13543 Butler13543 Butler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 2, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Chris ButlerChris ButlerChristopher John Butler, known as Chris Butler , is a former British Conservative Party politician.Butler was Member of Parliament for Warrington South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat by 191 votes to Labour Party candidate Mike Hall.He is now a Partner at Butler Kelly; a cross-Party...
, space artist) - 13562 Bobeggleton13562 Bobeggleton13562 Bobeggleton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Bob EggletonBob EggletonBob Eggleton is a science fiction, fantasy, and horror artist. Eggleton has been honored with the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist eight times, first winning in 1994. He also won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book in 2001 for his art book "Greetings From Earth"...
, painter) - 14976 Josefčapek14976 Josefcapek14976 Josefčapek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2014.1931237 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 27, 1997....
(Josef ČapekJosef CapekJosef Čapek was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and a poet. He invented the word robot, which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.- Biography :...
, painter and writer) - 17625 Joseflada17625 Joseflada17625 Joseflada is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 14, 1996 by P. Pravec and L. Šarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Josef LadaJosef LadaJosef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk...
, painter) - 17806 Adolfborn17806 Adolfborn17806 Adolfborn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1998, by P. Pravec at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Adolf BornAdolf BornAdolf Born is a Czech painter and illustrator, caricaturist and film-maker.Born in the town of České Velenice on the Czech-Austrian border, Adolf Born got his Visual Arts Education from 1949 to 1955 in Prague, where he still lives and works.Since the 1960s his works have been exhibited all over...
, painter) - 20364 Zdeněkmiler20364 Zdenekmiler20364 Zdeněkmiler is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1833.0871311 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 20, 1998....
(Zdeněk MilerZdenek MilerZdeněk Miler was a Czech animator and illustrator best known for his Mole character and its adventures.-Early years:...
, animator and illustrator) - 21501 Acevedo21501 Acevedo21501 Acevedo is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on May 23, 1998. It is named after Tony Acevedo, a graphic designer and media official at the Arecibo...
(Tony Acevedo, multimedia graphic designer) - 29490 Myslbek29490 Myslbek29490 Myslbek is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 19, 1997 by P. Pravec at Ondrejov.- External links :*...
(Josef Václav MyslbekJosef Václav MyslbekJosef Václav Myslbek was a Czech sculptor credited for founding of the modern Czech sculpting style.Josef grew up poor in a suburb of Prague. His family pushed him to become a shoemaker but he shirked the duty by getting a job with a succession of Czech sculptors...
, sculptor) - 46280 Hollar46280 Hollar46280 Hollar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 21, 2001 by P. Pravec and P. Kušnirák at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter) - 98127 Vilgusová98127 Vilgusová98127 Vilgusová is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 2000 by Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová at Ondřejov. It was named in August 2008 after Hedvika Vilgusová, a Czech painter and illustrator of books for children.- External links :...
(Hedvika Vilgusová, painter and illustrator of books for children)
Architects
- 3062 Wren3062 Wren3062 Wren is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 14, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Christopher WrenChristopher WrenSir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
) - 5318 Dientzenhofer5318 Dientzenhofer5318 Dientzenhofer is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer , members of the Dientzenhofer family of architects.-External links:*...
(DientzenhoferDientzenhoferDientzenhofer is the name of a family of German architects, who were among the leading builders in Bohemian and German Baroque.- architects :...
family or architects, like Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer) - 6055 Brunelleschi6055 Brunelleschi6055 Brunelleschi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Filippo BrunelleschiFilippo BrunelleschiFilippo Brunelleschi was one of the foremost architects and engineers of the Italian Renaissance. He is perhaps most famous for inventing linear perspective and designing the dome of the Florence Cathedral, but his accomplishments also included bronze artwork, architecture , mathematics,...
) - 6266 Letzel6266 Letzel6266 Letzel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1986 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jan LetzelJan LetzelJan Letzel was a Czech architect.-Biography:Jan Letzel was born in the town of Náchod, Bohemia. The son of a hotel owners Jan Letzel and his wife Walburga Letzel, née Havlicek...
) - 6550 Parléř6550 Parlér6550 Parléř is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1365.8085165 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 4, 1988 by Antonín Mrkos, who named the asteroid after Peter Parler.-References:...
(Peter ParlerPeter ParlerPeter Parler, , Schwäbisch Gmünd – July 13, 1399, Prague) was a German architect, best known for building Saint Vitus Cathedral and Charles Bridge in Prague, where he lived from about 1356....
) - 19129 Loos19129 Loos19129 Loos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1988 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Adolf LoosAdolf LoosAdolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was a Moravian-born Austro-Hungarian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau...
) - 35233 Krčín35233 Krcín35233 Krčín is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1461.0660595 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 26, 1995.-References:...
(Jakub KrčínJakub KrcínJakub Krčín was a prominent Czech Renaissance architect and engineer.Krčín was born in Kolín. He was a prolific designer and founder of fish ponds.-External links:** *...
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Composers
- 734 Benda734 Benda-External links:*...
(Karel BendlKarel BendlKarel or Karl Bendl was a Czech composer.He studied at the organ school, where he met and befriended Antonín Dvořák one year before graduating with honors in 1858. By then he had already composed a number of small choral works...
) - 1034 Mozartia1034 Mozartia1034 Mozartia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on September 7, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 SS. It was named after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an influential Austrian composer....
(Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
) - 1059 Mussorgskia1059 Mussorgskia1059 Mussorgskia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially, it received the designation 1925 OA. It is now named after Modest Mussorgsky, a Russian composer.-External links:*...
(Modest MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
) - 1405 Sibelius1405 Sibelius1405 Sibelius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1936 by Y. Vaisala at Turku.- External links :*...
(Jean SibeliusJean SibeliusJean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
) - 1814 Bach1814 Bach1814 Bach is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1931 by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(member of Bach familyBach familyThe Bach family was of importance in the history of music for nearly two hundred years, with over 50 known musicians and several notable composers, the best-known of whom was Johann Sebastian Bach...
, probably Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
) - 1815 Beethoven1815 Beethoven- External links :*...
(Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
) - 1818 Brahms1818 Brahms1818 Brahms is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 15, 1939 by Karl Reinmuth at Heidelberg. It is named for the composer Johannes Brahms.- External links :*...
(Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
) - 2047 Smetana2047 Smetana2047 Smetana is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
(Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
) - 2055 Dvořák2055 Dvorák2055 Dvořák is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1283.7308299 days .The asteroid was discovered on February 19, 1974.-References:...
(Antonín DvořákAntonín DvorákAntonín Leopold Dvořák was a Czech composer of late Romantic music, who employed the idioms of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia. Dvořák’s own style is sometimes called "romantic-classicist synthesis". His works include symphonic, choral and chamber music, concerti, operas and many...
) - 2073 Janáček2073 Janácek2073 Janáček is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1634.6590585 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 19, 1974.-References:...
(Leoš JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
) - 2205 Glinka2205 Glinka2205 Glinka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1973 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named for the Russian composer Mikhail Glinka.- External links :*...
(Mikhail GlinkaMikhail GlinkaMikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...
) - 2266 Tchaikovsky2266 Tchaikovsky2266 Tchaikovsky is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on November 12, 1974 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...
) - 2420 Čiurlionis2420 Ciurlionis2420 Čiurlionis is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1496.2748368 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 3, 1975 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and was named after Lithuanian artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis....
(Mikalojus Konstantinas ČiurlionisMikalojus Konstantinas CiurlionisMikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis , also known as M. K. Čiurlionis was a Lithuanian painter and composer. Čiurlionis contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch. During his short life he composed about 250 pieces of music and created about 300 paintings...
) - 2523 Ryba2523 Ryba2523 Ryba is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1980 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jakub Jan RybaJakub Jan RybaJakub Šimon Jan Ryba was a Czech teacher and composer of classical music. His most famous work is Czech Christmas Mass "Hey, Master!" ....
) - 2669 Shostakovich2669 Shostakovich2669 Shostakovich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 16, 1976 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :...
(Dmitri ShostakovichDmitri ShostakovichDmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
) - 3081 Martinůboh3081 Martinuboh3081 Martinůboh is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1367.7143802 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 26, 1971.-References:...
(Bohuslav MartinůBohuslav MartinuBohuslav Martinů was a prolific Czech composer of modern classical music. He was of Czech and Rumanian ancestry. Martinů wrote six symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. Martinů became a violinist in the Czech Philharmonic...
) - 3159 Prokof'ev3159 Prokof'ev3159 Prokof'ev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1976 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
) - 3590 Holst3590 Holst3590 Holst is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 5, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Gustav HolstGustav HolstGustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
) - 3592 Nedbal3592 Nedbal3592 Nedbal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1980 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Oskar NedbalOskar NedbalOskar Nedbal was a Czech violist, composer, and conductor of classical music.-Life:Nedbal was born in Tábor, in southern Bohemia. He studied the violin at the Prague Conservatory under Antonín Bennewitz...
) - 3784 Chopin3784 Chopin3784 Chopin is a small main belt asteroid with a diameter of 28.53 +/- 4.4 km. It was discovered by Eric W. Elst in 1986. It is named after Frédéric Chopin, the nineteenth century Polish composer.-External links:*...
(Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
) - 3826 Handel3826 Handel3826 Handel is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by F. Borngen in 1973. It is named after George Frideric Handel, the eighteenth century German composer. -References:...
(George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
) - 3917 Franz Schubert3917 Franz Schubert3917 Franz Schubert is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Freimut Börngen in Tautenburg on February 15, 1961. It is named after the composer Franz Schubert-References:...
(Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
) - 3941 Haydn3941 Haydn3941 Haydn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1973 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
) - 3954 Mendelssohn3954 Mendelssohn3954 Mendelssohn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 24, 1987 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
) - 3955 Bruckner3955 Bruckner3955 Bruckner is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1988, by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Anton BrucknerAnton BrucknerAnton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
) - 3975 Verdi3975 Verdi3975 Verdi is a small main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Freimut Börngen in 1982 and is named after the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi....
(Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
) - 3992 Wagner3992 Wagner3992 Wagner is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1987, by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. It is named after German composer Richard Wagner.- External links :*...
(Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
) - 4003 Schumann4003 Schumann4003 Schumann is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 8, 1964 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(probably Robert SchumannRobert SchumannRobert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
) - 4040 Purcell4040 Purcell4040 Purcell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1987 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
(Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
) - 4079 Britten4079 Britten4079 Britten is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1983 by Edward L. G. Bowell at Flagstaff. It is named after the British composer Benjamin Britten.-External links:*...
(Benjamin BrittenBenjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
) - 4132 Bartók4132 Bartók4132 Bartók is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1365.4261580 days .The asteroid was discovered on March 12, 1988.-References:...
(Béla BartókBéla BartókBéla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
) - 4134 Schütz4134 Schütz4134 Schütz is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1274.7403646 days . The asteroid was discovered on 15 February 1961 by Freimut Börngen in Tautenburg, and named after Heinrich Schütz , a German composer and organist....
(Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
) - 4330 Vivaldi4330 Vivaldi4330 Vivaldi is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1226.1295148 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 19, 1982.-References:...
(Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
) - 4345 Rachmaninoff4345 Rachmaninoff4345 Rachmaninoff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1988 by Eric Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
) - 4382 Stravinsky4382 Stravinsky4382 Stravinsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 29, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Igor StravinskyIgor StravinskyIgor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
) - 4406 Mahler4406 Mahler4406 Mahler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 22, 1987 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Gustav MahlerGustav MahlerGustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
) - 4492 Debussy4492 Debussy4492 Debussy is a main belt asteroid. It was discovered on 17 September 1988 by Eric Elst. It is named after the French composer Claude Debussy. It is believed to measure approximately 10 km in diameter....
(Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
) - 4515 Khrennikov4515 Khrennikov4515 Khrennikov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1973 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...
(Tikhon KhrennikovTikhon KhrennikovTikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, leader of the Union of Soviet Composers, who was also known for his political activities...
) - 4527 Schoenberg4527 Schoenberg4527 Schoenberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 24, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Arnold SchoenbergArnold SchoenbergArnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...
) - 4528 Berg4528 Berg4528 Berg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1983 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-External links:*...
(Alban BergAlban BergAlban Maria Johannes Berg was an Austrian composer. He was a member of the Second Viennese School with Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern, and produced compositions that combined Mahlerian Romanticism with a personal adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique.-Early life:Berg was born in...
) - 4529 Webern4529 Webern4529 Webern is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Anton WebernAnton WebernAnton Webern was an Austrian composer and conductor. He was a member of the Second Viennese School. As a student and significant follower of Arnold Schoenberg, he became one of the best-known exponents of the twelve-tone technique; in addition, his innovations regarding schematic organization of...
) - 4532 Copland4532 Copland4532 Copland is an asteroid named after American composer Aaron Copland. It was discovered on April 15, 1985 by Edward Bowell....
(Aaron CoplandAaron CoplandAaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
) - 4534 Rimskij-Korsakov4534 Rimskij-Korsakov4534 Rimskij-Korsakov is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1710.8330089 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 6, 1986.-References:...
(Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Rimsky-KorsakovNikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five.The Five, also known as The Mighty Handful or The Mighty Coterie, refers to a circle of composers who met in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in the years 1856–1870: Mily Balakirev , César...
) - 4546 Franck4546 Franck4546 Franck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1990 by Eric Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(César FranckCésar FranckCésar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
) - 4559 Strauss4559 Strauss4559 Strauss is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Johann StraussJohann Strauss IJohann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
family or Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
) - 4579 Puccini4579 Puccini4579 Puccini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. Named after the composer of the same name.- External links :*...
(Giacomo PucciniGiacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
) - 4625 Shchedrin4625 Shchedrin4625 Shchedrin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Rodion ShchedrinRodion ShchedrinRodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin is a Russian composer. He was one оf the leading Soviet composers, and was the chairman of the Union of Russian Composers from 1973 until 1990.-Life and Works:...
) - 4727 Ravel4727 Ravel4727 Ravel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 24, 1979 by Freimut Börngen and K. Kirsch at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
) - 4734 Rameau4734 Rameau4734 Rameau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 19, 1982 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
) - 4802 Khatchaturian4802 Khatchaturian4802 Khatchaturian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Aram Khatchaturian) - 4818 Elgar4818 Elgar4818 Elgar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-External links:*...
(Edward ElgarEdward ElgarSir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM, GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos...
) - 4850 Palestrina4850 Palestrina4850 Palestrina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1973 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Giovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da PalestrinaGiovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition...
) - 4972 Pachelbel4972 Pachelbel4972 Pachelbel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Johann PachelbelJohann PachelbelJohann Pachelbel was a German Baroque composer, organist and teacher, who brought the south German organ tradition to its peak. He composed a large body of sacred and secular music, and his contributions to the development of the chorale prelude and fugue have earned him a place among the most...
) - 5004 Bruch5004 Bruch5004 Bruch is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1988 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. It is named for Albert Bruch, a German astronomer.- External links :*...
(Max BruchMax BruchMax Christian Friedrich Bruch , also known as Max Karl August Bruch, was a German Romantic composer and conductor who wrote over 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.-Life:Bruch was born in Cologne, Rhine Province, where he...
) - 5063 Monteverdi5063 Monteverdi5063 Monteverdi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Claudio MonteverdiClaudio MonteverdiClaudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition – the...
) - 5157 Hindemith5157 Hindemith5157 Hindemith is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1973 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Paul HindemithPaul HindemithPaul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
) - 5177 Hugowolf5177 Hugowolf5177 Hugowolf is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Hugo WolfHugo WolfHugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovene origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in...
) - 5210 Saint-Saëns5210 Saint-Saëns5210 Saint-Saëns is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1391.3461285 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 7, 1989....
(Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
) - 6480 Scarlatti6480 Scarlatti6480 Scarlatti is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 12, 1988 by E. W. Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory.- External links :*...
(AlessandroAlessandro ScarlattiAlessandro Scarlatti was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. He was the father of two other composers, Domenico Scarlatti and Pietro Filippo Scarlatti.-Life:Scarlatti was born in...
and Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
) - 6549 Skryabin6549 Skryabin6549 Skryabin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1988 by E. W. Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory. It was named after Alexander Scriabin, a Russian composer.- External links :...
(Alexander ScriabinAlexander ScriabinAlexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
) - 6777 Balakirev6777 Balakirev6777 Balakirev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(Mily BalakirevMily BalakirevMily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...
) - 6780 Borodin6780 Borodin6780 Borodin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1990 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla. It was named after Alexander Borodin, a Russian composer and chemist.- External links :*...
(Alexander BorodinAlexander BorodinAlexander Porfiryevich Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer and chemist of Georgian–Russian parentage. He was a member of the group of composers called The Five , who were dedicated to producing a specifically Russian kind of art music...
) - 6798 Couperin6798 Couperin6798 Couperin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 14, 1993 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...
(François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
) - 7622 Pergolesi7622 Pergolesi7622 Pergolesi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Giovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista PergolesiGiovanni Battista Pergolesi was an Italian composer, violinist and organist.-Biography:Born at Iesi, Pergolesi studied music there under a local musician, Francesco Santini, before going to Naples in 1725, where he studied under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo among others...
) - 7624 Gluck7624 Gluck7624 Gluck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 25, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
) - 7625 Louisspohr7625 Louisspohr7625 Louisspohr is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Louis SpohrLouis SpohrLouis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
) - 7903 Albinoni7903 Albinoni7903 Albinoni is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 20, 1996 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla. It was named for composer Tomaso Albinoni.- External links :*...
(Tomaso AlbinoniTomaso AlbinoniTomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
) - 8181 Rossini8181 Rossini8181 Rossini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1992 by Lyudmila Zhuravlyova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.- External links :*...
(Gioacchino RossiniGioacchino RossiniGioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
) - 8249 Gershwin8249 Gershwin8249 Gershwin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
) - 8877 Rentaro8877 Rentaro8877 Rentaro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1993 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...
(Taki RentaroTaki Rentarowas a pianist and one of the best-known composers of Japan.Taki was born in Tokyo, but moved to many places during his childhood owing to his father's job. He graduated from the Tokyo Music School in 1901. One of his famous pieces is Kōjō no Tsuki, which was included in the songbook for junior high...
) - 9438 Satie9438 Satie9438 Satie is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1997 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...
(Erik SatieErik SatieÉric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
) - 9493 Enescu9493 Enescu-External links:*...
(George EnescuGeorge EnescuGeorge Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
) - 9912 Donizetti9912 Donizetti9912 Donizetti is an S-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.11 years. It is associated with the Rafita family of asteroids....
(Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
) - 9913 Humperdinck9913 Humperdinck9913 Humperdinck is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.46 years. It is associated with the Flora family of asteroids.Discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld on archived photographic plates made by Tom Gehrels with the...
(Engelbert Humperdinck) - 10055 Silcher10055 Silcher10055 Silcher is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 22, 1987 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg. It is named after German composer Friedrich Silcher.- External links :*...
(Friedrich SilcherFriedrich SilcherPhillipp Friedrich Silcher , was a German composer, mainly known for his lieder , and an important folksong collector.-Life:...
) - 10116 Robertfranz10116 Robertfranz10116 Robertfranz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg. It is named after Robert Franz, a German Romantic composer.- External links :...
(Robert FranzRobert FranzRobert Franz was a German composer, mainly of lieder.-Biography:He was born Robert Knauth in Halle, Germany, the son of Christoph Franz Knauth...
) - 10186 Albéniz10186 Albéniz10186 Albéniz is a main belt asteroid, discovered on April 20, 1996 by E.W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. It is named after Isaac Albéniz, a Spanish child prodigy and composer....
(Isaac AlbénizIsaac AlbénizIsaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
, Spanish Catalan composer and pianist) - 10820 Offenbach10820 Offenbach10820 Offenbach is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 18, 1993 by E. W. Elst at Caussols. It is named for French composer Jacques Offenbach.- References :...
(Jacques OffenbachJacques OffenbachJacques Offenbach was a Prussian-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s–1870s and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He was a powerful influence on later composers of the operetta genre, particularly Johann Strauss, Jr....
) - 10875 Veracini10875 Veracini10875 Veracini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1996 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It was named for Italian composer Francesco Maria Veracini.- References :...
(Francesco Maria VeraciniFrancesco Maria Veracinithumb|150px|Francesco Maria Veracini.Francesco Maria Veracini was an Italian composer and violinist, perhaps best known for his sets of violin sonatas.-Life:Francesco Maria Veracini led a turbulent life...
) - 11050 Messiaen11050 Messiaen11050 Messiaën is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg. It was named after the French organist and composer Olivier Messiaen.- External links :*...
(Olivier MessiaenOlivier MessiaenOlivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...
) - 11289 Frescobaldi11289 Frescobaldi11289 Frescobaldi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 2, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Girolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo FrescobaldiGirolamo Frescobaldi was a musician from Ferrara, one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. A child prodigy, Frescobaldi studied under Luzzasco Luzzaschi in Ferrara, but was influenced by a large number of composers, including Ascanio...
) - 11530 d'Indy11530 d'Indy11530 d'Indy is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 2, 1992 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :...
(Vincent d'IndyVincent d'IndyVincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher.-Life:Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and...
) - 11899 Weill11899 Weill11899 Weill is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 9, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Kurt WeillKurt WeillKurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
) - 15808 Zelter15808 Zelter15808 Zelter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1994 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg....
(Carl Friedrich ZelterCarl Friedrich ZelterCarl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music.Zelter became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems...
) - 16590 Brunowalter16590 Brunowalter16590 Brunowalter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1992 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Bruno WalterBruno WalterBruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939...
, composer and conductor) - 17509 Ikumadan17509 Ikumadan17509 Ikumadan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 4, 1992, by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...
(Ikuma DanIkuma Danwas a Japanese composer.- Biography :Dan was born in Tokyo, the descendant of a prominent family, his grandfather Baron Dan Takuma having been President of Mitsui before being assassinated in 1932. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music in 1946...
) - 53159 Mysliveček53159 Myslivecek53159 Mysliveček is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1364.0761749 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 10, 1999....
(Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
) - 69288 Berlioz69288 Berlioz69288 Berlioz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 11, 1990, by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
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Conductors
- 5230 Asahina5230 Asahina5230 Asahina is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on March 10, 1988 by J. Alu at Palomar.- External links :...
(Takashi AsahinaTakashi Asahinawas a Japanese conductor. Born in Tokyo, he founded the Kansai Symphonic Orchestra in 1947 and remained its chief conductor until his death in Kobe. Inspired by a meeting with Wilhelm Furtwängler in the 1950s, he began a lifelong attachment to the music of Anton Bruckner, recording the complete...
) - 6432 Temirkanov6432 Temirkanov6432 Temirkanov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Named after Soviet conductor Yuri Temirkanov....
(Yuri TemirkanovYuri TemirkanovYuri Khatuevich Temirkanov is a Russian conductor of Circassian origin.Yuri Temirkanov has been the Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic since 1988.-Early life:...
) - 11201 Talich11201 Talich11201 Talich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1999 by L. Šarounová at Ondrejov.- External links :*...
(Václav TalichVáclav TalichVáclav Talich was a Czech conductor, violinist and pedagogue.- Life :Born in Kroměříž, Moravia, he started his musical career in a student orchestra in Klatovy. From 1897 to 1903 he studied at the conservatory in Prague with Otakar Ševčík...
) - 21801 Ančerl21801 Ancerl21801 Ančerl is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on October 2, 1999 by L. Sarounová at the Ondrejov Observatory. It is named after Karel Ančerl, who was a respected and successful Czech conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.-References:...
(Karel AnčerlKarel AncerlKarel Ančerl , was a Czech conductor, known for his performances of contemporary music and for his interpretations of music by Czech composers...
) - 21804 Václavneumann21804 Václavneumann21804 Václavneumann is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2852.3825242 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 4, 1999....
(Václav NeumannVáclav NeumannVáclav Neumann was a Czech conductor, violinist and viola player.Neumann was born in Prague where he studied at the Prague Conservatory, with Josef Micka , and with Pavel Dědeček and Metod Doležil . He co-founded, and played 1st violin in, the Smetana Quartet, before holding conducting posts in...
) - 36226 Mackerras36226 Mackerras36226 Mackerras is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 31, 1999 by L. Šarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Charles MackerrasCharles MackerrasSir Alan Charles Maclaurin Mackerras, AC, CH, CBE was an Australian conductor. He was an authority on the operas of Janáček and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan...
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Others
- 218 Bianca218 Bianca218 Bianca is a sizeable Main belt asteroid. It is an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on September 4, 1880, in Pola and was named after the Austro-Hungarian opera singer Bianca Bianchi...
(Bertha SchwarzBertha SchwarzBertha Schwarz was a coloratura soprano opera singer of the late 19th century, often known by her stage name Bianca Bianchi. Her greatest successes were at Vienna....
, stage name Bianca Bianchi, opera singer) - 644 Cosima644 Cosima-External links:*...
(Cosima WagnerCosima WagnerCosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner, née de Flavigny, from 1844 known as Cosima Liszt; was the daughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt...
, director of the Bayreuth FestivalBayreuth FestivalThe Bayreuth Festival is a music festival held annually in Bayreuth, Germany, at which performances of operas by the 19th century German composer Richard Wagner are presented...
and wife of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
) - 677 Aaltje677 Aaltje677 Aaltje is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.It is named after the Dutch singer Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius. -External links:*...
(Aaltje Noordewier-ReddingiusAaltje Noordewier-ReddingiusAaltje Noordewier-Reddingius was a noted Dutch classical soprano who had an active performance career in the concert repertoire from 1888 up into the 1930s. She was also a celebrated voice teacher. From 1886-1890 she studied at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam...
, soprano) - 5203 Pavarotti5203 Pavarotti5203 Pavarotti is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1984 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Luciano PavarottiLuciano Pavarottiright|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...
, opera singer) - 6583 Destinn6583 Destinn6583 Destinn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 21, 1984 by Mrkos, A. at Klet.- External links :*...
(Ema Destinnová, also known as Emmy Destinn, opera singer) - 8471 Obrant8471 Obrant8471 Obrant is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1983 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...
(Arkadij Efimovich Obrant, ballet-master, producer, and teacher-humanist) - 9914 Obukhova9914 Obukhova9914 Obukhova is a C-type main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.37 years.Discovered on October 28, 1976 by Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Obukhova" after Russian opera singer Nadezhda...
(Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova, soloist at the Bolshoj Theater and People's Artist of the U.S.S.R.) - 18460 Pecková18460 Pecková18460 Pecková is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1486.7112790 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 5, 1995 and is named after Czech mezzo-soprano Dagmar Pecková.-References:...
(Dagmar Pecková, opera singer) - 11305 Ahlqvist11305 Ahlqvist11305 Ahlqvist is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered through the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on March 17, 1993. It is named after David Ahlqvist, a Swedish artist, author, and musician of Gotland.-External links:*...
(David Ahlqvist, Swedish artist, author, and musician) - 58373 Albertoalonso58373 Albertoalonso58373 Albertoalonso is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Timothy B. Spahr through the Catalina Sky Survey on September 19, 1995. It is named after Alberto Alonso, a Cuban choreographer of the 20th and 21st centuries.-External links:...
(Alberto Alonso, Cuban choreographer and dance visionary)
Popular music
- 1889 Pakhmutova1889 Pakhmutova1889 Pakhmutova is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1968 by L. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. Named after Soviet composer Aleksandra Pakhmutova.- External links :*...
(Aleksandra PakhmutovaAleksandra PakhmutovaAleksandra "Alya" Nikolayevna Pakhmutova has remained one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s....
, composer) - 2620 Santana2620 Santana2620 Santana is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1980 by Z. Vavrova at Klet.- External links :*...
(Carlos SantanaCarlos SantanaCarlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
, musician) - 2644 Victor Jara2644 Victor Jara2644 Victor Jara is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the Solar System. Initially it received the designation 1973 SO2. The numerical designation indicates that it was the 2644 minor planet/asteroid discovered...
(Víctor JaraVíctor JaraVíctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile...
, musician) - 3738 Ots3738 Ots3738 Ots is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 19, 1977 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It was named after Estonian opera singer Georg Ots.- External links :*...
(Georg OtsGeorg OtsGeorg Ots, People's Artist of the USSR was an Estonian opera singer...
, musician) - 3834 Zappafrank3834 Zappafrank3834 Zappafrank is a main belt asteroid that was discovered by Ladislav Brožek in 1980 at Kleť Observatory. It was named after the late American composer Frank Zappa on July 22, 1994.-Naming campaign:John V...
(Frank ZappaFrank ZappaFrank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...
, musician) - Beatles8749 Beatles8749 Beatles is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1998 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory. It was named after the famous 1960s pop and rock group The Beatles.- External links :*...
members:- 4147 Lennon4147 Lennon4147 Lennon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1983 by Brian A. Skiff at Flagstaff. It is named after ex-Beatle John Lennon.- External links :...
(John LennonJohn LennonJohn Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
) - 4148 McCartney4148 McCartney4148 McCartney is an asteroid named in honour of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney. It was discovered by Ted Bowell on July 11, 1983.McCartney is an asteroid of the main belt, at 2.525 AU. It has an eccentricity of 1.098 and an orbital period of 1,258.21 days . Its mean orbital velocity is...
(Paul McCartneyPaul McCartneySir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
) - 4149 Harrison4149 Harrison4149 Harrison is a minor planet that was discovered on March 9, 1984 by Brian A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after ex-Beatle George Harrison.-External links:*...
(George HarrisonGeorge HarrisonGeorge Harrison, MBE was an English musician, guitarist, singer-songwriter, actor and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist of The Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison became over time an admirer of Indian mysticism, and introduced it to the other...
) - 4150 Starr4150 Starr4150 Starr is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered on August 31, 1984 by Brian A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It is named after ex-Beatle Ringo Starr.-External links:*...
(Ringo StarrRingo StarrRichard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
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- 4147 Lennon
- 4305 Clapton4305 ClaptonMinor Planet 4305 is named 4305 Clapton to honor Eric Clapton. It is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.-External links:...
(Eric ClaptonEric ClaptonEric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
, musician) - 4422 Jarre4422 Jarre4422 Jarre is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1942 by Louis Boyer at Algiers. It is named after French composers Jean-Michel Jarre, and his father Maurice Jarre ....
(Maurice JarreMaurice JarreMaurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...
and Jean Michel JarreJean Michel JarreJean Michel André Jarre is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and New Age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and...
, French composers) - 4442 Garcia4442 GarciaMinor Planet 4442 is named 4442 Garcia to honor Jerry Garcia, frontman of the Grateful Dead. It is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.-External links:*...
(Jerry GarciaJerry GarciaJerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
, musician) - 5656 Oldfield5656 Oldfield5656 Oldfield is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1920 by W. Baade at Bergedorf. It has been named after the British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, creator of the famed Tubular Bells albums.- External links :*...
(Mike OldfieldMike OldfieldMichael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...
, composer) - 5945 Roachapproach5945 Roachapproach5945 Roachapproach is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1984 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of Lowell Observatory.- External links :...
(Steve Roach, musician) - 6354 Vangelis6354 Vangelis6354 Vangelis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1934 by Eugène Delporte at Uccle. The planet bears the namesake of composer / musician, Vangelis.- External links :**...
(Vangelis PapathanassiouVangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
, composer) - 6433 Enya6433 Enya6433 Enya is an asteroid discovered in 1978 named after the Irish musician Enya. It is in a 3.69 year orbit around the sun and lies between 279.7 million km, and 434.8 million km from the sun.-External links:...
(EnyaEnyaEnya is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and songwriter. Enya is an approximate transliteration of how Eithne is pronounced in the Donegal dialect of the Irish language, her native tongue.She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to...
, musician) - 7226 Kryl7226 Kryl7226 Kryl is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 21, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Karel KrylKarel KrylKarel Kryl was a popular Czech singer-songwriter and performer of many protest songs in which he strongly criticized and identified the shortcomings and inhumanity of the Communist and later post-communist regime in his home country.-Biography:Kryl was born on April 12, 1944, in Kroměříž, in...
, musician) - 7707 Yes7707 Yes7707 Yes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 17, 1993 by C. W. Hergenrother at Catalina Station. It is named after the progressive rock group Yes.- External links :*...
(YesYes (band)Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
, band) - 7934 Sinatra7934 Sinatra7934 Sinatra is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Frank SinatraFrank SinatraFrancis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...
, vocalist) - 8249 Gershwin8249 Gershwin8249 Gershwin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(George GershwinGeorge GershwinGeorge Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...
, composer) - 9179 Satchmo9179 Satchmo- External links :*...
(Louis ArmstrongLouis ArmstrongLouis Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer from New Orleans, Louisiana....
, musician) - 10313 Vanessa-Mae10313 Vanessa-Mae10313 Vanessa-Mae is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Singaporean-British musician Vanessa-Mae.-References:...
(Vanessa-MaeVanessa-MaeVanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson , known professionally as Vanessa-Mae , is an internationally known British violinist. Her music style is self-described as "violin techno-acoustic fusion", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style...
, musician) - 14024 Procol Harum14024 Procol Harum14024 Procol Harum is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1994 by P. Sicoli and P. Ghezzi at Sormano. It is named after the British rock band Procol Harum.- External links :...
(Procol HarumProcol HarumProcol Harum are a British rock band, formed in 1967, which contributed to the development of progressive rock, and by extension, symphonic rock. Their best-known recording is their 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale"...
, band) - 15092 Beegees15092 Beegees15092 Beegees is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 15, 1999 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.The members of the British pop-rock-disco group Bee Gees: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, and Maurice Gibb and their younger brother, singer Andy Gibb that was never a member of the group, were...
(Bee GeesBee GeesThe Bee Gees are a musical group that originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and as a...
, band) - 16155 Buddy16155 Buddy16155 Buddy is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 2000 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.- External links :*...
(Buddy HollyBuddy HollyCharles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
, musician) - 17059 Elvis17059 Elvis17059 Elvis is a minor planet that was discovered by John Broughton on April 15, 1999. It is named after Elvis Presley.-External links:*...
(Elvis PresleyElvis PresleyElvis Aaron Presley was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King"....
, musician) - 18132 Spector18132 Spector18132 Spector is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 30, 2000 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.- External links :*...
(Phil SpectorPhil SpectorPhillip Harvey "Phil" Spector is an American record producer and songwriter, later known for his conviction in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson....
, musician) - 18125 Brianwilson18125 Brianwilson18125 Brianwilson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 22, 2000 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.- External links :*...
(Brian WilsonBrian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson is an American musician, best known as the leader and chief songwriter of the group The Beach Boys. Within the band, Wilson played bass and keyboards, also providing part-time lead vocals and, more often, backing vocals, harmonizing in falsetto with the group...
, musician) - 19367 Pink Floyd19367 Pink Floyd19367 Pink Floyd is an asteroid that has been named in honour of the English musical group Pink Floyd. It was discovered on December 3, 1997. It is in a 3.82-year elliptical orbit around the sun. Its previous perihelion passage occurred on December 23, 2004 at 9h00 UT.There is little information on...
(Pink FloydPink FloydPink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...
, band) - 19383 Rolling Stones19383 Rolling Stones19383 Rolling Stones is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 29, 1998 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols. It has been named in honor of the English musical group The Rolling Stones....
(Rolling Stones, band) - 23990 Springsteen23990 Springsteen23990 Springsteen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1999 by I. P. Griffin at Auckland. It is named after American musician Bruce Springsteen.- External links :*...
(Bruce SpringsteenBruce SpringsteenBruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...
, musician) - 44016 Jimmypage44016 Jimmypage44016 Jimmypage is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 30, 1997 by Mark Armstrong and Claire Armstrong at Rolvenden, Kent, United Kingdom.- External links :*...
(Jimmy PageJimmy PageJames Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and record producer. He began his career as a studio session guitarist in London and was subsequently a member of The Yardbirds from 1966 to 1968, after which he founded the English rock band Led Zeppelin.Jimmy Page...
, musician) - 79896 Billhaley79896 Billhaley79896 Billhaley is a Main Belt asteroid previously designated which in February 2006 was renamed in honor of rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley. The new designation commemorated the 25th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed musician in February 1981...
(Bill HaleyBill HaleyBill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock".-Early life and career:...
, musician) - 110393 Rammstein110393 Rammstein110393 Rammstein is an asteroid named after the German NDH-Metal band Rammstein. It was discovered by Jean-Claude Merlin....
(RammsteinRammsteinRammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...
, band)
Film, TV and Theatre
- 2374 Vladvysotskij2374 Vladvysotskij2374 Vladvysotskij is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1987.8442221 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 22, 1974 by Lyudmila Zhuravleva.-References:...
, (Vladimir VysotskyVladimir VysotskyVladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky was a Soviet singer, songwriter, poet, and actor whose career had an immense and enduring effect on Russian culture. He became widely known for his unique singing style and for his lyrics, which featured social and political commentary in often humorous street...
, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor) - 2816 Pien2816 Pien2816 Pien is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff .- External links :*...
, (Armand PienArmand PienArmand Pien was a Belgian weatherman for 37 years. He was popular because his weather predictions were funny and somewhat cryptic....
(1920–2003), Belgian TV weatherman) - 3252 Johnny3252 Johnny3252 Johnny is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.- External links :*...
(Johnny CarsonJohnny CarsonJohn William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...
, Talk Show Host) - 3998 Tezuka3998 Tezuka3998 Tezuka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1, 1989 by T. Kojima at Chiyoda.- External links :*...
(Osamu TezukaOsamu Tezukawas a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...
, pioneering Japanese comic artist and animator) - 4238 Audrey4238 Audrey4238 Audrey is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at Klet. It was named after the actress Audrey Hepburn.- External links :*...
(Audrey HepburnAudrey HepburnAudrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...
, actress) - 4535 Adamcarolla4535 Adamcarolla4535 Adamcarolla is an asteroid discovered on August 28, 1986 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. The asteroid is named after radio and television personality Adam Carolla.- External links :*-References:...
(Adam CarollaAdam CarollaAdam Carolla is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor. He currently hosts The Adam Carolla Show, a talk show distributed as a podcast on the ACE Broadcasting Network...
, comedian, television and radio host) - 4536 Drewpinsky4536 Drewpinsky4536 Drewpinsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 22, 1987 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. The asteroid is named after Dr. Drew Pinsky.- External links :*...
(Drew PinskyDrew PinskyDavid Drew Pinsky , best known as Dr. Drew, is an American board-certified internist, addiction medicine specialist, and radio and television personality. He has hosted the nationally syndicated radio talk show Loveline since the show's inception in 1984. On television, he hosts the talk show Dr...
, television and radio host, actor) - 4659 Roddenberry4659 Roddenberry4659 Roddenberry is a main-belt asteroid named for Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek. It was discovered in the southern sky on March 2, 1981, at the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales by S.J. "Bobby" Bus....
(Gene RoddenberryGene RoddenberryEugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist, best known for creating the American science fiction series Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer...
, Star Trek creator) - 5608 Olmos5608 Olmos5608 Olmos is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1,567.8586879 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 12, 1993, and named after actor Edward James Olmos.-References:...
(Edward James OlmosEdward James OlmosEdward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...
, actor) - 6318 Cronkite6318 Cronkite6318 Cronkite is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on November 18, 1990 by E. F. Helin at Palomar. It is named after American journalist, Walter Cronkite.- External links :*...
(Walter CronkiteWalter CronkiteWalter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...
, TV newsreader) - 6377 Cagney6377 Cagney6377 Cagney is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.2040982 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.1591612 and an orbital period of 1550.13 days .Cagney has an average orbital speed of 18.39643406 km/s and an inclination of 15.45078°....
(James CagneyJames CagneyJames Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him eighth...
, actor) - 6546 Kaye6546 Kaye6546 Kaye is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 24, 1987 by A. Mrkos at Klet.It is named in honour of the actor Danny Kaye.- External links :**...
(Danny KayeDanny KayeDanny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...
, actor and comedian) - 7032 Hitchcock7032 Hitchcock7032 Hitchcock is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1994 by Yoshisada Shimizu and Yoshisada Shimizu at the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory. It is named after famous director Alfred Hitchcock.- External links :*...
(Alfred HitchcockAlfred HitchcockSir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, KBE was a British film director and producer. He pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres. After a successful career in British cinema in both silent films and early talkies, Hitchcock moved to Hollywood...
, film director) - 7037 Davidlean7037 Davidlean7037 Davidlean is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 29, 1995 by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory.- External links :*...
(David LeanDavid LeanSir David Lean CBE was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai , Lawrence of Arabia ,...
, film director) - 7307 Takei7307 Takei7307 Takei is an asteroid orbiting the Sun. Discovered 1994 Apr. 13 by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at Nachi-Katsuura. It was named in honor of George Takei , the actor who played the character Hikaru Sulu on the original Star Trek series...
(George TakeiGeorge TakeiGeorge Hosato Takei Altman is an American actor, author, social activist and former civil politician. He is best known for his role in the television series Star Trek and its film spinoffs, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the...
, actor) - 8299 Téaleoni8299 Téaleoni8299 Téaleoni is an asteroid named after actress Téa Leoni; probably in reference to her role in the 1998 film Deep Impact....
(Téa LeoniTéa LeoniElizabeth Téa Pantaleoni , better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact, Fun with Dick and Jane, Spanglish, Bad Boys, and Ghost Town.-Early life:Leoni was born in New York City...
, actress) - 8347 Lallaward8347 Lallaward8347 Lallaward is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1987 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar. It was named in honour of Lalla Ward, an actress best known for her role as Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is also the wife of the...
(Lalla WardLalla WardSarah Ward known as Lalla Ward, is an English actor, author and illustrator. As an actor, she is known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.-Early career:Ward's stage name, "Lalla", comes...
, actress) - 8353 Megryan8353 Megryan8353 Megryan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Meg RyanMeg RyanMargaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra , professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. Raised in Bethel, Connecticut, Ryan began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982...
, actress - 8883 Miyazakihayao8883 Miyazakihayao8883 Miyazakihayao is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 16, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi. It was named after anime filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki.- External links :*...
(Hayao MiyazakiHayao Miyazakiis a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
, animator) - 9341 Gracekelly9341 Gracekelly9341 Gracekelly is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 2, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...
(Grace KellyGrace KellyGrace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of...
, actress) - 9342 Carygrant9342 Carygrant9342 Carygrant is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory. It is named after actor Cary Grant.- External links :*...
(Cary GrantCary GrantArchibald Alexander Leach , better known by his stage name Cary Grant, was an English actor who later took U.S. citizenship...
, actor) - Monty PythonMonty PythonMonty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
members:- 9617 Grahamchapman9617 Grahamchapman9617 Grahamchapman is an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It was discovered on 17 March 1993, at the European Southern Observatory during the Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets . It is named after the British comedian Graham Chapman, who died in 1989...
(Graham ChapmanGraham ChapmanGraham Arthur Chapman was a British comedian, physician, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe.-Early life and education:...
) - 9618 Johncleese9618 Johncleese9618 Johncleese is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.-Name:Johncleese is named after British comedian John Cleese. The asteroid is one of many main belt List of minor planets named after people...
(John CleeseJohn CleeseJohn Marwood Cleese is an English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a scriptwriter and performer on The Frost Report...
) - 9619 Terrygilliam9619 Terrygilliam9619 Terrygilliam is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.-Name:Terrygilliam is named after American-born filmmaker and animator Terry Gilliam. The asteroid is one of many main belt asteroids named after famous personalities...
(Terry GilliamTerry GilliamTerrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...
) - 9620 Ericidle9620 Ericidle9620 Ericidle is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.-Name:Ericidle is named after British comedian Eric Idle. The asteroid is one of many main belt asteroids named after famous personalities...
(Eric IdleEric IdleEric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer, and comedic composer. He was as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python, a member of the The Rutles on Saturday Night Live and author of the play, Spamalot....
) - 9621 Michaelpalin9621 Michaelpalin9621 Michaelpalin is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.-Name:Michaelpalin is named after British comedian Michael Palin. The asteroid is one of many main belt asteroids named after famous personalities...
(Michael PalinMichael PalinMichael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries....
) - 9622 Terryjones9622 Terryjones9622 Terryjones is an asteroid in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.-Name:Terryjones is named after British comedian Terry Jones. The asteroid is one of many main belt asteroids named after famous personalities...
(Terry JonesTerry JonesTerence Graham Parry Jones is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator, and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy team....
)
- 9617 Grahamchapman
- 10221 Kubrick10221 Kubrick10221 Kubrick is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28, 1997 by P. Pravec at Ondrejov. It was named after American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick.- External links :*...
(Stanley KubrickStanley KubrickStanley Kubrick was an American film director, writer, producer, and photographer who lived in England during most of the last four decades of his career...
) - 10378 Ingmarbergman10378 Ingmarbergman10378 Ingmarbergman is a main-belt asteroid named after Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.- External links :*...
(Ingmar BergmanIngmar BergmanErnst Ingmar Bergman was a Swedish director, writer and producer for film, stage and television. Described by Woody Allen as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera", he is recognized as one of the most accomplished and...
, film director) - 11333 Forman11333 Forman11333 Forman is a minor planet that was discovered on April 20, 1996 by Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová at Ondřejov Observatory. It is named after the Czech film director Miloš Forman.-External links:*http://www.astro.cz/planetky/detail.phtml?number=11333...
(Miloš FormanMiloš FormanJan Tomáš Forman , better known as Miloš Forman , is a Czech-American director, screenwriter, professor, and an emigrant from Czechoslovakia. Two of his films, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus, are among the most celebrated in the history of film, both gaining him the Academy Award for...
, film director) - 11548 Jerrylewis11548 Jerrylewis11548 Jerrylewis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 25, 1992 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Jerry LewisJerry LewisJerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
, comedian and actor) - 12561 Howard12561 Howard12561 Howard is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. This asteroid was named for Ron Howard, American actor, director and producer.- External links :*...
(Ron HowardRon HowardRonald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...
, actor, director, producer) - 12562 Briangrazer12562 Briangrazer12562 Briangrazer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1998 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. This asteroid was named for Brian Grazer, American Producer of motion pictures.- External links :*...
(Brian GrazerBrian GrazerBrian Thomas Grazer is an Academy Award-winning American film and television producer who co-founded Imagine Entertainment in 1986 with Ron Howard. Together they have produced many acclaimed films, including Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind .- Career :Brian Grazer began his career as a producer...
, producer) - 12818 Tomhanks12818 Tomhanks12818 Tomhanks is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1996 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It is named after Academy Award winning actor Tom Hanks due in part to his role as Jim Lovell in the movie Apollo 13.- External links :*...
(Tom HanksTom HanksThomas Jeffrey "Tom" Hanks is an American actor, producer, writer, and director. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies, gaining wide notice in 1988's Big, before achieving success as a dramatic actor in several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title...
, actor, producer) - 12820 Robinwilliams12820 Robinwilliams12820 Robinwilliams is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 11, 1996 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. It was named in honor of American actor Robin Williams.- External links :*|...
(Robin WilliamsRobin WilliamsRobin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
, actor, comedian) - 13070 Seanconnery13070 Seanconnery13070 Seanconnery is an asteroid named after actor Sean Connery. It was discovered in 1991 and named in 2006.- References :*...
(Sean ConnerySean ConnerySir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...
, actor) - 13441 Janmerlin (Jan MerlinJan MerlinJan Merlin is an American character actor, screen writer, and author.- Career :Born and raised in New York USA, during the Second World War he enlisted in the US Navy to serve on three successive ships in the North Atlantic and Pacific Fleets, accumulating ten battle stars before entering Japan's...
, actor and author) - 15131 Alanalda (Alan AldaAlan AldaAlphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo , better known as Alan Alda, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H...
, actor, director, screenwriter, author) - 17023 Abbott17023 Abbott17023 Abbott is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 7, 1999 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.-Notes:...
(Bud AbbottBud AbbottWilliam Alexander "Bud" Abbott was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.-Early life:...
, actor, producer, comedian) - 17744 Jodiefoster17744 Jodiefoster17744 Jodiefoster is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on January 18, 1998 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols. It is named after the actress Jodie Foster. The original citation from Minor Planet Circular 46683 reads :...
(Jodie FosterJodie FosterAlicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....
, actress) - 19291 Karelzeman19291 Karelzeman19291 Karelzeman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 6, 1996 by P. Pravec and L. Šarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Karel ZemanKarel ZemanKarel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès."-Life:...
, film director) - 19578 Kirkdouglas19578 Kirkdouglas19578 Kirkdouglas is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 20, 1999 by J. Broughton at Reedy Creek Observatory.- External links :*...
(Kirk DouglasKirk DouglasKirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
, actor) - 26733 Nanavisitor26733 Nanavisitor26733 Nanavisitor is an asteroid discovered on April 22, 2001 by Canadian astronomer William Kwong Yu Yeung. Initially designated 2001 HC16, the asteroid was given its present name by the International Astronomical Union in honor of American actress Nana Visitor, who is best known for playing Kira...
(Nana VisitorNana VisitorNana Visitor , born Nana Tucker, is an American actress, best known for playing Kira Nerys in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Jean Ritter in the television series Wildfire.-Early life:...
, actress) - 26734 Terryfarrell26734 Terryfarrell26734 Terryfarrell is an asteroid discovered on April 23, 2001 by Canadian astronomer William Kwong Yu Yeung. Initially designated 2001 HG16, the asteroid was given its present name by the International Astronomical Union in honor of American actress Terry Farrell, who is best known for playing...
(Terry FarrellTerry Farrell (actress)Theresa Lee "Terry" Farrell is an American actress and former fashion model. She is perhaps best known for her performances in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Becker.-Early life:...
, actress) - 26858 Misterrogers26858 Misterrogers26858 Misterrogers is a main-belt asteroid named after children's television host Fred Rogers. Rogers, who had a lifelong fascination with the sky and astronomy —he obtained a pilot's license while still in high school— also produced a planetarium show called The Sky above Mister...
(Fred Rogers, US children's television host) - 38461 Jiřítrnka38461 Jirítrnka38461 Jiřítrnka is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1314.0721984 days . The asteroid was discovered on July 5, 2000....
(Jiří TrnkaJirí TrnkaJiří Trnka was a Czech puppet maker, illustrator, motion-picture animator and film director. In addition to his extensive career as an illustrator, especially of children's books, he is best known for his work in animation with puppets, which began in 1946...
, puppetPuppetA puppet is an inanimate object or representational figure animated or manipulated by an entertainer, who is called a puppeteer. It is used in puppetry, a play or a presentation that is a very ancient form of theatre....
maker and puppet-film director) - 68410 Nichols68410 Nichols68410 Nichols is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 2001, by Minor White and M. Collins at the Anza Observatory of Orange County Astronomers....
(Nichelle NicholsNichelle NicholsNichelle Nichols is an American actress, singer and voice artist. She sang with Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton before turning to acting...
, actress) - 71000 Hughdowns71000 HughdownsThe asteroid 71000 Hughdowns, provisional designation ', is named after American television host Hugh Downs, popular for his co-hosting career on the ABC news show 20/20. It was discovered on December 7, 1999 by Charles W. Juels....
(Hugh DownsHugh DownsHugh Malcolm Downs is a long time American broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer; and is perhaps best known for his role as co-host the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and...
, Television and radio anchorman) - 116939 Jonstewart116939 Jonstewart116939 Jonstewart is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 15, 2004, by Catalina Sky Survey. It is named after American comedian Jon Stewart.- External links :*...
(Jon StewartJon StewartJon Stewart is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian...
, comedian and TV host)
Olympic medalists
- 1740 Nurmi (Paavo NurmiPaavo NurmiPaavo Johannes Nurmi was a Finnish runner. Born in Turku, he was known as one of the "Flying Finns," a term given to him, Hannes Kolehmainen, Ville Ritola, and others for their distinction in running...
, middle- and long-distance runner) - 5910 Zátopek5910 Zátopek5910 Zátopek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1257.4626479 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 29, 1989....
(Emil ZátopekEmil ZátopekEmil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...
, long-distance runner) - 8217 Dominikhašek8217 Dominikhašek8217 Dominikhašek is a main-belt asteroid named by its discoverers, Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová of the Observatoř Ondřejov , in 2003. It is the namesake of NHL goaltender, Dominik Hašek, and it was named in his honour for helping win the gold medal for the Czech Republic in the 1998 Winter...
(Dominik HašekDominik HašekDominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...
, ice hockey player) - 9224 Železný9224 Železný9224 Železný is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1334.6020951 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 10, 1996....
(Jan ŽeleznýJan ŽeleznýJan Železný is a Czech javelin thrower, world and Olympic champion and world record holder in javelin throw...
, javelin thrower) - 26986 Čáslavská26986 Cáslavská26986 Čáslavská is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.8275356 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.0820825 and an orbital period of 1974.7771587 days ....
(Věra ČáslavskáVera CáslavskáVěra Čáslavská is a Czech gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles...
, gymnast) - 128036 Rafaelnadal128036 Rafaelnadal128036 Rafaelnadal is a Main belt asteroid discovered in 2003 at the Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca, Spain and named after the Majorca born tennis player Rafael Nadal.-See also:* Asteroid* List of asteroids named after people* List of asteroids...
(Rafael Nadal PareraRafael NadalRafael "Rafa" Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. , he is ranked No. 2 by the Association of Tennis Professionals...
, tennis player)
Other sports
- 1909 Alekhin1909 Alekhin1909 Alekhin is an asteroid discovered on September 4, 1972 by Lyudmila Zhuravlyova. The asteroid was named in honor of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Alekhin, a Russian-French chess champion...
(Alexander AlekhineAlexander AlekhineAlexander Alexandrovich Alekhine was the fourth World Chess Champion. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players ever.By the age of twenty-two, he was already among the strongest chess players in the world. During the 1920s, he won most of the tournaments in which he played...
, chess world champion) - 2472 Bradman2472 Bradman2472 Bradman is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 27, 1973 by Kohoutek, L. at Bergedorf.- External links :...
(Donald BradmanDonald BradmanSir Donald George Bradman, AC , often referred to as "The Don", was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time...
, cricketer) - 3027 Shavarsh3027 Shavarsh3027 Shavarsh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1978 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
(Shavarsh KarapetyanShavarsh KarapetyanShavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Armenian finswimmer, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Yerevan reservoir....
, finswimmer) - 5891 Gehrig5891 Gehrig5891 Gehrig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1981 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Lou GehrigLou GehrigHenry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...
, baseball player) - 6758 Jesseowens6758 Jesseowens6758 Jesseowens is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Jesse OwensJesse OwensJames Cleveland "Jesse" Owens was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprints and the long jump. He participated in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, where he achieved international fame by winning four gold medals: one each in the 100 meters, the 200 meters, the...
, athlete) - 7835 Myroncope7835 Myroncope7835 Myroncope is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1490.9544415 days . The asteroid was discovered on June 16, 1993, and was named for famed sports announcer and journalist Myron Cope after his death in 2008. Myron Cope was a color commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers NFL team for...
(Myron CopeMyron CopeMyron Cope , born Myron Sidney Kopelman, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster who is best known for being "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers."...
, sportscaster and journalist) - 10634 Pepibican10634 Pepibican10634 Pepibican is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 8, 1998 by L. Sarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Josef BicanJosef BicanJosef "Pepi" Bican was a Czech-Austrian football forward. It is estimated by respected footballing statistics page RSSSF that Bican scored around 800 goals in all competitive matches, not including friendly games...
, called "Pepi", football player) - 10675 Kharlamov10675 Kharlamov10675 Kharlamov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 1, 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named for Russian hockey player Valeri Kharlamov....
(Valeri Kharlamov, hockey player) - 12373 Lancearmstrong12373 LancearmstrongThe asteroid 12373 Lancearmstrong is a Main belt asteroid discovered by Charles de Saint-Aignan at Lowell Observatory, examining films taken at Palomar.-Citation from the MPCs:Lance Armstrong is an American cyclist and cancer survivor...
(Lance ArmstrongLance ArmstrongLance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist who won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support...
, cyclist) - 12413 Johnnyweir12413 Johnnyweir12413 Johnnyweir is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Timur V. Kryachko at Zelenchukskaya Station of Kazan University Observatory in Caucasus Mountains on September 26, 1995...
(Johnny WeirJohnny WeirJohn Garvin "Johnny" Weir is an American figure skater. He is a three-time U.S. National Champion , the 2008 Worlds bronze medalist, a two-time Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and the 2001 World Junior Champion....
, figure skater) - 12414 Bure12414 Bure12414 Bure is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1995 by T. V. Kryachko at Zelenchukskaya Station of Kazan University Observatory. The asteroid was named after Pavel Bure.- External links :*...
(Pavel BurePavel BurePavel Vladimirovich Bure is a retired Russian professional ice hockey right winger. Nicknamed "The Russian Rocket" for his speed, Bure played for 12 seasons in the National Hockey League with the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers and New York Rangers...
, ice hockey player) - 78071 Vicent78071 Vicent78071 Vicent is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1661.5282367 days . The asteroid was discovered on June 1, 2002. It is named after the Spanish author Francesch Vicent, who in 1495 wrote Libre dels jochs partits dels schacs en nombre de 100, which established the modern rules of...
(Francesc VicentFrancesc VicentFrancesc Vicent was a Valencian, later Spanish, author who wrote the first treatise about chess using the present-day moves for the queen and the bishop. Libre dels jochs partits dels schacs en nombre de 100 was printed in Valencia on May 15, 1495, by Lope de Roca Alemany and Pere Trincher. No...
, chess writer) - 82656 Puskás82656 Puskás82656 Puskás is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1983.1884017 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 10, 2001 by K. Sárneczky and G. Szabó at Calar Alto Observatory and is named after Hungarian footballer Ferenc Puskás....
(Ferenc PuskásFerenc PuskásFerenc Puskás was a Hungarian footballer and manager. He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary, and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues. He became Olympic champion in 1952 and was a World Cup finalist in 1954...
, football player) - 90414 Karpov90414 Karpov90414 Karpov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 19, 2003, by R. Ferrando at Pla D'Arguines. It is named after former World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov....
(Anatoly KarpovAnatoly KarpovAnatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov. He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once...
, chess world champion) - 2202 Pele2202 Pele2202 Pele is an asteroid. It is a Mars-crosser asteroid, that is, this type of asteroid's orbit crosses the orbit of Mars. It is an Amor asteroid, that is, this type of asteroid approaches the orbit of Earth from beyond, but does not cross it...
(PeléPeléHowever, Pelé has always maintained that those are mistakes, that he was actually named Edson and that he was born on 23 October 1940.), best known by his nickname Pelé , is a retired Brazilian footballer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time...
, football player)
Discovery Channel Young Scientist ChallengeDiscovery Channel Young Scientist ChallengeThe Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge is an annual science and engineering research and exhibit competition for students in grade 5 through 8 and was created in 1999. It is sponsored primarily by Discovery Communications, Society for Science and the Public, and Elmer's Glue...
- 13434 Adamquade13434 Adamquade13434 Adamquade is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1999 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico.- External links :*...
(Adam Robert Quade, a middle school student from Minnesota, U.S.A. and 2002 winner) - 15155 Ahn15155 Ahn15155 Ahn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 29, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Ryan J. Ahn, a middle school student from Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and 2001 winner) - 15559 Abigailhines15559 Abigailhines15559 Abigailhines is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 5, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-References:...
(Abigail M. Hines, a middle school student from Indiana, U.S.A. and 2001 winner) - 19564 Ajburnetti19564 Ajburnetti19564 Ajburnetti is a main belt asteroid discovered on May 13, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Anthony James Burnetti, a middle school student from Maryland, U.S.A. and 2003 winner) - 20503 Adamtazi20503 Adamtazi20503 Adamtazi is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico.- External links :*...
(Adam Ryoma Tazi, a middle school student from Florida, U.S.A. and 2004 winner) - 21850 Abshir21850 Abshir21850 Abshir is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-References:...
(Iftin Mohamed Abshir, a middle school student from Colorado, U.S.A. and 2005 winner) - 21933 Aaronrozon21933 Aaronrozon21933 Aaronrozon is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro....
(Aaron Alexander Rozon, a middle school student from Hawaii, U.S.A. and 2005 winner) - 22638 Abdulla22638 Abdulla22638 Abdulla is a main belt asteroid discovered on June 24, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-References:...
(Almas Ugurgizi Abdulla, a middle school student from Florida, U.S.A. and 2006 winner) - 22656 Aaronburrows22656 Aaronburrows22656 Aaronburrows is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Aaron Phillip Burrows, a middle school student from Texas, U.S.A. and 2006 winner) - 23768 Abu-Rmaileh23768 Abu-Rmaileh23768 Abu-Rmaileh is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1266.6555975 days . The asteroid was discovered on June 24, 1998 and was named for Muhammad Akef Abu-Rmaileh who was a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge for his botany and zoology project.-References:...
(Muhammad Akef Abu-Rmaileh, a middle school student from Arkansas, U.S.A. and 2007 winner)
Intel International Science and Engineering FairIntel International Science and Engineering FairThe Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world, and is owned and administered by the Society for Science & the Public a 501 non-profit organization based in Washington, DC...
- 2002 winners
- 10237 Adzic10237 Adzic10237 Adzic is a main belt asteroid discovered on 26 September 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico. It was named for a high school science project finalist Vladislav Adzic.- References :...
(Vladislav Adzic, high school student from New York, U.S.A.) - 11685 Adamcurry11685 Adamcurry11685 Adamcurry is an asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team....
(Adam Michael Curry, high school student from Colorado, U.S.A.) - 11697 Estrella11697 Estrella11697 Estrella is an asteroid named after Filipino Allan N. Estrella, a high school student cited for winning the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, Kentucky with his teammates Richard K.S. Manapat and Jeric V. Macalintal....
(Allan Noriel Estrella, high school student from Manila, Philippines) - 12088 Macalintal12088 Macalintal12088 Macalintal is an asteroid named after Filipino Jeric V. Macalintal a high school student cited for winning the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, Kentucky with his teammates Richard K.S. Manapat and Allan Estrella....
(Jeric Valles Macalintal, high school student from Manila, Philippines) - 12522 Rara12522 Rara12522 Rara is an asteroid named after Prem Vilas Fortran Moso Rara, a Filipino high school student cited who won the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, Kentucky....
(Prem Vilas Fortran Rara, high school student from Iligan, Philippines) - 12553 Aaronritter12553 Aaronritter12553 Aaronritter is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1998 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico.- References :...
(Aaron M. Ritter, high school student from Indiana, U.S.A.) - 13241 Biyo13241 Biyo13241 Biyo is an asteroid named after Filipino teacher Dr. Josette Biyo, a high school teacher cited for winning the 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the first Asian teacher to win the Intel Excellence in Teaching Award.-External links:...
(Josette Biyo, high school teacher from Iloilo, Philippines)
- 10237 Adzic
- 2003 winners
- 16999 Ajstewart16999 Ajstewart16999 Ajstewart is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Andrew James Stewart, high school student from NSW, Australia) - 17984 Ahantonioli17984 Ahantonioli17984 Ahantonioli is a main belt asteroid discovered on May 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Alexandra Hope Antonioli, high school student from Montana, U.S.A.) - 18084 Adamwohl18084 Adamwohl18084 Adamwohl is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 29, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Adam Richard Wohl, high school student from North Dakota, U.S.A.) - 18142 Adamsidman18142 Adamsidman18142 Adamsidman is a main belt asteroid discovered on July 31, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro....
(Adam Daniel Sidman, high school student from Colorado, U.S.A.) - 18796 Acosta18796 Acosta18796 Acosta is a main belt asteroid discovered on May 10, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro. 18796 Acota is named in honor of a student, Iyen Abdon Acosta, for building an award winning science project....
(Iyen Abdon Acosta, high school student from Maryland, U.S.A.) - 19444 Addicott19444 Addicott19444 Addicott is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Charles Michael Addicott, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.) - 19488 Abramcoley19488 Abramcoley19488 Abramcoley is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 23, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-References:...
(Abram Levi Coley, high school student from Montana, U.S.A.) - 21395 Albertofilho21395 Albertofilho21395 Albertofilho is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Alberto Filho, a technical school teacher from Rio Grande Do Sul, Brasil)
- 16999 Ajstewart
- 2004 winners
- 20780 Chanyikhei20780 Chanyikhei20780 Chanyikhei is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro...
(Chan Yik HeiChan Yik HeiChan Yik Hei is a science amateur in Hong Kong. He graduated from CCC Tam Lee Lai Fun Memorial Secondary School for his secondary education....
, high school student from Hong Kong, China) - 20813 Aakashshah20813 Aakashshah20813 Aakashshah is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 2000, by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- References :...
(Aakash Shah, high school student from New Jersey, U.S.A.)
- 20780 Chanyikhei
- 2005 winners
- 21483 Abdulrasool21483 Abdulrasool21483 Abdulrasool is a main belt asteroid discovered on April 19, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-External links:*...
(Ameen Abdulrasool, high school student from Illinois, U.S.A.) - 21712 Obaid21712 Obaid21712 Obaid is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Sami Obaid, college student from Quebec, Canada.) - 21758 Adrianveres21758 Adrianveres21758 Adrianveres is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Adrian Veres, high school student from Quebec, Canada)
- 21483 Abdulrasool
- 2006 winners
- 21400 Ahdout21400 Ahdout21400 Ahdout is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Zimra Payvand Ahdout, high school student from New York, U.S.A.) - 21623 Albertshieh21623 Albertshieh21623 Albertshieh is a main belt asteroid discovered on June 9, 1999 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Albert David Shieh, high school student from Arizona, U.S.A.)
- 21400 Ahdout
- 2007 winners
- 23113 Aaronhakim23113 Aaronhakim23113 Aaronhakim is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1705.0184519 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 3, 2000 and was named for Aaron Hakim who won second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his cellular and molecular biology...
(Aaron Hakim, high school student from Ontario, Canada) - 23238 Ocasio-Cortez23238 Ocasio-Cortez23238 Ocasio-Cortez is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1409.7904464 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 20, 2000....
(Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, high school student from New York, U.S.A.) - 23306 Adamfields23306 Adamfields23306 Adamfields is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1310.8701174 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 2, 2001.-References:...
(Adam Chaplin Fields, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
- 23113 Aaronhakim
- 2008 winners
- 24520 Abramson24520 Abramson24520 Abramson is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on February 1, 2001...
(Ronit Batya Roth Abramson, high school student from California, U.S.A.)
- 24520 Abramson
- 2009 winners
- 25638 Ahissar25638 Ahissar25638 Ahissar is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on January 4, 2000...
(Shira Ahissar, high school student from Rehovot, Israel.) - 25642 Adiseshan25642 Adiseshan25642 Adiseshan is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on January 4, 2000...
(Tara Anjali Adiseshan, high school student from Virginia, U.S.A.) - 25677 Aaronenten25677 Aaronenten25677 Aaronenten is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on January 5, 2000...
(Aaron Christopher Enten, high school student from Florida, U.S.A.)
- 25638 Ahissar
- 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.)
Intel Science Talent SearchIntel Science Talent SearchThe Intel Science Talent Search , known for its first 57 years as the Westinghouse Science Talent Search is a research-based science competition in the United States for high school seniors. It has been referred to as "the nation's oldest and most prestigious" science competition. In his speech...
- 2002 Winners
- 16113 Ahmed (Tahir Ahmed, high school student from New York, U.S.A.)
- 2003 Winners
- 15421 Adammalin15421 Adammalin15421 Adammalin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Adam Mikah Malin, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
- 15421 Adammalin
- 2005 Winners
- 21411 Abifraeman21411 Abifraeman21411 Abifraeman is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.-References:...
(Abigail Ann Fraeman, a high school senior from Maryland, U.S.A.) - 21413 Albertsao21413 Albertsao21413 Albertsao is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.- External links :*...
(Albert Tsao, a high school senior from Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
- 21411 Abifraeman
- 2006 Winners
- 22551 Adamsolomon22551 Adamsolomon22551 Adamsolomon is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro. It was named after Adam Solomon, a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search under the MIT Ceres Connection.- External links :*...
(Adam Ross Solomon, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
- 22551 Adamsolomon
- 2008 Winners
- 24121 Achandran24121 Achandran24121 Achandran is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1771.1258663 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 3, 1999.-References:...
(Ashok Chandran, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
- 24121 Achandran
- 2009 Winners
- 25410 Abejar25410 Abejar25410 Abejar is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on November 3, 1999. It is named after Patrick Jeffrey Abejar, a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search.-External links:...
(Patrick Jeffrey Abejar, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.) - 25422 Abigreene25422 Abigreene25422 Abigreene is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on November 9, 1999. It is named after Abigail Sara Greene, a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search.-External links:...
(Abigail Sara Greene, a high school senior from New York, U.S.A.)
- 25410 Abejar
- 2010 Winners
- 25966 Akhilmathew25966 Akhilmathew25966 Akhilmathew is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on March 19, 2001. It is named after Akhil Mathew, an American high school student and finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search.-External links:...
(Akhil Mathew, a high school senior from New Jersey, U.S.A.) - 25979 Alansage25979 Alansage25979 Alansage is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project in Socorro, New Mexico, on March 18, 2001. It is named after Alan Robert Sage, an American high school student and finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search...
(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.)
- 25966 Akhilmathew
- 2011 Winners
- 27072 Aggarwal (Amol Aggarwal, a high school senior from California, U.S.A.)
Editors and publishers
- 305 Gordonia305 Gordonia305 Gordonia is a fairly typical, although sizeable Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by Auguste Charlois on February 16, 1891 in Nice and named after James Gordon Bennett Jr, patron.-References:...
(James Gordon Bennett, Jr.James Gordon Bennett, Jr.James Gordon Bennett, Jr. was publisher of the New York Herald, founded by his father, James Gordon Bennett, Sr., who emigrated from Scotland. He was generally known as Gordon Bennett to distinguish him from his father....
, publisher of the New York HeraldNew York HeraldThe New York Herald was a large distribution newspaper based in New York City that existed between May 6, 1835, and 1924.-History:The first issue of the paper was published by James Gordon Bennett, Sr., on May 6, 1835. By 1845 it was the most popular and profitable daily newspaper in the UnitedStates...
) - 6282 Edwelda6282 Edwelda6282 Edwelda is an asteroid named in honor of Filipinos Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson by the IAU in 1995. IAU used the combined first names in recognition of their accomplishments in the field of astronomy, including the book they wrote on Halley’s comet that the National Research Council of...
(Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson, Filipino editors of the Sky & TelescopeSky & TelescopeSky & Telescope is a monthly American magazine covering all aspects of amateur astronomy, including the following:*current events in astronomy and space exploration;*events in the amateur astronomy community;...
) - Editors of the Japanese monthly astronomical magazine Gekkan Tenmon Guide:
- 9067 Katsuno9067 Katsuno9067 Katsuno is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 16, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...
(Gentaro Katsuno) - 11928 Akimotohiro11928 Akimotohiro11928 Akimotohiro is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 23, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...
(Hiroyuki Akimoto)
- 9067 Katsuno
Discoverers' relatives
- 3044 Saltykov3044 Saltykov3044 Saltykov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1983 by N. V. Metlova at Crimea.- External links :...
(Nikita Saltykov, one of the discoverers' grandfathers) - 10588 Adamcrandall10588 Adamcrandall10588 Adamcrandall is an asteroid discovered on 18 July 1996 by P. G. Comba. The asteroid is named for Comba's stepson, Adam Crandall Rees.-References:...
(Adam Crandall Rees, the discoverer's stepson) - 12848 Agostino12848 Agostino12848 Agostino is a main belt asteroid discovered on July 10, 1997 by A. Boattini at Campo Imperatore.- External links :*...
(Agostino Boattini, the discoverer's father) - 13691 Akie13691 Akie13691 Akie is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 30, 1997 by Atsuo Asami at Hadano.- External links :*...
(Akie Asami, the discoverer's wife) - 19524 Acaciacoleman19524 Acaciacoleman19524 Acaciacoleman is a main belt asteroid discovered on December 23, 1998 by E. Sheridan at the Crescent Butte Observatory.-References:...
(Acacia Coleman, the discoverer's granddaughter) - 60001 Adélka60001 Adélka60001 Adélka is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1999 by Lenka Sarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory. It is named after Adélka Kotková, Sarounová's daughter....
(Adélka Kotková, the discoverer's daughter)
Others
- 83 Beatrix83 Beatrix83 Beatrix is a quite large asteroid orbiting in the inner part of the main asteroid belt. It was discovered by Annibale de Gasparis on April 26, 1865. It was his last asteroid discovery. A diameter of at least 68 km was determined from the Beatrician stellar occultation observed on June 15,...
(Beatrice PortinariBeatrice PortinariBeatrice "Bice" di Folco Portinari was a Florentine woman known as the muse of the poet Dante Alighieri. Beatrice was the principal inspiration for Dante's Vita Nuova, and also appears as his guide in the Divine Comedy in the last book, Paradiso, and in the last four canti of Purgatorio...
, immortalized in DanteDante AlighieriDurante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante , was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia ...
's Divine Comedy) - 156 Xanthippe156 Xanthippe156 Xanthippe is a large main-belt asteroid. It has a carbonaceous composition and an extremely dark surface. It is named after Xanthippe, the wife of Socrates.It was discovered by J. Palisa on November 22, 1875....
(XanthippeXanthippeXanthippe was the wife of Socrates and mother of their three sons: Lamprocles, Sophroniscus, and Menexenus. There are far more stories about her than there are facts. She was likely much younger than Socrates, perhaps by as much as forty years.-Name:...
, wife of SocratesSocratesSocrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
) - 323 Brucia323 Brucia323 Brucia was the first asteroid to be discovered by the use of astrophotography. It was also the first of over 200 asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, a pioneer in that method of finding astronomical objects...
(Catherine Wolfe BruceCatherine Wolfe BruceCatherine Wolfe Bruce was a noted American philanthropist and patroness of astronomy.She was the daughter of the famous type founder George Bruce and Catherine Wolfe...
, astronomical philanthropist) - 609 Fulvia609 Fulvia-External links:*...
(FulviaFulviaFulvia Flacca Bambula , commonly referred to as simply Fulvia, was an aristocratic Roman woman who lived during the Late Roman Republic. Through her marriage to three of the most promising Roman men of her generation, Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribonius Curio and Mark Antony, she gained...
, wife of Mark AntonyMark AntonyMarcus Antonius , known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman politician and general. As a military commander and administrator, he was an important supporter and loyal friend of his mother's cousin Julius Caesar...
) - 719 Albert719 Albert719 Albert is a Mars-crossing, Amor asteroid; it was the second one discovered after 433 Eros.-Discovery:Discovered in 1911 by Johann Palisa, the asteroid was named after one of the Imperial Observatory in Vienna's major benefactors, Albert Salomon von Rothschild, who had died some months before...
(Albert Salomon von RothschildAlbert Salomon von RothschildAlbert Salomon von Rothschild was a banker in Austria-Hungary and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria. Businesses that he owned included Creditanstalt and the Northern Railway.-Personal life:...
, banker and benefactor of the Vienna ObservatoryVienna ObservatoryUniversitäts-Sternwarte Wien is an astronomical observatory in Vienna, Austria. It is part of the University of Vienna. The first observatory was built in 1753–1754 on the roof of one of the university buildings....
) - 904 Rockefellia904 Rockefellia-External links:*...
(John D. RockefellerJohn D. RockefellerJohn Davison Rockefeller was an American oil industrialist, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust. Rockefeller revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of...
, philanthropist]] - 1038 Tuckia1038 Tuckia1038 Tuckia is an asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on November 24, 1924. Its provisional designation was 1924 TK. It was named after Mr. and Mrs. Edward Tuck....
(Edward TuckEdward TuckEdward Tuck was an American banker and philanthropist. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, he was educated at Dartmouth College. Tuck donated $500,000 to Dartmouth to endow the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance, in memory of his father...
, philanthropist) - 1462 Zamenhof1462 ZamenhofZamenhof is a main belt asteroid, which was discovered by the Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä on February 6, 1938. It has a diameter of 25.82 km and geometric albedo of 0.1268....
(L. L. ZamenhofL. L. ZamenhofLudwig Lazarus Zamenhof December 15, 1859 – April 14, 1917) was the inventor of Esperanto, the most successful constructed language designed for international communication.-Cultural background:...
, father of EsperantoEsperantois the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. Its name derives from Doktoro Esperanto , the pseudonym under which L. L. Zamenhof published the first book detailing Esperanto, the Unua Libro, in 1887...
) - 3018 Godiva3018 Godiva3018 Godiva is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1982. It is named after Lady Godiva, the Saxon woman who, legend has it, rode naked through the city of Coventry....
(Lady GodivaLady GodivaGodiva , often referred to as Lady Godiva , was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman who, according to legend, rode naked through the streets of Coventry in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants...
) - 3147 Samantha3147 Samantha3147 Samantha is a main belt asteroid, discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh on December 16, 1976. She named her discovery in memory of the young American peace activist Samantha Smith...
(Samantha SmithSamantha SmithSamantha Reed Smith was an American schoolgirl and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War-era United States and Soviet Union...
, peace activistPeace activistThis list of peace activists includes people who proactively advocate diplomatic, non-military resolution of political disputes, usually through nonviolent means.A peace activist is an activist of the peace movement.*Jane Addams*Martti Ahtisaari...
) - 4318 Baťa4318 Bata4318 Baťa is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2111.1800177 days .The asteroid was discovered on February 21, 1980.-References:...
(Tomáš BaťaTomáš BataTomáš Baťa was a Czech entrepreneur, founder of Bata Shoes company, one of the world's biggest multinational retailers, manufacturers and distributors of footwear and accessories.-Career:...
, founder of the Bata shoe company) - 4487 Pocahontas4487 Pocahontas4487 Pocahontas is an Amor asteroid discovered on October 17, 1987 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :...
(PocahontasPocahontasPocahontas was a Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the head of a network of tributary tribal nations in Tidewater Virginia...
) - 4987 Flamsteed4987 Flamsteed- External links :*...
(Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, a direct descendant of the brother of John FlamsteedJohn FlamsteedSir John Flamsteed FRS was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued over 3000 stars.- Life :Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed...
, the first Astronomer Royal of England) - 7166 Kennedy7166 Kennedy7166 Kennedy is an asteroid which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 10 October 1985...
(Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow) - 19718 Albertjarvis19718 Albertjarvis19718 Albertjarvis is a main belt asteroid discovered on November 5, 1999 by D. S. Dixon at the Jornada Observatory.- External links :*...
(Albert G. Jarvis, inventor) - 69275 Wiesenthal69275 Wiesenthal69275 Wiesenthal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 28, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...
(Simon WiesenthalSimon WiesenthalSimon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....
, Nazi hunterNazi hunterA Nazi-hunter is a private individual who tracks down and gathers information on alleged former Nazis, SS members and Nazi collaborators involved in the Holocaust, typically for use at trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity...
) - 80652 Albertoangela80652 Albertoangela80652 Albertoangela is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered at the Cavezzo Observatory in Cavezzo, Italy, on January 16, 2000. It is named after Alberto Angela, an Italian science writer and television presenter....
(Alberto Angela, Italian science writer)
Characters in classic fiction
- 92 Undina92 Undina92 Undina is a large main belt asteroid. It has an unusually high albedo and an M-type spectrum. It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on July 7, 1867. It is named for the eponymous heroine of Undine, a popular novella by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Undina is a member of the Veritas asteroid...
(Undine, heroine of the novella UndineUndine (novella)Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in which Undine, a water spirit, marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages...
by Friedrich de la Motte FouquéFriedrich de la Motte FouquéFriedrich Heinrich Karl de la Motte, Baron Fouqué was a German writer of the romantic style.-Biography:He was born at Brandenburg an der Havel, of a family of French Huguenot origin, as evidenced in his family name...
) - 264 Libussa264 Libussa264 Libussa is a large Main belt asteroid. It is classified as an S-type asteroid.It was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on December 22, 1886 in Clinton, New York and was named after Libussa, the legendary founder of Prague.- References :...
(LibušeLibušeLibuše, Libussa or, historically Lubossa, is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as whole. Libuše was the wisest of the three sisters and prophesied the foundation of Prague from her castle Libušín...
, mythical BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
prophetess) - 1143 Odysseus1143 Odysseus1143 Odysseus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid that orbits in the Lagrangian point of the Sun-Jupiter system, in the "Greek Camp" of trojan asteroids. It was named after the Greek hero Odysseus Laertiades in Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. It was discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth in 1930.-External...
(OdysseusOdysseusOdysseus or Ulysses was a legendary Greek king of Ithaca and the hero of Homer's epic poem the Odyssey. Odysseus also plays a key role in Homer's Iliad and other works in the Epic Cycle....
, legendary king of Ithaca) - 2041 Lancelot2041 Lancelot2041 Lancelot is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory....
(Arthurian knight) - 2082 Galahad2082 Galahad2082 Galahad is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
(Arthurian knight) - 2483 Guinevere2483 Guinevere2483 Guinevere is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1928 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg.- External links :*...
(GuinevereGuinevereGuinevere was the legendary queen consort of King Arthur. In tales and folklore, she was said to have had a love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot...
, King Arthur's queen) - 2597 Arthur2597 Arthur2597 Arthur is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1980. It is named after King Arthur, the legendary British ruler....
(King ArthurKing ArthurKing Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...
, legendary king of EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) - 2598 Merlin2598 Merlin2598 Merlin is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1980. It is named after Merlin, the legendary wizard who helped King Arthur.Merlin is a C-type asteroid, meaning it is dark in color and carbonaceous in composition....
(Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur) - 3102 Krok3102 Krok3102 Krok is an Amor asteroid discovered on August 21, 1981 by L. Brozek at Klet.- External links :...
(KrokKrokKrok may refer to:* Krok, the father of Libuše in Czech legend* Krok, a character in the Action Masters sub-line of the Transformers toy franchise* Krok, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States* 3102 Krok, an asteroid...
, mythical BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
duke, father of LibušeLibušeLibuše, Libussa or, historically Lubossa, is a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and the Czech people as whole. Libuše was the wisest of the three sisters and prophesied the foundation of Prague from her castle Libušín...
, Kazi and TetaTetaTeta may refer to:*TETA, abbreviation for Triethylenetetramine*15374 Teta, an asteroid*Teta Lando, an Angolan musician*Teta Hyral, a character in Final Fantasy Tactics video game*Empress Teta, an Old Republic character in the Star Wars universe...
) - 3552 Don Quixote3552 Don Quixote3552 Don Quixote is a small main-belt, Amor, Mars crossing, potentially hazardous asteroid. It has a highly inclined comet-like orbit, and measures about 19 km in diameter. Its rotation period is 7.7 hours...
(Don Quixote, hero of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de CervantesMiguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
) - 5797 Bivoj5797 Bivoj5797 Bivoj is an Amor asteroid discovered on January 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Bivoj, mythical BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
hero) - 7695 Přemysl7695 Premysl7695 Přemysl is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1273.3646947 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 27, 1984....
(Přemysl the PloughmanPremysl, the PloughmanThe Czechs name Přemysl, the Ploughman, as the mythical ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty, containing the line of princes and kings which ruled in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from 873 or earlier until the murder of Wenceslaus III in 1306.-Story:According to a legend, Přemysl was a peasant of...
, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynastyPremyslid dynastyThe Přemyslids , were a Czech royal dynasty which reigned in Bohemia and Moravia , and partly also in Hungary, Silesia, Austria and Poland.-Legendary rulers:...
) - 9551 Kazi9551 Kazi9551 Kazi is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 20, 1985 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...
(Kazi, BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
mythical female healer) - 9713 Oceax9713 Oceax9713 Oceax is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 19th, 1973, by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory. 9713 Oceax orbits the sun at the L4 Lagrangian point of Jupiter’s orbit....
(Oceax, son of Nauplius of Euboea and brother of Palamedes) - 10764 Rübezahl10764 Rübezahl10764 Rübezahl is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1957.0473765 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 12, 1990....
(RübezahlRübezahlRübezahl is a folklore mountain spirit of the Giant Mountains , a mountain range along the border between the historical lands Bohemia and Silesia. He is the subject of many legends and fairy tales in German folklore.-Name:The origin of the name is not clear...
, CzechCzech languageCzech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains) - 15374 Teta15374 Teta15374 Teta is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on January 16, 1997 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...
(TetaTetaTeta may refer to:*TETA, abbreviation for Triethylenetetramine*15374 Teta, an asteroid*Teta Lando, an Angolan musician*Teta Hyral, a character in Final Fantasy Tactics video game*Empress Teta, an Old Republic character in the Star Wars universe...
, mythical BohemianBohemianA Bohemian is a resident of the former Kingdom of Bohemia, either in a narrow sense as the region of Bohemia proper or in a wider meaning as the whole country, now known as the Czech Republic. The word "Bohemian" was used to denote the Czech people as well as the Czech language before the word...
prophetess) - 38086 Beowulf38086 Beowulf38086 Beowulf is an Apollo asteroid with an orbital period of 618.2752603 days .The asteroid was discovered on May 5, 1999.-References:...
(BeowulfBeowulfBeowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...
)
Characters in modern fiction
- 1683 Castafiore1683 Castafiore1683 Castafiore is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1950 by Sylvain Arend at Uccle. It is named after the fictional Adventures of Tintin character, Bianca Castafiore.- External links :*...
(the diva in HergéHergéGeorges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also...
's The Adventures of TintinThe Adventures of TintinThe Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
) - 2309 Mr. Spock2309 Mr. Spock2309 Mr. Spock is a main belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 1971 by James B. Gibson, an astronomer specializing in comets, asteroids and the Milky Way, at the Yale-Columbia Station at El Leoncito, Argentina. The asteroid is about 21 km in diameter.The asteroid's name does not come...
(Mr. Spock, the famous VulcanVulcan (Star Trek)Vulcans, or sometimes Vulcanians, are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek universe who evolved on the planet Vulcan, and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic with no interference from emotion. They were the first extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek...
, by way of the discoverer's cat) - 2521 Heidi2521 HeidiThis small asteroid is named after Johanna Spyri's well-known book, Heidi....
(title character in Johanna SpyriJohanna SpyriJohanna Spyri was an author of children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.-Biography:In...
's well-known book HeidiHeidiHeidi is a Swiss work of fiction, published in two parts as Heidi's years of learning and travel and Heidi makes use of what she has learned.It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather's care, in the Swiss Alps...
) - 4512 Sinuhe4512 Sinuhe4512 Sinuhe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 20, 1939 by Yrjö Väisälä at Turku, Finland.- External links :*...
(title hero of The EgyptianThe EgyptianThe Egyptian is a historical novel by Mika Waltari. It was first published in Finnish in 1945, and in an abridged English translation by Naomi Walford in 1949. It was adapted into a film in 1954....
by Mika WaltariMika WaltariMika Toimi Waltari was a Finnish writer, best known for his best-selling novel The Egyptian .- Early life :...
) - Characters created by Arthur Conan DoyleArthur Conan DoyleSir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger...
:- 5048 Moriarty5048 Moriarty5048 Moriarty is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1981 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff. Named for Professor Moriarty, a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes detective stories by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.- External links :*...
(Professor MoriartyProfessor MoriartyProfessor James Moriarty is a fictional character and the archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes in the fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime". Doyle lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was...
, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes) - 5049 Sherlock5049 Sherlock5049 Sherlock is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1981 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Sherlock HolmesSherlock HolmesSherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The fantastic London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve...
, detective) - 5050 Doctorwatson5050 Doctorwatson5050 Doctorwatson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 14, 1983 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.- External links :*...
(Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)
- 5048 Moriarty
- Characters created by Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
in Alice in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in WonderlandAlice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures...
:- 6042 Cheshirecat6042 Cheshirecat6042 Cheshirecat is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on November 23, 1990 by A. Natori and T. Urata at the JCPM Yakiimo Station.- External links :*...
(the Cheshire catCheshire CatThe Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularised by Lewis Carroll's depiction of it in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Known for his distinctive mischievous grin, the Cheshire Cat has had a notable impact on popular culture.-Origins:...
) - 6735 Madhatter6735 Madhatter6735 Madhatter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 23, 1992 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...
(the Mad Hatter) - 6736 Marchare6736 Marchare6736 Marchare is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1993 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...
(the March HareMarch HareHaigha, the March Hare is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.The main character, Alice, hypothesises,...
)
- 6042 Cheshirecat
- Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis CarrollLewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
in JabberwockyJabberwocky"Jabberwocky" is a nonsense verse poem written by Lewis Carroll in his 1872 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, a sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
:- 7470 Jabberwock7470 Jabberwock7470 Jabberwock is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1991 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...
(the Jabberwock)
- 7470 Jabberwock
- 7796 Járacimrman7796 Járacimrman7796 JáraCimrman is an asteroid orbiting in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. It belongs to the IIa family of asteroids. It cannot approach the Earth nearer than 197 million km.- The discovery :...
(Jára CimrmanJára CimrmanJára Cimrman or Jára da Cimrman is a Czech fictional character created by Jiří Šebánek, Ladislav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák. He is presented as one of the greatest Czech playwrights, poets, composers, teachers, travellers, philosophers, inventors, detectives, mathematicians and sportsmen of the...
, a fictional Czech genius) - 7896 Švejk7896 Švejk7896 Švejk is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2034.4163341 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 1, 1995.-References:...
(Josef ŠvejkThe Good Soldier ŠvejkThe Good Soldier Švejk , also spelled Schweik or Schwejk, is the abbreviated title of a unfinished satirical/dark comedy novel by Jaroslav Hašek. It was illustrated by Josef Lada and George Grosz after Hašek's death...
, the good soldier) - 9007 James Bond9007 James BondAsteroid 9007 James Bond was discovered on 5 October 1983 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in the Czech Republic.It is named in honour of the British novelist Ian Fleming who wrote a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the fictional British spy James Bond between 1953 and...
(James BondJames BondJames Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
, fictional spy created by Ian FlemingIan FlemingIan Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
) - 12448 Mr. Tompkins12448 Mr. Tompkins12448 Mr. Tompkins is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1270.2711905 days .The asteroid was discovered on December 12, 1996....
(Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George GamowGeorge GamowGeorge Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave...
) - 12796 Kamenrider12796 Kamenrider12796 Kamenrider is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 16, 1995 by Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma Kogen Astronomical Observatory. Its name is in honor of Shotaro Ishinomori's Kamen Rider Series, particularly the first series Kamen Rider....
(Kamen RiderKamen Rider, is a weekly science fiction story created by Japanese manga artist Shotaro Ishinomori. It debuted as a tokusatsu television series on April 3, 1971 and ran until February 10, 1973, airing on the Mainichi Broadcasting System and NET TV . A manga adaptation was also featured in Shōnen Magazine...
, Japanese hero created by Shotaro IshinomoriShotaro Ishinomoriwas a Japanese manga artist who became an influential figure in manga, anime, and tokusatsu, creating several immensely popular long-running series such as Cyborg 009 and Himitsu Sentai Goranger, what would go on to become part of the Super Sentai series, and the Kamen Rider Series...
) - 18610 Arthurdent18610 Arthurdent18610 Arthurdent is a small main belt asteroid, discovered by Felix Hormuth of Starkenburg Observatory on 7 February 1998. It is named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio, play, and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy....
(Arthur DentArthur DentArthur Philip Dent is a fictional character, the hapless protagonist and anti-hero in the comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams....
, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a science fiction comedy series created by Douglas Adams. Originally a radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978, it was later adapted to other formats, and over several years it gradually became an international multi-media phenomenon...
series) - 20496 Jeník20496 Jeník20496 Jeník is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1931.4180283 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 22, 1999....
(Jeník, hero of Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
’s opera Bartered Bride) - 20497 Mařenka20497 Marenka20497 Mařenka is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2062.4556250 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 4, 1999....
(Mařenka, hero of Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
’s opera Bartered Bride) - Comic strip characters by Goscinny and Uderzo:
- 29401 Asterix29401 Asterix29401 Asterix is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1996 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet. It is named after the French comic character Asterix.- External links :*...
(AsterixAsterixAsterix or The Adventures of Asterix is a series of French comic books written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo . The series first appeared in French in the magazine Pilote on October 29, 1959...
) - 29402 Obelix29402 Obelix29402 Obelix is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1996 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...
(ObélixObelixObelix is a fictional character from the French comic book series Asterix. He works as a menhir sculptor and deliveryman, and is Asterix's best friend. Obelix is noted for his fatness, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength...
)
- 29401 Asterix
- 29471 Spejbl29471 Spejbl29471 Spejbl is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1997 by L. Šarounová at the Ondřejov Observatory.- External links :*...
(Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef SkupaJosef SkupaJosef Skupa was a Czech puppeteer.Studied Faculty of Applied Arts in Prague. Worked as stage designer in the Plzeň City Theatre, also as designer in Skoda Engineering Works....
) - 29472 Hurvínek29472 Hurvínek29472 Hurvínek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1548.3535325 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 27, 1997....
(Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef SkupaJosef SkupaJosef Skupa was a Czech puppeteer.Studied Faculty of Applied Arts in Prague. Worked as stage designer in the Plzeň City Theatre, also as designer in Skoda Engineering Works....
) - 33377 Večerníček33377 Vecernícek33377 Večerníček is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of about 1256 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 12, 1999. For the meaning of the name see Večerníček.-References:...
(VečerníčekVecernícekVečerníček is a television programme for the children in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia . It has been regularly broadcast for over 40 years...
, animated character inviting CzechCzech RepublicThe Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
children to watch evening TV fairytale) - Petit-PrincePetit-Prince (moon)Eugenia I Petit-Prince is the larger, outer moon of asteroid 45 Eugenia. It was discovered in 1998 by astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Initially, it received the provisional designation S/1998 1. Petit-Prince was the first asteroid moon to be discovered...
, moon of 45 Eugenia45 Eugenia45 Eugenia is a large main-belt asteroid. It is famed as one of the first asteroids to be found to have a moon orbiting it. It is also the second known triple asteroid, after 87 Sylvia.- Discovery :...
(The Little PrinceThe Little PrinceThe Little Prince , first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ....
, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-ExupéryAntoine de Saint-Exupéry , officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry , was a French writer, poet and pioneering aviator. He became a laureate of France's highest literary awards, and in 1939 was the winner of the U.S. National Book Award...
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See also
- List of minor planets
- List of notable minor planets
- List of minor planets named after places
- Meanings of minor planet names