As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]
Richard ("Dick") E. Beasley (1934–1992) was a noted calligrapher and multi-media artist. A teacher and administrator at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Beasley was in demand for workshops and symposia worldwide and garnered numerous commissions
Luis Aldaz (born 1925), meteorologist and scientific leader at Amundsen–Scott and Byrd Station in Antarctica during 1959–1964. Mount Aldaz, in Marie Byrd Land, was named for him by ACAN, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
Noradokei is a clock tower handmade by Hatakenaka Genma in 1897 at Aki city, Kochi prefecture, when clocks were still new to Japan. People working on the nearby fields were able to tell precise times from this clock. It is preserved as the city's cultural symbol.
Owakenoomi was a ruler of north Musashi in the latter half of the fifth century. The leader of a troop of guardsmen of the Emperor Yuuryaku, he was buried in the Inariyama old burial mounds in Gyodashi, Saitama prefecture, with an iron sword inlaid with gold that is now a national treasure
Potosi, a famous mining town in Bolivia, was founded in 1546. During 1556–1783 almost 45~000 tons of pure silver were mined from the Cerro Rico, with 7000 tons going to the Spanish monarchy. Thousands of Incan workers died from exhaustion and mercury poisoning. They were replaced by African slaves
Wannes van de Velde (1937–2008) was a Flemish singer, musician and poet. He sang his rebellious songs in the local dialect of Antwerp, a choice that was not always appreciateid by the city's intelligentia. His song Ik wil deze nacht in de straten verdwalen ("This night I want to stray through the city") became popular
Willem Vermandere (born 1940), a Flemish singer of countryside songs, performs in the colorful West Flemish dialect "Westhoek". Although barely understood by his fellow countrymen, he is esteemed for his critical views on society, the church and World War I. His song Blance and his horse is well known
British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) was one of the twentieth century's premier logicians and author with A. N. Whitehead of Principia Mathematica. Also known for his antiwar activism, humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950
Alfred Stevens (1823–1906) was a Belgian painter with a preference for portraying graceful female subjects, e.g., Salomè (1888). His impressionist friends envied him for his successful paintings, but his style was too realistic for him to be considered an impressionist
Ben Haemhouts (born 1972) is a Belgian conductor, trombonist and composer, who studied during 1999–2002 with the Russian conductor A. Polyanichko. Currently he is the director of the Belgian Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra, and his performance of Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in Oct. 2009 was much appreciated
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) was an Italian philosopher and novelist, well known for his novels Il nome della rosa (1980) and Il pendolo di Foucault (1988). He was the president of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici at the University of Bologna
Jean-Baptiste, Baron ("Toots") Thielemans (born 1922) is a Belgian jazz harmonica player who worked with Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Joel and others
Pedro J. Gutiérrez (b.~1972) of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía—Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas in Granada, Spain, has used thermophysical modeling to study the evolution of comets and their orbits
Norman Ernest Borlaug (1914–2009), a U.S. agronomist and a central figure in the "green revolution", collaborated for many years with Mexican scientists on the development of new wheat varieties. In 1970 he received the Nobel Peace Prize and subsequently pursued efforts to eliminate hunger in Asia and Africa
Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875–1951), a German surgeon who devised many improvements in surgical procedures, including the so-called pressure-difference procedure in thoracic surgery. He devised artificial limbs that move voluntarily after amputation by using the muscles of the stump.
François-Jean de Chastellux (1734–1788), author of De la félicité publique (1757), was a founder of the social sciences. He sought to determine whether society is susceptible to amelioration, if not to perfection. He cited America as an example of man's ability to progress through liberty, reason and equality.
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), Austrian physicist, born in Vienna, who founded wave mechanics in 1926. Later he worked in relativistic quantum mechanics, the theory of gravity and unified field theory. Together with Dirac, he received the 1933 Nobel prize in physics.
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), Austrian physicist, born in Vienna, was co-founder of quantum theory. He discovered the Pauli principle, which explains the level structure of atoms. He received the 1945 Nobel prize in physics.
Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), was a Flemish nobleman. Together with William of Orange and the Count of Hoorne he protested against the Spanish Inquisition. His life, capture and execution were memorialized in Goethe's play Egmont, with music by Beethoven to accompany its first performance in 1810
Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1779–1848), a Swedish chemist who discovered the chemical law of constant proportions in 1828. This led to the development of the modern system of chemical notation. Berzelius is also credited with identifying the chemical elements silicon, selenium, thorium and cerium
Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn (1524–1568), was stadtholder of Guelders and an admiral of Flanders. Together with William of Orange and the Count of Egmont, he resisted the introduction of the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. He and Egmont were condemned to death and beheaded in Brussels
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) an Irish poet and recipient of the Nobel prize for literature in 1923. He was known for his highly artistic form that gave expression to the spirit of a whole nation. On his grave in County Sligo is the advice "Cast a cold Eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
Isabel Godin des Odonais (Isabel de Casa Mayor, 1728–1792) was the wife of Jean Godin des Odonais, a technician of the La Condamine expedition in Peru. In order to join her husband, who had left for La Cayenne, she had to make her way through the Amazon forest, losing all her travel companions and fighting against sickness and hunger
Jean Godin des Odonais (1713–1792) was the nephew of Louis Godin, one of the members of the La Condamine expedition in Peru. In May 1736 he joined the expedition and married Isabel de Casa Mayor, an heiress from a very wealthy family. Back in France he composed a grammar for the quichua language
Hortensia is the name of a flower (Hydrangea hortensia) introduced to France by the astronomer Le Gentil on his return from observing the transits of Venus in India. Although he originally proposed to name this flower Pautia, either name would honor the orbit computer Nicole-Reine Etable de la Briere Hortense Lepaute.
Pondicherry is a city on the Coromandel coast in southeast India, founded by the French in 1674. In 1760 the astronomer Le Gentil traveled there to observe the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. Today the city is a popular destination for tourists.
Tisza River is a major tributary of the Danube river, with its source in the Carpathian Mountains. The Tisza flows through a small portion of Ukraine and then into Hungary. The river has recently been heavily polluted by cyanide, endangering its fauna.
Drava River is a major tributary of the Danube river. It flows from its source in the Italian Alps, through the Austrian federal states of Tirol and Kärnten. Huns and Slavs invaded the Alpine countries through its valley.
Tobolsk is a Russian city in western Siberia, at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Founded in 1587, it became a major center of early Russian colonization in Siberia. In 1761, astronomer Chappe d´Auteroche successfully observed the transit of Venus there.
Aleppo, a city in Syria which, since the 2nd century BC, is at the crossroad of several trade roads and still reflects the rich culture of its successive occupants.
Poseidonios (c. 135 BCE-c. 51 BCE), a Greek Stoic philosopher, astronomer and geographer. He was celebrated as a polymath who attempted to create a unified system for understanding human intellect and the universe, which would provide an explanation for human behavior.
Shinchukai is the name of the alumni association of Shingu Middle School, Wakayama prefecture. The school was founded in 1901 and was succeeded by Shingu High School in 1948. Haruo Sato (poet and novelist, 1892–1964) and Takeo Hatanaka (astronomer, 1914–1963) were among the members
Sergio Foglia (born 1972), an Italian amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He is an AAVSO member and the secretary of the Minor Planets Section of the Italian Astrophile Union (Italian: Unione Astrofili Italiani). Src
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976), a German theoretical physicist, co-founder of quantum theory who formulated the uncertainty principle. He worked in nuclear physics and cosmic radiation and tried to define a unified field theory. He also explained sociopolitical problems in popular publications. He received the Nobel prize for physics in 1932.
Peter Mrva (born 1962) Czech astronomer who was one of the first to help building the Astronomical Observatory of Modra. During years of mostly manual labor he taught, helped to explain and inspired the second discoverer in some areas, including astronomy and computer graphics.
Mannoucyo is the name of a new town in Kagawa prefecture on Shikoku island. It was formed from the merging of the three towns Mannoucho, Kotonamicho and Chunancho. The new town has approximately 900 small reservoirs, including Mannou Pond for irrigation, the largest irrigation pond in Japan
Richard A. Searfoss (1956–2018), an American astronaut who served as a research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. He is a veteran of three space flights, having been pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-58 and STS-76 and commander on STS-90.
Ryokkochigaku is the nickname of the Yokohama Midorigaoka High School earth-science club, known for its research of whale fossils and observation of solar prominences.
Chuya Koyama (born 1978), a Japanese cartoonist, who created Ucyu Kyodai ("Brothers Fascinated by Cosmos"), a scientific comic featuring the universe and the future. He has won numerous awards.
Aldo Timossi, a promoter of conventions, workshops and scientific meetings related to the advancement of planetary and minor planet study and also of the IMPACT Project (International Monitoring Program for Asteroid and Comet Threat).
Kobedaitenken, short for Kobe-Daigaku Tenmon Kenkyu-kai ("Kobe University astronomy club"), to which the second discoverer belonged during his student days.
Hans Schmidt (1923–2003) German co-founder of the Hoher List Observatory together with Friedrich Becker (1900–1990). Schmidt was specialized in the observation and reduction of eclipsing stars. Later, he became general director of the Bonner Universitäts-Sternwarte.
Eugène Charles Catalan (1814–1894) was a French-Belgian mathematician, known in particular for the "Catalan numbers". His left-wing convictions caused him to be expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. In 1865 the University of Liège honored him with the chair of Analysis
John Dundas Cochrane (1780–1825) was a Scottish explorer who during 1820–1823 crossed on foot from Russia to Kamchatka. His remarkable journey has been described in A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the frontiers of China, the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka (1829)
Okinawa, the southwesternmost prefecture in Japan, has a complicated history and beautiful sea and islands. The Okinawa Tracking and Communication Station of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is located on a hill to conduct command operations and receive telemetry from satellites that observe the earth or the moon
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American logician and philosopher, was initially trained in mathematics and became a professor of philosophy at Harvard University (1936–1978). He was a prolific scholar whose contributions range from mathematical logic to a constructivist analysis of philosophy.
Rogers E. Smith (born 1936) served as the Chief of the Flight Crew Branch at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, where he also flew as project pilot for a number of NASA research aircraft.
Banpeiyu (Citrus Banpeiyu) is a large, round, yellow citrus fruit that is a specialty of Kumamoto prefecture. The largest known example was collected in 2005 and weighed 4.858kg
Sauro Romagnani (born 1942), an Italian teacher at the San Marcello junior high school, was selected to participate in a research teaching team for the Educational European Center. He contributed to the founding of the local public library and establishment of the Astronomical Observatory in the Pistoia area.
Arnhem, a name derived from the presence of eagles, is a city near the Rhine river in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is famous for archaeological evidence of human activity there in the Stone Age, some 70~000 years ago
Mark P. Stucky (born 1958) served as a NASA research pilot at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, instructing Space Shuttle astronauts in the T-38 and the Gulfstream-II Shuttle Training Aircraft, and at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.
Colin Maclaurin (1698–1746), a Scottish mathematician known for his "Taylor adapted series", which he used for adding powers of arithmetic progressions. He is particularly honored for his Treatise of Fluxions (1742), in which he presented for the first time Newton's methods on this subject
Aleksei Chirikov (1703–1748) was a Russian navigator who in 1741 discovered and reached the coast of Alaska, during the "great Northern Expedition". He also discovered some of the Aleutian islands and took part in creating a general map of the Russian discoveries in the Pacific Ocean
Alpbach, an Austrian mountain village situated in the Tyrolean Alps, hosts the annual Summer School Alpbach. It is also famous for the international congress European Forum Alpbach, organized there every summer since 1945 to provide an important platform for economists, scientists, politicians and artists
Louis Paul Cailletet (1832–1913), a French physicist who was the first to liquefy oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and other gases. Liquefied nitrogen is used by astronomers to refrigerate imaging detectors to reduce thermal background noise and make faint minor planets detectable.
Mitsuru Kashiwagura (born 1950), a Japanese amateur astronomer and high school teacher in Ooe, Yamagata prefecture. He has been observing occultations since 1994.
The Ash Wednesday Supper (Italian: La Cena delle Ceneri), is a philosophical work by Giordano Bruno that was published in 1584, in which, for the first time in Western philosophical thought, there is discussion of the infinity of worlds in the universe.
Eustachio Manfredi (1674–1739), and his brothers Gabriele (1681–1761) and Eraclito (1682–1759), were professors at the University of Bologna, of astronomy, mathematics and medicine-cum-geometry. Eustachio was the author of the famous Istituzioni astronomiche, published as the second volume of his works.
Guy Soulié (born 1920) made photometric observations of the zodiacal light, measured positions of comets, planets and their satellites and wrote astrometric reduction programs. A member of the Hipparcos Input Catalog team, he also discovered double stars and minor planets.
Kim Poor (born 1952), an American astronomical artist known for his use of brilliant colors and dramatic scenery. He founded NovaSpace Galleries, which promotes space art and provides a focused outreach to the public for the genre
Jacques Blondelet (1934–1998) was a former president of the Société Lorraine d´Astronomie and vice president of the Observatoire Provençal d´Astrophotographie.
Natalya Cherkassova Owen (born 1952) is Honorary Consul General of the Russian Federation in Hawaii. She has developed humanitarian missions to Eastern Russia, establishing a nonprofit foundation that is building a rehabilitation center near Vladivostok for children with cancer.
Danny Meyer (born 1958), restaurateur and philanthropist, promotes neighborhood rejuvenation of historic New York City buildings and parks. Meyer is a board leader of two charities focusing on feeding the hungry and is a winner of the Share Our Strength Humanitarian Award and the James Beard Humanitarian Award
Sonia Fornasier (born 1972), Italian astronomer at Padua Observatory (533). She studies the physical properties of cis-Jovian and trans-Neptunian objects and was involved in the development of the Rosetta mission imaging system.
Marc Allen (born 1951) is a stellar and solar astronomer who has directed the Space Studies Board of the U.S. National Research Council (1991–1999) and is currently Assistant Associate Administrator for Strategic and International Planning at NASA.
Daniela Ducato (born 1960), an active Italian amateur astronomer, has organized many astronomical public events and observing gatherings in Sardinia. She also designed the public gardens of Guspini, her native town, following themes that resembled the constellations.
Hervé Viot (born 1961) built the CCD camera used for the ODAS survey. He was also involved in many other aspects of the telescope software and hardware. His work and competence were invaluable to the success of the project. He is now involved in other projects at the Observatoire de la Côte d´Azur.
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist and author of more than 400 scientific publications on birds, reptiles and seals. During a visit to Bering Island he became fascinated by the life of G. W. Steller, about whom he wrote a biography in 1936
Friedrich August Kekulé (1829–1896), a German chemist, who, in 1865, discovered the structure of benzene as a six-membered ring of carbon atoms with alternating single and double bonds.
The Marne is a river in France with its source on the Langres plateau. With a length of nearly 525km it runs generally in a north-northwest direction, passing the cities of Chaumont and Chalôns-sur-Marne. Below the city of Reims it changes its direction to continue its path to Paris, where it enters the Seine river
The Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell celebrated its 40th anniversary on 14 April 2000. It is the most important amateur astronomical society in Spain. The discoverers, Ferrán Casarramona and Antoni Vidal, belong to this society.
Mechelen, a Belgian city near Antwerp, was settled on the banks of the Dyle river in Gallic-Roman times. In 1303 it became the first seller of wool, and by the late Middle Ages it was a center of the cloth trade. Famous for its St. Rombout tower and Dordoens botanical garden, Michelen is known today for the cultivation of endive, asparagus and cauliflower
Nicolaas II Rockox (1560–1640), a humanist and maecenas, of Flemish nobility in the Spanish Netherlands. He was a highly respected citizen in Antwerp. A graduate of law from the University of Douai, he became one of the burgomasters of Antwerp in 1603, a position which he held several times.
Valérie Nataf Lambert (born 1959) is a well-known French TV news journalist who covers major international events. The name was suggested by M. A. Barucci and M. Fulchignoni.
Harold Reitsema (born 1948), of Ball Aerospace, Boulder, has been a participant in many of the successful occultation expeditions to determine sizes and shapes of minor planets, and he has also used occultations to study planetary atmospheres. The name was suggested by M. F. A'Hearn.
David A. Hardy (born 1936), a pioneering British astronomical artist whose work has appeared in numerous books and magazines, as well as on stage and in film. His own books include Visions of Space and The Fires Within.
Don Davis (born 1952) is an American astronomical artist who got his start working on some of the first modern lunar maps with the United States Geological Survey. His attention to detail is recognized by his fellow artists. He has also contributed to books and films, including the PBS series Cosmos.
Johannes Benkhoff (born 1961) is a planetary scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof. His research is in the field of modeling cometary nuclei, in preparation for space missions like Rosetta and Contour. He was instrumental in organizing the ACM 2002 conference. The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
Uri Carsenty (born 1949) is an Israeli planetary scientist working at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof. He works on the development of cameras and electronics for planetary space mission. He has been the brains and heart behind the organisation of ACM 2002. The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
Wilfried Tost (born 1952) is a system manager at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof. He has a keen interest in astronomy, and is active at Wilhelm Förster Sternwarte in Berlin. He was instrumental in organizing the ACM 2002 conference. The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
Johann Georg Gmelin (1709–1755) was a German naturalist who was appointed professor of chemistry and natural history at the University of St. Petersburg in 1731. From 1733 to 1743 he traveled through Siberia and his investigations were recorded in Flora Sibiria (1749–1750) and Reise durch Sibirien (1753).
Zibeline is the name of a small animal (Martes zibellina), that generally lives in the colder parts of the globe. Astronomer Chappe d´Auteroche, on his voyage to Tobolsk, Siberia, in 1761, reported how it has been hunted for its beautiful dark fur, resulting in almost complete extinction.
Marc Gyssens (born 1959) is a researcher on databases. A life-long commitment to the popularization of science, especially astronomy, led to his appointment as director of the public observatory Urania (near Antwerp). In 1988, he co-founded the International Meteor Organization.
Douglas ReVelle (1945–2010), was an American meteorologist and meteor physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His pioneering theoretical work include meteor physics and astronomy based on theoretical aerodynamics, meteor acoustics and the interpretation of infrasonic meteor observations. The name was suggested by Z. Ceplecha.
Jirí Borovicka (born 1964), of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, is known for his work in meteor physics and astronomy, particularly in meteor spectroscopy. He discovered the low- and high-temperature components of meteor radiation.
Wlodek Kofman (born 1945) directs the Laboratoire de Planétologie at the Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble. He is principal investigator on the Rosetta mission's CONSERT experiment, which will use the transmission of radio waves through the nucleus of comet 46P/Wirtanen to build up a three-dimensional image.
Július Breza (1917–1991) was one of the foremost otolaryngologists in Czechoslovakia. He was the head of the otolaryngology division at the Puerile Faculty hospital in Bratislava. His work centered on endoscopic procedures to treat disorders of the bronchi and lung in children.
Jiří Bouška (born 1925), a Czech astronomer and emeritus professor at Charles University in Prague, studied interplanetary matter and for 30 years served as the editor of the magazine Říše hvězd (The Realm of Stars, see 4090 Říšehvězd) and the Czech Astronomical Yearbook. He taught several generations of Czech astronomers, including one of the discoverers.
Serge Deconihout is a French amateur astronomer who applies his skills to telescope construction. He is the founder Valmeca, a company at the Haute Provence Observatory that produces large telescopes for both amateurs and professionals.
Thierry Midavaine is vice-president of the Association Française d'Astronomie. A dedicated observer, he is also a skilled optic-electronics engineer. For many years he has helped amateur astronomers improve their observations by using image-intensifier tubes.
Dea Doklestic (born 1982), a geophysicist and atmospheric scientist, is the wife of the first discoverer. This minor planet is being named on the occasion of their wedding on 2009 June 21
Alan R. Hale (born 1941) joined with Tom Johnson in the mid-1960s in the creation and development of the Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and its ultimate production. In this he was instrumental in bringing astronomy to many schools and ordinary people over the years
OLRAP, the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon Provence, was established in Avignon in 1982. The discoverer chose this name also to honor his wife, Marie-Françoise, who plays timpani in this orchestra.
Mary Guerrieri (born 1966) has supported astronomical research at the University of Arizona. She served as an editor of the university Press Space Science Series, manager of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory's Space Imagery Center and manager of Academic Affairs for the Department of Planetary Sciences
Robert ("Bob") Peterson (born 1949), a graduate of the University of Arizona, was assistant director at the Steward Observatory and for over 26 years, has been responsible for U. of A. operations in the Catalinas, on Kitt Peak, the Vatican Observatory on Mt. Graham, and for the U. of A. aluminizing facility
James Grantham (born 1966) is the observatory operations supervisor at the Steward Observatory Mt. Lemmon Station. He played a vital role defending the telescopes at both Mt. Lemmon and Mt. Bigelow during the 2002 Bullock and 2003 Aspen wildfires. He enjoys working on his family's ranch near Arivaca, Arizona
Paulo R. Holvorcem (born 1967), a Brazilian mathematician who has developed new numerical methods for simulating waves in rotating fluids and in free space. Since 1996 he has been observing near-earth objects and developing software that efficiently allocates telescope time during automated observations.
Robert Woolley (born 1953) taught astronomy and was planetarium director at Montgomery College (1976–1981) and president of the Von Braun Astronomical Society (1993–1994). Since 1994 he has been conducting week-long astronomical/geological educational experiences at a dark site near Flagstaff, Arizona.
Since 1993 Wayne Brown (born 1957) has developed and makes widely available CCD imaging systems for the astronomical and biomedical communities. He has also designed and built CCD cameras used for imaging from space.
Helen Wellton (born 1961) and Claes Wellton Persson (born 1943) are Swedish entrepreneurs whose interest in minor planets and comets has resulted in generous support and sponsorship for the Uppsala-DLR Asteroid Survey. The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
Frankie Thomas (1921–2006), an American actor who played cadet Tom Corbett in the 1950s TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". He was a fine role model for all children watching the show and believed that science was good and improved the quality of our lives. He had many movie credits before Tom Corbett.
Jan Merlin (born 1925), an American actor who played cadet Roger Manning in the 1950 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". He was the astronavigator on the rocket ship's radar deck and was always on the lookout for asteroids and comets.
Al Markim (1927–2015), an American actor who played cadet Astro in the 1950 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". His role on the rocketship Polaris was to control the engines on the power deck. Besides acting in many early TV shows, he co-produced some early TV series.
Ed Bryce (1921–1999), an American actor who played Captain Steve Strong in the 1950s TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". He led the crew of cadets. Ed Bryce contributed to the meteoric growth of early television and was featured in numerous shows.
Margaret Garland (born 1921), an American actor who played Dr. Joan Dale in the 1950 TV series "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet". In one episode she went with the cadets to an asteroid mine. She appeared earlier in a number of Broadway plays and later became a nurse.
Vladimir Utkin (1923–2000), a Russian engineer and scientist, was the designer of numerous carrier rockets and spacecraft. He was chair of Russia's Advisory Expert Council, which conducted joint assessments of the safety of Shuttle-Mir missions together with the Thomas P. Stafford Council.
Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787–1826), a German autodidact, glassmaker, optician and scientist, had an uncommon talent. He improved the telescope, invented the diffraction grid, and measured the wavelengths of the absorption lines in the solar spectrum. In 1824 the Bavarian king elevated him to the nobility.
Vladimir Evgen'evich Tretyakov ("VET", born 1936), a Russian mathematician, is a co-author of the Repin-Tretyakov method for the stabilization of dynamical systems. As rector he provides unceasing support for the development of astronomy at the Ural University and for the annual Student Winter Astronomical School.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Potapov (born 1904) is a distinctive Russian painter who made a series of icon works in the twelfth-century Byzantine manner for several temples.
Igor Borisovich Fedorov (born 1940) is a prominent scientist in the field of radio-wave propagation and over-the-horizon radar and is the author of more than 180 scientific publications. He has worked at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University since 1963 and has been rector since 1991.
George W. ("Wes") Lockwood (born 1941), an astronomer at Lowell Observatory since 1973, is an expert on high-precision photometry. Central to his research has been a decades-long study of the seasonal variability of Saturn VI (Titan), Uranus, and Neptune, as well as activity cycles in the sun and solar-type stars
Treiso is a village near Alba, Piemonte. Each year, a day is set aside to celebrate both astronomy and the locally produced red wine, Barbaresco. The event is called "Tasting the Universe". The name was suggested by V. Zappalà and A. W. Harris
Jean Louis Steinberg (born 1922) is a co-founder of the Nançay Radio Observatory and Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was among the first in France to launch space-astronomy missions using sounding rockets and satellites to study the physics of ionospheric plasma and the terrestrial magnetosphere.
Georges Viscardy (born 1917), the founder of the Société Monégasque d´Astronomie and of the Observatoire de Saint Martin de Peille on the French Riviera.
Michael Rudenko (born 1955) has been an IT specialist at the Minor Planet Center, handling the website and database, since 2009. He (co-)discovered three comets visually: C/1984 V1 (Levy-Rudenko); C/1987 Q1 (Rudenko); and C/1989 Q1 (Okazaki-Levy-Rudenko)
André Vanhassel (born 1927) studied classical philology at Ghent University and philosophy at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He was the director of the Lyceum in Antwerp from 1980 to 1985.
Paul Ledoux (1914–1988), was a Belgian astrophysicist, who was awarded the Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences in 1964. For his investigations into problems of stellar stability and variable stars he was awarded the Janssen Medal of the French Academy of Sciences in 1976. Name suggested by Jean Meeus.
Ulrich Libbrecht (1928–2017), was a Belgian philosopher and authority in the field of Eastern and comparative philosophy. He studied sinology at the University of Ghent and became professor of sinology at the University of Leiden. His book With the Four Seas is a well-known introduction to comparative philosophy.
Olaf Ninnemann (born 1947), German mathematician and leading expert in the field of information and documentation, is especially interested in number theory. He played a key role in the establishment of the Zentralblatt für Mathematik and has been its executive editor since 1978.
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912–2007), German physicist and philosopher, was involved in nuclear physics, quantum theory and astronomy. Together with H. Bethe, he explained the radiation energy of stars by processes of nuclear fusion. He also developed a theory for the formation of the Solar System.
June (1985), Nina (1987) and Lian (1988) daughters of psychologist Theo Geuens and Rita Heirman, both friends of the discoverer, Eric Walter Elst. They are majoring in sociology, mathematics and childhood education, respectively.
Alain-Fournier (Henri-Alban Fournier, 1886–1914) was a French novelist and literary critic. In 1913 he published his novel Le Grand Meaulnes, which was widely admired and became a classic in French literature
John Christopher "Chris" Butler (born 1964), a prolific astronomical artist who has painted numerous scenes incorporating fine details and color in works like Apollo Dawn and a sense of humor reflected in such paintings as One Small Mistake for Man and Hooray for Hadleywood.
Michael Gadsden (1933–2003) worked during the International Geophysical Year on airglow and aurorae in New Zealand and Antarctica and later at Boulder and Aberdeen. He was an authority on noctilucent clouds and secretary general of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy.
Masaaki Koyama (born 1934), Japanese baseball player, was known for his superb ball control and was called "a precision throwing machine". Since retiring, he has been active as a coach, baseball commentator and critic. He was inducted into Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001.
Hugo Decleir (born 1939) is Professor Emeritus in the geography department of the University of Brussels whose research interests include glaciology and climatology. He participated in several expeditions to Antarctica and is a co-founder of the International Polar Foundation
Godelieva Truwant (born 1948), a mathematics teacher at Institute Stella Matutina in Michelbeke, Belgium, has for more than 35 years been the encouraging supporter of the astronomical career of her husband, C. Sterken.
Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788), a French navigator sailed along the coast of South and North America and across the Pacific to China and Australia in 1785. In 1788, his ships L´Astrolabe and La Boussole vanished without a trace. The strait between Hokkaido and Sakhalin is named for him.
Gou Kudo (born 1954) is a high school science teacher and amateur astronomer. A director of the Kuroishi Subaru Association, he is also on the editorial staff of the association's magazine Starlit Sky Information and works vigorously to promote knowledge of astronomy
Kodomomiraikan ("Museum of Future for Kids") is a hands-on-activity-based center for children that will open in 2010 in Edogawa, Tokyo. This facility will provide an opportunity for kids to continue to learn various subjects, including astronomy, the universe, manufacturing and nature
Yoichi Takanashi (born 1958) is an amateur astronomer and owner of a very famous Italian restaurant in Kamogawa City, and he entertains many a visitor coming to see him from Tokyo. He is also a vice director of the Kamogawa Lifesaving Club and contributes much to his community
Mamoru Urabe (born 1960), a teacher of junior high school and an amateur astronomer, is a volunteer senior researcher at the Kamogawa Observatory in Chiba prefecture and has a private observatory in his home. His astronomical interests include comets, nebulae, star clusters and occultations by minor planets
Ōshū, a Japanese city is situated in the southern inland region of Iwate prefecture. It was formed on 2006 Feb. 20 as an amalgamation of five Japanese cities and towns. The Mizusawa Astrogeodynamics Observatory is located in the new city.
Yoshihiro Goto (born 1955) is a local civil servant and a Japanese amateur astronomer. As a member of the secretariat of the Kuroishi Subaru Association, he is active in organizing star parties for amateur astronomers and lay persons
Hirohumi Ukawa (born 1942) mentored many an astronomical amateur and astronomy specialist by the time of his retirement from many years of distinguished services at the Takamatsu Municipal Planetarium. He also acted as the volunteer president of the Astronomical Society of Shikoku during his tenure
Swiss aristocrat and physicist Horace-Bénedict de Saussure (1770–1799) made several journeys through the Swiss Alps, directing his attention to its botany, mineralogy, geology and topography of the snowy mountains. This naming also honors the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913)
Ichiro Tominari (born 1955), a prefectural government official, is also well known as an amateur astronomer in Oita. He began studying cosmic rays during his days as a university student and later became interested in galactic astronomy. He is now a planning director of the Astronomical Society of Oita
Nicolas Bosret (1799–1876) was a blind composer and organist at the Cathedral St. Loup in Namur. In 1851 he composed Li Bia Bouquèt, which became the official hymn of the city.
Justin E. H. Smith (born 1972) is an American-Canadian philosopher, at present a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Sciences at Diderot University, Paris. His recent book Nature, Human Nature and Human Difference (2015) is a collection of philosophical essays.
Founded as a fishing village in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. The name is derived from `merchants harbour'. Excavations have led to the discovery of a well from the late 12th century, and the remains of an ancient church, with graves dating from the 11th century.
One of the oldest cities in the world, Lisbon was inhabited by pre-Celtic tribes during the Neolithic period. In 711 the city was taken by Berbers and Arabs from North Africa and the Middle East. Muslim influences are still visible in the Alfama district that survived the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) was a French composer, conductor and pianist. As a child he showed a great aptitude for music and mathematics. He discovered the twelve-tone technique and wrote atonic music in a post-Weberian style.
Minoru Nakamura (born 1931) has been an active volunteer in the spread of astronomical knowledge and activities for children and youth since his retirement as principal of an elementary school in Kuroishi, Aomori prefecture. He has been president of the Kuroishi Subaru Association since 1992
Alan Bean (1932–2018) an American astronaut, became the fourth person to set foot on the lunar surface during the Apollo 12 mission to Oceanus Procellarum. After leaving the space program, he had devoted himself to documenting his and his fellow astronauts' experiences through his spectacular artwork.
Satoru Ando (born 1954) has for many years been a passionate disseminator of astronomy as chairman of the Tateyama Astronomy Club in Chiba prefecture. He is also known as a beachcomber
Otto Lilienthal (1848–1896), a German engineer who explored the aerodynamics of the flight of birds. Beginning in 1891, he flew more than 2000 times with homemade gliders, with his last flight ending in a fatal crash. With his brother Gustav (1849–1933), he conducted experiments that provided important knowledge about flight.
Ilan Manulis (born 1949) has enthusiastically promoted the study of near-earth objects from Israel and built awareness among the public by lectures and media programs. During the 1980s, he was chairman of the Israeli Astronomical Association. He now serves as IAA's head of small solar-system objects.
Tamayo Yuki (born 1956) joined the Fukuoka Astronomical Society and actively participates in their regular meetings. After her marriage, she built a private observatory in her back yard. She enjoys observing and photographing nebulae and star clusters through her 0.3-m Schmidt Cassegrain telescope
Teruaki Ohta (born 1962) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and director of the Astronomical Society of Oita. His current main interests are comets, meteors, planetary occultations, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. He also enjoys touring domestic and overseas astronomical observatories
Jean-Baptiste de Lesseps (1766–1834), a French diplomat and writer, was a member of the scientific expedition of La Pérouse. Reaching the port of Avatcha (Kamchatka) on 1787 Sept. 30, he was transported over land by horses and sledges to get the reports of the voyage so far to Paris. This took him more than one year
Takushi Yokota (born 1958), Japanese leader of the Kobe University astronomy club (see 13176 Kobedaitenken, above) and observing partner of the discoverer
Marc-Michel Rey (1720–1780) was a major figure in the publishing history of the Enlightenment in Amsterdam from 1744 onward. Manuscripts were smuggled out of France and found their way to Amsterdam, where they were printed and brought back to France clandestinely.
Mark Elowitz (born 1961) is a space scientist with a wide range of experience. He contributed to the Voyager survey of the outer solar system, the Magellan mission to Venus, Project LINEAR and the Galileo survey of the Jupiter system
Masuda is an area in Tanegashima, Kagoshima prefecture, where one can enjoy a great ocean view. The Masuda Tracking and Communication Station of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is located on the cliff to conduct command operations and receive telemetry from satellites that observe the earth or the moon
Elisabeth Badinter (Bleustein-Blanchet, b. 1944) is a French author, feminist and philosopher. Specializing in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment literature, she became famous for L´amour en plus (1980), where she defends the rights of women and proclaims the resemblances between men and women
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) studied at Cambridge and was the founder, together with Cayley, of the theory of algebraic invariants. He taught at University College, London; at Johns Hopkins University (1877–1883), where he helped establish a graduate program in mathematics; and finally at Oxford
Sam Thurman (born 1961) led a team that helped develop the landing system for Mars Pathfinder that was key in proving that the landing approach would perform reliably on Mars. This used a Monte Carlo computer simulation that accurately modeled the spacecraft and its interaction with the Martian environment
Roger Tanner (born 1950) has spent the last eight years at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory designing and building imaging systems for use on the various Mars missions, such as Mars Pathfinder, Beagle II and HiRISE. He is also an avid amateur astronomer who aspires to work at a professional level
Alfred Tarski (1901–1983), Polish logician, mathematician and philosopher, best known for his work on model theory, metamathematics, and algebraic logic
Pierre Bourge (born 1921) founded what was later to become the Association Française d´Astronomie in 1945, and its magazine Ciel et Espace in 1972. An avid solar eclipse observer and telescope maker, he has been an inspiration to a generation of astronomers, amateur and professional
Alvin is a deep-sea submersible with a depth range of 4000 meters. Built in 1964, it was used for some of the greatest undersea adventures of all, including the recovery of a lost nuclear device, the mapping of the Mid-Ocean Ridge and the discovery of "black smoker chimneys" and associated tube worms
Shinanogawa is the river that flows from Nagano prefecture to Niigata prefecture and into the Sea of Japan. The longest river in Japan, it has a total length of 367 kilometers
Ukrainian astronomer Kateryna ("Katya") Frantseva (born 1991) has advanced our understanding of how asteroids, comets and dust affect planetary surfaces in the Solar System and beyond.
Monty Python's Flying Circus, a comedy show starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones, aired on the BBC from 1969 Oct. 5 to 1974 Dec. 5. It also featured animations by Terry Gilliam.
Rudolf Pressberger (1942–2001), an Austrian engineer and astronomer, invented an improved telescope fork mount, named the "Austria Mount". First released in 1986, it features a right-ascension axis built inside the fork, works without ball bearings and uses friction drives. Using this design, Pressberger also built a 1.0-m Ritchey-Chrétien telescope himself.
Carlo Succi (1919–2000), was an Italian professor of physics at the University of Milan, was also director of the local section of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. His interests ranged from a pioneering study of cosmic rays to the development of the Milan 50-MeV cyclotron.
Roberta Bondar (born 1945), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-42 and has inspired the interest of young Canadians in science.
Nicholas Thomas (born 1960), German scientist at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (Aeronomics), Katlenburg-Lindau, has been associated with obtaining close-up images of Solar System bodies, from his role on the Giotto multicolor camera, through the imager on Mars Pathfinder, to Rosetta's OSIRIS imager
Martin Connors (born 1954), a Canadian astronomer and associate professor at Athabasca University since 1996, was appointed Canada Research Chair in Space Science, Instrumentation and Networking in 2002.
Óscar Romero (1917–1980), was an archbishop in El Salvador. During his mission he actively denounced violations of the human rights of the most vulnerable populations and promoted opposition to all forms of violence.
Jean-Marie Llapasset is a highly active French amateur astronomer. His main interest is the CCD observation of supernovae, and he is responsible for the coordination of measuring supernova magnitudes within the Association des Utilisateurs de Détecteurs Electroniques.
Adriano Campo Bagatin (born 1962), of the University of Bern, has worked on the observation of transneptunian objects, the collisional evolution of minor planets and the physics of small-body fragmentation processes. The name was suggested by P. Paolicchi
Ludmilla Kolokolova (born 1951) is a scientist at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research centers on light scattering by particles and by the surfaces of solar-system bodies. The name was suggested by H. Scholl
Gerhard Schwehm (born 1949), a German physicist and head of the Planetary Missions Division of ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, and Project Scientist for the Rosetta Mission. He has worked mainly on the dynamical and physical properties of interplanetary dust particles. The name was suggested by H. Scholl.
Nancy Worden, now retired, had a distinguished career as a technical librarian. She served as chief librarian at the U.S. National Solar Observatory. She began the use of computer-based databases in several U.S. government and commercial space programs. The citation was provided by her husband, S. P. Worden
Andrew S. Rivkin (born 1969), of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has wide-ranging interests, including 3- μ m observations of minor planets, Saturn's rings, stellar dust disks, science education, the moons of Mars and oblique impacts. He has also contributed to NEAR, Deep Space-1, ISO, MUSES-C and Rosetta.
Rick Kline (born 1953) has been Data Manager of the Spacecraft Planetary Imaging Facility at Cornell University since 1987. Kline has provided imaging data for planetary and small body research, and has educated thousands of young space advocates in his educational outreach programs. The name was suggested by B. E. Clark
Mike Costa (born 1954) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging observing interests, which he pursues with a 0.25-m Newtonian telescope. Costa has been an enthusiastic supporter of the activities of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre.
Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957), a Canadian geologist who was president of the Geological Society of America in 1932. He wrote on subjects such as the glacial control of coral reefs and rock mechanics.
Matthew Dawson (born 1959), of Roeser, Luxembourg, is an active amateur involved in the astrometry of fast-moving NEOs using a 45-cm telescope. Dawson is also a musician who specializes in contemporary jazz and popular music. He recorded a hit song in Germany in 1991. The name was suggested by R. A. Kowalski
Joel W. Parker (born 1962), American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets. He works at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, and specializes in the study of Kuiper belt objects. He is editor of the periodical Distant EKOs.
Grant H. Stokes (born 1959) is principal investigator of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), the most prolific asteroid and comet discovery program, which is currently responsible for about 70% of all small bodies found worldwide
Jenni V. Virtanen (born 1975), of the University of Helsinki, specializes in orbit determination. She has recently developed an initial orbit determination method, termed statistical ranging, suitable for use on poorly observed or short-arc objects.
Maria Rodriguez mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Arvida Middle School, Miami, Florida
Dorris Taylor mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Dunbar Middle School, Fort Worth, Texas
Edith McAlanis mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Barbara Bush Middle School, San Antonio, Texas
Nancy Smith mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Harry F. Byrd Middle School, Richmond, Virginia
Dan Bonham mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. He teaches at the Hillsboro High School, Hillsboro, North Dakota
Philibert Commerson (1727–1773) was a French naturalist, botanist and explorer. In 1764 he joined Bougainville on the frigate Boudeuse to circumnavigate the world. Near Rio de Janeiro he found a vivid colorful vine, which upon his suggestion was named Bougainvillea by the French botanist de Jussieu.
Livy (59 BC – AD 17), a Roman historian known for the 142 books of his Ab urbe condita ("From the Founding of the City"). Only Books 1–10 and 21–45 have survived. The famous defeat by Hannibal of the Roman forces under Flaminius at the battle of Trasimeno Lake is described in Book 22., Roman historian
Pavel Spurný (born 1958), of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, leads the European Network for photographing bolides. He is well known for his work in meteor physics and astronomy and has published many precise trajectories and orbits of bolides. The name was suggested by Z. Ceplecha.
Philippe Thébault (born 1969), French planetary scientist at Paris Observatory and expert on the dynamics of small Solar System bodies. He has worked on the planetesimal accretion of planetary systems and collisions in the Kuiper Belt.
CieloBuio is the Italian association against light pollution. Cielobuio played a fundamental role in Lombardy to support the passage of a regional law, one of the most advanced in the world. Through its electronic mailing list, Cielobuio connects both amateur and professional astronomers.
Daniel Solander (1733–1782), a Swedish botanist, who joined James Cook on the Endeavour, the ship that was sent by the Royal Society to the South Seas to observe the June 1769 transit of Venus. During this voyage he collected about a thousand different species of plants, none of which was then known in Europe.
Taras Kuščynskyj (1932–1983) was a Czech photographer, known for his beautiful black-and-white images of the female form, including fine-art nude studies.
Laurent Bernasconi (born 1966), French amateur astronomer, has collaborated with the Pises Observatory for many years. He has built several CCD cameras and automated telescope control systems, used by many amateurs in France. A fine observer, he has also discovered several minor planets using automated means.
Charles Kohlhase (born 1935), an American aerospace engineer has been a pioneer in the design, development and execution of planetary missions for more than four decades at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He twice received NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medal for the epic Voyager Grand Tour mission to the outer planets.
Hrazany, a Czech village, is the site of an ancient Celtic town in central Bohemia above the Vltava river in a gold-mining region. With an area of about 75 acres, it was settled in the second century B.C. and was destroyed in the first century A.D..
Dafydd Williams (born 1954), a Canadian astronaut who flew on space shuttle mission STS-90 after being selected in 1992. As a physician, he has focused on medical aspects of space flight.
Kazuko Furuya (born 1954) has devoted herself to kindergarten education since 1975. At present she is making efforts to give great dreams and hope to children with a creative teaching method, in the position of vice principal at Hadano Municipal Honcho kindergarten in Kanagawa prefecture
Karl Stülpner (1762–1841), a popular hero of Germany's Ore Mountains, lived in Scharfenstein, near Drebach. He and his group of hunters wandered through the Saxonian and Bohemian Ore mountains providing order and justice and helping those in need.
Geno Bechetti (b.~1958) was a telescope operator at Steward Observatory's Bok Telescope and at the Large Binocular Telescope. He was also a member of mountain operations support at the observatory's Mt. Lemmon Station. He is an avid motorcyclist, logging over 300 thousand miles touring the United States
Elaine Ullery mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Pinedale Middle School, Pinedale, Wyoming
Michael Schwartz (born 1950) contributes to professional-amateur cooperative discovery and measurement of supernovae and efforts in improving automated astronomy at Tenagra Observatory in Patagonia, Arizona
Steve Dodson (born 1943), a Canadian amateur astronomer, taught high school in northern Ontario. From 1982 to 1992 he was on the staff at Science North in Sudbury. Beginning in 1994, he made thousands of small "Stargazer Steve" telescopes.
Thomas Kramlik mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. He teaches at the Penndale Middle School, Lansdale, Pennsylvania
Tempest Diane Booth mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Southside Fundamental Middle School, St. Petersburg, Florida
The ARLT (Automatic Radio-Linked Telescope), a 0.44-m f/4.5 Newtonian located 40km from Silver City, New Mexico, was one of the first remotely controlled automated CCD imaging facilities. Some 20~000 images obtained during 1991–1997 contributed to 22 publications or formal presentations
Eric J. Christensen (born 1977), is an American astronomer and survey operations manager with Catalina Sky Survey. He has developed many novel tools to aid observers in validating the reality of moving objects flagged by CSS software, and created the catalog of stationary objects used by the Catalina Real time Transient Survey to identify optical transients. He is credited with the discovery of several comets.
Fred Treasure (born 1943) designed and built the wireless network and codeveloped the control system for the ARLT (Automatic Radio-Linked Telescope), one of the first completely automated remotely controlled CCD imaging facilities
A. W. Neely (born 1951) codesigned, constructed and operated one of the first completely automated remotely controlled CCD imaging facilities, the ARLT (Automatic Radio-Linked Telescope), which collected 20~000 CCD images during 1991–1997
Elais, from Greek mythology. She was a daughter of Anius with the power to change berries into olive oil. She and her two sisters, Oeno and Spermo, who had the power to make wine and wheat, helped stock Agamemnon's fleet on their way to Troy and were turned into doves to escape being kidnapped by the Greeks.
Catalonia is an autonomous region in northeastern Spain bordered by the Mediterranean Sea, France and the regions of Aragon and the Valencian community. The Piera Observatory is located some 50km northwest of the capital, Barcelona.
Anna Leticia Rosales Chase (born 1998), Agustin Rosales Chase (born 2000), Kassia Elizabeth Rosales Chase (born 2002), John Arthur Rosales Chase (born 2004), and Nicolas Rosales Chase (born 2007), family friends who are homeschooled by Daniel W. E. Green, who made the identifications for this minor planet.
Mount Vesuvius, near Naples, Italy, is the famous volcano that destroyed the cities Pompeii and Herculanum in 79 A.D. Large eruptions followed in 1631 and 1944.
Founded in 1912, the Vinnitsa Pedagogical University has played a great role in the training of teachers for primary and secondary schools in the Podoliya region of Ukraine.
Ingo Wölbern (born 1970) is a German geophysicist who has investigated the nature of the Hawaiian mantle plume and the Scandinavian shield by seismological methods.
Matteo Correggia (1962–2001), from the Roero region of Piemonte, was one of the most exceptional Italian winemakers. Though young, his extraordinary talent, passion and modesty won him the highest accolades from international wine experts. The name was suggested by the discoverer, A. W. Harris (JPL) and V. Zappalà.
The sea off the town of Otsuki, Kochi prefecture, is well known for coral products. Underwater corals make the sea of Tsukinada appear pinkish. Its beauty attracts tourists and is also sung of in a folksong
Bruno Sgarbini (born 1957) directs the "G. C. Gloriosi" amateur astronomical observatory in Montecorvino Rovella, Campania. An ardent popularizer of astronomy, he is also the principal organizer of an annual international astronomy meeting. The citation is endorsed by A. W. Harris and V. Zappalà.
Vasilij Grigorievich Kremen' (born 1947), a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and president of the Ukrainian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, is a scientist of history, philology and pedagogics.
Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) is the creator of a hypertext program that evolved into the World Wide Web. He founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Arthur Francis Grundy (born 1928) taught mathematics at Emanuel School, London, from 1957 to 1993. The name is endorsed by T. Berners-Lee, who, along with the discoverer, profited from Grundy's skillful teaching.
Aaron Rogers (1905–1989) taught mathematics at Emanuel School, London, from 1937 to 1970. His kindness to the discoverer exemplified a caring man of strong character.
Tashko Vulchev (1970–1999) was a highly talented young astronomer-scientist at the Bulgarian National Astronomical Observatory. He died tragically shortly before the presentation of his Ph.D. thesis on the variability and structure of the stellar wind in the luminous massive stars
Gero Rupprecht (born 1954) was a German astronomer at the European Southern Observatory from 1988 until 2019. He has been an integral part of astronomical instrumentation projects (FORS, HARPS and MUSE) that enabled the community to make numerous astronomical discoveries.
Some 1300 years ago, according to local legend, Princess Shirataki came to Kiryu from the imperial city of Kyoto. She brought with her the skills of sericulture and weaving. Textile weaving has become the principal industry of Kiryu
The Euphrates river flows through northern Syria and Iraq. At Al Qurnah the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come close together, forming the Tigris-Euphrates system.
Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) was an English writer, illustrator and natural scientist. Her books for children, e.g. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, that she illustrated with animals, made her famous. She was also highly respected for her studies and watercolors of mushrooms.
Hiwasa, a Japanese coastal town in Tokushima prefecture. Its Ohama Beach is known for sea turtles coming ashore to lay eggs and has an aquarium specializing in sea turtles.
Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828), Swedish botanist, was one of the last pupils of Carl Linnaeus, is considered the greatest botanist of his time. In 1770 he joined Dutch botanists on a journey to Japan. In the Cape area of South Africa, he collected more than 3000 new species. He wrote the first guide to Japanese flora, which made him famous in Japan.
Murikabushi ("a swarm of stars" in the Okinawa dialect) is the name of the 1.05-m infrared-optical telescope at the Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory.
Ken Phillips (born 1946), a solar physicist at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, works on the heating of the solar corona and x-ray spectroscopy and solar and stellar flares.
Cesare Barbieri (born 1942), an Italian astronomer at Padua University, responsible for the construction and scientific calibration of the Wide Angle Camera for the OSIRIS system of the cometary mission ROSETTA.
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