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List of asteroids named after important people
This is a list of asteroids named after important people:
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Science
Physicists
- 1979 Sakharov (Andrei Sakharov)
- 2001 Einstein (Albert Einstein, mathematician and physicist)
- 2002 Euler (Leonhard Euler, mathematician and physicist)
- 3905 Doppler (Christian Doppler)
- 3949 Mach (Ernst Mach)
- 4065 Meinel (Aden Meinel)
- 4716 Urey (Harold Urey)
- 5668 Foucault (Léon Foucault)
- 7495 Feynman (Richard Feynman)
- 7672 Hawking (Stephen Hawking)
- 8000 Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton)
- 8103 Fermi (Enrico Fermi)
- 13092 Schrödinger (Erwin Schrödinger)
- 13149 Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg)
- 37582 Faraday (Michael Faraday)
Astronomers
- 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
- 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
- 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
- 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
- 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
- 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
- 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa)
- 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach)
- 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres)
- 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, astronomer, physician, physicist)
- 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
- 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin)
- 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
- 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson)
- 1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud )
- 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther)
- 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula)
- 1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
- 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois)
- 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma)
- 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly)
- 1563 Noël (Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
- 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä, astronomer and physicist)
- 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
- 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T.R. Williams Vyssotsky)
- 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, astronomer and painter)
- 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
- 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
- 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter, mathematician, physicist and astronomer)
- 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung, chemist and astronomer)
- 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
- 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
- 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
- 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
- 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
- 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
- 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
- 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
- 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
- 1995 Hajek (Tadeás Hájek, astronomer, physician and occultist)
- 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius)
- 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama)
- 2000 Herschel (John Herschel)
- 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding)
- 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke)
- 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster)
- 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker)
- 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik, astronomer and astrophysicist)
- 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh)
- 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore)
- 2635 Huggins (William Huggins)
- 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan, astronomer and science popularizer)
- 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
- 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
- 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà)
- 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, astronomer and columnist)
- 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
- 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
- 3174 Alcock (George Alcock, comet and nova hunter)
- 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
- 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
- 3673 Levy (Davide Levy , astronomer and author)
- 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata, asteroid hunter)
- 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
- 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
- 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus, Ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician)
- 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya, comet hunter)
- 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli , Mars mapper)
- 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
- 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
- 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth )
- 4987 Flamsteed (John Flamsteed, Astronomer Royal)
- 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift, comet hunter)
- 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle, comet hunter)
- 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá )
- 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander, Ancient Greek astronomer)
- 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake, amateur astronomer and comet hunter)
- 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
- 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
- 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
Space exploration
- Planetary scientists
- 8356 Wadhwa (Meenakshi Wadhwa , meteorite analyst)
- Rocket scientists
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Apollo 11 astronauts:
- 6469 Armstrong (Neil Armstrong)
- 6470 Aldrin ("Buzz" Aldrin)
- 6471 Collins (Michael Collins)
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STS-51-L crew members:
- 3350 Scobee (Francis Scobee)
- 3351 Smith (Michael J. Smith)
- 3352 McAuliffe (Christa McAuliffe)
- 3353 Jarvis (Gregory Jarvis)
- 3354 McNair (Ronald McNair)
- 3355 Onizuka (Ellison Onizuka)
- 3356 Resnik (Judith Resnick)
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STS-107 crew members:
- 51823 Rickhusband (Rick D. Husband)
- 51824 Mikeanderson (Michael P. Anderson)
- 51825 Davidbrown (David M. Brown)
- 51826 Kalpanachawla (Kalpana Chawla)
- 51827 Laurelclark (Laurel Clark)
- 51828 Ilanramon (Ilan Ramon)
- 51829 Williemccool (William C. McCool)
Other sciences
- 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams, mathematician)
- 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, mathematician)
- 2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering cell biologist)
- 3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
- 3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
- 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace, mathematician)
- 4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis)
- 4354 Euclides (Euclid, mathematician)
- 4798 Mercator (Gerardus Mercator, cartographer)
- 5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin, scientist/philosopher/statesman)
- 5697 Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius), chemist
- 5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers, hot air balloon pioneers)
- 6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel, chemist)
- 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras, mathematician)
- 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa, mathematician)
- 6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier, chemist)
- 7000 Curie (Marie Curie)
- 8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
- 12493 Minkowski (Hermann Minkowski, mathematician)
Politicians and monarchs
- 12 Victoria (Queen Victoria)
- 45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie)
- 216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra)
- 944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)
- 4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
- 4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)
- 4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)
- 7117 Claudius (Claudius)
Religion
- 89 Julia (Julia of Corsica , martyr and patron saint, 5th century)
- 7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
- 7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Explorers
- 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)
- 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below])
- 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)
- 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa [see Hillary, above])
- 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)
- 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)
Historians
- 3092 Herodotus (Herodotus)
- 3097 Tacitus (Tacitus)
- 4549 Burkhardt (Jacob Burkhardt )
- 6174 Polybius (Polybius)
- 6304 Josephus Flavius (Josephus)
Philosophers
- 5450 Sokrates (Socrates)
- 5451 Plato (Plato)
- 6001 Thales (Thales)
- 6123 Aristoteles (Aristotle)
- 7009 Hume (David Hume)
- 7010 Locke (John Locke)
- 7012 Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes)
- 7014 Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- 7015 Schopenhauer (Arthur Schopenhauer)
- 8318 Averroes (Averroes or Ibn Rushd)
The Arts
Literature
General authors
- 3047 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
- 3412 Kafka (Franz Kafka)
- 5418 Joyce (James Joyce)
- 5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)
- 5666 Rabelais (François Rabelais)
- 5676 Voltaire (Voltaire)
- 6984 Lewiscarroll (Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson)
- 7016 Conandoyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 7328 Casanova (Giacomo Casanova)
- 44597 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau)
Novelists
- 2362 Mark Twain (Mark Twain)
- 2578 Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry}
- 2625 Jack London (Jack London)
- 2675 Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)
- 3453 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- 3836 Lem (Stanisław Lem)
- 4124 Herriot (James Herriot)
- 4370 Dickens (Charles Dickens)
- 4474 Proust (Marcel Proust)
- 4923 Clarke (Arthur C. Clarke)
- 5020 Asimov (Isaac Asimov)
- 6223 Dahl (Roald Dahl)
- 6371 Heinlein (Robert Heinlein)
- 6440 Ransome (Arthur Ransome)
- 7016 Conandoyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 7232 Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov)
- 7644 Cslewis (C.S. Lewis)
- 10733 George Sand (George Sand)
- 11020 Orwell (George Orwell)
- 11379 Flaubert (Gustave Flaubert)
Poets
- 4110 Keats (John Keats)
- 3067 Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
- 4635 Rimbaud (Arthur Rimbaud)
- 7855 Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)
Playwrights
- 2930 Euripides (Euripides)
- 2985 Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
- 2921 Sophocles (Sophocles)
- 2934 Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
- 3046 Moliere (Moliere, French playwright)
- 3079 Schiller (Friedrich Schiller, German playwright)
- 5697 Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen)
Satirists
- 3244 Petronius (Petronius)
- 3044 Saltykov (Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist)
- 15017 Cuppy (Will Cuppy)
Visual arts
- 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
- 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
- 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
- 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
- 6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi, architect)
- 6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)
- 6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)
- 6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)
- 6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)
- 6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)
- 6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)
- 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
- 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
- 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
Classical music
- 2510 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns, composer)
- 2669 Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich, composer)
- 3784 Chopin (Frédéric Chopin, composer)
- 3826 Handel (George Frideric Handel, composer)
- 4040 Purcell (Henry Purcell)
- 4132 Bartók (Béla Bartók, composer)
- 4330 Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi, composer)
- 4382 Stravinsky (Igor Stravinsky, composer)
- 4492 Debussy (Claude Debussy, composer)
- 4527 Schoenberg (Arnold Schoenberg, composer)
- 4802 Khatchaturian (Aram Khatchaturian, composer)
- 4818 Elgar (Edward Elgar, composer)
- 5177 Hugowolf (Hugo Wolf, composer)
- 5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer)
- 5210 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns, composer)
- 7675 Louisspohr (Louis Spohr, composer)
- 7903 Albinoni (Tomaso Albinoni, composer)
- 9913 Humperdinck (Engelbert Humperdinck, composer)
- 16590 Brunowalter (Bruno Walter, conductor)
- 69288 Berlioz (Hector Berlioz, composer)
Entertainment
Popular music
- 2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)
- 3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)
- 4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)
- 4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)
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The Beatles members:
- 4147 Lennon (John Lennon)
- 4148 McCartney (Paul McCartney)
- 4149 Harrison (George Harrison)
- 4150 Starr (Ringo Starr)
- 6354 Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)
- 6433 Enya (Enya, musician)
- 7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)
- 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
- 9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)
- 16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)
- 17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)
- 18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)
- 23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)
Film and TV
- 2816 Pien , (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
- 4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)
- 4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator)
- 6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)
- 6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)
- 6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)
- 7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)
- 7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)
- 8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)
- 8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress)
- 9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)
- 9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)
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Monty Python members:
- 9617 Grahamchapman (Graham Chapman)
- 9618 Johncleese (John Cleese)
- 9619 Terrygilliam (Terry Gilliam)
- 9620 Ericidle (Eric Idle)
- 9621 Michaelpalin (Michael Palin)
- 9622 Terryjones (Terry Jones)
- 10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)
- 10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)
- 11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)
- 13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)
- 17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)
- 19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)
- 26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)
Sports
- 5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig, baseball player)
- 6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens, athlete)
- 12373 Lancearmstrong , (Lance Armstrong, cyclist)
Other entertainers
- 3163 Randi (James Randi, magician)
Others
- 83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari, immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy)
- 1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof, father of Esperanto)
- 3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva)
- 4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
Fictional characters
Characters in classic fiction
- 92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)
- 2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)
- 2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)
- 2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen)
- 2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England)
- 2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)
- 3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote, hero of the novel, Don Quxiote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes)
Characters in modern fiction
- 2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan)
- Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 5048 Moriarty (Professor Moriarty, arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes)
- 5049 Sherlock (Sherlock Holmes, detective)
- 5050 Doctorwatson (Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)
- Characters created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland
- 6042 Cheshirecat (the Cheshire cat)
- 6735 Madhatter (the Mad Hatter)
- 6736 Marchare (the March Hare)
- Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky
- 7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)
- 7980 Bandersnatch (the Bandersnatch)
- 7796 Jaracimrman (Jára Cimrman , a fictional Czech genius created by Jaroslav Smoljak and Zdeněk Svěrák )
- 9007 James Bond (James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming)
- 12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow)
- 18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
- Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia (The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
References
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Tribute to the Crew of Columbia." http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2003/columbia-tribute.cfm (accessed 17 May 2004).
- Kleť Observatory. "Kleť numbered minor planets" (9 May 2004). http://www.klet.org/names/ (accessed 12 May 2004).
- Minor Planet Center. "Minor Planet Names: Alphabetical List" (6 May 2004). http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/MPNames.html (accessed 13 May 2004).
- Schmadel, Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (2nd ed.). Berlin; New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
See also
- List of asteroids
- List of noteworthy asteroids
- List of asteroids named after places
- Meanings of asteroid names
Last updated: 01-22-2005 01:30:48