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The Minor Planet Center then reported the asteroid to CNEOS.

On Tuesday, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Minor Planet Center announced the object.

Meg Schwamb, an astronomer who first set eyes on the minor planet as a graduate student in her 20s, said she felt that she and other astronomers finally knew enough about the minor planet to give it a name.

The findings were announced Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.

Late on Wednesday the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, in Cambridge, Mass.

The discovery was announced on Monday by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.

Its discovery was announced on Monday by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.

It has been named 2I/Borisov by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.

The discovery was announced this week by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.

The International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Minor Planet Electronic Circulars announced both moons earlier this month.

Monuments, squares, streets and even a minor planet discovered in 1968 were named after her.

The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery Monday, calling the object 2018 VG18.

The Minor Planet Center has classified 2002 PZ39 as a "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid," according to NASA.

Regardless, it's yet another indication that this minor planet features a complex, dynamic, and active surface environment.

The asteroid was officially recognized and indexed by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center on Tuesday.

The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the object, formally known as 2015 TG387, on Tuesday.

"[T]he International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center does not distinguish between small asteroids and meteoroids," Reddy said.

That bad science inspired J.L. Galache, an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass.

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star," Hawking once said.

On Monday, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery and gave this object the designation 2300 VG21.

Olympia (minor planet designation: 582 Olympia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Klotilde (minor planet designation: 583 Klotilde) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Irmgard (minor planet designation: 591 Irmgard) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Bathseba (minor planet designation: 592 Bathseba) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Mireille (minor planet designation: 594 Mireille) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Eleutheria (minor planet designation: 567 Eleutheria) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Misa (minor planet designation: 569 Misa) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Sylvania (minor planet designation: 519 Sylvania) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Laodica (minor planet designation: 507 Laodica) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Iolanda (minor planet designation: 509 Iolanda) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Mabella (minor planet designation: 510 Mabella) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Cremona (minor planet designation: 486 Cremona) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Comacina (minor planet designation: 489 Comacina) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Carina (minor planet designation: 491 Carina) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Caprera (minor planet designation: 479 Caprera) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Seppina (minor planet designation: 483 Seppina) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Genua (minor planet designation: 485 Genua) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Pauly (minor planet designation: 537 Pauly) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Susanna (minor planet designation: 542 Susanna) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Sara (minor planet designation: 533 Sara) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Bandusia (minor planet designation: 597 Bandusia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Musa (minor planet designation: 600 Musa) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Luisa (minor planet designation: 599 Luisa) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

Marianna (minor planet designation: 602 Marianna) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

This minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center.

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been named by the Minor Planet Center.

This minor planet has not been numbered by the Minor Planet Center and remains unnamed.

Polyxena (minor planet designation: 595 Polyxena) is an asteroid, a minor planet orbiting the Sun.

This minor planet has not yet been numbered by the Minor Planet Center and remains unnamed.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 and received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 2018 and received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 July 2000 and received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 April 2018 and received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2020, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 27 February 2002 and received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center.

Nerthus (minor planet designation: 601 Nerthus) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. See mythology of Nerthus.

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center.

As of 2019, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center.

The Minor Planet Center credits a large number of minor planet discoveries directly to the observatory (Crni Vrh).

Hence, the Minor Planet Center later assigned the minor planet number 28978 to Ixion on 2 September 2001.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 March 1999. , it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 5 December 2006. , it has not been named.

Recommended by the Minor Planet Center, this minor planet was named after the Cincinnati Observatory, whose staff provided most of the orbit computations. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().

This minor planet was named on the occasion of the Brorfelde Observatory's 40th anniversary. Brorfelde was the observatory's first minor planet discovery. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 ().

This minor planet was named by Brian Marsden and Conrad Bardwell of the Minor Planet Center, after their assistant, Eric S. Fogelin. During 1979–1980, he was preparing the center's computerized data and helped publishing the Minor Planet Circulars. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().

Kressida (minor planet designation: 548 Kressida) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the theatrical character Cressida.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 5 February 2020 () and has not yet received a name.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 21 June 2000 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 23 November 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 14 July 1992 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 4 November 2017 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 16 February 2016 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 6 April 2012. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 22 May 1997 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 September 2007 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 14 February 2014 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 2007 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 19 October 2005. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 31 August 2012. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 19 January 1992 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 5 July 2001. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 12 January 2017 (). As of 2020 it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 November 2001. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 2002. As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 21 August 2013 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 October 2004 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 14 March 2006 (). It has not yet received an official name.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 24 December 2007 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2001. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 16 February 2003. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 13 November 2008. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was named after Russian composer (1839–1881). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 16 February 2003. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 9 December 1992 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 8 March 1993 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (). As of 2020, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 2007. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 23 June 1994 (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 29 October 2012 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 November 2010. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 2003. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 20 May 2008. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 2005. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 12 October 2011 (). As of 2020, it has not been named.

Halawe (minor planet designation: 518 Halawe) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after the Middle Eastern confectionery halva.

Jetta (minor planet designation: 544 Jetta) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is estimated to be 24 km in diameter.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 June 2007. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 13 September 2000. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 30 August 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 19 October 2005. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 20 April 2008. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 9 May 2009. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 July 2000 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 2002. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 22 August 2002. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 24 December 1996 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 June 2006. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 2002 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 15 April 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 15 April 2004. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 18 May 2019 (). As of 2019, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 15 April 2014 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2003. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002. As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was named after American chemist Frederick Gardner Cottrell (1877–1948), who was a benefactor of the minor planet program at the discovering Goethe Link Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1978 ().

This minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center, which requires repeated observations on more than one opposition.

This minor planet was named for the Finnish Kevola Observatory . The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Finnish historical province of Savonia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This distant minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 20 June 2016 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was permanently numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 17 March 1995 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

Nassovia (minor planet designation: 534 Nassovia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Koronis family of asteroids.

This minor planet was permanently numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2003 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

Forward created an impossible name in naming his minor planet. As minor planet provisional designations shows, a name of the form "1999 ZX" is not possible. Harvard CfA, New- And Old-Style Minor Planet Designations It may be that he did this on purpose, to avoid an actual minor planet "stealing" the name, such as the real asteroid (14677) 1999 XZ.

This minor planet was named for the Roman god Bacchus (Dionysus).The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

As with 1453 Fennia, this minor planet was named after Finland (). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

The discoverer named this minor planet after his wife, Christine Kohoutek. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the former country of Yugoslavia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named "Postrema", which means "the last of a group". It celebrates Grigory Neujmin's last numbered minor planet discovery. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in June 1955 (). The citation only holds true at the time of publication.

This minor planet was named for French astronomer Odette Bancilhon, Boyer's colleague and wife of astronomer Alfred Schmitt. Odette Bancilhon herself discovered the minor planet 1333 Cevenola at Algiers Observatory in 1934. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of the now sovereign state of Serbia in its transliterated native pronunciation ( / ). Srbijas discovery in 1936 was the first minor planet discovery made at Belgrade Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in December 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after Queen Fabiola of Belgium (1928–2014). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().

This minor planet was named after Clyde Tombaugh's daughter, Annette. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after the port city of Beira in Mozambique. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

Pamina (minor planet designation: 539 Pamina) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named for the heroine of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute.

Charlotte (minor planet designation: 543 Charlotte) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Paul Götz on September 11, 1904 in Heidelberg.

This minor planet was named after the discoverer's son, William Patrick Dillon (born 1992), who was present on the night this minor planet was discovered. His words "Daddy, I want to go home now. This place is cold and spooky." made it into the naming citation of the Minor Planet Circulars (MPCs). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 2004 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for his wife, Aisleen Johnson. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().

This minor planet was named after German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet is named for the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the town of Kuopio in central Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the old Russian city Kursk. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 July 1985 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his daughter, Loretta Kowal. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of Lappeenranta in southeastern Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Italian nuclear physicist Antonino Zichichi. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 May 1989 ().

Titania (minor planet designation: 593 Titania) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1906 TT.

This minor planet was named by Karl Reinmuth after his son, Günter Reinmuth. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet was named for the ancient name of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest mountain and a well-known symbol. Another minor planet, 1584 Fuji, is also named for this mountain. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after Nancy Lou Zissell Marsden, wife of British astronomer Brian G. Marsden, who established the asteroid's identification, and after whom another minor planet, 1877 Marsden, was previously named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978 ().

The asteroid was named after Mary Joan Wesson Bardwell, wife of Conrad M. Bardwell (1926–2010), after whom the minor planet 1615 Bardwell is named. He also established the identifications for this minor planet. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978 ().

This minor planet was named for Pieksämäki, an eastern Finnish town in Southern Savonia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Jean-Jacques Laugier, the son of the discoverer. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().

This minor planet was named after Chinese astronomer Zhang Jiaxiang (born 1932). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 November 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after the influential Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 March 1996 ().

Sigelinde (minor planet designation: 552 Sigelinde) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after a character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre (The Valkyrie).

This minor planet was named after Austrian composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1989 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian painter of seascapes, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900), who lived and worked in the Crimean city of Feodosia. The minor planet 1048 Feodosia is named after this place. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named by Serbian astronomer Milorad Protić, who rediscovered the body in 1952, and made its permanent numbering possible (also see Lost minor planet). Protić named it after his grandson, Vladimir. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018, together with hundreds of other centaurs, trans-Neptunian and near-Earth objects (see catalog entries from to ). This object received the number in the minor planet catalog (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was named after a Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, following a proposal by the discoverer Ingrid van Houten- Groeneveld. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 2004 (). The minor planet 37452 Spirit was named for Opportunitys twin rover, Spirit.

This star became known as "Bidelman's star".Schmadel, Lutz D. (2012). "Catalogue of minor planet names and discovery circumstances". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 6th Edition, 2:686.

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for his daughter-in-law, Gaby Reinmuth. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 1968 ().

This minor planet was named after Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy (1931–2007). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 April 1994 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of Luanda, capital of Angola. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after French astronomer and asteroid discoverer Marguerite Laugier (1896–1976). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after the Rhineland, a region in western Germany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 March 1995 ().

This minor planet was named after Calpurnia, the last wife of Julius Caesar. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after medieval French poet François Villon (1431–1463). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 July 1999 ().

Minor planet 5559 Beategordon discovered by Eleanor Helin is named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 November 2019 ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center. The official discoverers will be defined when the object is numbered.

This minor planet was named for Tamara West, wife of the discoverer Richard Martin West. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 ().

' is a minor planet classified as centaur by the Minor Planet Center upon discovery. MPC list of Centaurs The object is also a promising Uranus horseshoe librator candidate.

Minor planet 6238 Septimaclark, discovered by Eleanor Helin is named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 November 2019 ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center. The official discoverers will be defined when the object is numbered.

This minor planet was named in honor of the Belgian amateur astronomer Edwin Goffin (b. 1950), who has made extensive computations involving minor-planet orbits, and whose initials are indicated by the body's provisional designation, . The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Willi Strobel (1909–1988), staff member at Astronomisches Rechen- Institut (ARI) since 1938, and author of the 1963-edition of Identifizierungsnachweis der Kleinen Planeten (Minor planet identifications, published by ARI). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after American amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Dennis di Cicco. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 April 1990 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his grandson, Alex R. Baltutis. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 March 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after the Ukrainian black Sea port city of Odessa. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 December 1982 ().

This minor planet was named for the northern Finnish town Oulu, the birthplace of the discoverer. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named after the Ounas river, one of the principal rivers in Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer in honor of his late son, Rafael Carrasco. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named for Magoeba, a native chief of the North Transvaal in South Africa. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named for the Shona people (Mashona), natives of Mashonaland in Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after Tübingen, city in southern Germany and birthplace of astronomer Johannes Kepler. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named for the city of Seinäjoki, located in Southern Ostrobothnia, western Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center. The official discoverer(s) will be defined when the object is numbered.

This minor planet was named by the South African discover Ernest Johnson after his granddaughter Sandra. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for Utra, a northeastern Finnish town and birthplace of the discoverer. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian artist and poet Alexander Vertinsky (1889–1957). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 September 1992 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002, after its orbit had sufficiently been secured (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 13 September 2000, after its orbit had sufficiently been secured (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named by the Minor Planet Center. The official discoverer(s) will be defined when the object is numbered.

This minor planet was named after Rosa Parks (1913–2005), the African-American civil rights activist. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 September 2014 ().

This minor planet was named after Enlightenment philosopher and geologist Nicolas Antoine Boulanger (1722–1759). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 June 2002 ().

This minor planet was named after Hynek Kohoutek, the father of the discoverer, celebrating his 70th birthday. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 December 1974 ().

This minor planet was named after Cape Erimo () at the south end of Hokkaidō, Japan. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet is named for Angola, the state on the southwestern coast of Africa. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Agostino Boattini (born 1932), the father of the discoverer. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 May 2001 ().

This minor planet was named for Kokkola, a Finnish town and port on the Gulf of Bothnia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the Thuringian Forest (), a mountain range in central Germany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after People's Republic of China where the asteroid was discovered. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 May 1988 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Carla Ziegler, a friend of the Bohrmann family at Heidelberg. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in October 1954 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Evgeniya Taratuta, Soviet writer and literary scholar. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after Swedish engineer, physicist and Nobel prize winner, Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 June 1974 ().

Pandia was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and his team in 2017, but not announced until July 17, 2018 via a Minor Planet Electronic Circular from the Minor Planet Center.

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his wife, Ingeborg Bickel–Keller (born 1941). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 January 2014 ().

This minor planet was named for the over 1000-mile long Siberian Angara River that drains Lake Baikal. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 June 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after Soviet writer and public figure, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883–1945). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 October 1994 .

This minor planet was named by the discoverer in memory of his grandfather, Alois T. Stuczynski. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 March 1985 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of Pori, located near the Gulf of Bothnia in Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for French astronomer M. Georges Meyer (born 1894), director of the discovering Algiers Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

To this day, "minor planet" remains the official designation for all small bodies in orbit around the Sun, and each new discovery is numbered accordingly in the IAU's Minor Planet Catalogue.

This minor planet was named after , a general of the late Heian period of Japanese history. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 December 1997 ().

This minor planet named after the Soviet theater director and film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932—1986). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 May 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after the country of Somalia, located in the Horn of Africa. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after William Shakespeare (1564–1616), the English renaissance dramatist and poet. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 ().

Virtus (minor planet designation: 494 Virtus) is an 86 km minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on October 7, 1902. Its provisional name was 1902 JV.

This minor planet was named after Beryl H. Potter (1900–1985), research assistant at the Indiana University, who participated in the program of minor planet observations from 1949 to 1966. During this period, she analysed nearly 6,300 photographic plates, measuring the positions of minor planets and reporting lost asteroids to the International Astronomical Union, which were then published in the Minor Planet Circulars. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 July 1968 ().

The minor planet 6154 Stevesynnott, discovered by Henry E. Holt in 1990, was named in his honour. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1996 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Calchas, a Greek prophet during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 March 1990 ().

This minor planet was named after British astronomer and professor of astronomy at the University of Sheffield. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 November 1990 ().

This minor planet was named after Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god and protector of the dead. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 ().

This minor planet was named after Angola's city and chief port Benguela (São Felipe de Benguela), formerly spelled Benguella. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Anna Birgitta Angelica Lagerkvist, daughter of the discoverer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 May 1984 ().

This minor planet was named after the Oljato–Monument Valley in Utah, on the Navajo Indian Reservation. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after Kathleen Willoughby Clifford, granddaughter of the discoverer Clyde Tombaugh (1906–1997). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 May 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Swedish astronomer Gunnar Malmquist (1893–1982), director of the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in Sweden. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This minor planet was named for Finnish philanthropist A. Vihuri, a ship owner and supporter of science and arts. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 July 1968 ().

This minor planet is named after the maiden name of the discovering astronomer's wife, Alyse Cherri Smith. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 November 2008 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Sinon, a Greek warrior of the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 December 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of located in the Guangdong province of southern China. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 March 1990 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the American physicist and astronomer Aden Meinel (1922–2011). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().

This minor planet was named after Aristophanes (445–385 B.C.), a Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 ().

Happelia (minor planet designation: 578 Happelia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. On 24 February 2017 a possible small 3-kilometer moon was found orbiting the asteroid, based on occultation observations.

Marbachia (minor planet designation: 565 Marbachia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the German city of Marbach on the river Neckar, birthplace of the writer Friedrich Schiller.

This minor planet was named after Lithuanian Art Nouveau painter and composer Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875–1911). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 February 1984 ().

This minor planet was named after the discoverer's grandmother, Anežka Moravcová (b 1924), on her 75th birthday. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

Cambridge University Press, p. 163. as is the crater Tycho Brahe on Mars and the minor planet 1677 Tycho Brahe in the asteroid belt.Lutz D. Schmadel. 2012. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.

The minor planet was named after the mythological twin Roman gods of death (Mors) and sleep (Somnus). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 June 2015 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002. It was named after Elizabeth Griffin (born 1942) a Canadian astronomer who studies binary stars spectroscopically. She has been an advocate for the preservation and digitization of astronomic photographic plates. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 April 2019 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of British astronomer Brian Marsden (1937–2010), director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, in recognition of his numerous contributions in the field of orbit calculations for comets and minor planets. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named for the farm, which is located in the Iso-Heikkilä district and owned by Turku University. It became the site of the Turku Observatory, which is also called Iso-Heikkilä Observatory (). It was the observatory's first minor planet discovery. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().

This minor planet was named by IAU's Minor Planet Names Committee from Greek mythology after the warrior Acamas (son of Eussorus), ally of Troy and leader of the Thracian contingent during the Trojan War. He was killed by Ajax. The name was suggested by Frederick Pilcher and published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 February 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Arthur Dent, the bewildered hero of Douglas Adams's radio play and book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The naming of the asteroid was announced by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) in its Minor Planet Circular on 9 May 2001 (). Two days later, Adams died of a heart attack in Santa Barbara, California.

This minor planet was named after Eurymedon a servant to the Greek king Nestor during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 May 1992 ().

This minor planet was named after the U.S. city of Cleveland as a tribute to its bicentennial celebration. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 September 1995 ().

This minor planet was named after Mombasa, chief-port and second largest city of Kenya on the coast of East Africa. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after in memory of African-American singer and actor Paul Robeson (1898–1976). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 February 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after the Finnish city of Rovaniemi, located just six kilometers south of the Arctic Circle. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for the eastern Finnish town Savonlinna, located in the heart of the Saimaa lake region. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after American planetary geologist with the United States Geological Survey, Doris Blackman Weir. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 December 1989 ().

This minor planet was named for astronomer Frank K. Edmondson (1912–2008) of Indiana University, the program's founder and director. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1971 ().

This minor planet was named after the town of Kamianka (; ), located in the Cherkasy Oblast region of central Ukraine. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2000 ().

This minor planet was named after Halti (Haltia), the highest Finnish peak at located on the border between Norway and Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the Gantrisch mountain, located south of the discovering observatory in the Bernese Alps. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 May 1996 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Vladimir Filatov (1875–1956), a Russian and Ukrainian ophthalmologist and surgeon. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after the Trojan warrior, Deiphobus, son of King Priam (also see 108 Hecuba and 884 Priamus). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after American astronomer Schelte J. Bus, a prolific discoverer of minor planets and comets. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 July 1985 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian astronomer from Moscow, Albina Serova, who is a friend of the discoverer. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 1986 ().

This minor planet was named for the discoverer’s birthplace, Aiguillon, a small town on the Garonne river in France. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 December 1979 ().

The discoverer named this minor planet after his wife, Benita Segal (born 1964), a major supporter of the observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002 ().

This minor planet was named after the Belgian town Chimay, home of the discoverer, who also co-discovered Comet Arend–Roland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet is named for the former municipality of Punkaharju, an isthmus region in southeastern Finland (also see Karelian Isthmus). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Orville B. Karge (1919–1990), a teacher of physics in San Diego, California. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 November 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Praamžius (an epithet of Dievas), the Lithuanian mythological god of the sky, peace, and friendship. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer in honor of his native city and the capital of his country, Belgrade. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

The Hungaria asteroid 3309 Brorfelde was discovered at, and named for the observatory. It was its first minor planet discovery. The naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 ().

This minor planet was named after Francis Richard Stephenson (born 1941), a British historian of astronomy at Durham University. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 November 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after Brazilian amateur astronomer and student of information science, Júlio César dos Santos Tibúrcio. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 June 1990 ().

This minor planet was named after the duende, fairy- or goblin-like mythological creatures from Iberian, Latin American and Filipino folklore. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center 17 November 2013 .

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after a common German feminine name. No special meaning is assigned to this name. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 1968 ().

This minor planet was named after Derice Harwood, wife of Dennis Harwood, astrometric staff member of the discovering Perth Observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 December 1981 ().

This minor planet was named after the historical Algoa Bay, located approximately 700 kilometers east of the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian modernist poet, Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 May 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after Arnold Orville Beckman (1900–2004), an American chemist and inventor of the first (potentiometric) pH meter. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 August 1989 ().

The minor planet was named by the discoverer after his grandson, Niels. Reinmuth also named 1719 Jens after one of his grandsons. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Soviet cinema actress Nonna Mordyukova (1925–2008), a celebrated People's Artist of the USSR. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 August 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Nessus, a centaur from Greek mythology, who poisoned and was killed by the divine hero Heracles. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 April 1997 ().

This minor planet was named after American student Kathy Camenzind (born 1996), a 2014-finalist of the Intel science talent search (STS). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 June 2014 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of American astronomer Asaph Hall (1829–1907), who discovered the Martian satellites, Phobos and Deimos. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after the Soviet Artek (Арте́к) camp, the first All-Union Young Pioneer camp on the Crimean peninsula. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 June 1977 ().

This minor planet was named for Italian composer of symphonies, church and chamber music and operas, Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1999 ().

This minor planet was named for Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Finnish violinist and composer of the late Romantic and early-modern periods. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the Japanese town of Yoichi on Hokkaido, where the discovering Kushiro Observatory is located. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 ().

Delila (minor planet designation: 560 Delila) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the biblical character Delilah in Saint-Saëns's opera Samson et Dalila, which was first performed in German translation.

Sigune (minor planet designation: 502 Sigune) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Like 501 Urhixidur and 500 Selinur, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.

Selinur (minor planet designation: 500 Selinur) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Like 501 Urhixidur and 502 Sigune, it is named after a character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's then-bestseller satirical novel Auch Einer.

Emita (minor planet designation: 481 Emita) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by the Italian astronomer Luigi Carnera on February 12, 1902. The meaning of the asteroid's proper name remains unknown.

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been named yet.

55576 Amycus is a minor planet named after Amycus the centaur.

A minor planet 13039 Awashima has been named after the island.

This minor planet was named for celebrated Scottish actor and Academy Award winner Sean Connery (born 1930), famous for portraying the character James Bond – after which the minor planet 9007 James Bond is named, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. With this minor planet, he is especially honored by the discoverer for his performance as the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 .

This minor planet was named for Bianca Castafiore, a fictional character in the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin . On the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday, the father of the fictional character, Georges Remi, better known under his pseudonym Hergé, was honoured by the minor planet 1652 Hergé. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Akka from Finnish mythology. She is the Earth's mother and the goddess of harvest and personifies love, agriculture and femininity. Akka is the wife of the principal sky deity Ukko, after whom the minor planet 2020 Ukko is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 July 2002 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Russian civil engineer Aleksandr Vasil'evich Filipenko (born 1950) from Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. He is the chairman of a charitable foundation for the memory of Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), after whom the minor planet 3889 Menshikov is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 2004 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of American astronomer and gay rights activist Frank Kameny (1925–2011), by the Minor Planet Center and the International Astronomical Union on 3 July 2012. Frank Kameny was a Harvard-trained variable star astronomer. He died 11 October 2011. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 July 2012 ().

This minor planet was named after Frédéric Sy, who worked as a human orbit computer and as an assistant astronomer at Algiers and Paris Observatory, respectively. At Algiers Observatory, he observed asteroids and comets and was the first to discoverer a numbered minor planet, 858 El Djezaïr, in 1916. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

Hubble also discovered the minor planet 1373 Cincinnati, his only asteroid discovery. The lunar crater Hubble is also named after him. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 December 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after the German translation of the goddess Pax in the hope for peace () around the world. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after the Ukrainian town Genichesk (Henichesk), the discoverer's birthplace in the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named by the discover from Greek mythology after Ilioneus, a ship commander and official spokesman under Aeneas. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Manetta Calinger who mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, DCYSC. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 October 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after (born 1929), long-time physician at the maternity hospital in Alushta on the Crimean peninsula. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after Janice Cline, who for many years has encouraged astrometric studies of minor planets at Caltech. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 March 1981 ().

Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names reads "Named for the proud, rebellious archangel, identified with Satan, who was expelled from heaven". The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Chinese philanthropist and industrialist from Beijing, who establish several schools in remote areas of China. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 January 1996 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Helicaon, son of Antenor and King Priam's daughter, Laodice. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 July 2010 ().

This minor planet is named after the location of the discovering observatory, High Tatras (), the highest mountain range in northern Slovakia. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after American Dirk Terrell (born 1965), an astrophysicist, writer, space artist, and mentor of amateur astronomers. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 2005 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of Tōkai, Japan, where the discoverer lives and the discovering observatory is located. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 February 1982 ().

Thekla (minor planet designation: 586 Thekla) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Saint Thecla of the first century. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1906 TC.

Tomyris (minor planet designation: 590 Tomyris) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Its name derives from the Massagetean (ancient Eastern Iranian) ruler Tomyris, and may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1906 TO.

This minor planet was named after Czech composer Antonin Dvořák (1841–1904), one of the worldwide known Czech composers along with Bedřich Smetana. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 ().

This minor planet was named after Großer Inselsberg, a mountain with an altitude of located in the Thuringian Forest in Thuringia, Germany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the Hungarian nation. Also known as Magyars, the Hungarians are believed to be of Hunnic heritage. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Aretaon. He was killed by Teucer during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for prolific British amateur astronomer George Alcock (1912–2000), who visually discovered 5 comets and 4 novae. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 November 1987 ().

This minor planet was named after the legume tree with orchid-like flowers, Bauhinia blakeana, commonly called the Hong Kong Orchid Tree. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 2007 ().

This minor planet was named for the Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The 7th oldest university in the United States was chartered in 1764. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in February 1954 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian mathematician and mechanician Pafnuty Chebyshev (1821–1894). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 (). The lunar crater Chebyshev was also named in his honor.

This minor planet is named after Pielinen, Finland's fourth largest lake in Finnish Karelia. The Koli National Park is located on its western shores. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the Siberian city of Omsk, the discoverer's birthplace and the administrative center of Omsk Oblast, Russia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Prothoon, who was killed by Teucer during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after Kate Kristensen, wife of astronomer L. K. Kristensen, who was involved in the body's orbit computation. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Rudolf Walter Komm (born 1957), an American helioseismologist, who contributed in the study of solar activity. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after Komsomol ("All-Union Leninist Young Communist League"), the youth wing of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724–1803), an important figure in the literary style called Empfindsamkeit. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Menestheus, the commander of the Greek contingent from Athens during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 March 1990 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Tomáš Baťa (1876–1932), a world-renowned Czech businessman and founder of the Bata Shoe Organization. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 June 1990 ().

This minor planet is named after the "feathered serpent" Quetzalcoatl, the Mesoamerican deity of wisdom and culture who brought learning to the Toltec people. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Gedeon Róka (1906–1974), a Hungarian science writer and popularizer of astronomy from Budapest. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named for the Vltava (Moldau), the longest river within the Czech Republic, running through the city of Prague. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Stentor, the Greek warrior and herald with a voice as loud as fifty men together. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Palamedes, the most intelligent of all the Greek commanders of the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek hero Talthybius from Greek mythology, who was the chief herald during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 November 1987 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his father, Chu Chiu Yeung (born 1925), in gratitude for his unconditional support. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after the discovering Union Observatory, also known as the Johannesburg Observatory, Transvaal Observatory (1909–1912) and Republic Observatory (1961–1971). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in June 1953 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Russian-born Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), chess grandmaster, considered one of the greatest chess players ever. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the historic Czech town of Český Krumlov, near to the location of the discovering Kleť Observatory. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 November 1993 ().

769 Tatjana is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. The body was named such after Tatiana Larina, protagonist of Alexander Pushkin's poem "Eugene Onegin".Schmadel, Lutz D. Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. — Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition.

632 Pyrrha is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Photometric observations of the minor planet in 2011 gave a rotation period of with an amplitude of in magnitude. This result rules out previous determinations of the period.

Octavia (minor planet designation: 598 Octavia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. At 15:45 UTC on October 6, the 13.5 magnitude asteroid occulted with magnitude 8.1 TYC 1299-00020-1, and was visible in Taiwan.

This minor planet was named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a Nazi concentration camp (World War II). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 May 1995 ().

This minor planet was named for Floris-Jan van der Meulen, the 5,000th visitor to a 14-day astronomical exhibition at the Leiden Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 March 1973 ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been numbered or named.

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in June 1960 ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named.

As of 2017, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named.

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been numbered or named.

The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 October 1996 .

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been named or numbered.

Emanuela (minor planet designation: 576 Emanuela) is an asteroid orbiting the Sun.

This minor planet was named after Cora, a figure in Inca mythology ().

As of 2018, this minor planet has not been numbered or named.

The minor planet 2306, discovered in 1939, has been named after Bauschinger.

As of 2020, this minor planet has not been numbered or named.

As of 2020, this minor planet has neither been numbered nor named.

In 2018, a minor planet (2001 RG46) was named as Yukito Ayatsuji.

This minor planet was named in honor of New Zealand astronomer couple Alan C. Gilmore and his wife, Pamela (née Kilmartin), two very productive observers of comets and minor planet in the Southern Hemisphere. They research at the Mount John University Observatory since 1980, and are members of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 July 1983 (), based on a proposal by Conrad Bardwell (see 1615 Bardwell) and Brian G. Marsden. Pamela Gilmore is also honored by the minor planet 3907 Kilmartin.

This minor planet was named for the astronomical bibliography Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts (AAA). Since it was founded under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union in 1969, it has systematically described, documented and indexed more than half a millions astronomical and astrophysical documents and produced more than 60 volumes. Head of AAA was German astronomer Lutz Schmadel, also known for his Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, and after whom the minor planet 2234 Schmadel is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1996 .

This minor planet was named after a friend of the discoverer's family, Aida Minaevna. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Lutz Schmadel, compiled this citation asking several Russian astronomers including Nikolai Chernykh for further information.

This minor planet was named after the Taiwanese National Central University, which controls the discovering Lulin Observatory. "Jhongda" is the University's abbreviation in Mandarin Chinese. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 2007 ().

This minor planet was named after the figure Gawain, King Arthur's nephew and a Knight of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 October 1981 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Halaesus, a son of king Agamemnon, after whom the asteroid 911 Agamemnon is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for Floirac, a French town in the Département Gironde, near Bordeaux, where the discovering observatory is located. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 July 1968 ().

This minor planet derives its name from the Spanish name of the discovering astronomical complex of observatories, the Complejo Astronómico El Leoncito (CASLEO). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 September 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek seer Amphiaraus (Amphiaraos), who was the king of Argos. He was one of the Seven against Thebes. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2000 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Canadian astronomer John Stanley Plaskett (1865–1941) and his son Harry Hemley Plaskett (1893–1980). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 1984 ().

This minor planet was named after American planetary scientist Steven J. Ostro at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 April 1987 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Japanese astronomer Masayuki Iwamoto (born 1954), a discoverer of minor planets at the Tokushima Observatory (). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 March 1996 ().

This minor planet was named after the Katanga Province, a rich mining region in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Kemerovo Oblast, the regional center of the Russian Kemerovo district, and a significant industrial center in Siberia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 February 1982 ().

This minor planet was named for the son of the early Roman King Turno. "Camillo" is also the name of the discoverer's son. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 May 1989 ().

This minor planet was named after the south Bohemian town of Počátky, Czech Republic. It is the birthplace of the discoverer Miloš Tichý. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 November 2000 ().

This minor planet was named for Finland's second largest lake, Päijänne, located in south-central Finland, and more than a thousand square kilometers in size. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Swedish astronomer Karl Adam Wilhelm Schalén (1902–1993), who was a director of the Swedish Lund Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was likely named after Danish actress Asta Nielsen (1881–1972), according to research by the author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Lutz Schmadel (LDS). The naming was proposed by ARI-astronomer Gustav Stracke.

This minor planet was named after the god of the west wind, Zephyrus, from Greek mythology. The name was suggested by M. Smitherman. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after the town of Zomba in the Republic of Malawi, known as Nyasaland, a British protectorate, at the time of naming. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

The minor planet 200025, discovered on 25 July 2007, was formally named 200025 Cloud Gate for Cloud Gate Dance Theater on 29 April 2010, becoming the first minor planet to be named for a Taiwanese performing arts group.

This minor planet was named after the Mátra mountain range in northern Hungary, where the outstation of the discovering Konkoly Observatory is located. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

Rhea (minor planet designation: 577 Rhea) is a minor planet orbiting the sun. It is named after Rhea, one of the Titans in Greek mythology. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1905 RH.

Euryanthe (minor planet designation: 527 Euryanthe) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1904 by Max Wolf and named after the heroine of the opera Euryanthe by the German composer Carl Maria von Weber.

This minor planet was named from Egyptian mythology after Aten, the ancient Egyptian god of the solar disk, originally an aspect of the god Ra. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882−1956), Finnish professor of geography and rector at University of Turku from 1932 to 1934. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named after Bruce Helin, son of the first discover Eleanor Helin, in an expression of gratitude for "the many years he tolerated his mother's preoccupation with extraterrestrial objects". The discoverer has also honoured her daughter-in-law and wife of Bruce, Nancy Coker Helin, by the minor planet 4222 Nancita. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 October 1981 ().

This minor planet was named after Karel van Houten, son of Dutch astronomers Ingrid and Cornelis van Houten of the Leiden Observatory. Together with Ingrid, Reinmuth discovered the minor planet 1691 Oort in 1956. Reinmuth also named his two discoveries, 1673 van Houten and 1674 Groeneveld, after the prolific couple of Dutch astronomers. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 1968 ().

This minor planet was named after the maiden name of American Anne Lorbach Herget, second wife of astronomer Paul Herget, after whom the minor planet 1751 Herget is named. Anne worked as an assistant at the Cincinnati Observatory since the 1960s, key-punching MPC-data and assigning provisional designations to minor planets. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after French astronomer Joanny-Philippe Lagrula (1870–1941), discoverer of the minor planet 775 Lumière and director of the Quito Astronomical Observatory and Algiers Observatory. Naming citation was neither published in The Names of the Minor Planets nor in the Minor Planet Circulars, but researched and compiled by astronomer and author Lutz D. Schmadel, based on his private communications with his colleges ().

This minor planet was named for Conrad M. Bardwell (1926–2010), who was a research associate at the Cincinnati Observatory and later associate director of the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Bardwell successfully established numerous identifications from observations in widely separated oppositions and provided observers with reliable data of orbital elements. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 June 1974 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Vivian Hirst, daughter of British astronomer William P. Hirst, receiver of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa's Gill Medal and after whom the minor planet 3172 Hirst is named. Hirst calculated the preliminary orbit for this and several other minor planets discovered by Ernest Johnson. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 January 1974 ().

This minor planet was named after Finnish astronomer, Yrjö Väisälä (1891–1971), a prolific discoverer of minor planets during the late 1930s and early 1940s. In addition, a second minor planet, 2804 Yrjö, was named in his honor by pioneering Finnish female astronomer Liisi Oterma, and the lunar crater Väisälä also bears his name. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 January 1962 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of astronomer Dalibor Kubáček (born 1957), who explored the coma of comets at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He readily instructed the peculiar methods of image processing to students and friends, as well as to the discoverers of this minor planet. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

This minor planet was named for Richard Tresch Fienberg (born 1956) an American astronomer at Rice and Harvard universities, and a stargazer at his private observatory near Danbury, New Hampshire. He is also an editor of the American amateur astronomer magazine Sky & Telescope, after which the minor planet 3243 Skytel is named. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 2003. It was named from Mohegan legend, after Moshup, a giant who lived in the coastal areas of New England. The asteroid's companion is named Squannit, after the wife of Moshup and a medicine woman of the Makiawisug (little people). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 2019 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 7 October 1987 (). , it has not received a name. This makes ' the lowest-numbered unnamed minor planet (there are more than half a million numbered minor planets with more than 20,000 of them being named). This contrasts with the neighboring asteroid, 3707 Schröter and 3709 Polypoites, that were named in September 1993 and April 1988, respectively ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the late couple of Russian astronomers Grigory Shajn (1892–1956) and the discoverer herself, Pelageya Shajn (1894–1956), first woman ever to discover a minor planet. The asteroid 1190 Pelagia is also named after her, while her husband is honored by the lunar crater Shayn. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1962 ().

This minor planet was named after Chinese astronomer Cheng-yuan Shao (born 1927), an assistant to Richard McCrosky (see previously numbered ) in Harvard's minor-planet program at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Oak Ridge Observatory in Massachusetts, United States. Shao was also involved in the recovery of near- Earth asteroid 1862 Apollo. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the Tuorla Observatory, the Research Institute for Astronomy and Optics, of the University of Turku, located in Piikkiö near Turku, Finland. The Tuorla Observatory was established by prolific minor-planet discoverer Yrjö Väisälä in 1952, as an alternative to the Iso-Heikkilä Observatory, where this asteroid was discovered. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics, Georges Lemaître (1894–1966), widely regarded as the father of the Big Bang theory. The lunar crater Lemaître also bears his name. Lemaître was the first minor planet to be numbered after the end of World War II. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

Minor planet 4426 Roerich in Solar System On October 15, 1969 a minor planet of Solar System was discovered by astronomers of Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Nikolai Stepanovich and Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh. This planet was named in honor of Roerichs family. It was numbered 4426.Minor planet «Roerich» / «Lets protect the names and heritage of the Roerichs» («Zaschitim imya I nasledie Rerikhov») (in Russian) V.3.

This minor planet is named in honour of Belgian female singer Wendeline Froger (b. 1948), who has a soprano voice and performs at church celebrations, weddings and for selected audiences at her residence. She has a preference to sing Lieder by Robert Schumann, after whom the minor planet 4003 Schumann is named. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 December 2008 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Nikita Bogoslovskij (1913–2004), Russian writer and contemporary composer, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Hiroyuki (born 1991) and Miyuki Mori (born 1993), son and daughter of the second co-discoverer Hiroshi Mori. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 March 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after Horus, the falcon-headed king of the sky and the stars, and son of the Egyptian god Osiris. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 ().

This minor planet was named after Italian-Swiss artist Franz Anton Bustelli (1723–1763), a famous modeller of figures for the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet named in memory of Russian aviator Mikhail Nikiforovich Efimov (; 1881–1919), who was the first to realize steep turns and dives. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 31 May 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864–1960), an Irish writer of the late Victorian epoch, best known for her novel The Gadfly. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the warrior Euryalos, the leader of the Greek contingent from Argos during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 March 1990 ().

This minor planet was named in 1987 for Canadian John Leroy Climenhaga of the University of Victoria, in honour of his work in astrophysics. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 December 1986 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the Russian composer Aleksandra Pakhmutova, one of the best known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet is named after the Kollaa River in Karelia, the focal point of violent battles during the Finnish Winter War (1939–40). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Japanese astronomer Makio Akiyama (born 1950), an observer and discoverer of minor planets himself at the Susono Observatory (). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 March 1996 ().

This minor planet was named after the indigenous North American Navajo people, inhabitants of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the Southwestern United States. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 ().

This minor planet was named for the Finnish town Jyväskylä. It is the largest city in the region of Central Finland and on the Finnish Lakeland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for a staff member of the United States Naval Observatory in Washington D.C., Winifred Sawtell Cameron. The official was proposed by the discovering astronomer and published by the Minor Planet Center in December 1952 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910–1995), the Nobel Prize winning Indian–American theoretical astrophysicist (also see Chandrasekhar limit). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for his grandson. Karl Reinmuth also named the consecutively numbered asteroid, 1720 Niels, after one of his grandsons. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the University of Alberta; the initials of its motto Quaecumque Vera ("Whatsoever things are true") appear in the provisional designation. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 2005 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of mathematician Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792–1856), Russian mathematician and creator of the first comprehensive system of non-Euclidean geometry. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named after American astronomer Donald Keith Yeomans, a celestial mechanician at JPL and astrometry-expert of the International Halley Watch. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 1986 ().

This minor planet was named for Vanessa Hall and Philip Osborne, by astronomer G. V. William to celebrate their marriage on 3 August 1991. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 August 1991 ().

Cava (minor planet designation: 505 Cava) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. In 2001, the asteroid was detected by radar from the Arecibo Observatory at a distance of 1.18 AU. The resulting data yielded an effective diameter of .

Tekmessa (minor planet designation: 604 Tekmessa) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf on February 16, 1906. The name may have been inspired by the asteroid's provisional designation 1906 TK.

A minor planet discovered in 1933 was named "Bronislawa" in her honour.Schmadel, Lutz (1992), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1, Springer-Verlag (p. 108) There is a street named for her in the Ligota- Panewniki region of Katowice.

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 2010 ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009 ().

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The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 ().

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The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the discoverer's son, Emanuel Arend ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1978 ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on August 27, 2019 ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 ().

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on May 18, 2019.

The minor planet 27855 Giorgilli, discovered in 1995, is named in his honor.

The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 June 2008 ().

This minor planet was named after Belgian Jean Nicolas François Jules Serpe (1914–2001), theoretical-physicist, professor at Liège University and member of the RASAB. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 May 2011 ().

This minor planet was named for the Finnish town Joensuu, where the discoverer received his early schooling. It is located in North Karelia, near the Russian border. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan prince Hippasus (Hippasos). The son of King Priam supported Aeneas in the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of famous Flemish poet and Roman Catholic priest Guido Gezelle (1830–1899), who wrote extensively on religion and nature. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after (1904–1960), father of Carolyn Shoemaker's husband Eugene Shoemaker (1928–1997), who has previously been credited as the second discoverer. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 December 1989 ().

The asteroid is named after German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding (1765–1834), who discovered the minor planet 3 Juno. He is also honored by the lunar crater Harding. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Hungarian amateur astronomer Jenő Gothard (1857–1909), who discovered the central star in the Ring Nebula (M57). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after a hill and its nearby village Horky in the Czech Republic, where the discoverer installed his first telescope in 1939. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 November 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Louis Botha (1862–1919), the first Prime Minister of South Africa of the Union of South Africa, which existed between 1910 and 1961. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named "Educatio", the Latin word for Education, one of the most important human endeavors, which is foremost to the industrialization of space. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Euphorbus (Euforbo), the Greek hero who wounded Patroclus in the breast before being killed by Hektor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 January 1992 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Japanese botanist Akira Misawa (1942–1994), a professor at Chiba University , who examined the effects of light pollution on plants. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after Ainonai, a small Japanese town located near Kitami in eastern Hokkaidō. Asteroids 3785 Kitami and 3720 Hokkaido are named after these two places. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 November 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Osiris, the Egyptian god of vegetation, of the waxing and waning Moon and of the annual flooding of the Nile. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1979 ().

This minor planet was named for Pannonia, an ancient province of the Roman Empire, which was partially located over the territory of the present-day western Hungary. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after David Nikitich Kugultinov (1922–2006), prominent Soviet poet and national poet of the Republic of Kalmykia (also see 2287 Kalmykia). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 December 1990 ().

This minor planet was named after Nadezhda Kurchenko (1950–1970), a Soviet flight attendant who was killed during the hijacking of on 15 October 1970. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 February 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Takahiro Ishihara (born 1961), an observer of comets, communicator of astronomy, and former president of the astronomical society at Hiroshima (1987–1997). The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after the Russian name for the Baltic state Lithuania, former member of the Soviet Union and now an independent Republic. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 December 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after the Limpopo River, which rises in central southern Africa, and flows through Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe into the Indian Ocean. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named for the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica) a migratory bird of the family Scolopacidae. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999 () and revised on 2 April 1999 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his wife, Mette Andrews for her comprehension of his nocturnal working hours and absence from home. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

He was also involved with Argentina's fledgling radio astronomy and space program. In 1972, he organized the first astrophysics conference in Latin America.Schmadel, Lutz D. (2013). "Catalogue of minor planet names and discovery circumstances". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 3rd Edition.

This minor planet was named by the discoverer Timothy Spahr in honor of his supportive parents, Mary Clark (born 1938) and Phil Spahr (born 1938). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 July 2012 ().

This minor planet was named after the astronomical branch astrometry, that precisely measures the positions and movements of astronomical objects including small Solar System bodies. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after Swedish geodesist and astronomer Erik Tengström (1913–1996), emeritus professor at Uppsala University on the celebration of his 70th anniversary. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 1983 ().

This minor planet was named for Byzantine princess and queen consort Simonida, the wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin and symbol of beauty in former Yugoslavia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 January 1973 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek hero Idomeneus, who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War and where he slew many Trojans. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 December 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after Eurybates, the Ancient hero from Greek mythology, who was a herald for the Greek armies during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of renowned Russian mathematician and physicist Andrei Sakharov (1921–1989), who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1981 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Lycian hero Sarpedon from the Iliad, who was killed by Patroclus, during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1981 ().

This minor planet was named after the Island of Taiwan (former Formosa). Taiwan, or the Republic of China, is a country southeast of mainland China. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Dutch astronomer Peter van de Kamp (1901–1995), director of Sproul Observatory and known for his research on astrometric binaries. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 December 1979 ().

The Wing's Washington, D.C. location has a phone booth dedicated to Hill. Minor planet 6486 Anitahill, discovered by Eleanor Helin, is named in her honor. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on November 8, 2019 ().

Carmen (minor planet designation: 558 Carmen) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. As with a number of asteroids discovered by Max Wolf, it is named after a female character in opera, in this case the title character of Bizet's Carmen.

Brixia (minor planet designation: 521 Brixia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by American astronomer Raymond Smith Dugan on January 10, 1904. The name derives from Brixia, the ancient name of the Italian city of Brescia.

This minor planet was named after the discovering Simeiz Observatory and its nearby Crimean town, Simeiz. Simeïsa was the first minor planet discovered in Russia. The was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().

This minor planet was named in 1910, by Otto Prelinger who collaborated with Johann Palisa and Max Wolf on the photographic star charts (AN 186, 15). Any reference of this minor planet name to a person or occurrence is unknown.

This minor planet was named after 2nd-century Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy (Latin: "Ptolemaeus") by IAU's Minor Planet Names Committee. He is best known for his influential Almagest, a mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths. Its ideas dominated astronomy for 1200 years until Copernicus in the early Renaissance. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 November 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laozi, founder of Taoism, because long-time participant in Harvard's minor-planet program, astronomer Cheng-yuan Shao (born 1927), came from that town (also see 1881 Shao). The asteroid is also named after his son, Luyi. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 November 1991 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Leonteus, a hero of the Trojan War, who attempted to win a competition among the Greek warriors to see who could throw an iron meteorite the farthest. However, he lost the game to his associate, Polypoites, after whom the minor planet 3709 Polypoites is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 1988 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Nancy Coker Helin, daughter-in-law of the discoverer, and wife to Bruce Helin, after whom the minor planet 2430 Bruce Helin had previously been named. Nancy is described by the discoverer as a talented singer, composer and teacher, who has brought music and joy to her family. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 December 1990 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of American astronomer Henry Lee Giclas (1910–2007), longtime staff member of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he discovered 17 minor planets and the comet 84P/Giclas. Giclas responsibility included the programs of minor planet positions and stellar proper motions, using the 13-inch Lawrence Lowell Telescope. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Delores Owings, member in the Indiana Asteroid Program of Indiana University, collaborator with Tom Gehrels on the determination of absolute magnitudes of minor planets, who became the program's supervisor of astrometric measurements on photographic plates. The naming was suggested by Paul Herget, the then director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 June 1977 ().

Upon discovery, the asteroid was given the temporary internal designation C26FED2. After follow up observations confirming the object, it was then given the provisional designation by the Minor Planet Center on 25 February 2020. The provisional designation signifies the object's discovery date and year. The object has not yet been issued a permanent minor planet number by the Minor Planet Center due to its short observation arc of several days.

This minor planet was named after Scottish amateur astronomer Tom Boles (born 1944) a discoverer of a minor planet (also see 84417 Ritabo) and a record- number of supernovae, using a robotic telescope at Coddenham Observatory in Coddenham, Suffolk, in eastern England. Boles has been the President of the British Astronomical Association from 2003 to 2005. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 November 2008 ().

This minor planet was named after the Croatian island of Mali Lošinj, located in the northern Adriatic Sea. The island and the city of Mali Lošinj are well known for its nautical school and the Leo Brener Observatory. The minor planet 10645 Brač is also named after a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 2005 ().

This minor planet was named after American Lance Armstrong (born 1971), former professional road racing cyclist. Despite being diagnosed with metastatic testicular cancer, he recovered and returned to cycling. At the time this minor planet was named, he had won the Tour de France three times and encouraged athletes and cancer survivors worldwide. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 2001 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 2018 (). The body was given the wrong discovery credit in the initial MPC Circular and The Minor Planet Center issued an Errata on April 6, 2019 on MPC 112429 correcting the mistake and gives the discovery credit of 2013 FZ27 to Scott S. Sheppard and Chad Trujillo. As of August 2019, it has not been named.

Any reference of this minor planet name to a person or occurrence is unknown.

The system's suspected minor-planet moon of unknown size was first detected in 2013.

When Pluto was discovered Hidalgo was the furthest known minor planet from the Sun.

The discovery of its 1.4-kilometer minor-planet moon was announced in December 2005.

The IAU subsequently added Eris to its Minor Planet Catalogue, designating it (136199) Eris.

The naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002.

In 1994, the International Astronomical Union named a minor planet after him, (4682) Bykov.

However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) classifies Aten as a larger "1+ KM" object.

This minor planet was named in memory of New Zealand astronomer Ivan Leslie Thomsen (1910–1969), director of the Carter Observatory, Wellington, from 1945 until he was appointed director of the Mount John University Observatory only two months before his death. He was an enthusiastic coordinator of New Zealand's astronomy and his efforts eventually led to the minor-planet observing program with the Carter Observatory 41-cm reflector. It was the 1977 rediscovery at the Carter Observatory that allowed this minor planet to be numbered. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named for Californian amateur astronomer and photometrist Robert D. Stephens (born 1955), who is an expert in lightcurve photometry of minor planets since 1999. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 July 2002 ().

This minor planet was named after the Russian village of Borodino near Moscow where the Battle of Borodino took place in September 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 November 1992 ().

This minor planet was named after the ancient Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar (Inanna). She is the principal goddess of the Assyrians and Babylonians associated with love, fertility, sex and war. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 April 1997 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Eleanor "Glo" Helin (1932–2009), who was a planetary scientist at JPL and a prolific discoverer of minor planets. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 February 1987 ().

This minor planet was named after German poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 (). The Goethe Basin on Mercury was also named in his honor.

This minor planet was named in honor of Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst, one of the world's top discoverer of minor planets at Uccle Observatory in Belgium. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

This minor planet is named after American Emil Kowalski (1918–1994) from Syosset, New York, who inspired the discoverer of space science when he was still a child. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Japanese amateur astronomer Kin Endate from Bihoro in northern Japan. He is a prolific observer and discoverer of minor planets. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 July 1990 ().

This minor planet was named after the Japanese Amanogawa River that through the town of Kaminokuni on the island of Hokkaido. "Amanogawa" also means "Milky Way" in Japanese. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 1997 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian poet and writer Innokenty Annensky (1855–1909). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 () with a correction on Annensky's date of death published on 4 February 1996 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after Aline, Vérionique and Martine (Al-Ve- Ma), his three great-granddaughters, Aline De Middlelaer, and Vérionique and Martine Wark. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 September 1995 ().

This minor planet was named after Japanese Entomologist and elementary-school teacher Hiroshi Okamoto (born 1915), who inspired the discoverer Tsutomu Seki with a love of the stars. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 June 1998 ().

This minor planet was named after English composer and multi- instrumentalist Mike Oldfield (born 1953), creator of the famed Tubular Bells albums. The official naming citation was proposed by Gareth V. Williams and published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 April 1994 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Panthous (Panthoos), a priest and member of the Trojan senate who warned of the imminent destruction of Troy. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 May 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian opera singer Ivan Kozlovsky (1900–1993), who was a rare lyric tenor and a popular singer in the former Soviet Union. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the first president of the independent Czechoslovak Republic, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937), statesman, philosopher and known for his humanistic ideas. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 December 1974 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Finnish academician Tauno Kalervo Nurmela (1907–1985), some time professor of Romanic philology and later chancellor of University of Turku. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Italian composer Ennio Morricone (born 1928), who has written over 500 scores for cinema and television including several famous Spaghetti Western. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 2007 ().

This minor planet was named after Swiss banker Robert A. Naef (1907–1975) from Zürich, an ardent amateur astronomer, who produced the yearly observers almanac, Der Sternenhimmel, since 1940. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Daitor (Dai'tor), who was killed by Teucer (Teukros) during the Trojan War.Homer, Iliad, 8. 275 ff The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 May 2010 ().

This minor planet was named after the Czech town of Písek, located in the western South Bohemian Region known for its many prolific Czech writers and artists. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 1983 ().

This minor planet was named for the Thessaly region in eastern Greece. The subsequently numbered minor planet 1162 Larissa was named after the region's capital. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().

This minor planet was named after Dutch writer Harry Mulisch (1927–2010), known for his novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections such as The Discovery of Heaven. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 June 2006 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek mythological figure Philoctetes, famed archer and participant in the Trojan War, where he killed Paris, son of the Trojan King Priam. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

The outer main-belt asteroid 4768 Hartley was named in his honour, being deputy astronomer of the UK Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring, with which this minor planet was discovered. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after Laurence O'Rourke (born 1970), a researcher at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, Spain, and a coordinator of ESA's Rosetta mission. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 July 2014 ().

This minor planet is named after the spa town of Abastumani located in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It is now the place where the Abastuman Astronomical Observatory is situated. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland. With an overall area of , it is the country's largest lake and one of the largest lakes in Europe. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Motomaro Shirao (born 1953), a Japanese geologist and astrophotographer, who is known for his photographs of volcanoes and lunar geological features. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 April 1996 ().

This minor planet was numbered on 28 April 1991. It was named by the discoverer after Tatiana Aleksandrovna Somova, a nursery-school teacher in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 March 1996 ().

This minor planet is named after Thessander (Thessandrus) from Greek mythology and Homer's Iliad. Together with 30 other Greek soldiers he hid in the Trojan horse's belly. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Thereus, a centaur from Greek mythology. He is described as a hunter who captured bears and carried them home, alive and struggling. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after Finnish city of Turku, location of the discovering observatory and home of the discoverer Yrjö Väisälä. In ancient times, Turku was the capital of Finland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This minor planet was named after the 1.3-meter McGraw-Hill Telescope located at the MDM Observatory at the Kitt Peak National Observatory site in Arizona, United States. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().

Montague (minor planet designation: 535 Montague) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by Raymond Smith Dugan on 7 May 1904 in Heidelberg, Germany. Photometric observations of this asteroid give a light curve with a period of 10.248 hours.

Friederike (minor planet designation: 538 Friederike) is a minor planet in the asteroid belt. Photometric observations at the Organ Mesa Observatory in New Mexico during 2012 showed a rotation period of 46.728 ± 0.004 hours with a brightness variation of 0.25 ± 0.02 in magnitude.

Messalina (minor planet designation: 545 Messalina) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on 3 October 1904 by Paul Götz (provisional name 1904 OY), at Heidelberg. It is named after Valeria Messalina, the third wife of Roman Emperor Claudius.

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology, after the goddess Charis, the wife of Hephaestus after whom the minor planet was also named. The official naming citation was mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().

This minor planet was named after Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Austrian–Czech writer of novels and short stories, in which protagonists are faced with bizarre or surrealistic situations. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 February 1987 ().

This minor planet was named after the brothers Arkady Strugatsky (1925–1991) and Boris Strugatsky (1933–2012), two Russian of science fiction writers who often worked in collaboration. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 July 1985 ().

This minor planet was named after a girl's name picked from the German popular calendar .

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

A minor-planet moon, a third the size of its primary, was discovered in 2007.

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 April 1996 ().

The discovery of its 2.4-kilometer sized minor-planet moon was announced on October 2008.

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 September 2002 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 August 1998 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1981 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 June 2002 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2004 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 April 1996 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 December 1990 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 December 1985 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

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The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 June 1982 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 February 2012 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2001 .

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 April 1998 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1999 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 January 2002 ().

The prefix "16" signifies that it was the sixteenth minor planet in order of discovery.

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 1997 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 April 1987 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002 ().

The discovery of its 1-kilometer-sized minor-planet moon was announced in November 2005.

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 29 September 1985 .

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1980 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 1984 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

The minor planet 7496 Miroslavholub, an outer main belt asteroid, is named in his honour.

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

The minor planet, 9739 Powell, discovered by Carolyn Shoemaker, was named for Powell in 1987.

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 March 2000 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 May 1984 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 July 1985 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 July 1987 ().

Two small minor- planet moons were discovered in 2008, and later named Alexhelios and Cleoselene.

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 January 2015 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 November 2002 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 1984 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 1999 ().

The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 November 2007 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the discoverer and his wife, Paul and Bodil Jensen. The name was proposed by his colleges Karl Augustesen and Hans Jørn Fogh Olsen. Jensen worked for 35 years in the Meridian Circle Department at the discovering Brorfelde Observatory, and also participated at the observatories minor-planet program using its Schmidt telescope. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 July 1994 ().

This minor planet was named by Dutch astronomer Gerrit Pels after his sister Geertruid (or Geertruida) Hamerslag Pels. Gerrit Pels, who was an assistant astronomer at Leiden Observatory, computed the body's orbit. The minor planet was named in his honor. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Lutz Schmadel learned about the meaning of this asteroid from Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, who was a long- time astronomer at Leiden Observatory.

This minor planet was named after the Japanese rural town Kuma (now Kumakōgen, Ehime), home of the discovering observatory that was built in 1992 for astronomical education and tourism. Kuma is located on the Japanese island of Shikoku, after which the minor planet 4223 Shikoku is named. The town supports local cultural activities and is a significant destination for pilgrims. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 May 1995 ().

This minor planet is named after Aavasaksa, a sharp-edged hill in Finnish Lapland, just south of the Arctic Circle. The hill is located in the Tornio River Valley, after which the minor planet 1471 Tornio is named, and is often considered the southernmost point in Finland, where the natural phenomenon of the midnight sun is visible each June. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 1983 .

This minor planet was named after American astrophysicist Helmut Abt (born 1925), one of the founders of the discovering Kitt Peak National Observatory, after which the minor planet 2322 Kitt Peak is named. His research included stellar properties and systems. As senior editor of The Astrophysical Journal he was responsible for converting it into its digital format. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 November 2000 .

This minor planet was named after Tezcatlipoca, the Aztec deity of matter, whose name translates to "Smoking Mirror" in the Nahuatl language. His animal counterpart was the jaguar and his contender was Quetzálcoatl, after which the minor planet 1915 Quetzálcoatl is named. Both deities are Aztec creator gods and were depicted as twin serpents that coil round each other to produce time. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after the University of Toronto which was celebrating its sesquicentennial at the time of its discovery. It was the first minor planet to be discovered at an observatory in Canada (despite the fact that the credited discovery site is located in Germany). The naming also emphasized the university's central role in the development of Canadian astronomy. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1979 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of famous German mathematician Adam Ries (1492–1559), who wrote the first German arithmetic book in the 16th century, explaining in simple terms to the common people how to do arithmetic. At the time, this was considered to be difficult. This minor planet was the 100th numbered discovery of astronomer Freimut Börngen. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 August 1997 .

This minor planet is named for the Titan in Greek mythology, Epimetheus, who opened Pandora's box, which contained all the illnesses and ailments of mankind (also see 55 Pandora). Epimetheus is also a moon of Saturn, which was discovered by Voyager 1 in 1980. Epimetheus is the brother of Prometheus after whom the minor planet 1809 Prometheus was named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Lyka, a friend of the sister of discoverer Grigory Neujmin. Lutz Schmadel, the author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names learned about the meaning of the asteroid's name from private communications with long-time Simeiz astronomer Nikolai Chernykh.

This minor planet is named after the Greek god of the north wind, Boreas, as the asteroid was discovered moving rapidly northward after passing the ascending node of its orbit. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Kagaya Yutaka (born 1968), a Japanese space and digital artist and receiver of the Gold Medal in the American Digital Art Contest in 2000. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after Heike Neckel, granddaughter of German astronomer Alfred Bohrmann (1904–2000), who was a colleague of the discoverer at Heidelberg. The asteroid 1635 Bohrmann bears his name. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Iphthime, sister of Penelope and daughter of Icarius. Iphthime appears in her sister's dream to comfort her as she is grieving. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 December 2017 ().

This minor planet was named after British astronomer John E. Geake (1925–1998), who invented the direct-reading linear refractometer, which was used by the Cassini–Huygens space probe. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 July 2000 ().

This minor planet is named for the south-eastern Finnish town Imatra, located in South Karelia near the Russian border, about half way in between St Petersburg and Finland's capital Helsinki. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Japanese Kiichirō Furukawa (1929–2016), who was an astronomer at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and an observer and discoverer of minor planets himself. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 December 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after the sister-in-law of Georges Roland, astronomer at the observatory in Uccle and known as the co- discoverer of the comet Arend–Roland. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Demodocus, the blind singer at the court of King Alcinous, who is the ruler of the Phaiacians in Homer's Odyssey. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2000 ().

This minor planet was named after Carl Wilhelm Wirtz (1875–1939), a German astronomer at Strasbourg and Kiel observatories. In 1924, he revealed statistically the redshift-distance relationship of spiral nebulae. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after Euneus, son of Jason and Hypsipyle. He was the king of Lemnos and reprovisioned the Greek fleet with wine during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 August 1997 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the hero Alcimus, son of Ares. After Patroclus had died, he and Automedon were the two most favored by Achilles. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 October 2000 ().

Boyer named this minor planet for his colleague Alfred Schmitt (1907–1973), astronomer at Algiers, Strasbourg and Quito observatories, who, 20 years earlier, had named the asteroid 1215 Boyer in his honor. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for his granddaughter, Brenda. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 (). Ernest Johnson is also known for the discovery of the periodic comet 48P/Johnson, using the Franklin-Adams Star Camera.

This minor planet was named in honor of Australian amateur astronomer John Broughton (born 1952), a prolific discoverer of minor planets who received a "Shoemaker NEO Grant" in 2002. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 November 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after American astronomer Frederick Pilcher, a retired professor of Physics at Illinois College and prolific lightcurve photometrist at his Organ Mesa Observatory in New Mexico. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named by the second discoverer after Japanese astronomer Yoshiaki Oshima, a prolific discoverer of minor planets himself at the Gekko Observatory during the late 1990s. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after the small village of Ostanin, the birthplace of the discoverer, Pelageya Shajn. The village is located in Perm Krai, now part of the Russian Volga district. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in November 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after Paula Pravdová (born 1990), whose familiar name is "Pajka". She is the daughter of the discovering astronomer Alexander Pravda and often visited Modra Observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of 20th-century Japanese astronomer Yoshihide Kozai, discoverer of the periodic comet D/1977 C1 (Skiff-Kosai) and of the Kozai mechanism. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 July 1985 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Lyyli Heinänen (1903–1988), née Hartonen, a Finnish female Esperantist, professor of mathematics, amateur astronomer and former assistant of the discoverer. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after American fortepianist and musicologist Malcolm Bilson (born 1935), who gave a recital at the "Asteroids, Comets, Meteors" conference at Cornell University in New York. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 July 1999 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the Mavis Bruwer, wife of astronomer Jacobus Albertus Bruwer, who was an astronomer at Johannesburg Observatory, and after whom 1811 Bruwer was named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for the two species of the family Mustelidae, the pine marten and beech marten. They also live in the forests near the discovering Kleť Observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 1999 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Mexican astronomer Eugenio Mendoza (born 1928), expert in photometry and spectroscopy, member of the IAU and teacher at several Mexican universities. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named by the discovering members of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club (FBAC), after C. J. Cherryh (born 1942), the award-winning American science fiction and fantasy author. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after the Croatian island of Brač, the largest Dalmatian island in the Adriatic sea, and the place where the Blaca hermitage Observatory is located. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 2005 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Božena Němcová (1820–1862), a Czech writer, author of the novella The Grandmother (), the most frequently read book in Czech literature. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Tony Acevedo (born 1950), staff member at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, working as multimedia graphic designer and media officer. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 July 2008 .

This minor planet was named for the Swiss city of Basel, as well as for the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Finnish astronomer Hilkka Rantaseppä-Helenius (1925–1975), an observer of comets and asteroids at the Turku Astronomical- Optical Institute of the University of Turku. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for famous Finnish biochemist Artturi Virtanen (1895–1973), recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and president of the Academy of Finland for many years. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 February 1970 ().

This minor planet was named after the town and capital district, Virton, in the southernmost part Belgium. It is located very close to Robelmont, Arend's birthplace (also see 1145 Robelmonte). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 September 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after Visby, a Swedish town on the island of Gotland, known for its medieval and Hanseatic history (also see List of Gotland-related asteroids). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after Margaret Capitola Sonntag Comba (born 1940), a psychologist and art therapist by profession, faculty member at Prescott College, and wife of the discoverer. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 2004 .

This minor planet was named for Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230) a German minstrel of the 13th century and popular lyric poet of Middle High German. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1999 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Russian novelist and literary critic Fyodor Abramov (1920–1983), whose work focused on the difficult lives of the Russian peasant class. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 .

This minor planet was named after the Los Molinos Observatory () located near Montevideo in Uruguay. The observatory is known for its astrometric follow-up observations of asteroids and comets. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 April 2017 ().

This minor planet was named after American amateur astronomer Robert E. Holmes Jr (born 1956), who directs the Astronomical Research Observatory in Westfield, Illinois. The official naming citation was suggested by Sergio Foglia and published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 2011 ().

This minor planet was named after the Spanish and American Astronomical Society (), also known by its acronym "Sadeya". It was founded by Comas i Solà, who also was its first president. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 ().

This minor planet was named for world-famous virtuoso classical guitarist Andrés Segovia (1893–1987). In 1959, the discoverer attended one of his concerts in Japan and became inspired to play the guitar. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 21 April 1989 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Italian astronomer Piero Sicoli (born 1954), a discoverer of minor planets and Observation Coordinator at the Sormano Astronomical Observatory in northern Italy. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 July 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after the Xhosa (formerly spelled "Xosa"), a Bantu ethnic group of native people in south-east South Africa, and who came into early contact with the white settlers. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after American Barbara Welther (born 1938), a historian of science at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). The official naming citation was proposed by CfA's Planetary Sciences division and published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after South-African town of Mthatha, formerly known as Umtata. It is the capital town of the OR Tambo District Municipality and the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after the historical region of Transylvania, located in what is now Romania. Formerly, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Transylvania is also the birthplace of the discoverer Gyula Strommer (1920–1995). Transylvania was his only minor-planet discovery.

This minor planet was named after Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren (1907–2002), a recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and known for her children's books such as Pippi Longstocking. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1988 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after his professor Vojislav Mišković (1892–1976), first director of the new Belgrade Observatory and founder of the Astronomical Institute at SANU. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 March 1985 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Edwin Lee Cline, a friend of the discoverer and a known inventor in the automotive field who "looked to space as the new frontier". The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

Stereoskopia (minor planet designation: 566 Stereoskopia) is a large 168 km outer main-belt asteroid orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Cybele group located beyond the core of the main belt (see Minor planet groups). It has a 12.1 hour rotation period.

This minor planet was named for the city of San Jose, California, United States, for its long support of nearby Lick Observatory particularly in efforts to reduce light pollution. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 December 1997 ().

This minor planet was named after "Tunica" (Petrorhagia), a flowering plant derived from the common gillyflower.

He was originally a graphic designer. The minor planet (asteroid) 4648 Tirion is named after him.

For this minor planet, any reference of its name to a person or occurrence is unknown.

This minor planet was named after Lidiya Terent'eva (1879–1933), female collaborator at the Simeis Observatory.

766 Moguntia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Mainz, ancient Moguntiacum.

491 The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 ().

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data for minor planets (such as asteroids), calculating their orbits and publishing this information via the Minor Planet Circulars. Under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, which is part of the Center for Astrophysics along with the Harvard College Observatory. The MPC runs a number of free online services for observers to assist them in observing minor planets and comets. The complete catalogue of minor planet orbits (sometimes referred to as the "Minor Planet Catalogue") may also be freely downloaded.

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Boucolion, father of the two Trojan warriors Pedasos and Aesopos, who both were slain near the River Scamander during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after Lake Inari (Inarijärvi), located north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland. Lake Inari is the country's third- largest lake and one of the largest lakes in Europe. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the town of Fountain Hills, located near the Sonoran desert on the foothills of the McDowell Mountains, home to one of the world's tallest water fountains. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 May 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after Mario di Martino (born 1947), Italian astronomer and photometrist of lightcurves at the Turin Observatory. The official naming proposed by the discoverer. The citation was prepared by Alain Harris and published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 April 1987 ().

This minor planet is named after Soviet astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and head of Simeiz Observatory, Vladimir Albitzky (1891–1952). His research included variable stars and the measurement of radial velocities. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Mont Aigoual, in the Cévennes National Park, where the discovering observatory is located. It is the highest mountain of the Cévennes in the Massif Central, France. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 March 2002 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer for Max Beyer (1894–1982), German astronomer at the Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg. Beyer was also on the post-war editorial board of the Astronomische Gesellschaft. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in December 1959 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer from Greek mythology after Phoenix (Phoinix), a wise Greek leader in the Trojan War, who raised Achilles and convinced him to join the campaign. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

This minor planet is named after the Indian reservation, Pala, located at the base of Palomar Mountain, believed to apply to an Indian tribe whose members have lived in the area for many centuries. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named on the occasion of the adoption of the new 1977 Soviet Constitution, also known as Brezhnev Constitution. It was the third and last Soviet Constitution ever to be adopted. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Lu Jiaxi (1915–2001), a Chinese physical chemist, who headed the Chinese Academy of Sciences and made important contributions to the structural chemistry of cluster compounds. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 February 1998 ().

This minor planet was named after the Lulin mountain in central Taiwan, location of the discovering Lulin Observatory at an altitude of 2862 meters. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 2007 (). At the observatory, Comet Lulin was discovered in 2007.

This minor planet was named after the town of Naganuma, located on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan, where the "Artists Atelier Village" was promoted for many years with more than 20 workshops. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 October 2000 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of the Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the Soviet Union on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its first adoption. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Austrian amateur astronomer and software engineer Herbert Raab (born 1969), who developed the astrometric software "Astrometrica". The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 3 May 1996 (), following a proposal by Brian Marsden and Gareth Williams.

This minor planet was named in honor of Ronald Helin, husband of American astronomer Eleanor Helin (1932–2009), in appreciation of his support of the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 December 1981 ().

This minor planet was named after Rudra from Hindu mythology. Rudra is the destroyer aspect of Shiva, and both destroyer and regenerator of all things in the Universe. The asteroid's name was suggested by Frederick Pilcher and published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1996 ().

This minor planet was named after Helij Grigorevich Neujmin (1910–1982), a son of discoverer Grigory Neujmin. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Lutz Schmadel learned about the naming circumstances from Crimean astronomers I. I. Neyachenko and N. S. Chernykh (see 2325 Chernykh).

This minor planet was named in honor of Alison Doane (1958–2017), curator of astronomical photographs at the Harvard College Observatory. She was also principal oboe with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra from 1982 to 2001. The was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 December 2015 ().

This minor planet was named after the Kriváň mountain (), located in the High Tatras of Slovakia. It is considered to be the country's most beautiful peak and one of its national symbols. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Vera Danilovna Voloshina (1919–1941), a partisan of the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), also known as the Eastern Front of the Second World War. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after the Romanian city of Salonta, formerly known as "Nagyszalonta" when it was still part of the Kingdom of Hungary. It is the birthplace of the discoverer György Kulin. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Roberto di San Vito, an Italian amateur astronomer committed to astrometric observations. He is also a supporter of a new observatory in Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 1998 ().

This minor planet is named in honor of Russian astronomer and geodesist Ivan Danilovich Zhongolovich, who was the head of the Special Ephemeris Department at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) in St Petersburg. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium, where the discoverer was born and where the Institut d’Astrophysique et Géophysique at the University of Liège is located. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, Masanori Takeishi (born 1950). Between 1975 and 1993, he was a chief editor of the Japan Astronomical Circular. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 December 1997 ().

This minor planet was named after the former Suruga Province, what is now the Shizuoka Prefecture in central Japan. It is the place where the discovering Gekko Observatory is located (also see ). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 May 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after the country Ukraine, then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922–1991). The name was proposed by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Leningrad, what is now St. Petersburg. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1967 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Thersilochus, who fought with Hector at the battle for the dead body of Patroclus and was later slain by Achilles. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after the discoverer's brother-in-law, Spiridon Zaslavskij (1883–1942), who was also the uncle of Viktorovich Zaslavskij (1925–1944), after whom the discoverer named the asteroid 1030 Vitja. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 July 1968 ().

This minor planet was named 'Theotes' after the herald of Menestheus in Homer's Iliad. The naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 16 May 1992 (). Menustheus' herald is actually Thootes. The 'e' of 'Theotes' follows a misspelling in a German translation of the IliadE.g.

This minor planet was named after New Zealand's Canterbury Province, on the eastern side of the South Island. It is also named for the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 May 1991 ().

This minor planet is named for the large Finnish lake Näsijärvi, sometimes called "Näsi". It measures 256 square kilometers (99 sq mi) in size and is located only 95 metres above sea level. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian Sergej Feodosievich Kibirev (born 1950), who works on new methods to process information and organizes the production of microelectronics in the Russian city of Novosibirsk. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 March 2001 ().

Nanon (minor planet designation: 559 Nanon) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. At the time of its discovery, Max Wolf was habitually naming asteroids after operatic heroines, suggesting is it most likely named after the lead character of Nanon, an 1877 opera by Richard Genée.

This minor planet was named by friends of the discoverer after Anna Benda, second wife of Johann Palisa, whom he married in 1902. However, the was erroneously attributed to the Czech composer Karel Bendl (1838–1897) in previous editions of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.

This minor planet was named after Krisztián Sárneczky (born 1974), a Hungarian amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and supernovae. He is a board member of the Hungarian Astronomical Association (HAA). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 2017 ().

This minor planet was named after Dersu Uzala, a Siberian trapper and hunter and friend of Russian writer Vladimir Arsenyev, who named the main character of his novel Dersu Uzala after him. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 February 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Mexican student Lucero Hernandez (born 1989), who won second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her computer science team project. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 August 2007 ().

This minor planet was named for American astronomer James Young at JPL's Table Mountain Observatory near Wrightwood, California. At the time of citation, his numerous photometric observations significantly contributed to the number of then known rotation periods of asteroids. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 September 1984 (). Young is also a prolific discoverer of minor planets, credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of more than 250 numbered bodies.

This minor planet was named in honour of German Renaissance painter Albrecht Altdorfer (1480–1538). As a member of the Danube school, he was the first to paint landscapes without figures. Altdorfer was also an architect of the city of Regensburg, Germany, after which the minor planet 927 Ratisbona is named, and was also a significant printmaker, with numerous (copper) engravings and woodcuts. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1999 ().

This minor planet is named after Slovak amateur astronomer Peter Mrva (born 1962) who participated in the construction the discovering Modra Observatory, after which the minor planet 11118 Modra is named. He was also one of the first observers at the newly installed observatory. The second discoverer, Alexander Pravda, is thankful for his explanation and inspiration in some fields of astronomy and computer graphics. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

This minor planet was named for Seilandfarm, a 50-hectare dairy and cattle farm, located in a hilly terrain, near the Japanese city of Kitami and not far from the observatory where this minor planet was discovered (also see 3785 Kitami). The farm was established by Akio Seino in 1942, and is now operated by four members of the Seino family. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 July 1992 ().

This minor planet was numbered on 9 January 2001 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 26 July 2000 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 21 June 2000 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 28 January 2002 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 28 March 2002 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 8 February 2001 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was named after Illapa (Apu Illapu), the thunder or weather god from Inca mythology.

This minor planet was later named after the genus of flowering plants, Crocus, in the iris family.

This minor planet was numbered on 9 September 1995 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

A minor planet 2877 Likhachev discovered in 1969 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh is named after him.

The minor planet 5502 Brashear was later directly named after the famous American astronomer and instrument builder.

Tisiphone (minor planet designation: 466 Tisiphone) is an asteroid which orbits among the Cybele family of asteroids.

This minor planet was numbered on 1 September 1993 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

The minor planet 3930 Vasilev, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1982 is named after him.

This minor planet was numbered on 31 August 1999 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 2 February 1999 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 18 March 1992 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

Its sub-kilometer minor-planet moon was discovered on 20 March 2006 and announced the following month.

This minor planet was named after Uccle, in honor of both, the city and the discovering observatory ().

This minor planet was numbered on 21 June 2000 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

A minor planet 3804 Drunina, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh in 1969 is named after her.

This minor planet was numbered on 19 September 1994 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.

This minor planet was numbered on 27 March 2013 (). As of 2020, it has not been named.

Its 1.2-kilometer sized minor-planet moon was discovered in July 2007 and announced the following month.

Griseldis (minor planet designation: 493 Griseldis) is a fairly dark main-belt asteroid 46 km in diameter.

754 Malabar is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered in 1906 by August Kopff.

753 Tiflis is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is named after Georgia's capital city Tiflis.

664 Judith is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the biblical character Judith.

643 Scheherezade is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after the fictional storyteller Sheherazad.

This minor planet was named after American mathematician Herbert A. Hauptman (1917–2011), who was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing direct methods for the determination of crystal structures in 1985. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after French amateur astronomer François Kugel (born 1959), an active observer of comets and a collaborator of the discoverer. He has founded the Chante- Perdrix Observatory in 2005. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2009 ().

This minor planet was named for Yoko Morishita (b. 1947), amateur astronomer and supporter of the Astronomical Society of Shikoku, where she has made many contributions to further the spread of astronomical awareness. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 April 2013 ().

This minor planet was named after French physicist Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870–1942), who was awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics for his studies of Brownian motion (also see list of laureates). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 February 1998 ().

This minor planet was named "Inkeri", a Finnish female name, held by Vaisala's granddaughter and niece. It is also the Finnish name of Ingria, a formerly- Finnish province near Saint Petersburg that is now part of Russia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of German amateur astronomer Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793–1866), a postmaster by profession, who discovered the main-belt asteroids 5 Astraea and 6 Hebe in 1845 and 1847, respectively. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was numbered on 23 January 1997 (). It was named after the awarded Russian composer Valery Gavrilin (1939–1999). The asteroid's name was suggested by the Union of Concert Workers of Russia, and its official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 January 2000 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Swiss mathematician Hugo Hadwiger (1908–1981), professor at the University of Berne for more than 40 years and very popular for his refined art of presentation. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 September 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after Australian geophysicist Robert Iasky (born 1956), who discovered the 120-kilometer-sized Woodleigh crater in the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia while working with the Geological Survey of Western Australia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 ().

This minor planet was named in 1979, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the USSR Academy of Sciences Institute for Theoretical Astronomy (ITA), in what was then Leningrad. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

This minor planet is named for Aleksandr Filipenko, chief surgeon at the hospital in Bakhchisarai located on the Crimean peninsula. He had saved the life of a friend of the discoverer Lyudmila Karachkina. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 1984 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Trojan hero Deicoon, son of Pergasos and a friend of Aeneas. During the Trojan War, Deicoon was killed by Agamemnon's spear penetrating his shield. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 July 1995 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer from Greek mythology after the Trojan Dares, one of Aeneas' wandering companions (Aeneads) who were not killed or enslaved by the end of the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 August 1991 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer from Greek mythology after the Trojan warrior Ennomus (Ennomos), who was one of many Trojans killed by Achilles in the waters of the River Skamander. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after deep-sky astronomer George Robert Kepple, creator of the "Astro Cards" observing aids and co-author of The Night Sky Observer’s Guide, popular among deep-sky observers. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 May 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after the village Broederstroom located in the North West province of South Africa. The Leiden Southern Observatory was later located near this town for 25 years until 1982. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after American astronomer William A. Baum (1924–2012) who was on the directorship of the Lowell Observatory's Planetary Research Center. He also worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after American optician Roger Ceragioli (born 1959) at the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory, whose projects include parts of the Bok Telescope and the MODS spectrograph for the Large Binocular Telescope. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 2007 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Brian K. Ogilsbie (1970–1997). School mate and good friend, he is well remembered by the discoverer for the long talks they had on their excursions. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Russian astronomer Praskoviya Parchomenko (1886–1970), who observed and discovered the minor planets 1129 Neujmina and 1166 Sakuntala at the Crimean Simeiz Observatory during the 1930s and 1940s. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named after a genus in the family Cyperaceae, Kobresia, a grass-like flowering plant, commonly known as "bog sedges". The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names contacted Dutch astronomer Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld in order to confirm the meaning of this asteroid's name.

This minor planet was named after Australian Ethelwin Moffatt (née Winzar, born 1926), a benefactor of the discovering Perth Observatory and a direct descendant of John Flamsteed (1646–1719), the first Astronomer Royal. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 September 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after Diane Callahan, teacher at U.S. Fairfield Middle School, Ohio, who mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 October 2003 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Bruno Meyermann (1876–1963), a classical astronomer and academic teacher at Göttingen Observatory in Lower Saxony, Germany. His fields of interest included polar motion and relativistic effects. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet is named for the German city of Ruppin, birthplace of astronomer Martin Ebell, who proposed the name and after whom the minor planet 1205 Ebella is named. The official naming citation was published in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().

This minor planet was named after American astronomer David Rabinowitz (born 1960), a discoverer of minor planets himself and researcher at Yale University. The naming also honors his work for the Spacewatch program. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after the island of Great Britain, where the discovering observatory's 1-meter telescope was built. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Lutz Schmadel, learned about the naming circumstances from Crimean astronomers N. Solovaya and N. S. Chernykh (see 2325 Chernykh).

This minor planet was named after the German city of Celle on the occasion of its 700th anniversary. Celle is twinned with the Danish town of Holbæk, where the discovering Brorfelde Observatory is located. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().

This minor planet was named after British astronomer, physicist and inventor, Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (1898–1982), noted for his contributions to fundamental astronomy. Atkinson pioneered in studying nuclear energy-generation in the Sun and stars. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of American astronaut Rick Husband (1957–2003), who was the commander of STS-107 and was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on 1 February 2003. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2003 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of the Fabra Observatory's second director of the astronomical section, Isidre Pòlit i Boixareu (1880–1958), who was an assiduous observer of minor planets and comets. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

Minor Planet Discoverers – Minor Planet Center In June 2014, because of the crisis in the automotive industry in Ukraine, he left the dealer center and once again became a research scientist at the Main Observatory of Ukraine's Academy of Sciences. Meanwhile, he continues supervising of the Andrushivka Observatory.

This minor planet was named after the Volga River, the largest river in Europe and one of the principal ones of Russia. Its name was suggested by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in St. Petersburg. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1967 ().

A monument marks the building at 43 Arbat Street where he lived. His dacha in Peredelkino is now a museum that is open to the public. A minor planet, 3149 Okudzhava, discovered by Czech astronomer Zdeňka Vávrová in 1981 is named after him.Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – p.

This minor planet was named after the University of Cambridge in England and the universities in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States), where the Minor Planet Center (MPC) is located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The approved naming citation was published by the MPC on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after the European Space Agency (ESA), which formed in 1974. The name was suggested by French astronomer Jean Louis Heudier, after whom the asteroid 4602 Heudier was named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 2005 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Japanese astronomer Tomohiko Sekiguch (born 1970), associate professor at Hokkaido University. From 1998 to 2001, he had been observing minor planets at the European Southern Observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 April 2012 ().

This minor planet was named after Americans stationed in Alice Springs, Larry and Becky Schamp, who cared for members of the Shoemaker family after an automobile accident in which Eugene Shoemaker died in 1997. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 April 1998 ().

This minor planet was named after Sofala Province in central-eastern Mozambique. It is the country's largest province. Its capital city is Beira after which the Mars-crosser 1474 Beira, another discovery by Cyril Jackson, is named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

Taranis also is expected of being a dormant comet. On 10 September 2099 it will pass from Earth. This minor planet was named after the Gaulish god of thunder Taranis from Celtic mythology. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

According to a proposal by Otto Kippes, who verified the discovery, this minor planet was named after Julius Steinmetz (1893–1965), a German amateur astronomer, orbit computer, and pastor from Gerolfingen in Bavaria. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 October 1980 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Sthenelus, a Greek warrior and companion of Diomedes during the Trojan War. He stole Aeneas' chariot horses and brought it back to the Greek camp. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 1988 ().

Based on a proposal by Miloš Tichý, this minor planet was named after Czech photographer Josef Sudek (1896–1976), known for his black- and-white series of still lifes and panoramas of Prague. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 February 1998 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Russian plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov (1887–1943) and his physicist brother Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 September 1986 (). The lunar crater Vavilov was also named in their honor.

This minor planet was named after Thomas Marsden (1905–1980) and Eileen (née West) Marsden (1905–1981), the parents of British astronomer and longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC), Brian G. Marsden (1937–2010). The official naming citation was published by the MPC on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Heidi Graf (born 1941), former Head of the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) Communications Office from 1977 to 2006 at the European Space Agency, ESA. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 November 2006 ().

Endymion (minor planet designation: 342 Endymion) is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Max Wolf on 17 October 1892 in Heidelberg. It was the first asteroid to receive the name of a male god.Lutz D. Schmadel, Dictionary of minor planet names (6th Edition), p. 42.

This minor planet was named in memory of Malcolm Kennedy (1944–1997), secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow. He was born and raised in New Zealand and became a civil engineer in Scotland. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 August 1998 ().

This minor planet was named after Slovak astronomer Adrián Galád (born 1970) a discoverer of minor planets and several binary asteroids himself. He is well known for his photometric observations at both Ondřejov and Modra observatories. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 June 2016 ().

Rezia (minor planet designation: 528 Rezia) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on March 20, 1904. It is named for a character in the 1826 opera Oberon by Carl Maria von Weber.Photographic Observations of Asteroids, Astronomische Nachrichten, volume 190, Issue 3, p.

This minor planet was named after Jaroslav Grigorevich Neujmin (born 1928), son of the discoverer Grigory Neujmin. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names leaned about the naming from Ilya Isaakovich Neyachenko and Nikolai Chernykh after whom the asteroids 3845 Neyachenko and 2325 Chernykh were named.

This minor planet is named for the passerine bird, Miliaria calandra or Emberiza calandra, also known as the corn bunting. It is listed as an endangered species on the European Red List of Birds. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Swedish astronomer Åke Wallenquist (1904–1994), former director of the Kvistaberg Station, after which the minor planet 3331 Kvistaberg is named. After his retirement Wallenquist continued to research dark matter in open clusters at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He co-discovered the near-Earth Amor asteroid 1980 Tezcatlipoca during his stay at the Palomar Observatory in California in 1950. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1979 ().

This minor planet was named after the city of Hanoi, capital of Vietnam, which the discoverer visited in 1997. Together with astronomer Yoshihide Kozai, after whom the minor planet 3040 Kozai is named, he assisted local astronomers install a Schmidt-Cassegrain and a refracting telescope at HNUE. The installed instrumentation was funded by the Japanese Sumitomo Foundation, with the intention to foster Vietnamese astronomical research. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 February 1999 ().

This minor planet was named for the Japanese city of Kitami, where the Kitami Observatory is located. It is known for its many astrometric observations of small Solar System bodies by several amateur astronomers. Kitami is a "friendship city" of the discoverer’s own city of Kochi (also see 2396 Kochi), and is located on the island on Hokkaido, after which the minor planet 3720 Hokkaido is named. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 August 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after Latvian cosmic geodesist Jānis Balodis, head of the Astronomical Observatory at University of Latvia. Balodis research includes astrometry, observations of artificial satellites using laser, as well as computational methods for astrometric interpretations of photographic plates. The Crimean minor planet service has used his algorithms for a long time. (The honored astronomer should not to be confused with Soviet army General Jānis Balodis.) The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 September 1992 ().

This minor planet was named after Apostolos Christou (born 1968), planetary astronomer and programmer at the North Irish Armagh Observatory, after which the minor planet 10502 Armaghobs was named. His field or research include minor planets in co-orbit with Venus, designing near-Earth asteroids missions, the dwarf planet 1 Ceres, meteor impacts on Venus, as well as the irregular satellite families of the outer planets. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 23 May 2005 .

This minor planet was named after the first major Russian mathematician, Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), who has made important contributions to partial differential equations and rigid body motion (also see Kovalevskaya top). The lunar carter Kovalevskaya is also named after her. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 (). From 1972 to 1992, the discoverer of this asteroid, Lyudmila Zhuravleva, has made more than 200 minor planets discoveries, and ranks 61st on the Minor Planet Center discoverer chart.

This minor planet was named after the IBM Naval Ordnance Research Calculator (NORC), IBM's first-generation vacuum tube computer built in the 1950s (also see List of vacuum tube computers and ). NORC was the fastest, most powerful electronic computer of its time. Under the direction of Wallace J. Eckert, after whom the asteroid 1750 Eckert is named, NORC performed a vast amount of orbital calculations for minor planet. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in May 1957 ().

A distant minor planet, or distant object, is any minor planet found beyond Jupiter in the outer Solar System that is not commonly thought of as an "asteroid". The umbrella term is used by IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), which is responsible for the identification, designation and orbit computation of these objects. , the MPC maintains 3929 distant objects in its data base. Most distant minor planets are trans-Neptunian objects and centaurs, while relatively few are damocloids, Neptune trojans or Uranus trojans.

This minor planet was named "Tanina". Any reference of its name to a person or occurrence is unknown.

A minor planet, 3189 Penza, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh in 1978, is named after the city.

The science center includes fossil and mineral exhibits. The minor planet 18368 Flandrau is named after this center.

Springer Science & Business Media. Retrieved June 3, 2016. .The Minor Planet Center. "(9398) Bidelman = 1994 SH3 = 1997 AC20".

The minor planet 2890 Vilyujsk, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova, is named after the town.

The last character is purposely a zero, as that allows comet and minor planet designations not to overlap.

The minor planet 2207 Antenor, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.

As of 2017, the discovery of the minor planet is directly credited to Simeiz Observatory by the MPC.

A minor planet, 2887 Krinov, discovered in 1977 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, is named after him.

The minor planet 3668 Ilfpetrov, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, is named after them.

A minor planet 3012 Minsk discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh in 1979 is named after the city.

This minor planet was after Nina Nikolaevna Neujmina (1877–1956), mathematician and sister of Russian discoverer Grigory Neujmin.

She wrote a 1966 paper on meteor stream activity. The minor planet 9821 Gitakresáková is named after her.

The minor planet 2212 Hephaistos discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh was named in Hephaestus' honour.

Sylvia (minor planet designation: 87 Sylvia) is the 8th-largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. It is the parent body of the Sylvia family and member of Cybele group located beyond the main asteroid belt (see minor-planet groups). Sylvia was the first asteroid known to possess more than one moon.

This minor planet was named after Karl Heinemann (1898–1970), German astronomer and long-time staff member at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. His activities included spherical astronomy and the editing of the "Astronomischer Jahresbericht" during 1934–1958. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after Jack F. Horkheimer (1938–2010), director of the Planetarium at the former Miami Science Museum, who was the creator and host of the television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 January 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after Deipylos a Greek hero in the Trojan War. He was a fellow of Sthenelus (Sthenelos), who ordered him to bring the horses captured from Aeneas to the Greek vessels. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 September 1989 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Athen prince Demophon, son of King Theseus and Phaedra. After participation in the Trojan War, Demophon married Phyllis, who committed suicide after he had abandoned her. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 April 1997 ().

This minor planet was named after Joseph A. Burns (born 1941), American planetary scientist and astronomer at Cornell University in New York, and a co- discoverer of the trans-Neptunian object at Palomar in 1997. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 1982 ().

This minor planet was named in memory Argentine Jesuit and solar physicist Juan Antonio Bussolini (1905–1966), director of the Observatorio de Fisica Cosmica de San Miguel and a noted supporter of the Felix Aguilar Observatory. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Centeron 15 May 1984 ().

This minor planet was named after a French priest Jacques Desforges (1723–1791), who was imprisoned for eight months in 1758 in the Bastille, during which time he planned the construction of a flying machine. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 March 2003 ().

This minor planet was named after the Baltic country of Estonia, just south of the Gulf of Finland and Finland itself. Historically, both countries have been inhabited by Finno-Ugric people. Estonia gained independence from Soviet rule in 1991. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This minor planet was named after Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander (1799–1875), author of the famous Bonner Durchmusterung and 19th-century head of the ancient observatory at Turku and Bonn . The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 30 January 1964 (). The lunar crater Argelander is also named after him.

This minor planet was named after Betulia Toro Herrick, wife of Samuel Herrick (1911–1974), an American astronomer who specialized in celestial mechanics. Herrick had studied the asteroid's orbit, and requested the name, along with that of 1685 Toro. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in May 1952 ().

This minor planet was named after the Russian astronomers Lyudmila Chernykh (1935–2017) and Nikolai Chernykh (1931–2004), prolific discoverers of minor planets who lead the extensive astrometric program at the discovering Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1981 ().

This minor planet is named after American JPL scientist Daniel J. McCleese, who is a physicist and manager at JPL's Science Division. He also played an important role for the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program (NEAT). The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 April 1996 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Toyokazu Otani (born 1928), a renowned observer of minor planets, lecturer at the Gotoh Planetarium, and long-time employee at the Astronomical Museum in Tokyo (1956–1988). The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 2 April 1999 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology, after prince Paris, one of the many sons of King Priam of Troy. His abduction of Helen of Troy, wife of Menelaus, gave cause to the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 December 1985 ().

This minor planet was named after Peiroos (Peirous), Thracian war leader from the city of Aenus and an ally of King Priam who fought courageously to defend Troy against the Greek during the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 1988 ().

This minor planet was named for the Pemba Island, Tanzania, part of the Zanzibar Archipelago, which was once under the rule of the Sultan of Zanzibar. It is located off the East Coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after the native Koranna people, better known as the Griqua people of South Africa. The tribe of wandering San people (Bushman) lives in the southern part of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in April 1953 ().

This minor planet was named after German Catholic priest and amateur astronomer Otto Kippes (1905–1994). He was a precise observer, acknowledged for his orbit calculations and identifications of hundreds of minor planets in widely separated oppositions. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 June 1973 ().

This minor planet was named after Anders Johan Lexell (1740–1784), a Swedish-Russian astronomer and mathematician. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 October 1977 (). The lunar crater Lexell was also named in his honor, as is Lexell's Comet, of which he computed its orbit.

This minor planet was named after Italian astrophysicist and astronomer, Gianluca Masi (born 1972), a researcher and discoverer of minor planets and variable stars, who became an avid amateur astronomer when he was 8 years old. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 May 2001 ().

This minor planet was named after German amateur astronomer Matthias Busch (born 1968), an observer and discoverer of minor planets at the Starkenburg Observatory in Heppenheim, Germany. The asteroid's name was proposed by Lutz Schmadel and its official citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 December 1998 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Italian singer-songwriter Lucio Battisti (1943–1998). In the 1970s, Battisti lived in a small village near Sormano, location of the discovering observatory. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 December 1998, three months after his death ().

This minor planet was named after prince Antilochus from Greek mythology. He was the youngest son of King Nestor (), close friend of Greek hero Achilles () and commander of the Greek contingent of the Pylians during the Trojan War. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in May 1952 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of German astronomer Siegfried Böhme (1909–1996), staff member at Astronomisches Rechen- Institut in Heidelberg since 1949. He improved upon the orbital elements of many asteroids, in particular upon 919 Ilsebill. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after one of the most famous Finnish writers, Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888–1964), first Finnish writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1939 (also see List of Laureates since 1901). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after the maiden name of Betulia (née Toro) Herrick, wife of American astronomer Samuel Herrick. Herrick had studied the asteroid's orbit, and requested the name, along with the other asteroid, 1580 Betulia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 March 1966 ().

This minor planet was named after Don Nikola Miličević (1887-1963), Croatian amateur astronomer and last administrator of Blaca hermitage. The Hermitage is an UNESCO World Heritage Site located on the Brač island in Croatia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 2005 ().

This minor planet was numbered on 7 October 1987. It was named after Russian princess Mariya Volkonskaya (1805–1865), wife of Sergey Volkonsky a Russian General Decembrist. She voluntarily followed her husband to exile in Siberia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 25 September 1988 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek hero Teucer, from Greek mythology. The son of King Telamon was a great archer and half-brother of Ajax, with whom he fought alongside in the Trojan War. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 February 1984 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Actor (son of Phorbas and Hyrmine), the alleged father of the twin brothers Eurytus and Cteatus, who beat Nestor, king of Pylos, in a chariot race. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 January 2003 ().

This minor planet is named after Shanghai, the most populous city of China (pop. 24 million as of 2014). Located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China, it has the world's busiest container port. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1981 ().

This minor planet was named in honour of Vladimir Grigorevich Shaposhnikov (1905–1942), who worked at the Simeiz Observatory and was an expert in astrometry, before he was killed on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after Japanese singer-songwriter of ballads and pop songs, Shoko Sawada (born 1962), who has recorded a large number of studio albums since her debut in 1979. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 10 June 1998 ().

This minor planet was named for the Czech national composer Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), best known for the opera The Bartered Bride, the cycle of six symphonic poems My homeland and the string quartet From my life. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 July 1979 ().

This minor planet was named for the small village of Zimmerwald, location of the discovering Zimmerwald Observatory. It is located about seven miles south of the Swiss capital Bern, after which the binary asteroid 1313 Berna was named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after Carl Leo Stearns (1892–1972), American astronomer at Wesleyan University and Van Vleck Observatory who measured a large number of stellar parallaxes. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1978 (). The lunar crater Stearns was also named in his honor.

This minor planet was named after Pol Swings (1906–1983), a Belgian astrophysicist, astronomer and president of the International Astronomical Union during 1964–1967, who significantly contributed to the understanding of the physics of comets and their spectra. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named after Canadian amateur astronomer Christopher E. Spratt (born 1942), a long-time member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, whose interests involve comets, minor planets, meteors and variable stars. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

The Minor Planet Center credits Väisälä with the discovery of the asteroids 1718 Namibia and 2437 Amnestia, both discovered at Turku Observatory on 14 September 1942. The official for 1718 Namibia was published on 1 April 1980 (), and the was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 May 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after the Greek mathematician and Euclid (also: Euclides, or Eukleides). The "father of geometry" lived in Alexandria about 300 B.C. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 July 1990 (). The lunar crater Euclides was also named in his honor.

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Deucalion, son of Prometheus. He and his wife Pyrrha were the only ones that survived the great deluge ("the flood of Deucalion") brought upon all humans by Zeus. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2003 ().

Deborah (minor planet designation: 541 Deborah) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered by Max Wolf on August 4, 1904. The semi-major axis of the orbit lies just inside the 5/2 Kirkwood gap, located at 2.824 AU. It was named after the biblical character Deborah.

This minor planet was named after Faina Mikhajlovna Neujmina, the first wife of the discoverer. Astronomer Lutz Schmadel compiled this , based on his private communication with "N. S. Samojlova-Yakhontova", as neither the Minor Planet Circulars nor The Names of the Minor Planets give any information about this asteroid's name.

This minor planet was named after the city of Decatur in the U.S. state of Alabama, location of the discovering observatory and home of the discoverer. Decatur is located near NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

This minor planet was named after Vincentian priest Roger Barry (1752–1813), the Court Astronomer of Grand Duchy of Baden at the Mannheim Observatory in 1788. The Heidelberg Observatory is a direct successor to the old Mannheim Observatory. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

A minor planet, 2112 Ulyanov, was discovered in 1972 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova and named after him.

818 Kapteynia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. This asteroid is named for the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn.

875 Nymphe is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Maria family of asteroids.

A minor planet, 3009 Coventry, discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh in 1973, is named after the city.

A minor planet 2216 Kerch discovered in 1971 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova is named after the city.

718 Erida is a minor planet orbiting the Sun named for Erida Leuschner, daughter of astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner.

675 Ludmilla is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was named after Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila.

616 Elly is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Maria family of asteroids.

The minor planet 2297 Daghestan, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, is named after the Dagestan ASSR.

Minor planet 3205 Boksenberg is named in his honor. He won the Richard Glazebrook Medal and Prize in 2000.

This minor planet was named after Petr Pravec (born 1967), a Czech astronomer and prolific photometrist of comets, near-Earth and binary asteroids. He has often been the first person to observe objects found in the course of the discoverer's Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program following their tentative announcement in the Minor Planet Center's (MPC) "NEO Confirmation Page". The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 June 1997 on the occasion of his marriage with Kateřina Macháčová the following day ().

This minor planet was named for the Swiss city of Lausanne, located in the French-speaking part of the country. The discoverer Paul Wild, known for his unconventional minor-planet namings, discovered three more asteroids during winter of 1973/74. He named these 1935 Lucerna, 1936 Lugano and 1937 Locarno, after the Swiss cities Lucerne, Lugano and Locarno, respectively, hence composing an alliterated quartet of sequentially numbered, thematically named minor planets. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1978 ().

This minor planet is named for William Thynne Lynn (1835–1911), who worked for many years as an assistant at the Royal Greenwich Observatory during the second half of the 19th century. He was also an author of various well received books and many short notes on astronomical topics, which were printed in The Observatory. It was named by the Minor Planet Names Committee after a proposal by Brian G. Marsden. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1993 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Lev Yur'evich Zyskin, professor at the Crimean Medical Institute, who was head of its Pulmonary Surgery Center. Lyudmila Zhuravleva also discovered 1858 Lobachevsk on the same day she discovered 2098 Zyskin. She is a prolific astronomer with more than 200 minor planets discovered between 1972 and 1992 and (still) ranks in 61st position on the Minor Planet Center's discoverer-list as of 2015. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Dutch–American astronomer Jan Schilt (1894–1982), one of the founders of the discovering Columbia–Yale Southern Station in the early 1960s, for which he collaborated with local astronomer and with Yale's Dirk Brouwer, after whom the minor planet 1746 Brouwer is named. At Columbia University, Schilt's research included the dynamics and structure of galaxies, and improvements on measuring the brightness of stars. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 December 1981 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer after her colleague, the American astronomer Eugene Shoemaker (1928–1997), who was a discoverer of minor planets and of the Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 that collided with Jupiter. He is well known for his work on impact craters and his role in the lunar Ranger, Surveyor and Apollo programs. The naming was also proposed by Brian G. Marsden, the director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC). The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 November 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Michael P. Candy (1928–1994) a British astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, who was a director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Perth Observatory. As a long-time astrometrist and orbit computer, he discovered comet C/1960 Y1 (Candy) at Greenwich, as well as the minor planet 3898 Curlewis, 3893 DeLaeter and 3894 Williamcooke. He was also president of IAU's Commission VI. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 June 1986 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of famous American screenwriter, producer and futurist, Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991), known for the Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, and for the Star Trek film franchise. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 February 1992 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Gregory Jarvis (1944–1986), American astronaut and payload specialist, who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on 28 January 1986. The asteroids , , , , , and commemorate the other crew members. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 26 March 1986 ().

This minor planet was named after Japanese astronomer Reiko Furusho (born 1970). Her research includes cometary physics, in particular the measurement of polarized light, caused by scattering on comet dust. Furusho also works in the education and popularization of astronomy. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 May 2003 ().

This minor planet is named after the small Japanese village of Geisei, where the discovering observatory is located. Geisei is situated near the city of Kōchi, after which Tsutomu Seki's first discovery, the asteroid 2396 Kochi, is named. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 June 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian astronomer Boris Gerasimovich (1889–1937), professor at the National University of Kharkiv and director of the Pulkovo Observatory near Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is also honored by a lunar crater Gerasimovich. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

This minor planet was named for Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777) a Swiss physician, botanist and poet. The naming took place during the 1935 meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Bern, Switzerland. The author of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names learned about the naming circumstances from Dutch astronomer Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

This minor planet was named in memory of Henri Guisan (1874–1960), general of the Swiss army during the Second World War. He was notably from the country's smaller Swiss-French part rather than from the German-speaking part. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 ().

This minor planet was named after Chinese astronomer and engineer Guo Shoujing (1231–1316) who lived during the Yuan Dynasty. He designed and constructed several astronomical instruments for precise observations and has been called the "Tycho Brahe of China". The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Slovenian Niko Gorjup (born 1984) an awardee in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2003. At the time, he attended the Solski Center Nova Gorica, Gimnazija, Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2004 ().

This minor planet was named after Glaucus (Glaukos) from Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad, he was captain in the Lycian contingent during the Trojan War. and was killed by Ajax, after whom the Jovian asteroid 1404 Ajax is named. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian astronomer Georgij Nikolaevich Duboshin (1904–1986), expert on celestial mechanics, author of several textbooks, and former president of IAU's Commission 7, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy in the early 1970s. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 December 1982 ().

This minor planet is named in honor of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, which operated the observatory at El Leoncito in collaboration with Columbia and Yale University. Cuyo is also the name of a region in central-west Argentina. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1975 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after King Priam's illegitimate son, Cebriones (Kebriones). He was the half-brother of Hektor and his final charioteer during the Trojan War, wounded in the duel between Hektor and Patroclus. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 August 1981 ().

This minor planet was named after the sailing boat Alku ("the beginning" in Finnish). Built by his father, the discoverer used to sail it in his childhood, and it became the origin of his enduring passion for sailing. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after the U.S. Coconino County, Arizona, of which the city of Flagstaff with its discovering observatory is the county seat. The word "Coconino" derives from the language of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 17 February 1984 ().

This minor planet was named Bistro, the small type of restaurant that originated from Paris. As with the precedingly numbered 2037 Tripaxeptalis, the name may also alludes to a numbers game, this time to 1019 Strackea, as . The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after Cha Liubieju, a friend of one of the discovering astronomers at the Purple Mountain Observatory. Liubieju is noted for her social work with sick and destitute mothers and children in China. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 5 October 1998 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Hungarian Gyula Ortutay (1910–1978), a professor of ethnography and Hungarian politician, who fostered the popularization of astronomy. In the late 1940s, he was Hungary's Minister of Religion and Education. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of Alfio "Alfiuccio" Grasso (1992–2004) who died in a hunting accident on the slopes of Mount Etna, Italy. The body's name was proposed by C. Blanco and M. Di Martino. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 6 August 2009 ().

This minor planet was named after Russian physicist and astronomer Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765). He discovered the atmosphere of Venus and the principle of mass conservation. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in June 1955 (). He is also honored by the craters Lomonosov on the Moon and Lomonosov on Mars.

This minor planet was named in memory of French particle physicist and astronomer Alain Milsztajn (1955–2007). His research included the structure of the proton and the quest of detecting dark matter by means of gravitational lensing. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 August 2008 ().

This minor planet was named for Saint Petersburg, the second largest city of Russia after Moscow. During the Soviet Union, the city was named "Leningrad" between 1924 and 1991. It was also called Petrograd during 1914–1924. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ().

This minor planet was named after the Troyan priest Laocoön from Greek mythology. He and both his sons were killed by serpents sent by the gods because he tried to expose the Greek's deception of the Trojan Horse. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 ().

This minor planet was named after both the small historical town of Modra, located in the Bratislava Region of Slovakia, and the Modra Observatory of the Institute of Astronomy at Comenius University, where this asteroid had been discovered. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1952), a planetary scientist at the University of Maryland at the time of naming. Her research included the similarities between the spectra of meteorites and near-Earth objects. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 April 1987 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Meriones, who co-commanded together with the Greek hero Idomeneus the Cretan contingent in the Trojan War, where they slew many Trojans, especially in the Battle of the Ships. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 September 1987 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Asteropaios, commander of the Trojan-allied Paeonians during the Trojan War. The ambidextrous, spear-throwing warrior was able to draw blood from Achilles but was slain in the combat. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 June 1991 ().

This minor planet was named after those who constructed the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM; БАМ) through eastern Russia from 1974 to 1986. The rail line opened in 1989, and runs between Ust-Kut (near Lake Baikal and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().

This minor planet was named for Danish astronomer Julie Vinter Hansen (1890–1960), who worked at the Copenhagen Observatory and was director of the International Astronomical Union's telegram bureau and Editor of its Circulars (also see Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams) The official was published by the Minor Planet Center in January 1956 ().

This minor planet was named after Yurij Sergeevich Vasil'ev (Yurij Vasilyev; born 1929), expert in hydropower engineering and rector of the Saint Petersburg State Technical University (SPbSTU), now known as the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University in Russia. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 27 April 2002 ().

This minor planet was named after German astronomer Sebastian F. Hönig (born 1978), a prolific discoverer of minor planets and several comets, including the hyperbolic comet C/2002 O4, which disintegrated shortly after its discovery in 2002. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 7 January 2004 ().

This minor planet bears the name for Switzerland (), where the asteroid was discovered. Helvetia is also an allegorical figure and symbol for the nation (national personification). Each Swiss stamp carries her name, and her figure appears on most Swiss coins. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 19 February 2006 ().

Prior to the naming of Kaʻepaokaʻawela, it was given the provisional designation during 16–31 January 2015, for being the 12,750th object first observed in that period. It was then numbered and added to the minor planet catalog by the Minor Planet Center on 2 March 2018 (), after its orbit became sufficiently determined.

This minor planet was named after German-Venezuelan astronomer Jürgen Stock (born 1923), prominent developer of observatories and director of both the South American Cerro Tololo and the Llano del Hato National Astronomical Observatory in Chile and Venezuela, respectively. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 September 1999 ().

This minor planet was named after for the Californian town of Camarillo and its Camarillo Observatory (). The town was named after Adolfo Camarillo (1864–1958), a well known regional rancher. The first discoverer is a former town resident. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 August 2001 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after Orus, an Achaean warrior in Homer's Iliad. He was killed in the Trojan War by the Trojan prince Hector, after whom the largest Jupiter trojan 624 Hektor is named. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 February 2016 ().

This minor planet was named after Karl August Thernöe (1911–1987), Danish astronomer and celestial mechanic at Østervold Observatory in Copenhagen. He was also a popularizer of astronomy and director of IAU's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams during 1950–1964. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1976 ().

This minor planet was named for the four-armed god of protection and preservation of good, Vishnu, one of the principal deities of Hinduism. The asteroid's name was proposed by Belgian amateur astronomer and professional meteorologist Jean Meeus. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 July 2011 ().

This minor planet was named from Greek mythology after the Greek warrior Achaemenides, one of few surviving members of Odysseus's crew. Left behind when Odysseus fled the blinded Cyclops, he was later rescued by the Trojan Aeneas. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 4 June 1993 ().

This minor planet was named after Sandrine, a grand- niece of Georges Roland, astronomer at Uccle and co-discoverer of Comet Arend–Roland. Delporte also named 1707 Chantal and 1848 Delvaux after family members of his collaborator. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 ().

This minor planet was named after Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), also known as "Seneca the Younger" or simply "Seneca". The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 8 April 1982 (). The lunar crater Seneca was also named in his honor.

This minor planet was named in honor of José Luis Sersic (1933–1993), well known for his work in extragalactic astronomy and on supernovae (also see Sersic's law and ). He has served as director of the Córdoba Observatory. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1989 ().

This minor planet was named by the discoverer in honor of Soviet astronomer Andrei Severny (1913–1987), who was the Director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and known for his work on solar flares and astronomical observations from artificial satellites. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 October 1969 ().

This minor planet was named after the Russian village of Sheragul in Irkutsk Oblast, southeastern Siberia, approximately 400 kilometers northwest of Lake Baikal. The name also honors the people of this village, where Nikolai Chernykh spent his school years. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 September 1978 ().

This minor planet was named after Lake Shumarinai. The lake is located within the Shumarinai Prefectural Natural Park in northern Hokkaidō, Japan. Artificially created to generate hydroelectricity in the 1940s, it is now known for its scenery. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 15 December 2005 ().

This minor planet was named in memory of eminent Soviet mathematician and astronomer, Mikhail Subbotin (1893–1966), long-time director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (ITA) in former Leningrad. The lunar crater Subbotin was also named in his honour. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 June 1967 ().

This minor planet was named after American geologist Gordon A. Swann (born 1931). He served as the principal investigator of the "Apollo Lunar Geologic Experiment" conducted at the lunar landing sites of Apollo 14 and Apollo 15. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 December 1989 ().

This minor planet was named after Mary Somerville (1780–1872; née Fairfax), a Scottish polymath and science writer who studied mathematics and astronomy. She is considered to be one of Europe's most distinguished women scientists of her time. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 July ().

This minor planet was named after Russian Vasiliy G. Fedoseev (born 1986) an awardee of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2003. At the time, he attended the Lyceum of Information Technologies Moscow, Russia. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 14 June 2004 ().

After its first observation in 1994, this minor planet was numbered 23 year later by the Minor Planet Center on 12 January 2017 (), after its last observation with the LCO–A 1-meter global telescope station at Sutherland, South Africa, on 6 December 2016 . As of 2018, the asteroid has not been named .

This minor planet was named after German philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx (1818–1883), student of the theories about society, economics and politics, and author of Das Kapital, the foundational theoretical text of modern communist thought. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 July 1983 ().

This minor planet was named after the European country Bulgaria. At the time of naming, it was the People's Republic of Bulgaria (1946–1990), a former satellite state of the Soviet Union and member of the Warsaw Pact. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 13 July 1984 ().

Peraga (minor planet designation: 554 Peraga) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun that was discovered by German astronomer Paul Götz on January 8, 1905, from Heidelberg. 13-cm radar observations of this asteroid from the Arecibo Observatory between 1980 and 1985 were used to produce a diameter estimate of 101 km.

This minor planet was named for the free-software GNU Project, created by Richard Stallman 1984. GNU is the recursive acronym for "GNU is not Unix". The collaborative projects enables programmers to trade and improve upon free software. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 11 November 2000 ().

This minor planet was named in honor of Russian historian Aleksandr Fursenko (1927–2008), expert in topics such as international relations, U.S. history, and Russian foreign economic policy. He was also a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 November 2007 ().

This minor planet was numbered by the MPC on 22 December 1999 (). As of 2018, it has not been named.