List of minor planets named after people

This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional. == Scientists == === Astronomers === ==== Amateur ==== 340 Eduarda (Heinrich Eduard von Lade, German) 792 Metcalfia (Joel Hastings Metcalf, American) 828 Lindemannia (Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-British) 1906 Naef (Robert Adolf Naef, Swiss) 1955 McMath (Robert Raynolds McMath, American) 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore) 3184 Raab (Herbert Raab, Austrian) 3696 Herald (Dave Herald, Australian) 4143 Huziak (Richard Huziak, Canadian) 6822 Horálek (Petr Horálek, Czech) 9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini, Italian) 10003 Caryhuang (Cary Huang, Chinese-American) 12787 Abetadashi (Tadashi Abe, Japanese) 13624 Abeosamu (Osamu Abe, Japanese) 16217 Peterbroughton (Peter Broughton, Canadian) 22406 Garyboyle (Gary Boyle, Canadian) 23771 Emaitchar (Martin H. Robinson, British) 24898 Alanholmes (Alan W. Holmes, American) 29483 Boeker (Karolin Kleemann-Boeker and Andreas Boeker, German) 32622 Yuewaichun (Wai Chun Yue, Hongkonger) 33748 Davegault (Dave Gault, Australian) 35461 Mazzucato (Michele T. Mazzucato, Italian) 37729 Akiratakao (Akira Takao, Japanese) 49109 Agnesraab (Agnes Raab, Austrian) 60406 Albertosuci (Alberto Suci, Italian) 103422 Laurisirén (Lauri Sirén, Finnish) 117032 Davidlane (Dave Lane, Canadian) 144907 Whitehorne (Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian) 161693 Attilladanko (Attilla Danko, Canadian) 171153 Allanrahill (Allan Rahill, Canadian) 260235 Attwood (Randy Attwood, Canadian) 263906 Yuanfengfang (Fengfang Yuan, Chinese) 367732 Mikesimonsen (Mike Simonsen, American) 714378 Char (Farid Char, Chilean) ==== Professional ==== 107 Camilla (Camille Flammarion; also Camilla, mythological Volscian queen) 162 Laurentia (Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent) 238 Hypatia (Hypatia) 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel) 339 Dorothea (Dorothea Klumpke) 349 Dembowska (Ercole Dembowski) 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli) 511 Davida (David Peck Todd) 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte) 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson) 761 Brendelia (Martin Brendel) 767 Bondia (William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond) 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve) 784 Pickeringia (Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering) 786 Bredichina (Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin) 806 Gyldenia (Hugo Gyldén) 818 Kapteynia (Jacobus Kapteyn) 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard) 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf) 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham) 854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost) 855 Newcombia (Simon Newcomb) 856 Backlunda (Oskar Backlund) 857 Glasenappia (Sergey Glazenap) 872 Holda (Edward S. Holden) 892 Seeligeria (Hugo von Seeliger) 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa) 993 Moultona (Forest Ray Moulton) 995 Sternberga (Pavel Shternberg) 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach) 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres) 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers) 1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky) 1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion) 1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale) 1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke) 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth) 1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon) 1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley) 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin) 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler) 1186 Turnera (Herbert Hall Turner) 1215 Boyer (Louis Boyer) 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet) 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson) 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther) 1322 Coppernicus (Nicolaus Copernicus) 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula) 1455 Mitchella (Maria Mitchell) 1501 Baade (Walter Baade) 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois) 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma) 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly) 1551 Argelander (Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander) 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä) 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood) 1591 Baize (Paul Baize) 1594 Danjon (André-Louis Danjon) 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky) 1601 Patry (André Patry) 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt) 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac) 1637 Swings (Pol Swings) 1642 Hill (George William Hill) 1655 Comas Solà (Josep Comas Solá) 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe) 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter) 1691 Oort (Jan Oort) 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung) 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy) 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas) 1743 Schmidt (Bernhard Schmidt) 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson) 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson) 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher) 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper) 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén) 1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes) 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky) 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson) 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson) 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos) 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren) 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek) 1851 Lacroute (Pierre Lacroute French astronomer) 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden) 1886 Lowell (Percival Lowell) 1896 Beer (Wilhelm Beer) 1913 Sekanina (Zdeněk Sekanina) 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple) 1965 van de Kamp (Peter van de Kamp) 1983 Bok (Bart Bok) 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek) 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius) 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama) 2000 Herschel (William Herschel) 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding) 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke) 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing) 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster) 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble) 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker) 2097 Galle (Johann Gottfried Galle) 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik) 2126 Gerasimovich (Boris Gerasimovich) 2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter) 2165 Young (Charles Augustus Young) 2198 Ceplecha (Zdeněk Ceplecha) 2227 Otto Struve (Otto Struve) 2234 Schmadel (Lutz Schmadel) 2281 Biela (Wilhelm von Biela) 2308 Schilt (Jan Schilt) 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh) 2383 Bradley (James Bradley) 2439 Ulugbek (Ulugh Beg) 2635 Huggins (William Huggins) 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti) 2650 Elinor (Elinor Gates, American astronomer) 2688 Halley (Edmond Halley) 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan) 2751 Campbell (William Wallace Campbell) 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan) 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig) 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens) 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà) 2842 Unsöld (Albrecht Unsöld) 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky) 2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young) 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist) 2897 Ole Römer (Ole Rømer) 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek) 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg) 2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman) 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken) 3078 Horrocks (Jeremiah Horrocks) 3095 Omarkhayyam (Omar Khayyám) 3115 Baily (Francis Baily) 3116 Goodricke (John Goodricke) 3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham) 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro) 3174 Alcock (George Alcock) 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington) 3236 Strand (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand) 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen) 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin) 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson) 3282 Spencer Jones (Harold Spencer Jones) 3299 Hall (Asaph Hall) 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý) 3449 Abell (George O. Abell) 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham Jr.) 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth) 3506 French (Linda M. French) 3507 Vilas (Faith Vilas) 3545 Gaffey (Michael James Gaffey American Geologist) 3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke) 3594 Scotti (James V. Scotti) 3673 Levy (David H. Levy) 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata) 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel) 3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel) 3866 Langley (Samuel Pierpont Langley) 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst) 3962 Valyaev (Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova) 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos) 4000 Hipparchus (Hipparchus) 4001 Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya) 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Schiaparelli) 4064 Marjorie (Marjorie Meinel) 4151 Alanhale (Alan Hale) 4169 Celsius (Anders Celsius) 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis) 4298 Jorgenúnez (Jorge Núnez, Spanish astronomer) 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov) 4367 Meech (Karen Jean Meech) 4549 Burkhardt (Gernot Burkhardt) 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář) 4587 Rees (Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow) 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer) 4602 Heudier (Jean-Louis Heudier, Français) 4713 Steel (Duncan Steel) 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec) 4859 Fraknoi (Andrew Fraknoi) 4866 Badillo (Fr.

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List of minor planets named after people

This is a list of minor planets named after people, both real and fictional. == Scientists == === Astronomers === ==== Amateur ==== 340 Eduarda (Heinrich Eduard von Lade, German) 792 Metcalfia (Joel Hastings Metcalf, American) 828 Lindemannia (Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-British) 1906 Naef (Robert Adolf Naef, Swiss) 1955 McMath (Robert Raynolds McMath, American) 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore) 3184 Raab (Herbert Raab, Austrian) 3696 Herald (Dave Herald, Australian) 4143 Huziak (Richard Huziak, Canadian) 6822 Horálek (Petr Horálek, Czech) 9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini, Italian) 10003 Caryhuang (Cary Huang, Chinese-American) 12787 Abetadashi (Tadashi Abe, Japanese) 13624 Abeosamu (Osamu Abe, Japanese) 16217 Peterbroughton (Peter Broughton, Canadian) 22406 Garyboyle (Gary Boyle, Canadian) 23771 Emaitchar (Martin H. Robinson, British) 24898 Alanholmes (Alan W. Holmes, American) 29483 Boeker (Karolin Kleemann-Boeker and Andreas Boeker, German) 32622 Yuewaichun (Wai Chun Yue, Hongkonger) 33748 Davegault (Dave Gault, Australian) 35461 Mazzucato (Michele T. Mazzucato, Italian) 37729 Akiratakao (Akira Takao, Japanese) 49109 Agnesraab (Agnes Raab, Austrian) 60406 Albertosuci (Alberto Suci, Italian) 103422 Laurisirén (Lauri Sirén, Finnish) 117032 Davidlane (Dave Lane, Canadian) 144907 Whitehorne (Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian) 161693 Attilladanko (Attilla Danko, Canadian) 171153 Allanrahill (Allan Rahill, Canadian) 260235 Attwood (Randy Attwood, Canadian) 263906 Yuanfengfang (Fengfang Yuan, Chinese) 367732 Mikesimonsen (Mike Simonsen, American) 714378 Char (Farid Char, Chilean) ==== Professional ==== 107 Camilla (Camille Flammarion; also Camilla, mythological Volscian queen) 162 Laurentia (Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent) 238 Hypatia (Hypatia) 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel) 339 Dorothea (Dorothea Klumpke) 349 Dembowska (Ercole Dembowski) 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli) 511 Davida (David Peck Todd) 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte) 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson) 761 Brendelia (Martin Brendel) 767 Bondia (William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond) 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve) 784 Pickeringia (Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering) 786 Bredichina (Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin) 806 Gyldenia (Hugo Gyldén) 818 Kapteynia (Jacobus Kapteyn) 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard) 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf) 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham) 854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost) 855 Newcombia (Simon Newcomb) 856 Backlunda (Oskar Backlund) 857 Glasenappia (Sergey Glazenap) 872 Holda (Edward S. Holden) 892 Seeligeria (Hugo von Seeliger) 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa) 993 Moultona (Forest Ray Moulton) 995 Sternberga (Pavel Shternberg) 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach) 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres) 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers) 1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky) 1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion) 1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale) 1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke) 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth) 1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon) 1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley) 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin) 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler) 1186 Turnera (Herbert Hall Turner) 1215 Boyer (Louis Boyer) 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet) 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson) 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther) 1322 Coppernicus (Nicolaus Copernicus) 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula) 1455 Mitchella (Maria Mitchell) 1501 Baade (Walter Baade) 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois) 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma) 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly) 1551 Argelander (Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander) 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä) 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood) 1591 Baize (Paul Baize) 1594 Danjon (André-Louis Danjon) 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky) 1601 Patry (André Patry) 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt) 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac) 1637 Swings (Pol Swings) 1642 Hill (George William Hill) 1655 Comas Solà (Josep Comas Solá) 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe) 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter) 1691 Oort (Jan Oort) 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung) 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy) 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas) 1743 Schmidt (Bernhard Schmidt) 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson) 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson) 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher) 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper) 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén) 1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes) 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky) 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson) 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson) 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos) 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren) 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek) 1851 Lacroute (Pierre Lacroute French astronomer) 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden) 1886 Lowell (Percival Lowell) 1896 Beer (Wilhelm Beer) 1913 Sekanina (Zdeněk Sekanina) 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple) 1965 van de Kamp (Peter van de Kamp) 1983 Bok (Bart Bok) 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek) 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius) 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama) 2000 Herschel (William Herschel) 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding) 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke) 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing) 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster) 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble) 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker) 2097 Galle (Johann Gottfried Galle) 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik) 2126 Gerasimovich (Boris Gerasimovich) 2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter) 2165 Young (Charles Augustus Young) 2198 Ceplecha (Zdeněk Ceplecha) 2227 Otto Struve (Otto Struve) 2234 Schmadel (Lutz Schmadel) 2281 Biela (Wilhelm von Biela) 2308 Schilt (Jan Schilt) 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh) 2383 Bradley (James Bradley) 2439 Ulugbek (Ulugh Beg) 2635 Huggins (William Huggins) 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti) 2650 Elinor (Elinor Gates, American astronomer) 2688 Halley (Edmond Halley) 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan) 2751 Campbell (William Wallace Campbell) 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan) 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig) 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens) 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà) 2842 Unsöld (Albrecht Unsöld) 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky) 2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young) 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist) 2897 Ole Römer (Ole Rømer) 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek) 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg) 2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman) 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken) 3078 Horrocks (Jeremiah Horrocks) 3095 Omarkhayyam (Omar Khayyám) 3115 Baily (Francis Baily) 3116 Goodricke (John Goodricke) 3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham) 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro) 3174 Alcock (George Alcock) 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington) 3236 Strand (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand) 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen) 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin) 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson) 3282 Spencer Jones (Harold Spencer Jones) 3299 Hall (Asaph Hall) 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý) 3449 Abell (George O. Abell) 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham Jr.) 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth) 3506 French (Linda M. French) 3507 Vilas (Faith Vilas) 3545 Gaffey (Michael James Gaffey American Geologist) 3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke) 3594 Scotti (James V. Scotti) 3673 Levy (David H. Levy) 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata) 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel) 3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel) 3866 Langley (Samuel Pierpont Langley) 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst) 3962 Valyaev (Tamara Mikhaylovna Smirnova) 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos) 4000 Hipparchus (Hipparchus) 4001 Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy) 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya) 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Schiaparelli) 4064 Marjorie (Marjorie Meinel) 4151 Alanhale (Alan Hale) 4169 Celsius (Anders Celsius) 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis) 4298 Jorgenúnez (Jorge Núnez, Spanish astronomer) 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov) 4367 Meech (Karen Jean Meech) 4549 Burkhardt (Gernot Burkhardt) 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář) 4587 Rees (Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow) 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer) 4602 Heudier (Jean-Louis Heudier, Français) 4713 Steel (Duncan Steel) 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec) 4859 Fraknoi (Andrew Fraknoi) 4866 Badillo (Fr.

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