William A. Baum

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).^[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.^[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).^[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.^[4]^[5]

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,^[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.^[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.^[8]

4001–4100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
4001 Ptolemaeus	1949 PV	Ptolemy (c. AD 100–170), Greek astronomer	MPC · 4001
4002 Shinagawa	1950 JB	Seishi Shinagawa (born 1944), first to use electronic computers for orbit computation in Japan	MPC · 4002
4003 Schumann	1964 ED	Robert Schumann (1810–1856), German composer	MPC · 4003
4004 Listʹev	1971 SN₁	Vladislav Listyev (1956–1995), a Russian television journalist who was murdered	MPC · 4004
4005 Dyagilev	1972 TC₂	Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929), Russian impresario	MPC · 4005
4006 Sandler	1972 YR	Grigori Sandler (1912–1994), a Russian musician	MPC · 4006
4007 Euryalos	1973 SR	Euryalos, mythical Greek warrior	MPC · 4007
4008 Corbin	1977 BY	Thomas E. Corbin, American astronomer, and his wife Brenda Corbin, Librarian, both at the US Naval Observatory	MPC · 4008
4009 Drobyshevskij	1977 EN₁	Edward Drobyshevski (1936–2012), Russian astro- and plasma physicist at Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg	MPC · 4009
4010 Nikolʹskij	1977 QJ₂	Gennady Nikolsky (1929–1982), Soviet solar astronomer	MPC · 4010
4011 Bakharev	1978 SC₆	Anatoly Bakharev (1918–1979), observer and researcher on comets and meteors. He is one of the co-discoverers of near-parabolic comet C/1955 N1 (Bakharev-Macfarlane-Krienke)	MPC · 4011
4012 Geballe	1978 VK₉	Tom Geballe (born 1944), American astronomer	MPC · 4012
4013 Ogiria	1979 OM₁₅	Maiya Borisovna Ogir' (1933–1991), Russian solar physicist	MPC · 4013
4014 Heizman	1979 SG₁₀	Leonie and Charles Heizman from San Juan Capistrano, California, who hosted the discoverer Nikolai Chernykh during the conference on Near Earth Asteroids in 1991	MPC · 4014
4015 Wilson-Harrington	1979 VA	American co-discoverers Albert G. Wilson (1918–2012) and Robert G. Harrington (1904–1987)	MPC · 4015
4016 Sambre	1979 XK	The Sambre River, France and Belgium	MPC · 4016
4017 Disneya	1980 DL₅	Walt Disney (1901–1966), American animator	MPC · 4017
4018 Bratislava	1980 YM	Bratislava, capital city of Slovakia	MPC · 4018
4019 Klavetter	1981 EK₁₄	James Jay Klavetter (1960–1997), professor of physics at California State University, Sacramento	MPC · 4019
4020 Dominique	1981 ET₃₈	Dominique Bockelée-Morvan (born 1957), researcher at the Paris Observatory, France	MPC · 4020
4021 Dancey	1981 QD₂	Roy Dancey and Bruce D. Dancey, father and son, both Canadian designers of telescope mirrors	MPC · 4021
4022 Nonna	1981 TL₄	Nonna Mordyukova (1925–2008), Soviet actress	MPC · 4022
4023 Jarník	1981 UN	Vojtěch Jarník (1897–1970), Czech mathematician	MPC · 4023
4024 Ronan	1981 WQ	Colin Ronan (1920–1995), author and writer on astronomy	MPC · 4024
4025 Ridley	1981 WU	Harold B. Ridley, British astrophotographer	MPC · 4025
4026 Beet	1982 BU₁	Ernest Agar Beet, teacher and amateur astronomer	MPC · 4026
4027 Mitton	1982 DN	Simon Mitton (born 1946), British astronomer and author	MPC · 4027
4028 Pancratz	1982 DV₂	Chris Pancratz (1950–2003), formerly of the National Space Society	MPC · 4028
4029 Bridges	1982 KC₁	Patricia M. Bridges, planetary cartographer with the U.S. Geological Survey	MPC · 4029
4030 Archenhold	1984 EO₁	Friedrich Simon Archenhold (1861–1939), a German astronomer and the first director the Archenhold Observatory in Berlin, who, in 1896, made it possible to build the world's longest refractor telescope with a focal length of 21 meters. The telescope was originally known as the Great Treptow Refractor.	MPC · 4030
4031 Mueller	1985 CL	Jean Mueller (born 1950), American astronomer and discoverer of comets, minor planets, and supernovae. The first woman to operate the historic Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, and was the first woman hired as a telescope operator at Palomar Observatory in 1985.	MPC · 4031
4032 Chaplygin	1985 UT₄	Sergey Chaplygin (1869–1942), Russian and Soviet physicist and one of the founders of the aerodynamics	MPC · 4032
4033 Yatsugatake	1986 FA	Mount Yatsugatake, one of Japan's 100 famous mountains	MPC · 4033
4034 Vishnu	1986 PA	Vishnu is the Hindu god of preservation	JPL · 4034
4035 Thestor	1986 WD	Thestor was a grandson of Apollo and the father of Kalchas.	IAU · 4035
4036 Whitehouse	1987 DW₅	David Robert Whitehouse (born 1956), British science journalist and BBC Online's Science Editor, recipient of the European Internet Journalist of the Year award in 2002	JPL · 4036
4037 Ikeya	1987 EC	Kaoru Ikeya (born 1943), Japanese amateur astronomer	MPC · 4037
4038 Kristina	1987 QH₂	Kristina Leterme, Dutch literature professor and partner of the discoverer	MPC · 4038
4039 Souseki	1987 SH	Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), Japanese novelist	MPC · 4039
4040 Purcell	1987 SN₁	Henry Purcell (1659–1695), English composer	MPC · 4040
4041 Miyamotoyohko	1988 DN₁	Yohko Miyamoto (born 1922) wife of Japanese astronomer, Yukio (or Sachio) Miyamoto	MPC · 4041
4042 Okhotsk	1989 AT₁	Sea of Okhotsk, between Japan and Russia	MPC · 4042
4043 Perolof	1175 T-3	Per Olof Lindblad, Swedish astronomer, director of the Stockholm Observatory, and son of Bertil Lindblad (1895–1965)	MPC · 4043
4044 Erikhøg	5142 T-3	Erik Høg (born 1932), Danish astronomer at the Copenhagen Observatory	MPC · 4044
4045 Lowengrub	1953 RG	Morton Lowengrub, American mathematician and forerunner of the WIYN Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona	MPC · 4045
4046 Swain	1953 TV	Joseph Swain (1857–1927), professor of mathematics at and president of Indiana University	MPC · 4046
4047 Chang'E	1964 TT₂	The Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e, and the Chinese lunar probe launched in 2007, initiating the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program	JPL · 4047
4048 Samwestfall	1964 UC	Richard S. Westfall (1924–1996), American historian of science	MPC · 4048
4049 Noragalʹ	1973 QD₂	Nora Galʹ (1912–1991), Soviet literary translator	MPC · 4049
4050 Mebailey	1976 SF	Mark Edward Bailey, British astronomer	MPC · 4050
4051 Hatanaka	1978 VP	Takeo Hatanaka (1914–1963), Japanese astronomer	MPC · 4051
4052 Crovisier	1981 DP₂	Jacques Crovisier (born 1948), French astronomer	MPC · 4052
4053 Cherkasov	1981 TQ₁	Nikolay Cherkasov (1903–1966), Soviet actor	MPC · 4053
4054 Turnov	1983 TL	Turnov, Czech Republic	MPC · 4054
4055 Magellan	1985 DO₂	Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480–1521), Portuguese explorer	MPC · 4055
4056 Timwarner	1985 FZ₁	Timothy Warner (1961–1990), chief mission planner for the Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment	MPC · 4056
4057 Demophon	1985 TQ	Demophon, mythical king of Athens	MPC · 4057
4058 Cecilgreen	1986 JV	Cecil Howard Green (1900–2003), British geophysicist, co-founder of Texas Instruments and philanthropist extraordinary	MPC · 4058
4059 Balder	1987 SB₅	Balder, Norse god	MPC · 4059
4060 Deipylos	1987 YT₁	Deipylos, mythical Greek hero	MPC · 4060
4061 Martelli	1988 FF₃	Giuseppe Martelli, Italian architect and engineer	MPC · 4061
4062 Schiaparelli	1989 BF	Giovanni Schiaparelli (1835–1910), Italian astronomer best known for his telescopic observations of Mars	MPC · 4062
4063 Euforbo	1989 CG₂	Euphorbus (Euforbo), the Greek hero of the Trojan War, who wounded Patroclus in the breast before being killed by Hektor.	MPC · 4063
4064 Marjorie	2126 P-L	Marjorie Meinel (1922–2008), American astronomer	MPC · 4064
4065 Meinel	2820 P-L	Aden Meinel (1922–2011), American astronomer	MPC · 4065
4066 Haapavesi	1940 RG	Haapavesi, Finland, birthplace of the discoverer's father	MPC · 4066
4067 Mikhelʹson	1966 TP	Nikolaj Mikhelʹson (born 1918), outstanding Soviet scientist and optician of telescopes	MPC · 4067
4068 Menestheus	1973 SW	Menestheus, mythical king of Athens	MPC · 4068
4069 Blakee	1978 VL₇	Lawrence E. Blakee, observatory assistant	MPC · 4069
4070 Rozov	1980 RS₂	Victor Sergeevich Rozov (born 1913), Russian playwright	MPC · 4070
4071 Rostovdon	1981 RD₂	Rostov-on-Don, Russia, the discoverer's birthplace	MPC · 4071
4072 Yayoi	1981 UJ₄	Yayoi period in prehistoric Japan from 300 BC–300 AD during the Iron Age	MPC · 4072
4073 Ruianzhongxue	1981 UE₁₀	Ruianzhongxue (Ruian Middle School), Zhejiang, China, 110-year-old school of mathematics	JPL · 4073
4074 Sharkov	1981 UN₁₁	Viktor Sharkov (born 1935), an experimental astrophysicist at Ioffe Institute in St Petersburg, Russia	MPC · 4074
4075 Sviridov	1982 TL₁	Georgy Sviridov (1915–1998), Russian composer	MPC · 4075
4076 Dörffel	1982 UF₄	Georg Samuel Dörffel (1643–1688), German pastor and astronomer	MPC · 4076
4077 Asuka	1982 XV₁	Asuka period, from 6th century to 8th in Japan	MPC · 4077
4078 Polakis	1983 AC	Thomas A. Polakis (born 1961), an American mechanical engineer, friend of the discoverer Brian A. Skiff, and amateur astronomer at the Command Module Observatory (V02) in Arizona (Src, Src).	MPC · 4078
4079 Britten	1983 CS	Benjamin Britten (1913–1976), Baron Britten, British composer	MPC · 4079
4080 Galinskij	1983 PW	Nikolaj Galinskij, Soviet radio engineer	MPC · 4080
4081 Tippett	1983 RC₂	Michael Tippett (1905–1998), British composer	MPC · 4081
4082 Swann	1984 SW₃	Gordon A. Swann, American geologist, principal investigator for the geological field investigations conducted at the Apollo 14 and 15 lunar landing sites	MPC · 4082
4083 Jody	1985 CV	Joan D. Swann, planetary data librarian with the U.S. Geological Survey	MPC · 4083
4084 Hollis	1985 GM	Andrew J. Hollis, British astronomer	MPC · 4084
4085 Weir	1985 JR	Doris Blackman Weir, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey	MPC · 4085
4086 Podalirius	1985 VK₂	Podalirius, mythical Greek warrior	MPC · 4086
4087 Pärt	1986 EM₁	Arvo Pärt (born 1935), Estonian composer	MPC · 4087
4088 Baggesen	1986 GG	Jens Baggesen (1764–1826), Danish poet and satirist	MPC · 4088
4089 Galbraith	1986 JG	John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Canadian-born, American economist and polemicist	JPL · 4089
4090 Říšehvězd	1986 RH₁	Říše hvězd, Czech astronomy journal	MPC · 4090
4091 Lowe	1986 TL₂	Andrew Lowe (born 1959), Canadian geophysicist and amateur astronomer	MPC · 4091
4092 Tyr	1986 TJ₄	Tyr, Norse god	MPC · 4092
4093 Bennett	1986 VD	Jack C. Bennett, South African amateur astronomer	MPC · 4093
4094 Aoshima	1987 QC	Masaki Aoshima (1947–1987), Japanese amateur astronomer	MPC · 4094
4095 Ishizuchisan	1987 SG	Ishizuchisan, mountain in Ehime, Japan	MPC · 4095
4096 Kushiro	1987 VC	Kushiro, city in Japan	MPC · 4096
4097 Tsurugisan	1987 WW	Tsurugisan, mountain in Tokushima, Japan	MPC · 4097
4098 Thraen	1987 WQ₁	Anton Thraen (1843–1902), German amateur astronomer and Catholic priest	MPC · 4098
4099 Wiggins	1988 AB₅	Patrick Wiggins (born 1949), American astronomy educator at the Hansen Planetarium (1975–2001) in Salt Lake City, UT. Currently NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador	JPL · 4099
4100 Sumiko	1988 BF	Sumiko Hioki (born 1965), wife Japanese co-discoverer Tsutomu Hioki	MPC · 4100

4101–4200

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
4101 Ruikou	1988 CE	Ruikou Kuroiwa (1862–1920), Japanese writer	MPC · 4101
4102 Gergana	1988 TE₃	Gergana Georgieva Gelkova (born 2000) is the adorable grandniece of the discoverer. The name also honors the discoverer's parents, combining their first names Georgy and Ana	JPL · 4102
4103 Chahine	1989 EB	Moustafa Chahine, (1935–2011) Lebanese-American scientist, chief scientist for NASA JPL	MPC · 4103
4104 Alu	1989 ED	Jeff Alu (born 1966), American amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey. He is a musician and composer.	MPC · 4104
4105 Tsia	1989 EK	Zia sun symbol used by the Zia people in New Mexico	MPC · 4105
4106 Nada	1989 EW	Nada Junior and Senior High School, in Kobe, Japan	MPC · 4106
4107 Rufino	1989 GT	Rufus J. Walker, supporter of the U.S. space program and friend of American discoverer, Eleanor F. Helin	MPC · 4107
4108 Rakos	3439 T-3	Karl D. Rakos (born 1925), Croatian-born Austrian astronomer who was professor of astronomy at the University of Vienna and a director of the Vienna Observatory	MPC · 4108
4109 Anokhin	1969 OW	Sergei Anokhin (1910–1986), Russian test pilot and cosmonaut-select	MPC · 4109
4110 Keats	1977 CZ	John Keats (1795–1821), English romantic poet	MPC · 4110
4111 Lamy	1981 EN₁₂	Philippe Louis Lamy, French-born American astronomer at Laboratoire d'Astronomie Spatiale, Marseilles	MPC · 4111
4112 Hrabal	1981 ST	Bohumil Hrabal (1914–1997), Czech writer	MPC · 4112
4113 Rascana	1982 BQ	Royal Astronomical Society of Canada	MPC · 4113
4114 Jasnorzewska	1982 QB₁	Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (1891–1945), Polish poet	MPC · 4114
4115 Peternorton	1982 QS₃	Peter Norton (born 1943), American software engineer	MPC · 4115
4116 Elachi	1982 SU	Charles Elachi (born 1947), Lebanese-American electrical engineering and planetary science at Caltech	MPC · 4116
4117 Wilke	1982 SU₃	Alfred Wilke (1893–1972), German optician	MPC · 4117
4118 Sveta	1982 TH₃	Svetlana Savitskaya (born 1948), Russian cosmonaut who became the second woman in space in 1982	MPC · 4118
4119 Miles	1983 BE	Howard G. Miles, member of the Order of the British Empire and director of the Artificial Satellite Section of the British Astronomical Association	MPC · 4119
4120 Denoyelle	1985 RS₄	Jozef Denoyelle (born 1937), Belgian astronomer	MPC · 4120
4121 Carlin	1986 JH	Carlin Singer-Brewster, daughter of Stephen Singer-Brewster, an American astronomer and discoverer of minor planets	MPC · 4121
4122 Ferrari	1986 OA	Enzo Ferrari (1898–1988), Italian builder of racing cars and sports cars	MPC · 4122
4123 Tarsila	1986 QP₁	Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), Brazilian modernist painter	JPL · 4123
4124 Herriot	1986 SE	James Herriot (1916–1995), British writer and veterinary surgeon	MPC · 4124
4125 Lew Allen	1987 MO	Lew Allen (1925–2010), American physicist, director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a United States Air Force four-star general	MPC · 4125
4126 Mashu	1988 BU	Lake Mashū, a crater lake in Akan National Park on the island of Hokkaidō, Japan.	MPC · 4126
4127 Kyogoku	1988 BA₂	Kyōgoku, town in Japan	MPC · 4127
4128 UKSTU	1988 BM₅	UK Schmidt Telescope Unit at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the 1.2-m U.K. Schmidt Telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia	MPC · 4128
4129 Richelen	1988 DM	Richard A. Keen and Helen C. Duran, friends of the discoverer, Robert H. McNaught	MPC · 4129
4130 Ramanujan	1988 DQ₁	Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920), Indian mathematician	MPC · 4130
4131 Stasik	1988 DR₄	John S. Stasik, American educator	MPC · 4131
4132 Bartók	1988 EH	Béla Bartók (1881–1945), Austro-Hungarian composer	MPC · 4132
4133 Heureka	1942 DB	Heureka, science center in Vantaa, Finland, north of Helsinki	MPC · 4133
4134 Schütz	1961 CR	Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672), German composer and organist of the 17th century	MPC · 4134
4135 Svetlanov	1966 PG	Yevgeny Svetlanov (1928–2002), Soviet-Russian conductor	MPC · 4135
4136 Artmane	1968 FJ	Vija Artmane (1929–2008), Latvian actress	MPC · 4136
4137 Crabtree	1970 WC	William Crabtree (1610–1644), an astronomer, mathematician, and cloth merchant in Salford, near Manchester, second person to knowingly observe a transit of Venus, in 1639	JPL · 4137
4138 Kalchas	1973 SM	Calchas, mythical person related to Trojan War	MPC · 4138
4139 Ulʹyanin	1975 VE₂	Sergej Alekseevich Ulʹyanin (1871–1921), Russian pilot and inventor of new airplane designs	MPC · 4139
4140 Branham	1976 VA	Richard L. Branham Jr (born 1943), American astronomer at U.S. Naval Observatory and director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Station at Leoncito Astronomical Complex	MPC · 4140
4141 Nintanlena	1978 PG₃	Nina, Tanya and Elena, wife and daughters of Kyiv astronomer Klim Churyumov (1937–2016)	MPC · 4141
4142 Dersu-Uzala	1981 KE	Dersu Uzala, character in eponymous novel by Vladimir Arsenyev	MPC · 4142
4143 Huziak	1981 QN₁	Richard Huziak (born 1957), Canadian amateur astronomer	MPC · 4143 Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=William_A._Baum Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. Navigácia: Veda > Analytika Antropológia Aplikované vedy Bibliometria Dejiny vedy Encyklopédie Filozofia vedy Forenzné vedy Humanitné vedy Knižničná veda Kryogenika Kryptológia Kulturológia Literárna veda Medzidisciplinárne oblasti Metódy kvantitatívnej analýzy Metavedy Metodika Metodológia vedy Náboženstvo a veda Náučná literatúra Podvody vo vede Popularizácia vedy Potravinárstvo Prírodné vedy Pseudoveda Scientometria Spoločenské vedy Teórie Teatrológia Technické vedy Technika Terminológia Umenie Výskum Veda Veda a technika podľa štátu Veda a technika podľa kontinentu Veda a technika podľa roka Veda v kozme Vedci Vedecká literatúra Vedecké databázy Vedecké experimenty Vedecké konferencie Vedecké metódy Vedecké ocenenia Vedecké organizácie Vedecké parky Vedeckí spisovatelia Vzdelávanie Záhady Príbuzné výrazy: Text je dostupný za podmienok Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License 3.0 Unported; prípadne za ďalších podmienok. Podrobnejšie informácie nájdete na stránke Podmienky použitia. www.astronomia.sk \| www.biologia.sk \| www.botanika.sk \| www.dejiny.sk \| www.economy.sk \| www.elektrotechnika.sk \| www.estetika.sk \| www.farmakologia.sk \| www.filozofia.sk \| Fyzika \| www.futurologia.sk \| www.genetika.sk \| www.chemia.sk \| www.lingvistika.sk \| www.politologia.sk \| www.psychologia.sk \| www.sexuologia.sk \| www.sociologia.sk \| www.veda.sk I www.zoologia.sk

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