Asminor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by theIAU'sMinor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU'snaming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Based onPaul Herget'sThe 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 thepublic domain: SBDB New namings may only beadded 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]
Hlohovec is a town in southwestern Slovakia, known for its beautiful castle, large pharmaceutical factory, and its huge impact on Slovak public astronomical activities since 1954. This minor planet was named on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 founding of Hlohovec's Regional Public Observatory and Planetarium.
Alvaro Rinaldi (born 1926) has been a topographer at the Military Geographic Institute of Florence for 40 years. He is fond of astronomy and sundials. He erected the sundials at thePistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory at San Marcello.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was an American theoretical physicist and the scientific director of theManhattan Project. From 1947 to 1966 he directed the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. also known as the "father of the atomic bomb"
William M. Fairbank (1917–1989), an American physicist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1948. He taught at Amherst College and Duke University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1959. His research interests included superconductivity, gravity waves, individual quarks and monopoles.
József Öveges [hu] (1895–1979) was a Hungarian teacher of physics who made physics popular to millions of people through his radio and television programs in Hungary. His lectures were unforgettable.
Kimotsuki, a Japanese town, where JAXA'sUchinoura Space Center is located. Since 1962, approximately 400 rockets and 27 satellites, including Japan's first satellite "Ohsumi" and the asteroid probe "Hayabusa", have been launched from the center.
Akinori Iwamura (born 1979), born in Ehime prefecture, was a baseball player for theTokyo Yakult Swallows from 1998 to 2006. He got the Gold Gloves Award five times as the best defensive third baseman. Beginning in 2007, Iwamura will play in U.S. Major League baseball for theTampa Bay Devil Rays.
Michel Ory (born 1966), a Swiss physicist and teacher in the Jura Mountains, founded the Observatoire Astronomique Jurassien (185), near Vicques. Thediscoverer of minor planets has discovered 30 minor planets, including a Hilda object between 2000 and 2003.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain: SBDB New namings may only beadded 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]