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]
Debrecen is the second largest city in Hungary and the regional center and capital of Hajdú-Bihar county. Kossuth University is located there. TheDebrecen Heliophysical Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences evolved from the Kossuth educational observatory in 1958
Alessandra Migliorini (born 1978), Italian researcher at theNational Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Rome, has dedicated years of activity to search for Trojans of the giant planets on digital archives for theAstrovirtel survey, and to discover near-Earth objects. She is also studying the icymoons of Saturn, using data from the Cassini-Huygens instruments.
Hakos is a farm and the location of the IAS Observatory (221) in Namibia, Africa. It is owned by the Internationale Amateur Observatory (German:Internationale Amateur Sternwarte, IAS), a non-profit society, facilitating access to large telescopes under optimal skies, both for visual observations and astrophotography (Src).
Benito Loyola (born 1961) is a retired US Navy Captain Naval Aviator and graduate of the US Naval Academy, who developed award-winning 3-D modeling and simulation technologies. He is an amateur astronomer currently engaged in a NASA-Hampton University Jupiter-asteroid impact detection project.
Maria Luigia Borsi (born 1973), an Italian opera singer. A lyric soprano, she has performed in major opera houses around the world and is known especially for interpreting operas by Puccini and Verdi.
Jaroslav Boček (born 1947) has worked on the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences for several decades. He was involved in the European Network for photographing fireballs and his technical skills were crucial for running all-sky cameras on Czech stations of the network.
Emil Březina (1975–2012) was a Czech amateur astronomer and a longtime associate at the Vsetín Observatory, to which he dedicated most of his time and energy. He was engaged in observing comets, meteors and extreme meteorological events. His other interests included photography, jazz music and mountain hiking.
Claudio Bottari (born 1960), a long-time Italian amateur astronomer since 1980 and was among the first to useCCDs in the Italian amateur community in 1991. At the Mira observatory he uses a 0.6-m concentric Schmidt-Cassegrain in search ofsupernovae andnear-Earth objects. He discovered SN 1996ai inNGC 5005.
Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006), Hungarian football player whose legendary left foot scored 349 goals for Budapesti Honvéd in 358 major-league football matches and 324 goals for Real Madrid. His 83 goals (in 84 matches) remain a record for any player in an international event, and he scored in Hungary's final loss to Germany during the 1954 World Cup.
Anne-Marie Jacquey, French treasurer of the Société astronomique de Montpellier and a member of theObservatoire des Pises minor planet observing team. She also played an active role in the establishment and development of the observatory.
Francesco Ferruccio (1489–1530) was the hero who, at the head of the Florentine army, fought and died for the independence of the republic of Florence in theBattle of Gavinana.
Andrzej Lesicki (born 1950) is a cellular biologist working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. From his position as Rector of the university, he has actively supported asteroid research at the university's observatory and helped to develop a computer cluster that is used for modeling asteroids from their lightcurves.
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]