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]
Eamon Little (1966–2006) was an Irish astronomer at Queen's University, Belfast, and a friend and colleague of astronomersAlan Fitzsimmons andIwan P. Williams who discovered this minor planet
Emanuele Pace (born 1964), an Italian professor of astronomy and astrophysics at theUniversity of Florence and the director of its Chianti Observatory. He is also a project manager with ESA'sARIEL space telescope that will studyexplanetary atmospheres. The asteroid's name was suggested byCINEOS astronomerMario Di Martino.
Valerio Bocci (born 1966), is an Italian Physicist, senior technologist atINFN Roma. He has been involved in theDELPHI atLEP (CERN),KLOE experiment ofDAFNEFrascati National Laboratory, in theATLAS andLHCb experiments atLHC CERN. He was one of the first in the scientific literature to propose and demonstrate the possibility to useField Programmable Gate Array in radiation environment.
Sandra Savaglio (born 1967) is a physicist and a leading researchers on γ-ray bursts. She has taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. Savaglio is currently teaching astronomy at the University of Calabria.
Antonino Brosio (born 1987) is a structural engineer, and the founder and director of the first public observatory and astronomical park in Calabria. He has carried out several national and international collaborations involving the Calabrian schools, and is the discoverer of some variable stars and extragalactic supernovae.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942) was the first person of African ancestry and the first Latin American to travel into space as a Cuban cosmonaut on the crew of Soyuz 38 in September 1980. He received the first Hero of the Republic of Cuba medal and many other honors.
Béla Szeidl (born 1938), Hungarian astronomer, director of theKonkoly Observatory from 1974 to 1996. and president of IAU Commission 27 (Variable Stars, 1985–1988)
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]