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]
Brian Schmidt (born 1967), American physicist, who won the who the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, using supernovae as standard candles
David A. Cosandey (born 1965) is a Swiss physicist. He has developed a theory of science explaining the rises and declines of the main scientific disciplines, including astronomy, in the history of the West, the Middle East, India and China.
Marcel Moye (1873–1939), a founding member of theFlammarion Astronomical Society of Montpellier, which administered the Babote Observatory from 1902 to 1922.
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]