This is a list of asteroids whose names are known to have a Canadian connection, usually because they are named after a Canadian.
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| Number | Name | Designation(s) |
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| Discovery | ||
| Citation (but not necessarily the official one) Where the citation given here expands upon the official citation, the added material was edited by Peter Jedicke, who is solely responsible for any errors or omissions. | ||
 | Minor Planet Circular page reference where the official announcement (and citation) is found and/orJournal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada volume and page reference | |
| 729 | Watsonia | (none) |
| 1912-02-09 by J. H. Metcalf at Winchester | ||
| Named in honour of the American astronomer James Craig Watson (b. 1838 in Fingal, Ontario, d. 1880), director of the Ann Arbor Observatory, Michigan, who detected some comets and 22 minor planets. He left an endowment with the National Academy for thecare of the "Watson" asteroids. Watson is also honoured by a lunar crater. | ||
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| 855 | Newcombia | (none) |
| 1916-04-03 by S. I. Belyavskij at Simeïs; independently discovered1916-04-28 by Max Wolf at Heidelberg | ||
| Named in honour of the American astronomer Simon Newcomb (b. 1835, d. 1909), professor of astronomy and director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. Newcomb worked on cometary and planetary orbits and on the theory of the orbit of theEarth. He measured the velocity of light and determined the astronomical unit anew. Newcomb in also honoured by craters on the Moon and on Mars. | ||
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| 2104 | Toronto | 1963 PD |
| 1963-08-15 by K. W. Kamper at Tautenberg | ||
| This minor planet, the first to be found at a Canadian Observatory, is named in honour of University of Toronto, during whose sesquicentennial celebration it was discovered, to acknowledge the central role played by the university in the development of astronomy in Canada. This planet was detected at the David Dunlap Observatory on plates taken by Sidney van den Bergh at the Tautenberg Observatory, East Germany. | ||
| MPC 4645 | |
| 2154 | Underhill | 2015 P-L |
| 1960-09-24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Anne B. Underhill, a well-known astrophysicist and an expert in the field of the structure of early-type stars. | ||
| MPC 7471 | |
| 2904 | Millman | 1981 YB |
| 1981-12-20 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Peter MacKenzie Millman (b. 1906, d. 1990), former head of Upper Atmosphere Research and, since his formal retirement, a guest scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. Well known for his research on meteors and for his interest in meteorites, comets and planets, he has served as president of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada and of the Meteoritical Society, as well as president of Commission 22 and chairman of the Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature of the IAU. | ||
| MPC 9081 | |
| 2905 | Plaskett | 1982 BZ2 |
| 1982-01-24 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of John Stanley Plaskett (b. 1865 in Hickson, Ontario, d. 1941), director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria from its founding in 1917 to 1935; and of his son, Harry Hemley Plaskett (b. 1893, d. 1980), Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Observatory from 1932 to 1960. Known for his work on the radial velocities of O- and B-type stars that provided observational confirmation of the theory of galactic rotation, J. S. Plaskett was also particularly associated with the massive Plaskett's star. The younger Plaskett made far-reaching contributions to stellar spectroscopy and spectrophotometry and to solar physics; as president of the Royal Astronomical Society just after World War II he was instrumental in bringing into being the 2.5-m telescope, completed in 1967 and initially installed at the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux. Both father and son were awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. | ||
| MPC 9081 | |
| 2917 | Sawyer Hogg | 1980 RR |
| 1980-09-02 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Helen Sawyer Hogg (b. 1905, d. 1993), professor emeritus of astronomy at theUniversity of Toronto, known for her research on globular clusters and for her inspiring course in introductory astronomy, which she taught for more than 35 years. She has served as president of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, the Canadian Astronomical Society, and the American Association of Variable Star Observers. For nearly 30 years she wrote a weekly astronomical column for the Toronto Star, and she conducted a series of television programs for the Ontario Educational Television Authority. She is a Companion of the Order of Canada, a recent recipient of the Klumpke-Roberts award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the first Canadian and second woman to receive the Rittenhouse silver medal. | ||
| MPC 8801 JRASC Vol. 87, No. 6, p. 351-356 (1993) | |
| 2980 | Cameron | 1981 EU17 |
| 1981-03-02 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Named in honour of Alastair G. W. Cameron (b. 1925, d. ), astrophysicist and cosmogonist and currently associate director for theoretical astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Known to his colleagues as "Big Al", Cameron has, in his long and distinguished career, been a prolific producer of cosmogonical theories, never hesitating to revise or replace them when confronted with new data. He has consistently emphasized that the origin of planetary systems must be understood in the context of star formation. He was among the first to advocate such concepts as a turbulent accretion disk solar nebula, and the origin of the moon by a giant impact on the proto-earth. Cameron has also contributed greatly to studies of nucleosynthesis in stars and supernovae, and to understanding the significance of the cosmic abundances of nuclides. This work has been valuable for interpreting the meteoritic record of the early history of the solar system. | ||
| MPC 18449 | |
| 3023 | Heard | 1981 JS |
| 1981-05-05 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of John Frederick Heard (1907-1976), professor of astronomy at theUniversity of Toronto and fourth director of the David Dunlap Observatory. An outstanding and meticulous spectroscopist, he specialized in spectroscopic binaries and stellar radial-velocity standards. In addition, he was a dedicated teacher who helped train many Canadian astronomers. | ||
| MPC 9770 JRASC Vol. 71, p. 1-8 (1977) | |
| 3034 | Climenhaga | A917 SE |
| Discovered 1917-09-24 by M. Wolf at Heidelberg | ||
| Named in honour of John L. Climenhaga, first head of physics at the University of Victoria, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Known for his work on the C12/C13 abundance ratio in carbon stars and for studies of line blanketing and microturbulence in late-type stars, he has also long had an interest in cometary spectra. On his retirement in 1982 the University's Observatory was named in his honour, and among the Observatory's activities is the only Canadian program of astrometric observations of comets and minor planets. | ||
| MPC 11441 | |
| 3166 | Klondike | 1940 FG |
| 1940-03-30 by Y. Väisälä at Turku | ||
| Named in honour of the brothers Karl F. Joutsen and Anton F. Johnson, who during 1901-1905 made a fortune in their mine, Dominion Creek 21, in the Klondike gold rush. Among their benefactions to the University of Turku were the means to construct its library in 1954. | ||
| MPC 18450 | |
| 3269 | Vibert-Douglas | 1981 EX16 |
| 1981-03-06 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Named in honour of Alice Vibert Douglas (b. 1894, d. 1988), the pioneer in the teaching of astronomy atMcGill University and later dean of women atQueen's University. Her research interests included spectroscopic absolute magnitudes of stars and the Stark effect in stellar atmospheres. An authority on historical astronomy, she was the biographer of Eddington, as well as an early advocate of an increased role for women in science. She was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. | ||
| MPC 13481 JRASC Vol. 82, No. 6, p. 309-311 (1988) | |
| 3304 | Pearce | 1981 EQ21 |
| 1981-03-02 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Named in honour of Joseph A. Pearce (b. 1893, d. 1988), who joined the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in 1924 and served as its director from 1940 to 1951. Together withJ. S. Plaskett, he conducted studies of the motions of distant early-type stars that established the reality of galactic rotation. An active promoter of both science and culture, he served as president of the Royal Society of Canada in 1949-50. | ||
| MPC 13481 JRASC Vol. 83, No. 1, p. 3-7 (1989) | |
| 3307 | Athabasca | 1981 DE1 |
| 1981-02-28 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Named for the native North Americans who originally settled in the subarctic region that is now Northwestern Canada and central Alaska. The Athabascan hunter-gatherers comprise a diverse group whose influence spread, about a thousand years ago, as far as the southwestern United States. They are the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache peoples. | ||
| MPC 18644 | |
| 3314 | Beals | 1981 FH |
| 1981-03-30 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Canadian astronomer Carlyle Smith Beals (b. 1899, d. 1979), fourth Dominion Astronomer and the only man who has been both President of the American Astronomical Society and the National President of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada. Beals made important contributions to the observation and interpretation of emission lines in the spectra of hot stars, to the understanding of the nature of interstellar gas clouds, and to the development of instrumentation for astronomy. He also initiated a program to identify and study meteorite craters in Canada. | ||
| MPC 12210 JRASC Vol. 73, p. 325-332 (1979) | |
| 3315 | Chant | Chant |
| 1984-02-08 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Clarence Augustus Chant (b. 1865, d. 1956), generally referred to as the "father of Canadian astronomy". A renowned teacher, Chant organized the Astronomy Department of theUniversity of Toronto and built up theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada. He participated in five solar eclipse expeditions, the most important being the one he led to Australia in 1922 to test Einstein's prediction of the deflection of starlight by a massive body. Chant is also honoured by a lunar crater. | ||
| MPC 12210 | |
| 3316 | Herzberg | 1984 CN1 |
| 1984-02-06 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Gerhard Herzberg (b. 1904, d. 1999), Canadian Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1971 and acknowledged world leader in the study of molecular spectra. Herzberg's specialty has been free radicals, both in the laboratory and in interstellar space. He has identified numerous features in the spectra of comets, planets and interstellar material. In 1975 the National Research Council of Canada's astronomy and spectroscopy units were reorganized as the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by P. M. Millman. Obituary published in Nature, Vol. 398, No. 6729, p. 670 (1999). | ||
| MPC 12210 | |
| 3497 | Innanen | 1941 HJ |
| 1941-04-19 by L. Oterma at Turku | ||
| Named in honour of the Finnish-Canadian astronomer Kimmo Innanen, well-known specialist in celestial mechanics and galactic dynamics. With Seppo Mikkola he predicted the existence of "Mars Trojans", the first of which was recently discovered. | ||
| MPC 18451 | |
| 3658 | Feldman | 1982 TR |
| 1982-10-13 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Paul D. Feldman, professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, for his numerous contributions in ultraviolet spectroscopy, particularly of the Earth's atmosphere, Venus, the outer planets and comets. His design and supervision of a number of spacecraft instruments have led to many advances in our understanding of physical processes in the solar system. The minor planet also honours Paul A. Feldman, a radioastronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Ottawa, who is currently involved in making submillimeter observations of minor planets. | ||
| MPC 12974 | |
| 3666 | Holman | 1979 HP |
| 1979-04-19 by J. C. Muzzio at Cerro Tololo | ||
| Named in honour of Matthew J. Holman (b. 1967- ), astronomer in the planetary sciences division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is particularly known for his long-term investigations on the stability of the outer solar system by means of the sympletic integrator he codeveloped, and he has studied the stability of planets around other stars. Recently, he has also become an active observer of centaurs and transneptunian objects. | ||
| MPC 34619 | |
| 3670 | Northcott | 1983 BN |
| 1983-01-22 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of the Canadian astronomer Ruth Josephine Northcott (b. 1913, d. 1969), an associate professor at theUniversity of Toronto and a staff member of the David Dunlap Observatory from its inception in 1935. A specialist in stellar radial velocities, Northcott served on IAU Commissions 26 (double stars), 30 (radial velocities) and 41 (history of astronomy). In 1956 she succeededC. A. Chant as editor of the Observer's Handbook of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, a position she held until her untimely death. | ||
| MPC 12974 JRASC Vol. 63, p. 225-226 (1969) | |
| 3673 | Levy | 1985 QS |
| 1985-08-22 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of David H. Levy (b. 1948-05-22 inMontreal), comet discoverer and observer, recognized for his perseverance in observing comets using the oldest visual and the newest electronic techniques. David did his undergraduate studies atAcadia University and earned a Master's degree in English literature fromQueen's University in 1979 and holds honourary doctorate (DSc) degrees from bothQueen's University (1994) andAcadia University (1995). Author of several books and articles, he is known for his biographies of astronomers Bart Bok, Clyde Tombaugh and Gene Shoemaker. As an educator David has concentrated on bringing observational astronomy to both amateur astronomers and to children, and he has initiated school and camp programs for this purpose. David won the Chant Medal of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1980, the E. E. Barnard Award of the Western Amateur Astronomers in 1988, the Leslie C. Peltier Award of the Astronomical League in 1988, the G. Bruce Blair Award of the Western Amateur Astronomers in 1990 and the Walter H. Haas Award of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers in 1990. David is science editor for Parade Magazine, hosts an astronomy talk show on KTKT radio in Tucson, and is Honorary President of the Montreal Centre and Kingston Centre of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada. Name proposed and citation prepared by Steven Edberg. | ||
| MPC 12974 | |
| 3748 | Tatum | 1981 JQ |
| 1981-05-03 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Jeremy B. Tatum, professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. An enthusiastic teacher and expert in molecular spectroscopy, especially of comets and interstellar gas clouds, Tatum was the chief founder and is the driving force behind theClimenhaga Observatory's program of astrometry of minor planets and comets, which was the only one of its kind in Canada. | ||
| MPC 13178 | |
| 3749 | Balam | 1982 BG1 |
| 1982-01-24 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of David D. Balam, research assistant at the University of Victoria'sClimenhaga Observatory. In addition to being the observatory's principal observer, Balam has developed most of the software for the astrometric program on minor planets and comets. Name suggested and citation provided by Christopher Spratt. | ||
| MPC 13178 | |
| 3806 | Tremaine | 1981 EW32 |
| 1981-03-01 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Named in honour of Scott D. Tremaine (b. 1950). Tremaine has made seminal contributions to solar-system and galactic dynamics. He is co-author with James Binney of the leading monograph on galactic dynamics. Since 1985 Tremaine has been director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretic Astrophysics in Toronto, and the success of that organization owes much to his vision and leadership. Citation provided by P.M. Goldreich following a suggestion by the discoverer and A.W. Harris. | ||
| MPC 27458 | |
| 3931 | Batten | 1984 EN |
| 1984-03-01 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Alan H. Batten, an astronomer at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia. Batten's research has centered on close binary stars and radial velocities. He has served as a vice president of the IAU, as president of two of its commissions and as editor of the Journal of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada and as President of theRASC. | ||
| MPC 14208 | |
| 3944 | Halliday | 1981 WP1 |
| 1981-11-24 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Ian Halliday, an astronomer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada. Halliday achieved international recognition in three major areas of research in meteoritics: spectroscopy, dynamics and meteorite recovery. He was the first to identify the auroral green line in the spectra of meteors; he planned and directed a large Canadian camera network called the Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project (MORP) and together with his staff determined the definitive photographic orbits of 360 fireballs; and while leading a search party Halliday found the first and largest piece of the Innisfree meteorite, one of only three meteorites recovered entirely on the basis of network photography. Halliday was able to identify six photographic trails with the corresponding six largest Innisfree fragments discovered in the fall area - a unique achievement. He also used MORP data on Geminids to study the minor planet 3200 Phaethon. Halliday served as editor of the Journal of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada and as President of theRASC. | ||
| MPC 14634 | |
| 4021 | Dancey | 1981 QD2 |
| 1981-08-30 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Roy Dancey and Bruce D. Dancey, father and son, who successively headed the optical shop at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria from 1965 until 1986. Under their hands and direction, the primary and secondary mirrors for the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope were figured and polished. They also produced new primary mirrors for the 1.8-m and 1.2-m telescopes at Victoria, as well as a host of smaller telescope optics, spectrograph optics and associated test optics. Bruce Dancey's career was tragically terminated by blindness in 1986. However, the Dancey's work has given the astronomers of Canada, France and Hawaii a superb eye with which to explore the mysteries of space. | ||
| MPC 16042 | |
| 4058 | Cecilgreen | 1986 JV |
| 1986-05-04 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Cecil H. Green, co-founder of Texas Instruments and philanthropist extraordinary, to acknowledge a lifelong commitment to improve the quality of education and scientific research. Green and his late wife Ida funded educational and scientific projects throughout the world, such as academic buildings, health care centers, hospitals, libraries, scholarships and professorships. The Greens assisted in founding new colleges at the University of Texas at Dallas, at Oxford University in England and, in March 1990, Green College at the University of British Columbia. A graduate in electrical engineering, Green spent many years in geophysical field work before becoming a partner of Geophysical Service, Inc., in 1941. He and his partners created a division of that company that ultimately became Texas Instruments. In 1954 Texas Instruments pioneered the first successful commercialization of the silicon transistor. Green is a noted salmon fisherman. | ||
| MPC 17029 | |
| 4091 | Lowe | 1986 TL2 |
| 1986-10-07 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Andrew Lowe, a Canadian professional geophysicist and amateur astronomer in Calgary who has particular interests in computational astronomy involving minor planets and occultations. In recent years, he has opened up a new area of identification research by establishing several cases of linkages of orbits where the observations of the minor planets involved were made on only two nights at individual oppositions. | ||
| MPC 16247 | |
| 4113 | Rascana | 1982 BQ |
| 1982-01-18 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named to commemorate the centenary of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. Incorporated in 1890 under the name The Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto, the RASC received the Royal Charter in March 1903. Its Journal has been published continuously since Volume 1 in 1907. The members of the Society have always included both professional and amateur astronomers. The masthead of the Journal read "devoted to the advancement of astronomy and allied sciences." | ||
| MPC 16247 | |
| 4143 | Huziak | 1981 QN1 |
| 1981-08-29 by L. G. Taff at Socorro | ||
| Richard Huziak (b. 1957) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging interests, which he pursues with a 0.25-m telescope. He has been a most enthusiastic supporter of theRASC, Saskatoon Centre, as well as of the American Association of Variable Star Observers. | ||
| MPC 50461 | |
| 4230 | van den Bergh | 1973 ST1 |
| 1973-09-19 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Sidney van den Bergh (b. 1929), Dutch-born Canadian astronomer, former director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, B.C. He was president of IAU commission 50 from 1985 to 1988 and a vice president of the IAU during 1976-1982. | ||
| MPC 18307 | |
| 4276 | Clifford | 1981 XA |
| 1981-12-02 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Clifford J. Cunningham (b. 1955-10), Canadian amateur astronomer and writer, whose interest in minor planets has encompassed positional measurements and photometry. Cunningham's book "Introduction to Asteroids," published in 1988, has justifiably earned praise from both readers and reviewers. He has recently been working on a bibliographic database on minor planets that currently comprises more than 10,000 references dating back to the year 1789. | ||
| MPC 16248 | |
| 4340 | Dence | 1986 JZ |
| 1986-05-04 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Michael R. Dence, executive director of the Royal Society of Canada and formerly a geologist with the Dominion Observatory. Dence was a pioneer in the geologic investigation of ancient impact craters on the Canadian shield. He made one of the first good estimates of the cratering rate on the earth in Phanerozoic time from studies of impact structures in Canada and Europe. | ||
| MPC 17656 | |
| 4451 | Grieve | 1988 JJ |
| 1988-05-09 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Richard A. F. Grieve, geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada and chief of their geophysical surveys. Grieve is a leading investigator of impact craters on the earth and moon. He maintains the global census of recognized terrestrial impact structures and has spearheaded the effort to obtain reliable ages for these structures. He also has been a leader in classifying the impacting bodies on the basis of siderophile element abundance patterns in impact melt rocks. | ||
| MPC | |
| 4565 | Grossman | 1981 EZ17 |
| 1981-03-02 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Chairman of the Department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, Lawrence Grossman (b.1946) has spent his career studying calcium-aluminum inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrites. He was among the first to propose that these minerals condensed from gases in the early solar system. | ||
| MPC 41381 | |
| 4719 | Burnaby | 1990 WT2 |
| 1990-11-21 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro | ||
| Named for the city in British Columbia, Canada, with a population of 150,000. Burnaby and Kushiro, which are at almost the same latitude, have been sister cities since 1965 and exchange students and share cultural experiences with each other. | ||
| MPC 21132 | |
| 4789 | Sprattia | 1987 UU2 |
| 1987-10-20 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Christopher E. Spratt, an active amateur member of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada for 20 years, with special interests in comets, minor planets, meteors and variable stars. He has written numerous articles on these subjects, including some on Canadian meteorites, in the Journal of theRASC, and he has been of much practical help to the astrometric program carried out at the University of Victoria. Spratt maintains a carefully-chosen representative collection of meteorites and was coordinator for the northwest North American section of the Amateur Observation Network of the International Halley Watch. He has contributed more than 32,000 observations of long-period and semiregular variable stars and dwarf novae to the American Association of Variable Star Observers and in 1976 was the most prolific observer of that year. The Chant Medal of theRASC was bestowed upon him in 1988. Spratt holds an honours diploma in horticulture and, as a professional member of the gardening staff at the University of Victoria, does much to make the university a pleasant place in which to work. | ||
| MPC 18465 | |
| 4843 | Mégantic | 1990 DR4 |
| 1990-02-28 by H. Debehogne at La Silla | ||
| Named for Mont Mégantic, the largest observatory in Québec. Founded in 1978, its mission is to promote research in astrophysics, to train students and to promote astronomy in the local culture. The observatory is jointly operated by the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval. | ||
| MPC 32344 | |
| 5061 | McIntosh | 1988 DJ |
| 1988-02-22 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring | ||
| Named in honour of Bruce A. McIntosh (b. 1929) worked at the National Research Council of Canada. The radar meteor survey work he carried out withPeter Millman remains a benchmark. The Czech Academy of Science awarded him a special gold medal for fostering cooperative research on meteors. | ||
| MPC 43189 | |
| 5132 | Maynard | 1990 ME |
| 1990-06-22 by H. E. Holt at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Owen Eugene Maynard (b. 1924-10-27 in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada; d. 2000-07-15 in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) who played a major role in the achievement of the first manned landing on the moon. Maynard left school and worked as a boatbuilder and machinist before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, then worked at Avro Canada while earning an aeronautical engineering degree at theUniversity of Toronto. In 1960, Maynard joined NASA¹s Space Task Group, and was among the first to see the wisdom of using the lunar orbit rendezvous strategy to fly to the moon. Maynard helped design the Apollo spacecraft, oversaw the design of the command-service and lunar modules, and led the team that developed the complex lunar mission flight plans. As chief of the Systems Engineering Division from 1964 to 1970, he was responsible for all aspects of the construction and testing of the Apollo hardware. He planned the early Apollo test flights, including that of the first lunar landing, Apollo 11. Then from 1970 until his retirement in 1992, Maynard worked for Raytheon, Inc., and was an advocate for the use of satellites to collect solar power for use on earth. Maynard won two NASA Exceptional Service Medals and theUniversity of Toronto granted him an honorary doctor of engineering degree in 1996. Name proposed and official citation prepared by Randy Atwood. | ||
| MPC 27734 | |
| 5272 | Dickinson | 1981 QH2 |
| 1981-08-30 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Terence Dickinson (b. 1943), Canada's foremost popularizer of astronomy. Dickinson is the author of several books, notablyNightWatch,The Universe and Beyond,Exploring the Sky by Day andExploring the Night Sky, the last of which received the New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award in 1988. He reaches a wide Canadian audience every week with his astronomy column in The Toronto Star newspaper and on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation programs. From 1973 to 1975 he was editor of Astronomy magazine, and he has held scientific positions with the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, the Strasenburgh Planetarium in Rochester and the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto. Dickinson teaches astronomy at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario. | ||
| MPC 23138 | |
| 5424 | Covington | 1983 TN1 |
| 1983-10-12 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Arthur Covington (b. 1913), Canada's first radio astronomer. His discovery, during the partial solar eclipse of 1946-11-23, that microwave emission was far more intense from the vicinity of sunspots than elsewhere on the sun, was the first indicator that magnetic fields were important in the generation of nonthermal cosmic radio emission. In 1947 Covington inaugurated at the National Research Council of Canada daily measurements of the solar microwave flux at 10.7 cm. | ||
| MPC 23541 | |
| 5457 | Queen's | 1980 TW5 |
| 1980-10-09 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario. Founded by Royal Charter in 1841, its first classes were held the following spring. In more than 150 years Queen's has evolved to become one of Canada's strongest universities in many fields. The home ofA. Vibert Douglas, one of Canada's pioneering astronomers, Queen's has had a long tradition of support to professional and amateur astronomical groups. In 1994, David H.Levy received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Queen's University. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 24917 | |
| 5547 | Acadiau | 1980 LE1 |
| 1980-06-11 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Founded in 1838, Acadia U. has become one of Canada's finest liberal arts institutions. It is located near the Minas Basin, which boasts some of the most dramatic tides on the earth, and it is also located under some of Canada's darkest night skies. Acadia's academic excellence and small student population provide a fertile environment for a good undergraduate education. In 1995, David H.Levy received an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree from Acadia University. | ||
| MPC 24918 | |
| 5553 | Chodas | 1984 CM1 |
| 1984-02-06 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Paul W. Chodas (b. 1952 in London, Ontario, Canada), a member of the Solar System Dynamics Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His work has contributed to the understanding of cometary nongravitational forces, the use of radar data in asteroidal and cometary orbits, orbital error analyses, earth close approaches and impact probabilities. He developed the system that allowed the use of radar landmark data on the surface of Venus for improved orbital solutions of the Magellan spacecraft. | ||
| MPC 22831 | |
| 5621 | Erb | 1990 SG4 |
| 1990-09-23 by K. J. Lawrence at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Bryan Erb (b. 1931-04-12 in Calgary, Canada,) and Dona Marie Erb (née German, b. in Calgary, Canada), friends of the discoverer. Bryan studied at the University of Alberta and at Cranfield in the U.K. He joined Avro Canada in 1955, where he conducted aerothermodynamic analysis on the Arrow. During Project Mercury, he predicted the performance of the heatshield, and in 1960 became a member of the 8-person advanced vehicles team that laid the foundations for Apollo. Later he managed the development of the Apollo heatshield and oversaw that of other Apollo subsystems. After spending a year at MIT on a Sloan Fellowship, Erb became deputy manager and then manager of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. He joined NASA's remote sensing program in 1971, and later became Chief of the Earth Observations Division. After retiring from NASA in 1985 and working as a consultant, Erb became Canada's representative in Houston and Assistant Director of the Canadian Space Station Program. He later became manager of the Canadian Space Power Initiative and is now involved in promoting space solar power systems. Dona graduated in education at the University of Alberta, worked as a mathematics teacher, and lectured in computer science at the University of Houston until the early 1970s, when she began work as a computer programmer and manager working for Lockheed on the Shuttle Program and later for The MITRE Corporation, from which she retired as Lead Scientist in 1993. The Erbs, who were married in 1955, played an important role in generating the discoverer's interest in space physics. | ||
| MPC 25654; MPC 26599 | |
| 5661 | Hildebrand | 1977 PO1 |
| 1977-08-14 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj | ||
| This Hilda group member is named in honour of the well-known Canadian geologist Alan R. Hildebrand (b. 1955), who discovered that the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatan region resulted from an asteroid impact that coincided with the terminal Cretaceous extinctions. His linking of a "smoking gun" to a major extinction event in geologic history provided evidence of fundamental importance to the resolution of a centuries-old debate on the demise of the dinosaurs and the occurrence of catastrophes in the earth's history. Hildebrand also has been highly supportive of the asteroid research program at the University of Victoria. | ||
| MPC 24410 | |
| 5688 | Kleewyck | 1991 AD2 |
| 1991-01-12 by E. F. Helin at Palomar | ||
| The name Klee Wyck was given by Vancouver Island's coastal people to the famous Victoria artist Emily Carr on one of her many painting expeditions into the coastal wilderness in the early 1900s. The name in the Nuu-Chah-Nulth people's language translates to "the smiling one". The name was also used for the friendly orca that served as the official mascot to the fifteenth Commonwealth Games held in Victoria, British Columbia, 1994 Aug. 18-28. By way of compensation for a small and temporary amount of light interference during the games, the Victoria Commonwealth Games Society has been strongly supportive of the asteroid research program at the University of Victoria, and the name chosen for this asteroid reflects the gratitude of the university's astronomers to the society. | ||
| MPC 24410 | |
| 5899 | Jedicke | 1986 AH |
| 1986-01-09 by C.S. Shoemaker and E.M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of the Jedicke family. Peter Jedicke (b. 1955-06-15 in Wiesbaden, Germany), Robert Jedicke (b. 1963-01-30 inNiagara Falls, Canada), and June Jedicke-Zehr (b. 1966-03-17 inNiagara Falls, Canada) grew up inNiagara Falls, where they attendedJames C. Morden Elementary School, Princess Margaret Senior Elementary School andWestlane Secondary School. Peter and Robert did their undergraduate degrees in Physics at the University of Western Ontario in 1976 and 1984 respectively. Peter completed a Master's degree in Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in 1997 and Robert completed a Ph.D. in high-energy Physics at theUniversity of Toronto in 1992. Peter served as President of theRASC London Centre in 1977-78 and 1986-87, won theRASC Service Award in 1984, chaired the host committees for the 1979 and 2001 General Assemblies, was appointedRASC London Centre Honorary President in 1996 and served asRASC national Vice-President 2000-2004 and began a term as President in 2004. Robert played football for the University of Western Ontario Mustangs, winning theYates Cup in 1981 and 1982. From 1993 to 2002, Robert was with the Spacewatch project at the University of Arizona, first as an observer and then as a researcher. He worked on statistical analysis of the distribution of asteroids. In March, 2003, Robert joined the PanSTARRs project at the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii. June Jedicke-Zehr is an entrepreneur in New Hamburg, Ontario, and lives on a farm near Hickson, Ontario, the birthplace ofJohn Stanley Plaskett. The farm is host to the meteor radar project organized byPeter Brown. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 25444 | |
| 5953 | Shelton | 1987 HS |
| 1987-04-25 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Ian Shelton (b. Winnipeg, Manitoba), Canadian astronomer, best known for his discovery of the supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud on 1987 Feb. 24. During his four years as resident observer at theUniversity of Toronto Southern Observatory, he participated in programs with astronomers worldwide, and more recently he has generously contributed to the astronomical education of school children, parents and teachers. Name proposed and citation prepared by Dale McCormick. | ||
| MPC 31296 | |
| 5967 | Edithlevy | 1991 CM5 |
| 1991-02-09 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Edith Pailet Levy (b.1918), mother of the second discoverer. Born in New Orleans, she married Nathaniel Lewis Levy in 1939 and headed toMontreal to become one ofMcGill University's first women medical students. Levy excelled in hematology, but once her children were grown she went back to McGill to launch a career in genetics. She spent several years studying Alzheimer's patients atMontreal's Jewish Hospital of Hope. Name proposed and citation prepared by Carolyn Shoemaker, Gene Shoemaker and David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 24918 | |
| 6081 | Cloutis | 1981 EE35 |
| 1981-03-02 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring | ||
| Edward Cloutis (b.1958), professor at the University of Winnipeg, studies the spectra of mineral assemblages similar to those found on planetary surfaces. He studied at the University of Alberta and finished a Ph.D. in 1992 under Dorian Smith and was the first to derive a relationship between the olivine-orthopyroxene fraction and the ratio of silicate absorption bands in reflectance spectra. | ||
| MPC 46007 | |
| 6115 | Martinduncan | 1984 SR2 |
| 1984-09-25 by B. A. Skiff at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Martin J. Duncan (b.1950) ofQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Duncan has made several important contributions to the understanding of the origin and dynamical evolution of small bodies in the solar system, particularly comets and the likelihood that they originated in the Kuiper Belt. He has been involved in the development of two important numerical algorithms that have led to orbital integrations of unprecedented duration. | ||
| MPC 27461 | |
| 6204 | MacKenzie | 1981 JB3 |
| 1981-05-06 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Norman MacKenzie, a leading scholar of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Professor of English at the University of Rhodesia from 1954 to 1964, he has subsequently been atQueen's University in Canada. His works include co-editing the fourth edition of Hopkins' Poems (1967) and most recently the Oxford English Texts Poetical Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1990). MacKenzie has followed Hopkins' close observation of nature, especially astronomy, and has maintained an active interest in the sky throughout his life. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 24919 | |
| 6260 | Kelsey | 1949 PN |
| 1949-08-02 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg | ||
| Named in honor of Frances Oldham Kelsey (b.1914), research pharmacologist at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, D.C. Kelsey's prescient research led to the recognition that fetal malformation can result from drugs that appear harmless to adults. Her integrity as a scientist and as a citizen prevented the marketing of the sedative drug thalidomide in the United States, thereby preventing an occurrence of an alarming number of limbless infants being born, as happened in countries where the drug was marketed between the late 1950s and 1962. For this action, she received in 1962 the U.S. president's award for distinguished civilian service for (in the words of President John F. Kennedy) "sparing the nation a human tragedy". Name proposed and citation prepared by G. C. L. Aikman. | ||
| MPC 25654 | |
| 6532 | Scarfe | 1995 AC |
| 1995-01-04 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Colin D. Scarfe (b. 1940), professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria since 1965. President of Commission 30 (Radial Velocities) and of Division IX (Optical Techniques) of the IAU since 1994, Scarfe is an authority on spectroscopic and eclipsing binary stars and has made fundamental contributions to the very difficult problem of interpreting the radial-velocity curves of triple systems, as well as the determination of the orbits of systems that are simultaneously spectroscopic and eclipsing binary stars or spectroscopic and visual binary stars. This has led to the determination of stellar masses with unprecedented precision. | ||
| MPC 25980 | |
| 6714 | Montréal | 1990OE2 |
| 1990-07-29 by H. E. Holt at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of the city of Montréal, Canada. Host for the IAU General Assembly in 1979, Montreal has combined the best of English and French cultures since its founding in 1642. The city has a rich astronomical tradition, as can be seen in several outdoor works of art that emphasize the city's connection to the stars. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 42356 | |
| 6898 | Saint-Marys | 1988 LE |
| 1988-06-08 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., is Atlantic Canada's primary center for instruction, public relations and research in astronomy and astrophysics. The university, founded in 1802, is the site of the Burke-Gaffney Observatory, used for the detection of supernova 1995F, the first such discovery of an all-Canadian nature. | ||
| MPC 46101 | |
| 6901 | Roybishop | 1989 PA |
| 1989-08-02 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Roy L. Bishop, retired professor of physics atAcadia University, Nova Scotia. From 1981 until 2001, Bishop edited the Observer's Handbook of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, a vital reference for professional and amateur astronomers. Bishop is also known for his unique photographs, especially one of a double rainbow over Isaac Newton's birthplace. | ||
| MPC 30477 | |
| 6904 | McGill | 1990 QW1 |
| 1990-08-22 by H. E. Holt at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of one of Canada's oldest and most highly regarded universities, located inMontreal. McGill was founded in 1821 and enjoys a first-rate reputation. Once home to humourist Stephen Leacock and physicist Ernest Rutherford, the university has done pioneering research both on the earth in medicine and in space through its department of earth and planetary sciences. Name proposed and official citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 42356 | |
| 7124 | Glinos | 1990 OJ4 |
| 1990-07-24 by H. E. Holt at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Canadian amateur astronomer Tom Glinos (b. 1960-02-12 in London, Canada), who has contributed observations in several fields for almost a quarter of a century. In 2000, Glinos donated a high-quality equatorial telescope mount to theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre, a group with which he has been long active and of which he was President in 1983. Name proposed and official citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 42356 | |
| 7317 | Cabot | 1940 ED |
| 1940-03-12 by G. Kulin at Budapest | ||
| Named in honour of Giovanni Caboto or John Cabot (1449/50-1498/99), who made the first recorded landfall in North America since the Norse voyages. Genoese by birth and Venetian by citizenship, Cabot moved to England in 1484, apparently motivated by his idea of reaching Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic. In 1497 he and his crew of 18 sailed from Bristol in a tiny vessel, the "Matthew", arriving off Newfoundland on June 24, after which he explored the coast southward to Nova Scotia. His account of the sea swarming with fish led to great interest in the rich fishery around the "New found land." Named to commemorate 500 years of continued contact between Europe and Canada. | ||
| MPC 30101 | |
| 7638 | Gladman | 1984 UX |
| 1984-10-26 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Brett Gladman (b.1966-04-19 in Wetaskawin, Alberta), a Canadian astronomer and dynamicist who studied at the University of Alberta, Queen's University (with Martin Duncan, Cornell University. Gladman has made important contributions to modeling the dynamical evolution of near-earth objects and the transport of meteorites, including those from the moon and Mars. Gladman has also carried out observational surveys of transneptunian objects and in 1997 was codiscoverer of the two irregular satellites of Uranus. Since then, he has helped discover a number of irregular satellites of the giant planets. Seehis home page. | ||
| MPC 35486 | |
| 7840 | Hendrika | 1994 TL3 |
| 1994-10-05 by G. C. L. Aikman at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Hendrika Cornelia Marshall Aikman (née Grootendorst), beloved wife of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 31027 | |
| 7886 | Redman | 1993 PE |
| 1993-08-12 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in memory of Roderick Oliver Redman (b. 1905, d. 1975), professor of astronomy and longtime director of the University of Cambridge Observatories, and in honour of Russell Ormond Redman (b. 1951), a radio astronomer on the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. The senior Redman established a lifelong association with the DAO when he obtained the observational material for his doctoral thesis there; he became renowned for his superlative observational techniques and designs for astronomical instrumentation. The junior Redman, whose association with the DAO began as a summer student assistant in 1970, has pioneered the study of minor planets at submillimeter wavelengths and is an authority in using the thermal emission spectra to study their surfaces. | ||
| MPC 32095 | |
| 8564 | Anomalocaris | 1995UL3 |
| 1995-10-17 by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at Nachi-Katsuura | ||
| Named in honour of Anomalocaris, a large carnivorous arthropod, which was one of the many uniquely shaped multicellular creatures that appeared during the Cambrian explosion. The fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The name was suggested by I. Makino. | ||
| MPC 36128) | |
| 8785 | Boltwood | 1978 RR1 |
| 1978-09-05 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj | ||
| Named in honour of Paul Boltwood (b. 1943-11-04 in Vancouver, British Columbia), a Canadian specialist in computer systems and outstanding amateur astronomer. Boltwood earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, won the Chant Medal of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1995, and won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2000. He monitored the peculiar object OJ 287 for some two years, and has done large amounts of photometry of other blazars. He made a movie of the nucleus of comet Hyakutake and he also obtained deep-sky CCD images with limiting magnitude 24.5 using a home-built 0.4-m reflector. His observatory outside Ottawa is a marvel of amateur astronomical technology. | ||
| MPC 41384 | |
| 8875 | Fernie | 1992 UP10 |
| 1992-10-22 by E. Bowell at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of J. Donald Fernie (b. 1933-), professor emeritus of astronomy at theUniversity of Toronto and former director of the David Dunlap Observatory. Fernie is known for his work on variable stars, galactic structure, photoelectric photometry, and the history of astronomy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. | ||
| MPC 41936 | |
| 9070 | Ensab | 1993 OZ2 |
| 1993-07-23 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Leo Enright (b. 1943-) and Denise Sabatini (b. 1950-), of Ontario, one of the foremost couples in Canadian amateur astronomy. Leo is an accomplishedsolar and auroral observer and has written theRoyal AstronomicalSociety of Canada'sBeginner's Observing Guide. Denise's interestscenter on archeoastronomy and in providing access to astronomy for thedisabled. | ||
| MPC 36947 | |
| 9631 | Hubertreeves | 1993SL6 |
| 1993-09-17 by E. W. Elst at La Silla | ||
| Named in honour of Hubert Reeves, a professional astronomer at the French CNRS, who has become known worldwide for his popularization of astronomy through his many books and lectures on radio and television. | ||
| MPC 36128 | |
| 9995 | Alouette | 4805 P-L |
| 1960-09-24 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar. | ||
| Named in honour of the first Canadian satellite. Alouette-1 was launched on 1962-09-29. It was engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere, especially the ionosphere. During its six-year lifespan it returned the first useful data on the ionosphere. | ||
| MPC 41571 | |
| 10060 | Amymilne | 1988 GL |
| 1988-04-12 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar | ||
| Amy Rae Milne (1982- ), a vibrant, energetic, young Canadian woman who has dedicated herself to creating happiness for others, has led her life with spirit. A love of science and its relationship to understanding and preserving our environment has brought her national recognition. | ||
| MPC 46010 | |
| 10332 | Défi | 1991 JT1 |
| 1991-05-13 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Défi Corporatif Canderel, a fundraising event for cancer research programs at universities inMontreal. Founded by Jonathan Wener, the event has been directed by Gerald Levy since its inception in 1990. It features a costumed run through the streets ofMontreal and has raised more than three million dollars. | ||
| MPC 36949 | |
| 10870 | Gwendolen | 1996 SY4 |
| 1996-09-25 by G. C. L. Aikman at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Mary Gwendolen Ellery Read Aikman (b. 1903, d. 1994), an inspiring educator and mother of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 41938 | |
| 11955 | Russrobb | 1994 CA1 |
| 1994-02-08 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Russell M. Robb (b. 1952-), astronomer at the University of Victoria, who played the leading role in automating the university's 0.5-m telescope and equipping it with a CCD camera. The telescope has been used extensively in the university's observational programs, including astrometric work on comets and minor planets. | ||
| MPC 38201 | |
| 11980 | Ellis | 1995 SP8 |
| 1995-09-17 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Kerry Ellis (b.1965-09-21 in Sudbury, Canada), who did undergraduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada, and focused on communications in graduate school atQueen's University in Kingston, Canada. At the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, Ellis did a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and specialized in meteor burst communication. Ellis worked as chief engineer on the international Leonid Storm monitoring project at the Meteor Physics Labat the University of Western Ontario from 1997 to 2002. In 2003, accepted a technical position at Ball Aerospace in Canberra, Australia. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45337 | |
| 11997 | Fassel | 1995 YU9 |
| 1995-12-18 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of amateur astronomers Deborah Elizabeth Fassel (b. 1950-07-03 in Elmira, New York) and Charles Sebastian Fassel (b. 1955-04-30 in Toronto, Canada), who now live in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Charlie's interest in rockets and the space program began during the Mercury program, when he was 7 years old. Drawn as well to astronomy, Charlie is an active observer of planets and Messier objects. Charlie was President of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, Niagara Centre, in 1979-1980, in 1983-1984 and again in 1992-1993. Charlie has taught classes about astronomy and space exploration at the Niagara South Board of Education and the Buffalo Museum of Science, and appeared on television programs in Buffalo. Debby's interest in astronomy stemmed from her father, who worked on the mirror for the 5m telescope while an employee at Corning Glass Works. Debby is a life member of the National Space Society, and has served as editor of "Niagara Whirlpool," the newsletter of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, Niagara Centre. Tireless promoters of astronomy, they were married in 1982. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45337 | |
| 12001 | Gasbarini | 1996 ED9 |
| 1996-03-12 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Ron Gasbarini (b. 1960-09-22 in St. Catharines, Canada), an amateur astronomer whose interest was inspired by the Apollo missions in the late 1960s. An avid observer, Gasbarini is keen on lunar and planetary observing as well as deep skyobjects and photography. He is also interested in astronomical software. Gasbarini joined theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, Niagara Centre, in 1973 and was Secretary from 1979 to 1985. He founded both the club's Observer's Group and newsletter, "The Whirlpool," in 1980 and was editor from 1982 until 1987. Then in 1990-1991, Gasbarini served as President of theRASC Niagara Centre and in 1995 won theRASC Service Award. He created the Niagara Centre's web site in 1994 and served as National Council Representative for several yearsduring the 1990s and up to 2002. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45337 | |
| 12014 | Bobhawkes | 1996VX15 |
| 1996-11-05 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Robert Lewis Hawkes (b. 1951-09-12 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada), professor of physics at Mount Allison University since 1981 and Head of the Physics Department from 2000 to 2003. Hawkes became interested in astronomy as a teenager and studied withJim Jones at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1979 for work on the dustball theory of meteoroids. He was among the first to propose that meteoroids were held together with a volatile "glue" and he has been involved in the computation of meteoroid orbits from fortuitously gathered video observations such as the Peekskill meteor in 1992. An exceptional teacher, Hawkes has been awarded the 3M Teaching Fellow Award and numerous other citations. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 44594 | |
| 12050 | Humecronyn | 1997 HE14 |
| 1997-04-27 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Hume Cronyn (b.1864-08-28 in London, Canada, d.1933-06-19). Cronyn received a B.A. in 1882 and an LL.B. in 1889 from theUniversity of Toronto and served in the Canadian military during the North-West Rebellion. He was a member of Parliament in Ottawa during World War I. Later, Cronyn rose to the rank of Major in the City of London Regiment. Cronyn worked from 1889 to 1907 in his father's law firm, then was appointed manager of the Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation, and was President of that company from 1926 until 1933. Huron and Erie Mortgage Corporation eventually became Canada Trust and is now TD Canada Trust. In 1920, Cronyn was chair of a committee of the Canadian government that recommended the establishment of Canada's National Research Council, which has supported all branches of science in Canada ever since. After his death, his widow, Frances (née Labatt), donated funds for the construction of the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory on the campus of the University of Western Ontario, featuring a 25cm refractor, which was opened in 1940 and is still in use today. Cronyn's fifth child, Hume Cronyn, Junior, achieved fame as an actor on stage and screen. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45337 | |
| 12125 | Jamesjones | 1999 RS4 |
| 1999-09-03 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of James Jones (b. 1939-07-03 in Oldham, U.K.), professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, since 1966. Jones became interested in meteors and astronomy while attending graduate school at Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. He completed his Ph.D. in 1966 under Tom Kaiser. Jones pioneered the video observation of meteors, created a large-scale catalogue of video meteor orbits and performed early physical studies, both modeling and observational, on small meteoroids. In the area of radar meteor research, Jones studied the theoretical scattering of radio waves from meteor trails for both backscatter and forward scatter systems, and invented the single-station radar radiant mapping technique. Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45234 | |
| 12225 | Yanfernández | 1985 PQ |
| 1985-08-14 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Yanga (Yan) Roland Fernández (b. 1971-06-10 in Mississauga, Ontario) grew up in New York City, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and went to high school in Ft. Myers, Florida. After undergraduate studies at Caltech, Yan received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1999. As a student in 1994, he helped maintain one of the first email lists used by astronomers to communicate news about a fast-breaking event, the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter. From 1999 to 2005, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii, then accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. When not at work on physical properties and evolution of asteroids and comets,Yan likes to go cycling or play soccer. | ||
| MPC 44110 | |
| 12317 | Madicampbell | 1992 HH1 |
| 1992-04-24 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Margaret Diane Campbell (b. 1976-03-07 in Montreal, Canada), whose interest in astronomy began when she was a young girl. Campbell did undergraduate studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, and completed her Ph.D. in 2002 at the University of Western Ontario underJim Jones. Campbell's research interests include video meteor observations as well as multi-frequency radar observations of meteor trails. Campbell andPeter Brown were married 2002-06-22. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45748 | |
| 12343 | Martinbeech | 1993 DT1 |
| 1993-02-26 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Martin Beech (b. 1959-01-11 in Fladbury, England), Assistant Professor of Astronomy, since 1996, at Campion College, the University of Regina, Canada. Beech has been interested in meteors since his earliest schoolboy days. After a Master's degree from the University of Sussex, in Brighton, United Kingdom, Beech earned his Ph.D. in astronomy at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and then worked withJim Jones andPeter Brown in the Meteor Physics Lab there. Beech's research interests include meteor light curves, the dynamics of meteoroid streams, cometary ageing and meteoroid stream formation. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 44594 | |
| 12382 | Niagara Falls | 1994 SO5 |
| 1994-09-28 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named for the thundering cataract on the Niagara River between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. Father Louis Hennepin was the first European traveler to describe the cataract, in 1678. Queenston Heights and Lundy's Lane, not far from the Falls, were the sites of significant battles during the War of 1812. Eponymous twin cities in the United States and Canada flank the mighty river and are known as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Since the beginning of the 20th century, hydroelectric power generation has been a major operation along the river. Niagara Falls, Canada, is the birthplace of the two youngerJedicke siblings. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 44594 | |
| 12386 | Nikolova | 1994 UK5 |
| 1994-10-28 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Simona Rumenova Nikolova (b. 1971-06-24 in Shumen, Bulgaria), who became interested in astronomy as a teenager and enthusiastically calculated empheris data for comets using graphical techniques while working for the Royal Astronomical Observatory in Sofia, Bulgaria. Nikolova did undergraduate work at the University of Regina in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, and was working on a Ph.D. in 2001 at the University of Western Ontario underJim Jones. Nikolova's research interests included modelling interplanetary dust and the effect of gravitational perturbations on interplanetary dust and comets. Nikolova recently took a position at the Robarts Research Institute in London, Ontario. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45338 | |
| 12397 | Peterbrown | 1995FV14 |
| 1995-03-27 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Peter Gordon Brown (b. 1970-10-09 in Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada). Inspired by Canadian scientistsPeter Millman andIan Halliday, Brown took a keen interest in meteors as a teenager. After his undergraduate years at the University of Alberta, Brown studied withJim Jones at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, where his Ph.D. thesis on the Leonid meteoroid stream won thePlaskett Medal, jointly awarded by theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada and the Canadian Astronomical Society. He was closely involved with analysis of the Peekskill meteor, recovery of the St. Robert meteorite fall, and analysis and recovery of the Tagish Lake meteorites. Selected by Maclean's magazine as an outstanding young Canadian to watch in the 21st century, Brown was appointed to the faculty in the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Western Ontario in 2000 and spent 2001 doing infrasound studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Brown andMargaret Campbell were married 2002-06-22. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 44594 | |
| 12423 | Slotin | 1995 UQ16 |
| 1995-10-17 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Louis Alexander Slotin (b. 1910-12-10 in Winnipeg, Canada, d. 1946-05-30 in Los Alamos, New Mexico), the first undergraduate student at the University of Manitoba to score perfect marks in chemistry and physics. Slotin earned his Ph.D. fromKing's College in London, United Kingdom, where his work in radiology helped establish radiation therapy as part of the arsenal of modern medicine. In the late 1930s, Slotin continued his work on the physics of the atomic nucleus with Enrico Fermi at theUniversity of Chicago. As a result of an accident on 1946-05-21 at the Los Alamos laboratory, Slotin received a lethal dose of radiation, but used his body to shield his co-workers. To provide medical data on the effects of radiation, he insisted that doctorscarefully monitor his deteriorating health during the nine days before he died. He is buried in Winnipeg and a city park is named after him. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45338 | |
| 12431 | Webster | 1995 YY10 |
| 1995-12-18 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named in honour of Alan Reginald Webster (b. 1939-04-03 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, London, Canada since 1970. Webster completed his Ph.D.in 1963 at Sheffield University under Tom Kaiser. Webster's interest in astronomy was sparked by reading the works of Fred Hoyle. Webster was a professor at the University of East Africa in Nairobi, Kenya from 1964 to 1967, and then at the University of West Indies, from 1967 to 1970. Webster's research interests include meteor astronomy, meteor burst communications and microwave propagation and he served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Webster is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45338 | |
| 12437 |
| 1996BN6 |
| 1996-01-18 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named for Westlane Secondary School, located inNiagara Falls, Canada. When founded in 1960, its location was near the western boundary of the city, just off Lundy's Lane, one of the city's main transportation arteries. The first principal of Westlane was Wilfred E. Dewar, a true gentleman who inspired the students of the school with calm eloquence. Dewar chose green and white as the school's colors and the Spartans as the school mascot. English teacher Peter Lannon established a reputation for student musical and dramatic presentations at Westlane in the 1960s and 1970s. In the 1990s Westlane won three consecutive district senior football championships. TheJedicke siblings were students at Westlane between 1968 and 1984. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45338 | |
| 12447 | Yatescup | 1996 XA12 |
| 1996-12-04 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak | ||
| Named for the Yates Cup, a trophy awarded in the autumn of every year to the winner of the Ontario (Canada) Universities Athletics football championship. Founded by Henry Brydges Yates ofMcGill University and first presented in 1898, it is the oldest football trophy that has been contested continually, although it was suspended during both World Wars. Up to the year 2001, the Yates Cup had been won 26 times each by the University of Western Ontario and theUniversity of Toronto.The complete list of winners can befound here. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 45338 | |
| 12513 | Niven | 1998 HC20 |
| 1998-04-27 by P. G. Comba at Prescott | ||
| Named in honour of Ivan M. Niven (b. 1915, d. 1999), a Canadian-U.S. mathematician who worked mainly in number theory. In 1943 he completed the proof of Waring's conjecture, a conjecture formulated in 1770 to the effect that every positive integer is the sum of a finite number of n-th powers of integers. | ||
| MPC 38202 | |
| 12566 | Derichardson | 1998 SH54 |
| 1998-09-16 by the LONEOS at Anderson Mesa | ||
| Named in honour of Derek Charles Richardson (b. 1968-02-01 in Vancouver, British Columbia), an expert on computational techniques who has made major contributions to the study of rubble piles, particularly their tidal distortion and their collisions. Richardson uses the n-body problem to investigate how asteroids interact, and how comets, planetary rings and planets form. The focus of his work involves combining gravity and collisional dynamics. Richardson did his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia and received a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom in 1993. Richardson spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, then three more years as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington in Seattle, followed by another year there as a research assistant professor. In 2000, Richardson accepted a position as assistant professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. The name was suggested by M. F. A'Hearn and P. Michel. | ||
| MPC 46107 | |
| 13057 | Jorgenson | 1990 VF8 |
| 1990-11-13 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Carl Jorgensen (b. 1948-), a well-known amateur astronomer fromMontreal. In the 1960s he chaired the Double Star Section of the Montreal Centre of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, and was editor of the Center's newsletter, Skyward. Jorgensen has worked atMcGill University for many years. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 41572 | |
| 13111 | Papacosmas | 1993 OW1 |
| 1993-07-23 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| Named in honour of Constantine Papacosmas (b. 1939-) an accomplished amateur astronomer inMontreal who has guided thousands of people to learn the night sky. The telescopes he has constructed are among the finest in Canada, including a refractor that won an award at Stellafane in 1979. Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy. | ||
| MPC 41572 | |
| 13405 | Dorisbillings | 1999 ST1 |
| 1999-09-21 by Gary W. Billings at Calgary | ||
| Named in honour of Doris Billings, née Dora Kawchuk (b. 1925-), mother of the discoverer. Some of his earliest memories are of her fascination with space. | ||
| MPC 42362 | |
| 13693 | Bondar | 1997 TW15 |
| Discovered 1997-10-04 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Roberta Lynn Bondar (1945- ), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-42 and has inspired the interest of young Canadians in science. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49098 | |
| 13700 | Connors | 1998 MM36 |
| Discovered 1998-06-26 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Martin Gerard Connors (1954- ), an associate professor at Athabasca University since 1996, was appointed Canada Research Chair in Space Science, Instrumentation and Networking in 2002. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49098 | |
| 13745 | Mikecosta | 1998 SL42 |
| Discovered 1998-09-28 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Mike Costa (1954- ) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with wide-ranging observing interests, which he pursues with a 0.25-m Newtonian telescope. Costa has been an enthusiastic supporter of the activities of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49098 | |
| 13806 | Darmstrong | 1998 XM6 |
| Discovered 1998-12-08 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Dale Henry Armstrong (b.1962-03-15 in Toronto) is a Canadian amateur astronomer with keen observing skills. A member of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada since 1975, Armstrong earned a B.A. in 1985 in Geography from the University of Western Ontario, an M.Sc. in 1990 from the University of Guelph, and a B.Ed. in 1991 from Mount Allison University, then taught geography in high school in the Barrie, Ontario, area. In 2001, he began work toward a Ph.D. in political geography at Carleton University. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49098 | |
| 13808 | Davewilliams | 1998 XG24 |
| Discovered 1998-12-11 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Dafydd (Dave) Rhys Williams (b.1954-05-16 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,) flew on space shuttle mission STS-90 after being selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1992. Williams did his formal studies at McGill University, including an M.D. He has focussed on medical aspects of space flight. As a physician, he has focused on medical aspects of space flight. The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49098 | |
| 13822 | Stevedodson | 1999 VV17 |
| Discovered 1999-11-02 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Steve Dodson (b.1943) did graduate work in nuclear physics at the University of Ottawa in the 1960s,then taught high school in northern Ontario. From 1982 to 1992, he was on the staff at Science North, in Sudbury. Beginning in 1994, he made thousands of small "Stargazer Steve" telescopes. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14026 | Esquerdo | 1994 ST7 |
| Discovered 1994-09-28 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Gil Esquerdo (b.1976), a research assistant at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, spent 2002 as a research assistant for the Near-Earth-Asteroid Physical Study project at the University of Western Ontario. A keen observer, Esquerdo is also presents the night sky to guests at a bed and breakfast inn in Arizona. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14060 | Patersonewen | 1996 BM5 |
| Discovered 1996-01-18 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Paterson Ewen (1925-2002) was an artist who studied geology before beginning a career as a teacher at a high school in London, Ontario, and then at the University of Western Ontario. Celestial objects were among his many themes. Name proposed by John Hatch; citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14065 | Flegel | 1996 EY5 |
| Discovered 1996-03-11 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Mike Flegel (b. 1955-02-12), an amateur astronomer and life member of theRASC, London Centre, edited the London Centre's newsletter in the late 1970s. Since 1998, he has worked as a networking consultant. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14071 | Gadabird | 1996 JK13 |
| Discovered 1996-05-11 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Bonnie Bird (b.1947- ) and Andreas Gada (b.1952- ) are amateur astronomers in Toronto who were married in 1982. It is because of their hard work and leadership that the annual "Starfest" event has become such a tremendous success since it was first held in 1982. Both are active in the North York Astronomical Association, and Bird began work as Executive Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1997. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14092 | Gaily | 1997 MC8 |
| Discovered 1997-06-29 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| T. Dean Gaily (b.1934) was an acclaimed professor in the physics department at the University of Western Ontario from 1969 to 1998 and did research in laser spectroscopy. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14094 | Garneau | 1997 OJ1 |
| Discovered 1997-07-28 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Marc Garneau (b.1949-02 in Quebec City, Quebec,) was the first Canadian in space and was appointed president of the Canadian Space Agency in 2001. He flew on space shuttle missions STS-41G, STS-77 and STS-97. The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14143 | Hadfield | 1998 SQ18 |
| Discovered 1998-09-18 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Chris Austin Hadfield (b.1959-08-29, in Sarnia, Ontario), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1992, flew on space shuttle missions STS-74 and STS-100. The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14146 | Hughmaclean | 1998 SP42 |
| Discovered 1998-09-28 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Hugh Noel Alexander Maclean (1915-2003) was an amateur astronomer in St. Catharines, Ontario, who helped found theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, Niagara Centre, in 1960. President of the Niagara Centre during 1966-1968 and 1978-1979, he inspired a generation of young members. He was employed as a shipping foreman. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14148 | Jimchamberlin | 1998 SO45 |
| Discovered 1998-09-25 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| James Arthur Chamberlin (1915-1981) worked on Avro Aircraft's Jetliner and Arrow projects, then moved to NASA and was involved with the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs. Name proposed and information provided by Chris Gainor; citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14163 | Johnchapman | 1998 TY20 |
| Discovered 1998-10-13 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| John Herbert Chapman (1921-1979) began his career researching radio propagation and the ionosphere. He worked on the Alouette, ISIS and Hermes satellite projects and was known as the "Father of the Canadian Space Program." Name proposed and information provided by Chris Gainor; citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14164 | Hennigar | 1998 TH29 |
| Discovered 1998-10-15 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Donald M. Hennigar (1887-1951) was an amateur telescope maker and active member of theRASC, London Centre. He served as vice president of the London Centre during 1936-1938. He was staff architect with the London Life Insurance Company. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14203 | Hocking | 1998 YT20 |
| Discovered 1998-12-25 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Wayne Keith Hocking (1955- ) has studied atmospheric and radar physics and constructed radar systems. He joined the faculty at the University of Western Ontario in 1991. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14274 | Landstreet | 2000 BL21 |
| Discovered 2000-01-29 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| John Darlington Landstreet (1940- ) is on the faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He helped discover magnetic fields in white dwarf stars and developed Balmer-line polarimetry for detection of magnetic fields in middle-main sequence stars. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14424 | Laval | 1991 SR3 |
| Discovered 1991-09-30 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Located in Québec City, Université Laval was founded as the Séminaire de Québec in 1663 by Monseigneur François de Laval, the first bishop of New France. Granted a royal charter in 1852, it was the first institution in North America to offer higher education in French. Name proposed by Yvan Dutil; citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14428 | Lazaridis | 1991 VM12 |
| Discovered 1991-11-08 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Mike Lazaridis (1961- ) founded a technology company specializing in mobile communications, in Waterloo, Ontario, in 1984. In 2000, he organized the Perimeter Institute, dedicated to pure research in physics and cosmology. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14438 | MacLean | 1992 HC2 |
| Discovered 1992-04-27 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Steven Glenwood MacLean (1954-12-14 in Ottawa, Ontario,) was selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, is an expert in laser physics and space vision systems. He was Guest of Honor at the 1984 General Assembly of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, in Hamilton, Ontario, and flew on space shuttle mission STS-52.The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49099 | |
| 14463 | McCarter | 1993 GA1 |
| Discovered 1993 Apr. 15 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| David Graham McCarter (1946- ), an amateur astronomer in London, Ontario, is an indefatigable observer and a respected telescope maker who served as president of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre, beginning in 2000. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14502 | Morden | 1995 WB22 |
| Discovered 1995-11-17 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| James C. Morden (1869-1944) was an historian, educator and author in Stamford Township (now Niagara Falls), Ontario. Morden also had an active local political career as a member of Stamford Township Council, and a public school was named for him in 1952. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14574 | Payette | 1998 QR58 |
| Discovered 1998-08-30 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Julie Payette (b.1963-10-20 in Montreal, Quebec,) has been a member of the Canadian astronaut corps since 1992 and flew on space shuttle mission STS-96. She has worked on robotics for the NASA astronaut office.The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14595 | Peaker | 1998 SW32 |
| Discovered 1998-09-23 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Brian Ronald Peaker (1959- ) is a competitive rower from London, Ontario, who represented Canada with distinction at numerous international events. Peaker and his crew mates won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in the Czech Republic. Name proposed and citation prepared by Kerry Ellis, Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14619 | Plotkin | 1998 UF9 |
| Discovered 1998 Oct. 16 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Howard Plotkin (1941- ) is a historian of science who joined the faculty at the University of Western Ontario and focused on astronomy. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14654 | Rajivgupta | 1998 YV16 |
| Discovered 1998-12-22 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Rajiv Gupta (1958- ) is a mathematician who has been a faculty member at the University of British Columbia since 1984. He has edited the Observer's Handbook of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada since 2001 and began a term as president of the Society in 2002. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14697 | Ronsawyer | 2000 AO214 |
| Discovered 2000-01-06 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Ron Sawyer (1955- ) is an amateur astronomer who is active in theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre, and edited the London Centre's newsletter in the late 1970s. He helped organize the Society's General Assemblies in London, Ontario, in 1979 and 2001. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14698 | Scottyoung | 2000 AT230 |
| Discovered 2000-01-03 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Scott Douglas Young (1971- ), of the Manitoba Planetarium in Winnipeg, was director of the Alice G. Wallace Planetarium in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, during 1996-1999. An active member of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, he began a term as Second Vice-President in 2002. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14724 | SNO | 2000 CA100 |
| Discovered 2000-02-10 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is a sensitive detector built under about 2 km of rock in a mine near Sudbury, Ontario. Completed in 1998, SNO consists of photomultiplier tubes around heavy water. In 2001 the SNO collaboration announced evidence that neutrinos oscillate. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14937 | Thirsk | 1995 CP3 |
| Discovered 1995-02-01 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Robert Brent Thirsk (b.1953-08-17 in New Westminster, British Columbia,), selected as a Canadian astronaut in 1983, flew on space shuttle mission STS-78. The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14959 | TRIUMF | 1996 JT3 |
| Discovered 1996-05-09 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| The Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) is a major high-energy physics laboratory in Vancouver, British Columbia. Opened in 1974, the laboratory involves eleven Canadian universities and offers researchers and cancer therapists a variety of beams, including protons and mesons, from its cyclotron. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14988 | Tryggvason | 1997 UA7 |
| Discovered 1997 Oct. 25 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Bjarni Tryggvason (b.1945-09-21 in Reykjavik, Iceland,) was raised in Canada, and flew on space shuttle mission STS-85. His expertise relates to stable microgravity platforms. The Canadian Space Agency's website has anofficial biography. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14989 | Tutte | 1997 UB7 |
| Discovered 1997-10-25 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| William Tutte (1918-2002), an expert in combinatorics, was a faculty member at the University of Toronto for 14 years and then joined the faculty of the University of Waterloo in 1962. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 14994 | Uppenkamp | 1997 UW18. |
| Discovered 1997-10-28 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| Wolfgang Uppenkamp (b.1953-03-30 in Düsseldorf, Germany,) teaches literature in English and German at the Pascal-Gymnasium in Grevenbroich, North-Rhine Westphalia. He uses innovative media to inspire his students. In the academic year 1974-1975, Uppenkamp was an exchange student at the University of Western Ontario in the Department of Modern Languages and Literature. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke. | ||
| MPC 49100 | |
| 15045 | Walesdymond | 1998 XY21 |
| Discovered 1998-12-10 by the Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | ||
| William Wales (1734-98) and Joseph Dymond (1746-1796) were two young Yorkshire men sent to the shores of Hudson Bay by the Royal Society of London to observe the transit of Venus on 1769 June 3. They stayed for over a year at Fort Prince of Wales, near modern-day Churchill, Manitoba. They had worked under the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, who recommended them for the transit expedition. In 1765, Wales married Mary Green, sister of Charles Green who was the astronomer on James Cook's expedition to observe the transit at Tahiti. Wales was the astronomer on Cook's second and third voyages. About 1780, Wales became mathematical master at Christ's Hospital in London where he was a popular teacher of navigation for the rest of his life. He wrote a number of papers and books, mainly relating to navigation and was appointed to the Board of Longitude in 1795. Nothing is known of Dymond's career after 1769. Name proposed and citation prepared by Peter Jedicke and Robert Jedicke, with additional information kindly provided by Peter Broughton. | ||
| MPC 49101 | |
| (16037) | Sheehan | 1999 GX8 |
| Dr. William Sheehan is a practicing psychiatrist, keen amateur astronomer, and well-known author. His first book,Planets & Perception (1988), was selected as a book of the year by the ASP; his second,Worlds in the Sky, was in 1992. His biography of the greatest observer of all time, "The Immortal Fire Within: The Life and Work of Edward Emerson Barnard, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1995 and is a fascinating read. He has solved several long-standing puzzles in the history of astronomy, and in 2005 was working on a biography of W.W. Morgan. In addition, Dr. Sheehan is a well-known Mars observer, with a keen interest in the history and interpretation of Martian "canals." He was named an Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on 2005-02-26. | ||
| MPC | |
| 16666 | Liroma | 1993 XL1 |
| 1993-12-07 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar. | ||
| Named in honour of the Meier family, amateur astronomers who live near Ottawa, Ontario. Linda (b. 1950-) is an active observer. Between 1978 and 1984, Rolf (b. 1953-) discovered four comets and has recently built an observatory. Son Matthew (b. 1985-) hasjoined theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada, Ottawa Centre. | ||
| MPC 41941 | |
| 18560 | Coxeter | 1997 EO7 |
| 1997-03-07 by P. G. Comba at Prescott | ||
| Named in honour of Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (b. 1907- ), an English-Canadian mathematician and former professor at theUniversity of Toronto. He has been a prolific writer on intuitively simple geometric problems, such as the classification of polytopes and the tiling of the plane with convex polygons.More info. | ||
| MPC 42367 | |
| 20106 | Morton | 1995 QG |
| 1995-08-20 by David D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Donald C. Morton (b. 1933-), director of the Anglo-Australian Observatory during 1976-1986 and of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Ottawa during 1986-2000. With a rocket he made the first ultraviolet spectral observations of stars. He played a leading role in the development of the Gemini Observatory. | ||
| MPC 42368 | |
| 20789 | Hughgrant | 2000 SU44 |
| 2000-09-28 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills | ||
| Named in honour of Hugh M. Grant (b. 1933), a retired educator and businessman from Vancouver and a member of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Canada. He recently completed construction of a roll-off roof observatory at his winter home in Fountain Hills, Arizona. | ||
| MPC 43193 | |
| (20818) | Karmadiraju | 2000 TQ54 |
| 2000-10-01 by LINEAR at Socorro | ||
| Kartik Madiraju (b.1989) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his environmental science project. He attends the Centennial Regional High School, Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada. | ||
| MPC 53310 | |
| (20855) | Arifawan | 2000 VV27 |
| 2000-11-11 by LINEAR at Socorro | ||
| Arif Awan (b.1987) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his medicine and health team project. He attends the Wagar High School, Cote St. Luc, Quebec, Canada. | ||
| MPC 53312 | |
| (20856) | Hamzabari | 2000 VT28 |
| 2000-11-11 by LINEAR at Socorro | ||
| Hamza Bari (b.1987) was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his medicine and health team project. He attends the Wagar High School, Cote St. Luc, Quebec, Canada. | ||
| MPC 53312 | |
| (20883) | Gervais | 2000 VD58 |
| 2000-11-03 by the LINEAR at Socorro | ||
| Raphael Gervais (b.1987) was awarded first place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his physics team project. He also received the MILSET Expo-Science Europe award. He attends the College Regina Assumpta, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | ||
| MPC 53313 | |
| (20888) | Siyueguo | 2000 WB14 |
| 2000-11-20 by LINEAR at Socorro | ||
| Si Yue Guo (b.1987) was awarded first place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her physics team project. She also received the MILSET Expo-Science Europe award. She attends the College Regina Assumpta, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. | ||
| MPC 53313 | |
| 24899 | Dominiona | 1997 AU17 |
| 1997-01-14 by G. C. L. Aikman at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of Canada. Officially the "Dominion of Canada" under the Constitution Acts of 1867 and 1982, such designation was inspired by Psalm 72, verse 8: "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth." | ||
| MPC 44110 | |
| 26314 | Skvorecky | 1998 UJ1 |
| 1998-10-16 by J Ticha and M. Tichy at Klet | ||
| Josef Skvorecky (b. 1924) is one of the preeminent Czech writers of the post-World War II generation known for mordant humour and sardonic irony. Together with his wife Zdena Salivarova, he operated The Sixty-Eight Publishers in Toronto, the main Czech exile publishing house. | ||
| MPC 43383 | |
| 27810 | Daveturner | 1993 OC2 |
| 1993-07-23 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar | ||
| David G. Turner, editor of theJournalof theRASC between 1996 and 2000, is an enthusiastic professor of astronomy and physics atSaint Mary's University in Nova Scotia. By means of photoelectric photometry and CCD imaging, he has pursued a study of Cepheid variable stars. | ||
| MPC 50464 | |
| 29348 | Criswick | 1995 FD |
| 1995-03-28 by David Balam at Victoria | ||
| Named in honour of John Criswick (b. 1963- ), a University of Victoria alumnus who, as a result of his passion for astronomy, has been an enthusiastic proponent for astronomy education in Canada. | ||
| MPC 45343 | |
| 29565 | Glenngould | 1998 FD, 1993 FA26, 1982 BW13 |
| 1998-03-17 by M. Boeuf at Les Tardieux | ||
| Named in honour of Glenn Gould (b.1932, d.1982), a pianist who remains one of Canada's most important and influential cultural figures. He is probably best known for his idiosyncratic interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard works, but he was also a conductor, composer, provocative author, commentator and producer of radio and TV documentaries. Additional information kindly provided by Peter Broughton. | ||
| MPC 45344 | |
| 39791 | Jameshesser | 1997 PH4 |
| 1997-08-13 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| James E. Hesser, acting director of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics and 1997 recipient of the Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion, has contributed to the study of atomic and molecular spectroscopy, rapidly varying degenerate stars, stellar populations and chemical evolution in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies. | ||
| MPC 46112 | |
| 48774 | Anngower | 1997 PO2 |
| 1997-08-10 by D. D. Balam at Victoria. | ||
| Ann C. Gower, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Victoria, is an outstanding radio astronomer and gifted teacher who takes a special interest in every student in her classes. She is an active member of the University of Victoria Speakers Bureau, sharing with others her knowledge of galaxies and quasars. | ||
| MPC 48162 | |
| 50412 | Ewen | 2000 DG1 |
| 2000-02-26 by W.K.Y. Yeung at Calgary | ||
| Harry Ewen (1957- ) is a Canadian amateur astronomer who devotes his time to astronomical education for school children around Drumheller, Alberta. This minor planet was one of the 15 found using his 0.40-m telescope. | ||
| MPC 48162 | |
| 55755 | Blythe | 1991 TB15 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Named by the discoverer in honor of his wife, Blythe Andra Lowe (b. in Toronto), a professional geologist in Calgary. | ||
| MPC 49102 | |
| 60622 | Pritchet | 2000 FK8 |
| 2000-03-30 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| Christopher J. Pritchet (b. 1950- ) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria and a leading authority in the field of observational cosmology, supernovae, galaxy formation and evolution. | ||
| MPC 52770 | |
| 65657 | Hube | 1982 QB4 |
| 1982 Aug. 16 by A. Lowe at Siding Spring | ||
| At the University of Alberta, Douglas P. Hube (b.1941) has specialized in the study of short-period, massive, binary-star systems through spectroscopic and photometric observations. A tireless promoter of astronomy locally, he served as national President of theRASC from 1994 to 1996. | ||
| MPC 50465 | |
| 65696 | Pierrehenry | 1991 TP15 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Pierre Henry Senegas-Lowe (b. 1989-07-16 in Calgary) is a son of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 51190 | |
| 65697 | Paulandrew | 1991 TU15 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Paul Andrew Senegas-Lowe (b. 1992-06-21 in Calgary) is a son of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 51190 | |
| 65698 | Emmarochelle | 1991 TP16 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Emma Rochelle Slater (b. 1989-03-31 in Calgary) is the step-daughter of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 50466 | |
| 73703 | Billings | 1991 TL15 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe on plates taken at Palomar | ||
| Gary W. Billings is a geophysicist and amateur astronomer in Calgary, Alberta. He discovered five minor planets in 1999. More recently, he has conducted extensive CCD photometry of variable stars in collaboration with observers worldwide. He served as a council member of the AAVSO from 2002 to 2004. | ||
| MPC 52326 | |
| 73704 | Hladiuk | 1991 TW15 |
| 1991-10-06 by A. Lowe on plates taken at Palomar | ||
| Donald W. Hladiuk (b. 1957) is a professional geologist in Calgary, Alberta. For over 20 years, he has presented sky highlights on a local radio morning show. He has led numerous astronomical expeditions with theRASC Calgary Centre, of which he has twice been President. | ||
| MPC 52327 | |
| 78394 | Garossino | 2002 PB166 |
| 2002-08-09 by A. Lowe at Haleakala | ||
| Paul G. A. Garossino (b. 1953), husband of Cathy, father of Tony and Julia, is a Canadian geophysicist living in Houston. A regular George Observatory volunteer, he brings an exceptional enthusiasm to all his interests, from data processing to astronomy to cars, and freely shares his skills with all. | ||
| MPC 52771 | |
| 78434 | Dyer | 2002 QL58 |
| 2002-08-17 by A. Lowe at Palomar. | ||
| Alan Dyer (b. 1953) is program producer at the Calgary Science Centre, and one of Canada's best known astronomy writers. He is widely regarded as an authority on commercial telescopes, and his evaluations appear regularly in major North American astronomy magazines. He is also an accomplished astrophotographer. | ||
| MPC 52771 | |
| 81915 | Hartwick | 2000 NS11 |
| 2000-07-15 by D. D. Balam at Victoria | ||
| F. David A. Hartwick (b. 1941- ) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Victoria and a leading authority in the field of galaxy formation and evolution. He is legendary for his encyclopedic knowledge of astronomy. | ||
| MPC 52771 | |
| 84075 | Peterpatricia | 2002 PL165 |
| 2002-08-08 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Peter M. Lowe (b. 1933) and Patricia Lowe (b. 1935) are the parents of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 53177 | |
| (84096) | Reginaldglenice | 2002 QD58 |
| 2002-08-17 by A. Lowe at Palomar | ||
| Reginald J. Harding (b.1932) and Glenice E. Harding (b.1931) are the parents-in-law of the discoverer. | ||
| MPC 53177 | |
| (85121) | Loehde | 1976 KF3 |
| 1976-05-27 by A. Lowe at Siding Spring | ||
| Franklin C. Loehde (b.1936) is a retired science educator in Edmonton who was smitten by astronomy while in elementary school. While still in grade school and university, Loehde was active in international studies of aurora withCornell University and theNational Research Council of Canada, lunar occultations and grazes withH.M. Nautical Almanac Office (England), sunspots and flares with the American Association of Variable Star Observers Solar Division, and other observing disciplines. Loehde studied spectroscopic binary stars at theDominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, and co-authored a Canadian centennial project,Alberta — A Natural History with its opening chapter, "Skies over Alberta." A member of theRASC Edmonton Centre since 1952, Loehde assisted in the establishment of the Queen Elizabeth II Planetarium in 1961 and then in 1984 the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre, which is nowthe Odyssium. Loehde served theRASC Edmonton Centre in numerous capacities including two terms as Centre President, received theRASC Service Award 1976 and was national President in 1982-84. Active as a science educator all his life, he attempted to reach students and adults alike in a great variety of ways, such as authoring a series of articles in newspapers throughout western Canada in the 1950s, co-founding theEdmonton Regional Science Fair in 1961, and chairing major Star Nights for theRASC Edmonton Centre in the 1960s. In retirement, he remains 'smitten' by the stars, science in general and other interests such as politics, the Arts, and fund raising for the organisations to which he belongs. | ||
| MPC 53472 | |
| (85168) | Albertacentenary | 1989 RC6 |
| Discovered 1989-09-02 by Andrew Lowe at Palomar | ||
| The Canadian province of Alberta celebrates its centennial in 2005. Alberta was named after Princess Louise Caroline Alberta, fourth daughter of Queen Victoria. | ||
| MPC | |
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