List of Minor Planets Named After People - Science - Astronomers - Professional

Professional

• 107 Camilla (Camille Flammarion; also Camilla, mythological Volscian queen)
• 162 Laurentia (A. Laurent)
• 238 Hypatia (Hypatia)
• 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel)
• 339 Dorothea (Dorothea Klumpke)
• 349 Dembowska (Ercole Dembowski)
• 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
• 511 Davida (David Peck Todd)
• 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
• 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
• 761 Brendelia (Martin Brendel)
• 767 Bondia (William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond)
• 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
• 784 Pickeringia (Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering)
• 786 Bredichina (Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin)
• 806 Gyldenia (Hugo Gyldén)
• 818 Kapteynia (Jacobus Kapteyn)
• 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
• 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
• 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham)
• 854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost)
• 855 Newcombia (Simon Newcomb)
• 856 Backlunda (Oskar Backlund)
• 857 Glasenappia (Sergey Glazenap)
• 872 Holda (Edward S. Holden)
• 892 Seeligeria (Hugo von Seeliger)
• 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa)
• 993 Moultona (Forest Ray Moulton)
• 995 Sternberga (Pavel Shternberg)
• 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach)
• 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres)
• 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers)
• 1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky)
• 1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion)
• 1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale)
• 1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke)
• 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
• 1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon)
• 1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley)
• 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin)
• 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
• 1186 Turnera (Herbert Hall Turner)
• 1215 Boyer (Louis Boyer)
• 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet)
• 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson)
• 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther)
• 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula)
• 1455 Mitchella (Maria Mitchell)
• 1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
• 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois)
• 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma)
• 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly)
• 1551 Argelander (Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander)
• 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä)
• 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
• 1591 Baize (Paul Baize)
• 1594 Danjon (André-Louis Danjon)
• 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky)
• 1601 Patry (André Patry)
• 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt)
• 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
• 1637 Swings (Pol Swings)
• 1642 Hill (George William Hill)
• 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
• 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter)
• 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe)
• 1691 Oort (Jan Oort)
• 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung)
• 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
• 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas)
• 1743 Schmidt (Bernhard Schmidt)
• 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
• 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson)
• 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher)
• 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
• 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén)
• 1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes)
• 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
• 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
• 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
• 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos)
• 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren)
• 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
• 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
• 1886 Lowell (Percival Lowell)
• 1896 Beer (Wilhelm Beer)
• 1913 Sekanina (Zdeněk Sekanina)
• 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
• 1965 van de Kamp (Peter van de Kamp)
• 1983 Bok (Bart Bok)
• 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek)
• 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius)
• 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama)
• 2000 Herschel (William Herschel)
• 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding)
• 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke)
• 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing)
• 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster)
• 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble)
• 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker)
• 2097 Galle (Johann Gottfried Galle)
• 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik)
• 2126 Gerasimovich (Boris Gerasimovich)
• 2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter)
• 2165 Young (Charles Augustus Young)
• 2198 Ceplecha (Zdeněk Ceplecha)
• 2227 Otto Struve (Otto Struve)
• 2234 Schmadel (Lutz Schmadel)
• 2281 Biela (Wilhelm von Biela)
• 2308 Schilt (Jan Schilt)
• 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh)
• 2383 Bradley (James Bradley)
• 2439 Ulugbek (Ulugh Beg)
• 2635 Huggins (William Huggins)
• 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti)
• 2688 Halley (Edmond Halley)
• 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan)
• 2751 Campbell (William Wallace Campbell)
• 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
• 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig)
• 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
• 2813 Zappalà (Vincenzo Zappalà)
• 2842 Unsöld (Albrecht Unsöld)
• 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky)
• 2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young)
• 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist)
• 2897 Ole Römer (Ole Rømer)
• 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek)
• 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg)
• 2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman)
• 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
• 3078 Horrocks (Jeremiah Horrocks)
• 3095 Omarkhayyam (Omar Khayyám)
• 3115 Baily (Francis Baily)
• 3116 Goodricke (John Goodricke)
• 3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham)
• 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
• 3174 Alcock (George Alcock)
• 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
• 3236 Strand (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand)
• 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen)
• 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin)
• 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
• 3282 Spencer Jones (Harold Spencer Jones)
• 3299 Hall (Asaph Hall)
• 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý)
• 3449 Abell (George O. Abell)
• 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr.)
• 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth)
• 3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke)
• 3594 Scotti (James V. Scotti)
• 3673 Levy (David H. Levy)
• 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata)
• 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
• 3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel)
• 3866 Langley (Samuel Pierpont Langley)
• 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
• 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos)
• 4000 Hipparchus (Hipparchus)
• 4001 Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
• 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya)
• 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Schiaparelli)
• 4169 Celsius (Anders Celsius)
• 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
• 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
• 4549 Burkhardt (Gernot Burkhardt)
• 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář)
• 4587 Rees (Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow)
• 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer)
• 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec)
• 4866 Badillo (Fr. Victor L. Badillo, Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory)
• 5080 Oja (Tarmo Oja)
• 5704 Schumacher (Heinrich Christian Schumacher)
• 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift)
• 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle)
• 5392 Parker (Donald C. Parker)
• 5430 Luu (Jane Luu)
• 5655 Barney (Ida Barney)
• 5726 Rubin (Vera Rubin)
• 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá)
• 5943 Lovi (George Lovi, astronomical columnist and planetarium educator)
• 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander)
• 6075 Zajtsev (Alexander L. Zaitsev)
• 6076 Plavec (Miroslav Plavec)
• 6391 Africano (John L. Africano)
• 6398 Timhunter (Tim Hunter)
• 6696 Eubanks (Marshall Eubanks)
• 6779 Perrine (Charles Dillon Perrine)
• 7086 Bopp (Thomas Bopp)
• 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake)
• 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
• 7948 Whitaker (Ewen A. Whitaker)
• 8216 Melosh (H. Jay Melosh)
• 8391 Kring (David A. Kring)
• 8408 Strom (Robert G. Strom)
• 8690 Swindle (Timothy D. Swindle)
• 8785 Boltwood (Paul Boltwood)
• 9122 Hunten (Donald M. Hunten)
• 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
• 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
• 9207 Petersmith (Peter H. Smith)
• 9494 Donici (Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer)
• 10633 Akimasa (Akimasa Nakamura, Japanese astronomer)
• 10950 Albertjansen (Albert Jansen, German astronomer)
• 11156 Al-Khwarismi (Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, Persian astronomer)
• 11577 Einasto (Jaan Einasto)
• 11695 Mattei (Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer)
• 11762 Vogel (Hermann Carl Vogel)
• 12742 Delisle (Joseph-Nicolas Delisle)
• 14124 Kamil (Kamil Hornoch)
• 14120 Espenak (Fred Espenak)
• 14322 Shakura (Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura)
• 14335 Alexosipov and 152217 Akosipov (Alexandr Kuzmich Osipov, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer)
• 15395 Rükl (Antonín Rükl)
• 15420 Aedouglass (Andrew Ellicott Douglass, American astronomer)
• 15467 Aflorsch (Alphonse Florsch, French astronomer)
• 15955 Johannesgmunden (John of Gmunden)
• 16682 Donati (Giovanni Battista Donati)
• 18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer)
• 19139 Apian (Peter Apian)
• 24988 Alainmilsztajn (Alain Milsztajn, French astronomer)
• 36445 Smalley (Kyle E. Smalley)
• 68730 Straizys (Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of Vilnius photometric system)
• 72021 Yisunji (Yi, Sunji, Korean astronomer in 15th century)
• 92893 Michaelperson (Michael Person, American astronomer)
• 95593 Azusienis (Algimantas Ažusienis, Lithuanian astronomer)
• 99503 Leewonchul (Lee, Wonchul, Korean astronomer)
• 106817 Yubangtaek (Yu, Bangtaek, Korean astronomer in 13th century)
• 165347 Philplait (Phil Plait, American astronomer)
• 234750 Amymainzer (Amy Mainzer, American astronomer)