Astronomers

Asteroid #'s

281 Lucretia [ Caroline Lucretia Herschel ]
366 Vincentina [ Vincenzo Cerulli ]
676 Melitta [ Philibert Jacques Melotte ]
729 Watsonia [ James Craig Watson ]
768 Struveana [ Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve ]
819 Barnardiana [ Edward Emerson Barnard ]
827 Wolfiana [ Max Wolf ]
834 Burnhamia [ Sherburne Wesley Burnham ]
914 Palisana [ Johann Palisa ]
999 Zachia [ Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach ]
1000 Piazzia [ Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres ]
1002 Olbersia [ Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers ]
1024 Hale [ George Ellery Hale ]
1111 Reinmuthia [ Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth ]
1129 Neujmina [ Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin ]
1134 Kepler [ Johannes Kepler ]
1241 Dysona [ Sir Frank Watson Dyson ]
1280 Baillauda [ Jules Baillaud, son of the astronomer Benjamin Baillaud ]
1303 Luthera [ Karl Theodor Robert Luther ]
1412 Lagrula [ Joanny-Philippe Lagrula ]
1501 Baade [ Walter Baade ]
1510 Charlois [ Auguste Charlois ]
1529 Oterma [ Liisi Oterma ]
1539 Borrelly [ Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly ]
1563 Noël [ Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend ]
1573 Väisälä [ Yrjà Väisälä ]
1578 Kirkwood [ Daniel Kirkwood ]
1600 Vyssotsky [ Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky ]
1614 Goldschmidt [ Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt ]
1622 Chacornac [ Jean Chacornac ]
1655 Comas Solá [ Josep Comas Solá ]
1686 De Sitter [ Willem de Sitter ]
1677 Tycho Brahe [ Tycho Brahe ]
1693 Hertzsprung [ Ejnar Hertzsprung ]
1714 Sy [ Frédéric Sy ]
1741 Giclas [ Henry L. Giclas ]
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 GÃsta Alfvén ]
1803 Zwicky [ Fritz Zwicky ]
1830 Pogson [ Norman Robert Pogson ]
1831 Nicholson [ Seth Barnes Nicholson ]
1832 Mrkos [ AntonÃn Mrkos ]
1846 Bengt [ Bengt StrÃmgren ]
1850 Kohoutek [ Luboš Kohoutek ]
1877 Marsden [ Brian G. Marsden ]
1913 Sekanina [ Zdenek Sekanina ]
1940 Whipple [ Fred Lawrence Whipple ]
1983 Bok [ Bart Bok ]
1995 Hajek [ Tadeáš Hájek ]
1998 Titius [ Johann Daniel Titius ]
1999 Hirayama [ Kiyotsugu Hirayama ]
2000 Herschel [ John Herschel ]
2003 Harding [ Karl Ludwig Harding ]
2005 Hencke [ Karl Ludwig Hencke ]
2018 Schuster [ Hans-Emil Schuster ]
2074 Shoemaker [ Eugene Shoemaker ]
2099 Öpik [ Ernst Julius Öpik ]
2198 Ceplecha [ Zdenek Ceplecha ]
2325 Chernykh [ Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh ]
2602 Moore [ Sir Patrick Moore ]
2635 Huggins [ William Huggins ]
2646 Abetti [ Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti ]
2709 Sagan [ Carl Sagan ]
2772 Dugan [ Raymond Smith Dugan ]
2801 Huygens [ Christiaan Huygens ]
2813 Zappalà [ Vincenzo Zappalà ]
2849 Shklovskij [ Iosif Shklovsky| ]
2874 Jim Young [ James Whitney Young ]
2875 Lagerkvist [ Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist ]
2900 Luboš Perek [ Luboš Perek ]
2917 Sawyer Hogg [ Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg ]
2996 Bowman [ Fred N. Bowman ]
3070 Aitken [ Robert Grant Aitken ]
3169 Ostro [ Steven J. Ostro ]
3174 Alcock [ George Alcock ]
3216 Harrington [ Robert Sutton Harrington ]
3267 Glo [ Eleanor "Glo" Helin ]
3277 Aaronson [ Marc Aaronson ]
3255 Tholen [ David J Tholen ]
3337 Miloš [ Miloš Tichý ]
3449 Abell [ George Ogden Abell ]
3467 Bernheim [ Robert Burnham, Jr. ]
3487 Edgeworth [ Kenneth Edgeworth ]
3549 Hapke [ Bruce William Hapke ]
3673 Levy [ David H. Levy ]
3722 Urata [ Takeshi Urata ]
3808 Tempel [ Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel ]
3936 Elst [ Eric Walter Elst ]
3999 Aristarchus [ Aristarchus of Samos ]
4037 Ikeya [ Kaoru Ikeya ]
4062 Schiaparelli [ Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli ]
4279 De Gasparis [ Annibale de Gasparis ]
4364 Shkodrov [ Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov ]
4567 Bečvář [ AntonÃn Bečvář ]
4593 Reipurth [ Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer ]
4790 Petrpravec [ Petr Pravec ]
4866 Badillo [ Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory, Fr. Victor L. Badillo ]
4987 Flamsteed [ John Flamsteed ]
5035 Swift [ Lewis Swift ]
5036 Tuttle [ Horace Parnell Tuttle ]
5757 Tichá [ Jana Tichá ]
6006 Anaximandros [ Anaximander ]
6076 Plavec [ Miroslav Plavec ]
7291 Hyakutake [ Yuji Hyakutake ]
7359 Messier [ Charles Messier ]
9133 d'Arrest [ Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ]
9134 Encke [ Johann Franz Encke ]
9121 Stefanovalentini [ Stefano Valentini, Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer ]
9494 Donici [ Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer ]
14322 Shakura [ Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura ]
15395 Rükl [ AntonÃn Rükl ]
18150 López Moreno [ José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer ]
68730 Straizys [ Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of Vilnius photometric system ]
95593 Azusienis [ Algimantas Ažusienis, Lithuanian astronomer ]