Meanings of asteroid names
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This is a list of named minor planets (mostly asteroids), with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named after.
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- Asteroids discovered at the observatory of San Marcello Pistoiese in Italy
- Asteroids discovered by Tsutomu Seki
- Asteroids discovered by Uppsala astronomers
- Asteroids honoring people associated with Cornell Department of astronomy
- Asteroids named after members of staff and graduates of the Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland
- Asteroids with Canadian Connections
- Asteroids with a Hamburg connection
- Hungarian asteroids
- In Our Skies journalistic article on asteroid nomenclature
- Institute of Applied Astronomy's list of (accented) names
- Kleť Numbered Minor Planets
- List of "Dutch" asteroids (in Dutch)
- Planetary Society asteroids
- Schmadel's list of (accented) names
- The Ceres Connection (asteroids named after students)
Two systematic sources of citations are:
- The Show Citation script of the Harvard University Center for Astronomy MPES (Minor Planet Ephemeris Service): http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/ShowCitation.COM?num=37601
- The JPL Small-Body Database Browser: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=37601
In both cases you need only modify the last argument of the address. The first's data base is being slowly built up in reverse chronological order; the second is more complete as of 2006.