Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Volume 1Springer Science & Business Media, 5 aug 2003 - 992 pagina's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Fifth Edition, is the official reference for the field of the IAU, which serves as the internationally recognised authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and any surface features on them. The accelerating rate of the discovery of minor planets has not only made a new edition of this established compendium necessary but has also significantly altered its scope: this thoroughly revised edition concentrates on the approximately 10,000 minor planets that carry a name. It provides authoritative information about the basis for all names of minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, this collection provides a most interesting historical insight into the work of those astronomers who over two centuries vested their affinities in a rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to more prosaic constructions. The fifth edition serves as the primary reference, with plans for complementary booklets with newly named bodies to be issued every three years. |
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amateur astronomer Anderson Mesa asteroid astrometric Bowell at Anderson C. J. van Houten C. S. Shoemaker Charlois at Nice Chernykh at Nauchnyj Citation prepared citation provided director Discovered 1960 Sept Discovered 1981 Mar discoverer following E. F. Helin E. W. Elst famous following a suggestion G. N. Neujmin Helin at Palomar Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar Independently discovered Institute known L. V. Zhuravleva La Silla lunar crater M. F. Wolf meteorites minor planets N. S. Chernykh Name proposed Name suggested Named in honor Named in memory Neujmin at Simeis Obituaries published observations occurrence is unknown orbit Palomar person or occurrence planetary Reinmuth at Heidelberg remarks to planet Russian S. J. Bus satellites Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Siding Spring Silla suggested and citation T. M. Smirnova telescope University Väisälä at Turku van Houten-Groeneveld Watanabe at Kitami Wolf at Heidelberg