Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Those meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names or Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets (marked [H])^[1] to ensure that the identification is correct. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Names established from other sources should quote the reference.

1–100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
1 Ceres	–	Ceres, Roman goddess	DMP · 1
2 Pallas	–	Pallas, Greek goddess	DMP · 2
3 Juno	–	Juno, Roman goddess	DMP · 3
4 Vesta	–	Vesta, Roman goddess	DMP · 4
5 Astraea	–	Astraea, Greek goddess	DMP · 5
6 Hebe	–	Hebe, Greek goddess	DMP · 6
7 Iris	–	Iris, Greek goddess	DMP · 7
8 Flora	–	Flora, Roman goddess	DMP · 8
9 Metis	–	Metis, mythological Greek Titaness	DMP · 9
10 Hygiea	–	Hygieia, Greek goddess	DMP · 10
11 Parthenope	–	Parthenope, Siren (Greek mythology)	DMP · 11
12 Victoria	–	Victoria, Roman goddess	DMP · 12
13 Egeria	–	Egeria, Roman goddess	DMP · 13
14 Irene	–	Eirene, Greek goddess	DMP · 14
15 Eunomia	–	Eunomia, Greek goddess	DMP · 15
16 Psyche	–	Psyche, Greek nymph	DMP · 16
17 Thetis	–	Thetis, Greek mother of Achilles	DMP · 17
18 Melpomene	–	Melpomene, Greek Muse	DMP · 18
19 Fortuna	–	Fortuna, Roman goddess	DMP · 19
20 Massalia	–	Latin name for Marseilles, France	DMP · 20
21 Lutetia	–	Lutetia, Latin name for Paris, France	DMP · 21
22 Kalliope	–	Calliope, Greek Muse, and her Linus, the inventor of melody and rhythm ((22) Kalliope I Linus)	DMP · 22
23 Thalia	–	Thalia, Greek Muse	DMP · 23
24 Themis	–	Themis, mythological Greek Titaness	DMP · 24
25 Phocaea	–	Phocaea, ancient city	DMP · 25
26 Proserpina	–	Proserpina, Roman goddess	DMP · 26
27 Euterpe	–	Euterpe, Greek Muse	DMP · 27
28 Bellona	–	Bellona, Roman goddess	DMP · 28
29 Amphitrite	–	Amphitrite, Greek goddess	DMP · 29
30 Urania	–	Urania, Greek Muse	DMP · 30
31 Euphrosyne	–	Euphrosyne, Greek Charis	DMP · 31
32 Pomona	–	Pomona, Roman goddess	DMP · 32
33 Polyhymnia	–	Polyhymnia, Greek Muse	DMP · 33
34 Circe	–	Circe, Greek goddess	DMP · 34
35 Leukothea	–	Leukothea, Greek goddess	DMP · 35
36 Atalante	–	Atalanta, mythological Greek heroine	DMP · 36
37 Fides	–	Fides, Roman goddess	DMP · 37
38 Leda	–	Leda, Greek mother of Helen of Troy	DMP · 38
39 Laetitia	–	Laetitia, Roman goddess	DMP · 39
40 Harmonia	–	Harmonia, Greek goddess	DMP · 40
41 Daphne	–	Daphne, Greek nymph	DMP · 41
42 Isis	–	Elizabeth Isis Pogson, daughter of the discoverer	DMP · 42
43 Ariadne	–	Ariadne, Greek mythological heroine	DMP · 43
44 Nysa	–	Nysa, Greek mythological place	DMP · 44
45 Eugenia	–	Empress Eugénie of France, mother of Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial, after whom Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's character The Little Prince is based ((45) Eugenia I Petit-Prince)	DMP · 45
46 Hestia	–	Hestia, Greek goddess	DMP · 46
47 Aglaja	–	Aglaea, Greek Charis	DMP · 47
48 Doris	–	Doris, Greek Oceanid	DMP · 48
49 Pales	–	Pales, Greek goddess	DMP · 49
50 Virginia	–	Verginia, Roman legendary heroine. It also an allusion to Virginia, United States	DMP · 50
51 Nemausa	–	Latin name for Nîmes, France	DMP · 51
52 Europa	–	Europa, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 52
53 Kalypso	–	Calypso, Greek nymph	DMP · 53
54 Alexandra	–	Alexander von Humboldt, explorer	DMP · 54
55 Pandora	–	Pandora, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 55
56 Melete	–	Melete, Greek Muse	DMP · 56
57 Mnemosyne	–	Mnemosyne, mythological Greek Titaness	DMP · 57
58 Concordia	–	Concordia, Roman goddess	DMP · 58
59 Elpis	–	Elpis, Greek goddess	DMP · 59
60 Echo	–	Echo, Greek nymph	DMP · 60
61 Danaë	–	Danaë, Greek mother of Perseus	DMP · 61
62 Erato	–	Erato, Greek Muse	DMP · 62
63 Ausonia	–	Alternative name for Italy	DMP · 63
64 Angelina	–	Astronomical station of Franz Xaver von Zach, near Marseilles	DMP · 64
65 Cybele	–	Cybele, Greek goddess	DMP · 65
66 Maja	–	Maia, Greek Pleiad	DMP · 66
67 Asia	–	Asia, Greek mythological Titaness	DMP · 67
68 Leto	–	Leto, Greek goddess	DMP · 68
69 Hesperia	–	Hesperia, Greek term for Italy	DMP · 69
70 Panopaea	–	Panopaea, Greek nymph	DMP · 70
71 Niobe	–	Niobe, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 71
72 Feronia	–	Feronia, Roman goddess	DMP · 72
73 Klytia	–	Clytie, Greek Oceanid	DMP · 73
74 Galatea	–	Either Galatea the nymph or Galatea the statue	DMP · 74
75 Eurydike	–	Eurydice, Greek wife of Orpheus	DMP · 75
76 Freia	–	Freyja, Norse goddess	DMP · 76
77 Frigga	–	Frigg, Norse goddess	DMP · 77
78 Diana	–	Diana, Roman goddess	DMP · 78
79 Eurynome	–	Eurynome, various Greek figures	DMP · 79
80 Sappho	–	Sappho, Greek poet	DMP · 80
81 Terpsichore	–	Terpsichore, Greek Muse	DMP · 81
82 Alkmene	–	Alcmene, Greek mother of Heracles	DMP · 82
83 Beatrix	–	Beatrice Portinari, beloved of Dante	DMP · 83
84 Klio	–	Clio, Greek Muse	DMP · 84
85 Io	–	Io, Greek nymph	DMP · 85
86 Semele	–	Semele, Greek goddess	DMP · 86
87 Sylvia	–	Sylvie Petiaux-Hugo Flammarion, first wife of Camille Flammarion, French popularizer of astronomy; however, Pogson himself reports it was named after Rhea Sylvia, the mythical mother of the twins Romulus and Remus †	DMP · 87
88 Thisbe	–	Thisbe, legendary Roman heroine	DMP · 88
89 Julia	–	Julia of Corsica, a virgin martyr who is venerated as a Christian saint. The date of her death is most probably on or after AD 439	DMP · 89
90 Antiope	–	Antiope the Greek mythological Amazon or the lover of Zeus	DMP · 90
91 Aegina	–	Aegina, Greek nymph	DMP · 91
92 Undina	–	Undine, heroine of novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué	DMP · 92
93 Minerva	–	Minerva, Roman goddess	DMP · 93
94 Aurora	–	Aurora, Roman goddess	DMP · 94
95 Arethusa	–	Arethusa, Greek Hesperid	DMP · 95
96 Aegle	–	Aegle, various Greek figures	DMP · 96
97 Klotho	–	Clotho, Greek Fate	DMP · 97
98 Ianthe	–	Ianthe, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 98
99 Dike	–	Dike, Greek goddess	DMP · 99
100 Hekate	–	Hecate, Greek goddess (The name "Hecate" also sounds like Greek hekaton meaning "one hundred.")	DMP · 100

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
101 Helena	–	Helen of Troy, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 101
102 Miriam	–	Miriam, Biblical prophetess	DMP · 102
103 Hera	–	Hera, Greek goddess	DMP · 103
104 Klymene	–	One of various Greek figures named Clymene	DMP · 104
105 Artemis	–	Artemis, Greek goddess	DMP · 105
106 Dione	–	Dione, mythological Greek Titaness	DMP · 106
107 Camilla	–	Feminine form of Camille Flammarion's name. Maybe also Camilla, mythological Volscian queen.	DMP · 107
108 Hecuba	–	Hecuba, Trojan wife of Priam	DMP · 108
109 Felicitas	–	Felicitas, Roman goddess	DMP · 109
110 Lydia	–	Lydia, ancient region of Asia Minor	DMP · 110
111 Ate	–	Ate, Greek goddess	DMP · 111
112 Iphigenia	–	Iphigenia, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 112
113 Amalthea	–	Amalthea, mythological Greek nursemaid	DMP · 113
114 Kassandra	–	Cassandra, mythological Trojan prophetess	DMP · 114
115 Thyra	–	Thyra, wife of King Gorm of Denmark	DMP · 115
116 Sirona	–	Sirona, Celtic goddess	DMP · 116
117 Lomia	–	Misspelling of Lamia, lover of Zeus (?)	DMP · 117
118 Peitho	–	Peitho, Greek goddess	DMP · 118
119 Althaea	–	Althaea, Greek mother of Meleager	DMP · 119
120 Lachesis	–	Lachesis, Greek Fate	DMP · 120
121 Hermione	–	Hermione, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 121
122 Gerda	–	Gerda, Norse goddess	DMP · 122
123 Brunhild	–	Brünnehilde, Norse Valkyrie	DMP · 123
124 Alkeste	–	Alcestis, mythological Greek woman	DMP · 124
125 Liberatrix	–	Possibly Adolphe Thiers, French president during the Franco-Prussian War. Also possibly Joan of Arc.	DMP · 125
126 Velleda	–	Veleda, Germanic priestess, leader of Batavian uprising against the Romans	DMP · 126
127 Johanna	–	Joan of Arc (1412–1431), saint and heroine of France	DMP · 127
128 Nemesis	–	Nemesis, Greek goddess	DMP · 128
129 Antigone	–	Antigone, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 129
130 Elektra	–	Electra, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 130
131 Vala	–	Vala, mythological Norse prophetess	DMP · 131
132 Aethra	–	Aethra, Greek mother of Theseus	DMP · 132
133 Cyrene	–	Cyrene, Greek lover of Apollo	DMP · 133
134 Sophrosyne	–	Sophrosyne, Plato's concept of moderation	DMP · 134
135 Hertha	–	Hertha, Norse goddess	DMP · 135
136 Austria	–	Austria, country	DMP · 136
137 Meliboea	–	Meliboea, various Greek figures	DMP · 137
138 Tolosa	–	Latin for Toulouse, France	DMP · 138
139 Juewa	–	Chinese for 'Star of China's Fortune'	DMP · 139
140 Siwa	–	Siwa, Slavic goddess	DMP · 140
141 Lumen	–	Lumen : Récits de l'infini, book by Camille Flammarion	DMP · 141
142 Polana	–	Pula, city now in Croatia	DMP · 142
143 Adria	–	Adriatic Sea	DMP · 143
144 Vibilia	–	Vibilia, Roman goddess	DMP · 144
145 Adeona	–	Adeona, Roman goddess	DMP · 145
146 Lucina	–	Lucina, Roman goddess	DMP · 146
147 Protogeneia	–	Protogeneia, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 147
148 Gallia	–	Gaul, Roman province	DMP · 148
149 Medusa	–	Medusa, mythological Greek monster	DMP · 149
150 Nuwa	–	Nüwa, Chinese mythological figure	DMP · 150
151 Abundantia	–	Abundantia, Roman goddess	DMP · 151
152 Atala	–	Atala, eponymous hero of novel by François-René de Chateaubriand	DMP · 152
153 Hilda	–	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer	DMP · 153
154 Bertha	–	Berthe Martin-Flammarion, sister of French astronomer Camille Flammarion	DMP · 154
155 Scylla	–	Scylla, Greek mythological monster	DMP · 155
156 Xanthippe	–	Xanthippe, wife of Socrates	DMP · 156
157 Dejanira	–	Deianira, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 157
158 Koronis	–	Coronis, various Greek figures	DMP · 158
159 Aemilia	–	Via Aemilia, Roman road	DMP · 159
160 Una	–	Una, character in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene	DMP · 160
161 Athor	–	Hathor, Egyptian goddess	DMP · 161
162 Laurentia	–	Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, French amateur astronomer	DMP · 162
163 Erigone	–	Erigone, various Greek figures	DMP · 163
164 Eva	–	unknown origin of name. It may refer to Eve.	DMP · 164
165 Loreley	–	The Lorelei, character in German folklore	DMP · 165
166 Rhodope	–	Rhodope, Greek mythological queen	DMP · 166
167 Urda	–	Urd, Norse Norn	DMP · 167
168 Sibylla	–	The Sibyls, Greek prophetesses	DMP · 168
169 Zelia	–	Feminine form of Zelos, Greek god	DMP · 169
170 Maria	–	Maria, sister of Italian astronomer Antonio Abetti, astronomer	DMP · 170
171 Ophelia	–	Ophelia, character in Shakespeare's Hamlet	DMP · 171
172 Baucis	–	Baucis, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 172
173 Ino	–	Ino, mythological Greek woman	DMP · 173
174 Phaedra	–	Phaedra, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 174
175 Andromache	–	Andromache, Trojan wife of Hector	DMP · 175
176 Iduna	–	Ydun, a club that hosted an astronomical conference in Stockholm, Sweden (the club was probably named after Iduna, a Norse goddess)	DMP · 176
177 Irma	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 177
178 Belisana	–	Belisana, Celtic goddess	DMP · 178
179 Klytaemnestra	–	Clytemnestra, Greek mythological queen	DMP · 179
180 Garumna	–	Ancient name for river Garonne, France	DMP · 180
181 Eucharis	–	Eucharis, Greek nymph	DMP · 181
182 Elsa	–	uncertain; various suggestions, see: 182 Elsa § Naming	DMP · 182
183 Istria	–	Istria, peninsula in Croatia and Slovenia	DMP · 183
184 Dejopeja	–	Deiopaea, Roman nymph	DMP · 184
185 Eunike	–	Eunike, Greek Nereid	DMP · 185
186 Celuta	–	Celuta, the main character in the short novella René by French author François-René de Chateaubriand (1768–1848)	DMP · 186
187 Lamberta	–	Johann Heinrich Lambert, astronomer	DMP · 187
188 Menippe	–	Menippe, Greek daughter of Orion	DMP · 188
189 Phthia	–	Phthia, various Greek figures and places	DMP · 189
190 Ismene	–	Ismene, Greek daughter of Oedipus	DMP · 190
191 Kolga	–	Kólga, Norse daughter of Ægir	DMP · 191
192 Nausikaa	–	Nausicaa, mythological Greek princess	DMP · 192
193 Ambrosia	–	Ambrosia, Greek food of the gods	DMP · 193
194 Prokne	–	Procne, Greek sister of Philomela	DMP · 194
195 Eurykleia	–	Eurycleia, Greek nurse of Odysseus	DMP · 195
196 Philomela	–	Philomela, mythological Greek woman	DMP · 196
197 Arete	–	Arete, Greek mother of Nausicaa	DMP · 197
198 Ampella	–	Ampelos, Greek friend of Dionysus (?)	DMP · 198
199 Byblis	–	Byblis, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 199
200 Dynamene	–	Dynamene, Greek Nereid	DMP · 200

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
201 Penelope	–	Penelope, Greek wife of Odysseus	DMP · 201
202 Chryseïs	–	Chryseis, mythological Trojan woman	DMP · 202
203 Pompeja	–	Pompeii, ruined Roman town	DMP · 203
204 Kallisto	–	Callisto, Greek nymph	DMP · 204
205 Martha	–	Martha, woman in the New Testament	DMP · 205
206 Hersilia	–	Hersilia, Roman wife of Romulus	DMP · 206
207 Hedda	–	Hedwig, wife of German astronomer Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke	DMP · 207
208 Lacrimosa	–	Our Lady of Sorrows, a title referring to Mary, the mother of Jesus	DMP · 208
209 Dido	–	Dido, mythological Carthaginian queen	DMP · 209
210 Isabella	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 210
211 Isolda	–	Isolde, heroine of the legend of Tristan and Iseult	DMP · 211
212 Medea	–	Medea, Greek mythological witch	DMP · 212
213 Lilaea	–	Lilaea, Greek Naiad	DMP · 213
214 Aschera	–	Aschera, Sidonian goddess	DMP · 214
215 Oenone	–	Oenone, Greek nymph	DMP · 215
216 Kleopatra	–	Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt	DMP · 216
217 Eudora	–	Eudora, Greek Hyad	DMP · 217
218 Bianca	–	Bianca Bianchi, stage name of the German opera singer Bertha Schwarz	DMP · 218
219 Thusnelda	–	Thusnelda, wife of Germanic warrior Arminius	DMP · 219
220 Stephania	–	Princess Stéphanie of Belgium	DMP · 220
221 Eos	–	Eos, Greek goddess	DMP · 221
222 Lucia	–	Lucia, daughter of Austrian explorer Hans Wilczek	DMP · 222
223 Rosa	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 223
224 Oceana	–	The Pacific Ocean	DMP · 224
225 Henrietta	–	Henrietta, wife of French astronomer Pierre Janssen	DMP · 225
226 Weringia	–	Währing, part of Vienna	DMP · 226
227 Philosophia	–	Philosophy	DMP · 227
228 Agathe	–	Agathe, daughter of Austrian astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer	DMP · 228
229 Adelinda	–	Adelinda, wife of Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss	DMP · 229
230 Athamantis	–	Athamantis, Greek daughter of Athamas	DMP · 230
231 Vindobona	–	Latin name for Vienna, Austria	DMP · 231
232 Russia	–	Russia, country	DMP · 232
233 Asterope	–	Sterope, Greek Pleiad	DMP · 233
234 Barbara	–	Saint Barbara (?)	DMP · 234
235 Carolina	–	Caroline Island, now part of Kiribati	DMP · 235
236 Honoria	–	Honoria, Roman goddess (?)	DMP · 236
237 Coelestina	–	Coelestine, wife of Austrian astronomer Theodor von Oppolzer	DMP · 237
238 Hypatia	–	Hypatia of Alexandria, philosopher	DMP · 238
239 Adrastea	–	Adrasteia, Greek goddess	DMP · 239
240 Vanadis	–	Vanadis, Norse goddess	DMP · 240
241 Germania	–	Latin name for Germany	DMP · 241
242 Kriemhild	–	Kriemhild, mythological Germanic princess	DMP · 242
243 Ida	–	Ida, Cretan nymph, after whom Mount Ida is named, where the mythical dactyls lived ((243) Ida I Dactyl)	DMP · 243
244 Sita	–	Sita, Hindu wife of Rama (?)	DMP · 244
245 Vera	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 245
246 Asporina	–	Asporina, goddess worshipped in Asia Minor	DMP · 246
247 Eukrate	–	Eukrate, Greek Nereid	DMP · 247
248 Lameia	–	Lamia, lover of Zeus	DMP · 248
249 Ilse	–	Ilse, legendary German princess	DMP · 249
250 Bettina	–	Baroness Bettina von Rothschild	DMP · 250
251 Sophia	–	Sophia, wife of German astronomer Hugo von Seeliger	DMP · 251
252 Clementina	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 252
253 Mathilde	–	Mathilde, wife of French astronomer Maurice Loewy (?)	DMP · 253
254 Augusta	–	Auguste von Littrow, author, and champion of women's rights; wife of Austrian astronomer Carl Ludwig von Littrow	DMP · 254
255 Oppavia	–	Opava, now Czech Republic	DMP · 255
256 Walpurga	–	Saint Walpurga	DMP · 256
257 Silesia	–	Silesia, region of central Europe	DMP · 257
258 Tyche	–	Tyche, Greek goddess	DMP · 258
259 Aletheia	–	Aletheia, Greek goddess	DMP · 259
260 Huberta	–	Saint Hubertus	DMP · 260
261 Prymno	–	Prymno, Greek Oceanid	DMP · 261
262 Valda	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 262
263 Dresda	–	Dresden, Germany	DMP · 263
264 Libussa	–	Libussa, legendary founder of Prague	DMP · 264
265 Anna	–	Anny, daughter of Edmund Weiss, Austrian astronomer and director of the Vienna Observatory	DMP · 265
266 Aline	–	Linda, daughter of Edmund Weiss, Austrian astronomer and director of the Vienna Observatory	DMP · 266
267 Tirza	–	Tirzah, Biblical figure	DMP · 267
268 Adorea	–	Adorea, Roman cake	DMP · 268
269 Justitia	–	Justitia or Themis, Greek goddess	DMP · 269
270 Anahita	–	Anahita, Persian goddess	DMP · 270
271 Penthesilea	–	Penthesilea, mythological Amazon queen	DMP · 271
272 Antonia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 272
273 Atropos	–	Atropos, Greek Fate	DMP · 273
274 Philagoria	–	Philagoria, recreation club in Olmütz	DMP · 274
275 Sapientia	–	Latin for wisdom	DMP · 275
276 Adelheid	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 276
277 Elvira	–	Character in books by Alphonse de Lamartine (?)	DMP · 277
278 Paulina	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 278
279 Thule	–	Thule, mythical northern land (usually identified with Scandinavia)	DMP · 279
280 Philia	–	Philia, Greek nymph	DMP · 280
281 Lucretia	–	Caroline Lucretia Herschel, astronomer	DMP · 281
282 Clorinde	–	Clorinda, heroine of Torquato Tasso's poem Jerusalem Delivered (?)	DMP · 282
283 Emma	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 283
284 Amalia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 284
285 Regina	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 285
286 Iclea	–	Heroine of French astronomer Camille Flammarion's novel Uranie	DMP · 286
287 Nephthys	–	Nephthys, Egyptian goddess	DMP · 287
288 Glauke	–	Glauke, Greek daughter of Creon	DMP · 288
289 Nenetta	–	French slang for a frivolous woman	DMP · 289
290 Bruna	–	Brno, now Czech Republic	DMP · 290
291 Alice	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 291
292 Ludovica	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 292
293 Brasilia	–	Brazil, country	DMP · 293
294 Felicia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 294
295 Theresia	–	Maria Theresa of Austria (Theresia in German)	DMP · 295
296 Phaëtusa	–	Phaethusa, Greek goddess	DMP · 296
297 Caecilia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 297
298 Baptistina	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 298
299 Thora	–	Thor, Norse god	DMP · 299
300 Geraldina	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 300

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
301 Bavaria	–	Bavaria, region of Germany	DMP · 301
302 Clarissa	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 302
303 Josephina	–	Discoverer Elia Millosevich simply stated "in homage to a person dear to me"	DMP · 303
304 Olga	–	Olga, niece of Prussian astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander	DMP · 304
305 Gordonia	–	James Gordon Bennett Jr, patron	DMP · 305
306 Unitas	–	Book by Italian astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi and also the unity of Italy	DMP · 306
307 Nike	–	Nike, Greek goddess, and also Nice, France	DMP · 307
308 Polyxo	–	Polyxo, Greek Hyad	DMP · 308
309 Fraternitas	–	Latin for fraternity	DMP · 309
310 Margarita	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 310
311 Claudia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 311
312 Pierretta	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 312
313 Chaldaea	–	Chaldea, Babylonian nation	DMP · 313
314 Rosalia	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 314
315 Constantia	–	Constancy	DMP · 315
316 Goberta	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 316
317 Roxane	–	Roxana, wife of Alexander the Great	DMP · 317
318 Magdalena	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 318
319 Leona	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 319
320 Katharina	–	Mother of discoverer Johann Palisa	DMP · 320
321 Florentina	–	Florentine, daughter of the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa	DMP · 321
322 Phaeo	–	Phaeo, Greek Hyad	DMP · 322
323 Brucia	–	Catherine Wolfe Bruce, American patron of astronomy †	DMP · 323
324 Bamberga	–	Bamberg, Germany	DMP · 324
325 Heidelberga	–	Heidelberg, Germany	DMP · 325
326 Tamara	–	Tamar of Georgia, medieval queen of Georgia	DMP · 326
327 Columbia	–	Christopher Columbus	DMP · 327
328 Gudrun	–	Gudrun, Norse wife of Sigurd	DMP · 328
329 Svea	–	Sweden	DMP · 329
330 Adalberta	A910 CB	Adalbert Merx, the discoverer's father-in-law	DMP · 330
331 Etheridgea	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 331
332 Siri	–	unknown origin of name	DMP · 332
333 Badenia	1892 A	Baden, region of Germany	DMP · 333
334 Chicago	1892 L	Chicago, United States	DMP · 334
335 Roberta	1892 C	Robert von Osten-Sacken, Baltic-German diplomat and entomologist	DMP · 335
336 Lacadiera	1892 D	La Cadière-d'Azur, village in Var, France	DMP · 336
337 Devosa	1892 E	unknown origin of name	DMP · 337
338 Budrosa	1892 F	unknown origin of name	DMP · 338
339 Dorothea	1892 G	Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts, astronomer	DMP · 339
340 Eduarda	1892 H	Heinrich Eduard von Lade, German banker and amateur astronomer †	DMP · 340
341 California	1892 J	California, US state	DMP · 341
342 Endymion	1892 K	Endymion, Greek	DMP · 342
343 Ostara	1892 N	Ostara, Old High German name for Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, reconstructed by Jacob Grimm in his Deutsche Mythologie	DMP · 343
344 Desiderata	1892 M	Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway (Bernhardine Eugenie Désirée Bernadotte, née Clary)	DMP · 344
345 Tercidina	1892 O	unknown origin of name	DMP · 345
346 Hermentaria	1892 P	Herment, village in Puy-de-Dôme, France (?)	DMP · 346
347 Pariana	1892 Q	unknown origin of name	DMP · 347
348 May	1892 R	Karl May, German author (?)	DMP · 348
349 Dembowska	1892 T	Ercole Dembowski, Italian astronomer	DMP · 349
350 Ornamenta	1892 U	Antoinette Horneman from Scheveningen, daughter of a Dutch mariner. She was a very zealous member of the Société astronomique de France	DMP · 350
351 Yrsa	1892 V	Yrsa, queen in Norse mythology (unknown origin of name according to Schmadel/Herget)	DMP · 351
352 Gisela	1893 B	Gisela Wolf, wife of the discoverer, Max Wolf	DMP · 352
353 Ruperto-Carola	1893 F	Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg	DMP · 353
354 Eleonora	1893 A	unknown origin of name	DMP · 354
355 Gabriella	1893 E	Gabrielle Flammarion, French astronomer	DMP · 355
356 Liguria	1893 G	Liguria, region of Italy	DMP · 356
357 Ninina	1893 J	unknown origin of name	DMP · 357
358 Apollonia	1893 K	Apollonia, Ancient Greek colony in Illyria (?)	DMP · 358
359 Georgia	1893 M	King George II of Great Britain	DMP · 359
360 Carlova	1893 N	unknown origin of name	DMP · 360
361 Bononia	1893 P	Latin name for Bologna, Italy, and for Boulogne-sur-Mer, France	DMP · 361
362 Havnia	1893 R	Latin name for Copenhagen, Denmark	DMP · 362
363 Padua	1893 S	Padua, Italy	DMP · 363
364 Isara	1893 T	River Isère, France	DMP · 364
365 Corduba	1893 V	Latin name for Córdoba, Spain (?)	DMP · 365
366 Vincentina	1893 W	Vincenzo Cerulli, Italian astronomer	DMP · 366
367 Amicitia	1893 AA	Latin for friendship	DMP · 367
368 Haidea	1893 AB	unknown origin of name	DMP · 368
369 Aëria	1893 AE	Air, one of the four classical elements	DMP · 369
370 Modestia	1893 AC	Modesty	DMP · 370
371 Bohemia	1893 AD	Bohemia, region of Czech Republic	DMP · 371
372 Palma	1893 AH	Palma de Mallorca, Spain	DMP · 372
373 Melusina	1893 AJ	Probably Melusine, mythological French mermaid, associated with the origins of the Lusignan dynasty	DMP · 373
374 Burgundia	1893 AK	Burgundy, region of France	DMP · 374
375 Ursula	1893 AL	unknown origin of name	DMP · 375
376 Geometria	1893 AM	Geometry	DMP · 376
377 Campania	1893 AN	Campania, region of Italy	DMP · 377
378 Holmia	1893 AP	Latin name for Stockholm, Sweden	DMP · 378
379 Huenna	1894 AQ	Latin name for Hven, Swedish island	DMP · 379
380 Fiducia	1894 AR	Latin for confidence	DMP · 380
381 Myrrha	1894 AS	Myrrha, Greek mythological princess	DMP · 381
382 Dodona	1894 AT	Dodona (now Dodoni), Greece	DMP · 382
383 Janina	1894 AU	unknown origin of name	DMP · 383
384 Burdigala	1894 AV	Latin name for Bordeaux, France	DMP · 384
385 Ilmatar	1894 AX	Ilmatar, Finnish goddess	DMP · 385
386 Siegena	1894 AY	Siegen, Germany	DMP · 386
387 Aquitania	1894 AZ	Aquitaine, region of France	DMP · 387
388 Charybdis	1894 BA	Charybdis, mythological Greek monster	DMP · 388
389 Industria	1894 BB	Latin for diligence	DMP · 389
390 Alma	1894 BC	River Alma, Crimea, Ukraine	DMP · 390
391 Ingeborg	1894 BE	Ingeborg from Norse mythology (unknown origin of name according to Schmadel/Herget)	DMP · 391
392 Wilhelmina	1894 BF	Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands †	DMP · 392
393 Lampetia	1894 BG	Lampetia, various Greek figures	DMP · 393
394 Arduina	1894 BH	Arduenna, Gaulish goddess	DMP · 394
395 Delia	1894 BK	Alternative name for the Greek goddess Artemis	DMP · 395
396 Aeolia	1894 BL	Aeolis or Aeolia, an ancient region of Asia Minor; or, the Aeolian Islands, Italy	DMP · 396
397 Vienna	1894 BM	Vienna, Austria	DMP · 397
398 Admete	1894 BN	Admete, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 398
399 Persephone	1895 BP	Persephone, Greek goddess	DMP · 399
400 Ducrosa	1895 BU	J. Ducros, French astronomer at Nice Observatory	DMP · 400

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
401 Ottilia	1895 BT	Ottilia, character in German folklore	DMP · 401
402 Chloë	1895 BW	Chloe, mythological Greek shepherdess	DMP · 402
403 Cyane	1895 BX	Cyane, Greek nymph	DMP · 403
404 Arsinoë	1895 BY	Arsinoe, Greek mother of Orestes	DMP · 404
405 Thia	1895 BZ	Theia, one of the twelve Titans of Greek mythology	DMP · 405
406 Erna	1895 CB	Erna Bidschof, granddaughter of Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa	DMP · 406
407 Arachne	1895 CC	Arachne, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 407
408 Fama	1895 CD	Fama, Roman goddess	DMP · 408
409 Aspasia	1895 CE	Aspasia, mistress of Pericles	DMP · 409
410 Chloris	1896 CH	Chloris, Greek goddess	DMP · 410
411 Xanthe	1896 CJ	Xanthe, one of the Oceanids, daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys	DMP · 411
412 Elisabetha	1896 CK	Elisabeth Wolf, mother of the discoverer	DMP · 412
413 Edburga	1896 CL	unknown origin of name	DMP · 413
414 Liriope	1896 CN	Liriope, Greek mother of Narcissus	DMP · 414
415 Palatia	1896 CO	The Electorate of the Palatinate, region of Germany	DMP · 415
416 Vaticana	1896 CS	Vatican Hill, Rome	DMP · 416
417 Suevia	1896 CT	Suevia, a fraternity of Heidelberg University	DMP · 417
418 Alemannia	1896 CV	Alemannia, a fraternity of Heidelberg University	DMP · 418
419 Aurelia	1896 CW	unknown origin of name	DMP · 419
420 Bertholda	1896 CY	Berthold I, Margrave of Baden	DMP · 420
421 Zähringia	1896 CZ	The Zähringen family of Baden	DMP · 421
422 Berolina	1896 DA	Latin name for Berlin	DMP · 422
423 Diotima	1896 DB	Diotima of Mantinea, Greek teacher of Socrates	DMP · 423
424 Gratia	1896 DF	The Graces, Roman mythology	DMP · 424
425 Cornelia	1896 DC	Cornelia Africana, daughter of Scipio Africanus (?)	DMP · 425
426 Hippo	1897 DH	Hippo Regius, ancient town (now Annaba, Algeria)	DMP · 426
427 Galene	1897 DJ	Galene, Greek Nereid	DMP · 427
428 Monachia	1897 DK	Latin name for Munich, Germany	DMP · 428
429 Lotis	1897 DL	Lotis, Greek nymph	DMP · 429
430 Hybris	1897 DM	Hubris, Greek goddess	DMP · 430
431 Nephele	1897 DN	Nephele, Greek nymph	DMP · 431
432 Pythia	1897 DO	The Pythia, Greek prophetess	DMP · 432
433 Eros	1898 DQ	Eros, Greek god	DMP · 433
434 Hungaria	1898 DR	Latin for Hungary	DMP · 434
435 Ella	1898 DS	unknown origin of name	DMP · 435
436 Patricia	1898 DT	unknown origin of name	DMP · 436
437 Rhodia	1898 DP	Rhodia, Greek Oceanid	DMP · 437
438 Zeuxo	1898 DU	Zeuxo, Greek Oceanid	DMP · 438
439 Ohio	1898 EB	Ohio, US state and river	DMP · 439
440 Theodora	1898 EC	Theodora, daughter of Julius F. Stone, benefactor and time trustee of the Ohio State University	DMP · 440
441 Bathilde	1898 ED	unknown origin of name	DMP · 441
442 Eichsfeldia	1899 EE	Eichsfeld, region of Germany	DMP · 442
443 Photographica	1899 EF	Photography †	DMP · 443
444 Gyptis	1899 EL	Gyptis, wife of Protis, founder of Marseille, France	DMP · 444
445 Edna	1899 EX	Edna, wife of Julius F. Stone, benefactor and time trustee of the Ohio State University	DMP · 445
446 Aeternitas	1899 ER	Aeternitas, Roman god	DMP · 446
447 Valentine	1899 ES	Valentine, daughter of Baron Albert von Rothschild, benefactor	DMP · 447
448 Natalie	1899 ET	unknown origin of name	DMP · 448
449 Hamburga	1899 EU	Hamburg, Germany †	DMP · 449
450 Brigitta	1899 EV	unknown origin of name	DMP · 450
451 Patientia	1899 EY	Latin for patience	DMP · 451
452 Hamiltonia	1899 FD	Mount Hamilton, California	DMP · 452
453 Tea	1900 FA	unknown origin of name	DMP · 453
454 Mathesis	1900 FC	Greek for (the act of) learning, chosen to mark the 300th anniversary of the Mathematische Gesellschaft in Hamburg founded in 1690 †	DMP · 454
455 Bruchsalia	1900 FG	Bruchsal, Germany	DMP · 455
456 Abnoba	1900 FH	Abnoba, Celtic goddess	DMP · 456
457 Alleghenia	1900 FJ	Allegheny Observatory, United States	DMP · 457
458 Hercynia	1900 FK	Latin name for a forested region of Germany	DMP · 458
459 Signe	1900 FM	Signy, Norse sister of Sigmund	DMP · 459
460 Scania	1900 FN	Scania, region of Sweden	DMP · 460
461 Saskia	1900 FP	Saskia van Uylenburg, wife of Rembrandt †	DMP · 461
462 Eriphyla	1900 FQ	Eriphyle, mythological Greek woman	DMP · 462
463 Lola	1900 FS	Character in Cavalleria Rusticana, opera by Mascagni (?)	DMP · 463
464 Megaira	1901 FV	Megaira, one of the Greek Furies	DMP · 464
465 Alekto	1901 FW	Alecto, one of the Greek Furies	DMP · 465
466 Tisiphone	1901 FX	Tisiphone, one of the Greek Furies	DMP · 466
467 Laura	1901 FY	Character in La Gioconda, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli (?)	DMP · 467
468 Lina	1901 FZ	Lina, a maidservant of the discoverer	DMP · 468
469 Argentina	1901 GE	Argentina, country in South America	DMP · 469
470 Kilia	1901 GJ	Latin for Kiel, Germany	DMP · 470
471 Papagena	1901 GN	Character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute	DMP · 471
472 Roma	1901 GP	Rome, Italy	DMP · 472
473 Nolli	1901 GC	Nickname of a small child in the discoverer's family	DMP · 473
474 Prudentia	1901 GD	Prudentia, Roman allegorical figure	DMP · 474
475 Ocllo	1901 HN	Ocllo, Inca queen, named after the wife of one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology	DMP · 475
476 Hedwig	1901 GQ	Hedwig, wife of astronomer Elis Stromgren	DMP · 476
477 Italia	1901 GR	Italy, country	DMP · 477
478 Tergeste	1901 GU	Latin name for Trieste, Italy	DMP · 478
479 Caprera	1901 HJ	Caprera, island in Sardinia, Italy	DMP · 479
480 Hansa	1901 GL	The Hanseatic League	DMP · 480
481 Emita	1902 HP	unknown origin of name	DMP · 481
482 Petrina	1902 HT	Feminine form of Petrus, Latin for Peter, one of the discoverer's dogs	DMP · 482
483 Seppina	1902 HU	Sepp, another of the discoverer's dogs	DMP · 483
484 Pittsburghia	1902 HX	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States	DMP · 484
485 Genua	1902 HZ	Latin name for Genova, Italy	DMP · 485
486 Cremona	1902 JB	Cremona, Italy	DMP · 486
487 Venetia	1902 JL	The Italian Veneto region with its capital Venice	DMP · 487
488 Kreusa	1902 JG	Creusa, various Greek figures	DMP · 488
489 Comacina	1902 JM	Comacina, island in Lake Como, Italy	DMP · 489
490 Veritas	1902 JP	Veritas, Roman goddess	DMP · 490
491 Carina	1902 JQ	unknown origin of name	DMP · 491
492 Gismonda	1902 JR	Gismond, Italian folk tale heroine	DMP · 492
493 Griseldis	1902 JS	Patient Griselda, folk tale heroine	DMP · 493
494 Virtus	1902 JV	Virtus, Roman god	DMP · 494
495 Eulalia	1902 KG	The grandmother of the discoverer's wife	DMP · 495
496 Gryphia	1902 KH	Andreas Gryphius, German poet	DMP · 496
497 Iva	1902 KJ	Iva Shores, daughter of the discoverer's landlord	DMP · 497
498 Tokio	1902 KU	Tokyo, Japan	DMP · 498
499 Venusia	1902 KX	Alternative name for Hven, Swedish island	DMP · 499
500 Selinur	1903 LA	Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer	DMP · 500

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
501 Urhixidur	1903 LB	Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer	DMP · 501
502 Sigune	1903 LC	Character in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel	DMP · 502
503 Evelyn	1903 LF	Evelyn Smith Dugan, the discoverer's (Raymond Smith Dugan) mother	DMP · 503
504 Cora	1902 LK	Cora, wife of one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology	DMP · 504
505 Cava	1902 LL	Cava, figure in Inca mythology	DMP · 505
506 Marion	1903 LN	Marion Orcutt, the discoverer's (Raymond Smith Dugan) cousin †	DMP · 506
507 Laodica	1903 LO	Laodice, daughter of Priam and Hecuba †	DMP · 507
508 Princetonia	1903 LQ	Princeton University	DMP · 508
509 Iolanda	1903 LR	unknown origin of name	DMP · 509
510 Mabella	1903 LT	Mabel Loomis Todd, daughter of the American mathematician-astronomer Elias Loomis, wife of David Peck Todd (see 511, below)	DMP · 510
511 Davida	1903 LU	David Peck Todd, American astronomer	DMP · 511
512 Taurinensis	1903 LV	Taurinum, ancient name of Turin, Italy	DMP · 512
513 Centesima	1903 LY	100th (the discoverer's 100th asteroid)	DMP · 513
514 Armida	1903 MB	Character in Gluck's opera Armide, based on Torquato Tasso's baroque epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata	DMP · 514
515 Athalia	1903 ME	Athalia, Biblical queen of Judah (2 Kings ix)	DMP · 515
516 Amherstia	1903 MG	Amherst College, alma mater of the discoverer	DMP · 516
517 Edith	1903 MH	Edith Dugan Eveleth, the discoverer's sister	DMP · 517
518 Halawe	1903 MO	Halawe, a type of Arabic sweetmeat, a favourite of the discoverer	DMP · 518
519 Sylvania	1903 MP	The forests the discoverer enjoyed tramping through even as a small boy	DMP · 519
520 Franziska	1903 MV	unknown origin of name	DMP · 520
521 Brixia	1904 NB	Latin for Brescia, Italy, birthplace of the orbit computer, Emilio Bianchi	DMP · 521
522 Helga	1904 NC	([H] only says "Named by Lt. Th. Lassen, orbit computer"; see AN 169, 363. Note that computer does not refer to a personal computer, i.e. a machine, but rather to a person actually doing the necessary calculations)	DMP · 522
523 Ada	1904 ND	Ada Helme, school friend and neighbour of the discoverer	DMP · 523
524 Fidelio	1904 NN	Leonora's pseudonym in Beethoven's only opera Fidelio	DMP · 524
525 Adelaide	1908 EKa	Queen Adelaide, consort to King William IV ([H] says nothing) This name was first borne by a Max Wolf discovery until it was identified as 1171 Rusthawelia; the name was then reassigned to this J. H. Metcalf discovery	DMP · 525
526 Jena	1904 NQ	Jena, Germany, on the occasion of a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft there in 1905 (see AN 172, 287)	DMP · 526
527 Euryanthe	1904 NR	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe	DMP · 527
528 Rezia	1904 NS	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon	DMP · 528
529 Preziosa	1904 NT	Character in Cervantes' short story La Gitanilla	DMP · 529
530 Turandot	1904 NV	Character in Puccini's opera Turandot	DMP · 530
531 Zerlina	1904 NW	Character in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni	DMP · 531
532 Herculina	1904 NY	Feminine form of Hercules, Roman demigod ([H] simply says "named by Prof. Elia Millosevich, Observatory of the Collegio Romano" AN 167, 45)	DMP · 532
533 Sara	1904 NZ	A friend of the discoverer	DMP · 533
534 Nassovia	1904 OA	Latin for Nassau Hall, Princeton University	DMP · 534
535 Montague	1904 OC	Montague, Massachusetts, US, the discoverer's birthplace	DMP · 535
536 Merapi	1904 OF	Mount Merapi, Sumatra, site of several expeditions to observe the solar eclipse of 17 May 1901	DMP · 536
537 Pauly	1904 OG	Max Pauly, German businessman (manager of a sugar factory) and amateur optician whom Ernst Abbe appointed as head of the newly established Astronomy Division of Zeiss to design and produce telescope lenses; he ground the 10-inch lens of the Bruce double-astrograph, the "jewel" of the Heidelberg Observatory	DMP · 537
538 Friederike	1904 OK	Friend of the discoverer	DMP · 538
539 Pamina	1904 OL	Character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute	DMP · 539
540 Rosamunde	1904 ON	Character in Schubert's incidental music for the play Rosamunde	DMP · 540
541 Deborah	1904 OO	Deborah, Biblical prophetess (Judges 4:5)	DMP · 541
542 Susanna	1904 OQ	Friend of the discoverer	DMP · 542
543 Charlotte	1904 OT	Friend of the discoverer	DMP · 543
544 Jetta	1904 OU	Jetta, legendary figure of Heidelberg	DMP · 544
545 Messalina	1904 OY	Messalina, Roman empress	DMP · 545
546 Herodias	1904 PA	Herodias, Biblical princess, consort of Herod Antipas	DMP · 546
547 Praxedis	1904 PB	Character in German poet and author Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard	DMP · 547
548 Kressida	1904 PC	Cressida, Trojan princess, character of Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (based on the medieval legend of Troy, as opposed to the classical)	DMP · 548
549 Jessonda	1904 PK	Character in German composer, violinist and conductor Ludwig Spohr's opera Jessonda	DMP · 549
550 Senta	1904 PL	Character in German composer Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman	DMP · 550
551 Ortrud	1904 PM	The wife of Ferederick of Telramund in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin †	DMP · 551
552 Sigelinde	1904 PO	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre	DMP · 552
553 Kundry	1904 PP	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal	DMP · 553
554 Peraga	1905 PS	Peraga, Italy, site of a country villa of relatives of the orbit computer	DMP · 554
555 Norma	1905 PT	Character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma	DMP · 555
556 Phyllis	1905 PW	Phyllis, mythological Greek princess, who loved Demophon, son of Theseus	DMP · 556
557 Violetta	1905 PY	Character in Verdi's opera La Traviata, in turn based on Alexandre Dumas, fils' Dame aux camélias	DMP · 557
558 Carmen	1905 QB	Character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, in turn based on Prosper Mérimée's novella of the same name	DMP · 558
559 Nanon	1905 QD	Nanon, operetta by 19th-century German-Austrian composer Richard Genée †	DMP · 559
560 Delila	1905 QF	Delilah, Biblical character, set to music by Saint-Saëns in his Samson et Délila	DMP · 560
561 Ingwelde	1905 QG	Ingwelde, opera by Max von Schillings (?) ([H] simply says « German feminine first name »)	DMP · 561
562 Salome	1905 QH	Salomé, Biblical daughter of Herod the Great, character of Richard Strauss' opera Salome, in turn based on Oscar Wilde's Salomé play	DMP · 562
563 Suleika	1905 QK	From Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan (see here)	DMP · 563
564 Dudu	1905 QM	Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra	DMP · 564
565 Marbachia	1905 QN	Marbach, town in Germany	DMP · 565
566 Stereoskopia	1905 QO	The stereo-comparator, an apparatus used by astronomers to detect astronomical objects such as asteroids (for instance) on photographic images of an area of the sky taken at different times; the first minor planet thus discovered, in 1902 from 1899 plates, was later identified as this one	DMP · 566
567 Eleutheria	1905 QP	Eleutheria, the Greek festivals held in honour of Zeus Eleutherius, « the asserter of liberty »	DMP · 567
568 Cheruskia	1905 QS	Cheruskia, student fraternity at Heidelberg University, named in turn after the Cherusci, an early German tribe	DMP · 568
569 Misa	1905 QT	Misa, Greek divinity in the Orphic Mysteries	DMP · 569
570 Kythera	1905 QX	Kythira, Greek island (First name in a long list published in 1914)	DMP · 570
571 Dulcinea	1905 QZ	Dulcinea, character in Cervantes' novel Don Quixote	DMP · 571
572 Rebekka	1905 RB	A young woman from Heidelberg(possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Rebekka)	DMP · 572
573 Recha	1905 RC	Character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise ([H] says « Recha, a city in Palestine ») (possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Recha)	DMP · 573
574 Reginhild	1905 RD	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Reginhild)	DMP · 574
575 Renate	1905 RE	Possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Renate) ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 575
576 Emanuela	1905 RF	A friend of the discoverer	DMP · 576
577 Rhea	1905 RH	Rhea, mythological Greek Titaness (possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Rhea)	DMP · 577
578 Happelia	1905 RZ	Carl Happel, German painter and benefactor of the Heidelberg Observatory; the Happel Laboratory there is named after him †	DMP · 578
579 Sidonia	1905 SD	Character in Armide, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (inspired by the provisional designation letters: Sidonia)	DMP · 579
580 Selene	1905 SE	Selene, Greek lunar goddess	DMP · 580
581 Tauntonia	1905 SH	Taunton, Massachusetts, US, the discovery site	DMP · 581
582 Olympia	1906 SO	Olympia, Greece	DMP · 582
583 Klotilde	1905 SP	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss, director of the Imperial Observatory where the minor planet was discovered	DMP · 583
584 Semiramis	1906 SY	Semiramis, Assyrian queen	DMP · 584
585 Bilkis	1906 TA	Bilqis, Balqis or Balkis, the Quranic name for the Queen of Sheba †	DMP · 585
586 Thekla	1906 TC	Saint Thecla	DMP · 586
587 Hypsipyle	1906 TF	Hypsipyle, mythological Greek queen of Lemnos, mother of twins by Jason	DMP · 587
588 Achilles	1906 TG	Achilles, mythological Greek warrior	DMP · 588
589 Croatia	1906 TM	Croatia, country	DMP · 589
590 Tomyris	1906 TO	Tomyris, Scythian Queen of the Massagetae	DMP · 590
591 Irmgard	1906 TP	German feminine first name	DMP · 591
592 Bathseba	1906 TS	Bathsheba, wife of Urias, mother of Solomon	DMP · 592
593 Titania	1906 TT	Titania, folkloric queen of the fairies (name inspired by the provisionla designation letters: Titania)	DMP · 593
594 Mireille	1906 TW	Mireille (Mirèio in the original Provençal), a narrative poem by French poet Frédéric Mistral, the source of inspiration for the opera of that name by the French composer Charles Gounod	DMP · 594
595 Polyxena	1906 TZ	Polyxena, mythological Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba	DMP · 595
596 Scheila	1906 UA	An English student at the University of Heidelberg, a friend of the discoverer	DMP · 596
597 Bandusia	1906 UB	Spring of Bandusia, fountain near Polezzo, Apulia, Italy	DMP · 597
598 Octavia	1906 UC	Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife of Nero	DMP · 598
599 Luisa	1906 UJ	unknown origin of name	DMP · 599
600 Musa	1906 UM	The Greek Muses	DMP · 600

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
601 Nerthus	1906 UN	Nerthus, Germanic/Scandinavian Earth Mother goddess	DMP · 601
602 Marianna	1906 TE	unknown origin of name	DMP · 602
603 Timandra	1906 TJ	Timandra, mythological Greek woman, sister of Helen of Troy, mother of Evander	DMP · 603
604 Tekmessa	1906 TK	Tecmessa, mythological Greek woman, daughter of the Phrygian prince Teubrantes, captive of Ajax, by whom she had a son, Eurysaces	DMP · 604
605 Juvisia	1906 UU	Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, where Camille Flammarion's observatory was located	DMP · 605
606 Brangäne	1906 VB	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a maid servant of Isolda	DMP · 606
607 Jenny	1906 VC	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see 608)	DMP · 607
608 Adolfine	1906 VD	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see 607)	DMP · 608
609 Fulvia	1906 VF	Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony	DMP · 609
610 Valeska	1906 VK	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Valeska) ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 610
611 Valeria	1906 VL	Feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Valeria) ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 611
612 Veronika	1906 VN	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Veronika)	DMP · 612
613 Ginevra	1906 VP	German feminine first name (most famously Guinevere, wife of King Arthur)	DMP · 613
614 Pia	1906 VQ	German feminine first name, or possibly Pia-Sternwarte (Pia Observatory), in Trieste, the private observatory of Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902), German amateur astronomer and selenographer	DMP · 614
615 Roswitha	1906 VR	Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, German poet	DMP · 615
616 Elly	1906 VT	Elly Boehm (Elly Meyer-Ellès), translator, wife of Karl Boehm, German mathematician	DMP · 616
617 Patroclus	1906 VY	Patroclus, mythological Greek warrior, and his father Menoetius, son of Iapetus and Clymene ((617) Patroclus I Menoetius)	DMP · 617
618 Elfriede	1906 VZ	unknown origin of name	DMP · 618
619 Triberga	1906 WC	Triberg im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany	DMP · 619
620 Drakonia	1906 WE	Drake University, Iowa, US, where the orbit computers worked	DMP · 620
621 Werdandi	1906 WJ	Verdandi, one of the Norns in Norse mythology ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 621
622 Esther	1906 WP	Esther, Biblical heroine	DMP · 622
623 Chimaera	1907 XJ	Mount Chimaera of Lycia, inspiration for the Chimera, mythological Greek monster	DMP · 623
624 Hektor	1907 XM	Hector, Trojan hero	DMP · 624
625 Xenia	1907 XN	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Xenia)	DMP · 625
626 Notburga	1907 XO	Saint Notburga, holy character of the Neckar valley, the discovery site	DMP · 626
627 Charis	1907 XS	Charis, Greek goddess, one of the three Graces	DMP · 627
628 Christine	1907 XT	The discoverer's wife	DMP · 628
629 Bernardina	1907 XU	unknown origin of name	DMP · 629
630 Euphemia	1907 XW	Saint Euphemia	DMP · 630
631 Philippina	1907 YJ	Philipp Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of his engagement (see also 634, below)	DMP · 631
632 Pyrrha	1907 YX	Pyrrha, wife of Deukalion, Greek mythological woman	DMP · 632
633 Zelima	1907 ZM	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Zelima)	DMP · 633
634 Ute	1907 ZN	A friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see also 631, above)	DMP · 634
635 Vundtia	1907 ZS	Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist	DMP · 635
636 Erika	1907 XP	unknown origin of name	DMP · 636
637 Chrysothemis	1907 YE	Chrysothemis, mythological daughter of Agamemnon, character in Sophocles' Electra	DMP · 637
638 Moira	1907 ZQ	Moira, Greek goddess of fate	DMP · 638
639 Latona	1907 ZT	Latona, Roman goddess, daughter of Ceo Titan, loved by Jupiter, mother of Apollo and Diana	DMP · 639
640 Brambilla	1907 ZW	Prinzessi Brambilla, novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann	DMP · 640
641 Agnes	1907 ZX	unknown origin of name	DMP · 641
642 Clara	1907 ZY	One of the discoverer's housekeepers	DMP · 642
643 Scheherezade	1907 ZZ	Scheherazade, legendary Arabic storyteller in 1001 Nights	DMP · 643
644 Cosima	1907 AA	Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt, Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, and second wife of German composer Richard Wagner	DMP · 644
645 Agrippina	1907 AG	Agrippina, two Roman noblewomen of that name † ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 645
646 Kastalia	1907 AC	Castalia, Greek nymph whom Apollo transformed into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mount Parnassos	DMP · 646
647 Adelgunde	1907 AD	unknown origin of name	DMP · 647
648 Pippa	1907 AE	Character in Und Pippa tanzt, novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann	DMP · 648
649 Josefa	1907 AF	German feminine first name	DMP · 649
650 Amalasuntha	1907 AM	Amalasuntha, Ostrogoth queen, daughter of Theoderich	DMP · 650
651 Antikleia	1907 AN	Anticlea, wife of Laertes, mother of Greek hero Odysseus	DMP · 651
652 Jubilatrix	1907 AU	The 60-year jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, during which this minor planet was discovered	DMP · 652
653 Berenike	1907 BK	Queen Berenice II of Egypt ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 653
654 Zelinda	1908 BM	Daughter of mathematician Ulisse Dini ([H] has only « German feminine first name »), or the niece of French astronomer Camille Flammarion (the daughter of his sister Berthe) †	DMP · 654
655 Briseïs	1907 BF	Briseis, mythological Trojan slave ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 655
656 Beagle	1908 BU	HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship	DMP · 656
657 Gunlöd	1908 BV	Gunnlod, mythological Norse giantess ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 657
658 Asteria	1908 BW	Asteria, various Greek figures ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 658
659 Nestor	1908 CS	Nestor, mythological Greek king ([H] only states when it was named)	DMP · 659
660 Crescentia	1908 CC	Heroine of a German legend, a variant of the Genevieve of Brabant medieval story, found in the Historie von der geduldigen Konigin Crescentia, itself based on a 12th-century poem in the Kaiserchronik	DMP · 660
661 Cloelia	1908 CL	Cloelia, legendary Roman woman	DMP · 661
662 Newtonia	1908 CW	previously believed to refer to Isaac Newton, British physicist; but later correctly identified as being named after Newton, Massachusetts (Isaac Newton is now honored by asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton)	DMP · 662
663 Gerlinde	1908 DG	German feminine first name	DMP · 663
664 Judith	1908 DH	Biblical heroine dramatised in Friedrich Hebbel's play Judith	DMP · 664
665 Sabine	1908 DK	French feminine first name ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 665
666 Desdemona	1908 DM	Desdemona, character in Shakespeare's Othello (possibly in part because of the letters in the provisional designation: Desdemona)	DMP · 666
667 Denise	1908 DN	French feminine first name (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Denise)	DMP · 667
668 Dora	1908 DO	A friend of the discoverer's wife (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Dora)	DMP · 668
669 Kypria	1908 DQ	Kypria, poem sometimes attributed to Homer, which serves as an introduction to the Iliad	DMP · 669
670 Ottegebe	1908 DR	Character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's play Der arme Heinrich	DMP · 670
671 Carnegia	1908 DV	The Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, founded by Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman and philanthropist	DMP · 671
672 Astarte	1908 DY	'Ashtart, Phoenician goddess of love and fertility	DMP · 672
673 Edda	1908 EA	The Norse Edda, a collection of myths	DMP · 673
674 Rachele	1908 EP	Wife of Italian astronomer Emilio Bianchi, the orbit computer	DMP · 674
675 Ludmilla	1908 DU	Character in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 675
676 Melitta	1909 FN	Attic form of the Greek name Melissa, nymph changed into a bee (and also an allusion to the discoverer's name, Melotte)	DMP · 676
677 Aaltje	1909 FR	Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, Dutch singer †	DMP · 677
678 Fredegundis	1909 FS	Fredegundis, an opera based on the life of Fredegund (a.k.a. Fredegunda, Fredegundis, Fredigundis, Frédégonde, Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons), begun by the French composer Ernest Guirand and completed by Saint-Saëns	DMP · 678
679 Pax	1909 FY	Pax, Roman goddess	DMP · 679
680 Genoveva	1909 GW	Main character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva	DMP · 680
681 Gorgo	1909 GZ	Gorgo, 5th-century BC Queen of Sparta, daughter of Kleomenes and wife of Leonidas	DMP · 681
682 Hagar	1909 HA	Hagar, Biblical woman (Genesis XXI 14)	DMP · 682
683 Lanzia	1909 HC	Heinrich Lanz, the German industrialist who provided the funds for the establishment of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences †	DMP · 683
684 Hildburg	1909 HD	German feminine first name (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Hildburg)	DMP · 684
685 Hermia	1909 HE	unknown origin of name	DMP · 685
686 Gersuind	1909 HF	Character in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gersuind	DMP · 686
687 Tinette	1909 HG	unknown origin of name	DMP · 687
688 Melanie	1909 HH	unknown origin of name	DMP · 688
689 Zita	1909 HJ	Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of Emperor Charles I of Austria	DMP · 689
690 Wratislavia	1909 HZ	Latin for Breslau (Wrocław), now in Poland	DMP · 690
691 Lehigh	1909 JG	Lehigh University, US, where the computer (J. B. Reynolds) was	DMP · 691
692 Hippodamia	1901 HD	Hippodamia, Greek mythological ancestor of Agamemnon and wife of Pelops (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Hippodamia)	DMP · 692
693 Zerbinetta	1909 HN	Character in Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos	DMP · 693
694 Ekard	1909 JA	Drake University, US ('Drake' backwards), where the orbit computers (S. B. Nicholson and his wife) were	DMP · 694
695 Bella	1909 JB	unknown origin of name	DMP · 695
696 Leonora	1910 JJ	Mary Leonora Snow, wife of the orbit computer, Arthur Snow	DMP · 696
697 Galilea	1910 JO	Galileo Galilei, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of Jupiter's Galilean moons	DMP · 697
698 Ernestina	1910 JX	Ernst Wolf, son of the discoverer	DMP · 698
699 Hela	1910 KD	Hel, Norse goddess of the dead	DMP · 699
700 Auravictrix	1910 KE	Latin for 'victory against the wind' (named for the first Schütte-Lanz Zeppelin flights in 1911)	DMP · 700

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
701 Oriola	1910 KN	The Old World golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus	DMP · 701
702 Alauda	1910 KQ	The bird genus Alauda (larks)	DMP · 702
703 Noëmi	1910 KT	Valentine Noëmi von Rothschild, wife of Baron Sigismund von Springer (presumed). Alternatively, Noemi is a Biblical heroine from the Book of Ruth (unsourced)	DMP · 703
704 Interamnia	1910 KU	Latin for city of Terni (Teramo) in Italy, birthplace of the discoverer Vincenzo Cerulli. Several Roman towns were called Interamnia, meaning "in between two rivers".	DMP · 704
705 Erminia	1910 KV	The comic operetta Erminie, by Edward Jacobowsky	DMP · 705
706 Hirundo	1910 KX	The bird genus Hirundo (swallows)	DMP · 706
707 Steina	1910 LD	Mr. Stein, a benefactor of the Breslau Observatory (547) in former German Empire, now Poland	DMP · 707
708 Raphaela	1911 LJ	Raphaël Bischoffsheim (1823–1906), French banker and philanthropist, founder of the Nice Observatory	DMP · 708
709 Fringilla	1911 LK	The bird genus Fringilla (finches)	DMP · 709
710 Gertrud	1911 LM	Gertrud Rheden, daughter of Austrian astronomer Joseph Rheden and granddaughter of the discoverer Johann Palisa	DMP · 710
711 Marmulla	1911 LN	Marble (toy), possibly derived from the corresponding German word Marmel or Murmel	DMP · 711
712 Boliviana	1911 LO	Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), South American revolutionary	DMP · 712
713 Luscinia	1911 LS	The bird genus Luscinia (nightingales)	DMP · 713
714 Ulula	1911 LW	The bird genus Ulula (owls)	DMP · 714
715 Transvaalia	1911 LX	Transvaal, South Africa; this was the first minor planet discovered from there	DMP · 715
716 Berkeley	1911 MD	University of California, Berkeley	DMP · 716
717 Wisibada	1911 MJ	Wiesbaden, Germany, where the discoverer Franz Kaiser was born	DMP · 717
718 Erida	1911 MS	Erida, daughter of American astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner (1868–1953)	DMP · 718
719 Albert	1911 MT	Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild, benefactor of the Vienna Observatory	DMP · 719
720 Bohlinia	1911 MW	Karl Petrus Theodor Bohlin, Swedish astronomer, on the occasion of his 65th birthday	DMP · 720
721 Tabora	1911 MZ	The Tabora, an ocean liner visited during an astronomical conference	DMP · 721
722 Frieda	1911 NA	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Karl Hillebrand ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 722
723 Hammonia	1911 NB	Hamburg, Germany	DMP · 723
724 Hapag	1911 NC	The Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), after the shipping line	DMP · 724
725 Amanda	1911 ND	Amanda Schorr, wife of German astronomer Richard Schorr, see (1235)	DMP · 725
726 Joëlla	1911 NM	Feminine form of Joël, for Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer	DMP · 726
727 Nipponia	1912 NT	Japan, where the minor planet was accidentally discovered twice (1900 FE; 1908 CV) by Shin Hirayama	DMP · 727
728 Leonisis	1912 NU	Leo Gans, president of the Physical Society at Frankfurt, Germany (on the occasion of his 70th birthday), and the goddess Isis, emblem of the Society	DMP · 728
729 Watsonia	1912 OD	James Craig Watson (1838–1880), Canadian-American astronomer	DMP · 729
730 Athanasia	1912 OK	Greek for immortality	DMP · 730
731 Sorga	1912 OQ	Surga, Indonesian for "heavens"	DMP · 731
732 Tjilaki	1912 OR	Tjilaki (Cilaki) river and village near Malabar, Indonesia	DMP · 732
733 Mocia	1912 PF	Werner "Mok" Wolf, son of the German discoverer Max Wolf	DMP · 733
734 Benda	1912 PH	Anna Benda, wife of Austrian discoverer Johann Palisa. (In some publications the name has been erroneously attributed to Czech composer Karel Bendl, 1838–1897)	DMP · 734
735 Marghanna	1912 PY	Margarete Vogt, mother of German discoverer Heinrich Vogt; and Hanna, a relative of his	DMP · 735
736 Harvard	1912 PZ	Harvard University, US	DMP · 736
737 Arequipa	1912 QB	Arequipa, Peru, where Harvard University had an observing station	DMP · 737
738 Alagasta	1913 QO	Original name of the German city Gau-Algesheim (Gaualgesheim), native city of discoverer's family (Franz Kaiser)	DMP · 738
739 Mandeville	1913 QR	Mandeville, Jamaica	DMP · 739
740 Cantabia	1913 QS	Contraction of Cantabrigia, Latin for Cambridge, named in honour of Cambridge, Massachusetts and its Harvard University	DMP · 740
741 Botolphia	1913 QT	Saint Botolph, 7th-century founder of the monastery that would become Boston, Lincolnshire, England	DMP · 741
742 Edisona	1913 QU	Thomas Edison, American inventor	DMP · 742
743 Eugenisis	1913 QV	Eugenisis, for "good creation" (composed Greek word: "eu" for good, well and "genesis" for creation). It was named by the discoverer Franz Kaiser for the birth of his daughter.	DMP · 743
744 Aguntina	1913 QW	Aguntinum, Roman colony in the province of Noricum, near Lienz	DMP · 744
745 Mauritia	1913 QX	Saint Maurice (Saint Mauritius), patron saint of a church in Wiesbaden, Germany	DMP · 745
746 Marlu	1913 QY	Marie-Louise Kaiser, a German physician and daughter of the discoverer Franz Kaiser	DMP · 746
747 Winchester	1913 QZ	Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, location of the Taunton Observatory (803) where this asteroid was discovered by Joel Hastings Metcalf	DMP · 747
748 Simeïsa	1913 RD	Simeïs Observatory, Crimea, Ukraine, the discovery site	DMP · 748
749 Malzovia	1913 RF	Nikolai Sergeevich Maltsov, Russian amateur astronomer, founder of Simeïs Observatory	DMP · 749
750 Oskar	1913 RG	Oskar Ruben von Rothschild (1888–1909), the youngest son of Albert Salomon Anselm von Rothschild	DMP · 750
751 Faïna	1913 RK	Faina Mikhajlovna Neujmina, colleague and first wife of the discoverer Grigory Neujmin	DMP · 751
752 Sulamitis	1913 RL	Sulamith, Biblical woman identified with the Queen of Sheba	DMP · 752
753 Tiflis	1913 RM	Tbilisi, Georgia, native city of discoverer Grigory Neujmin	DMP · 753
754 Malabar	1906 UT	Malabar, Java, Indonesia, commemorating the Dutch-German solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Christmas Island	DMP · 754
755 Quintilla	1908 CZ	Feminine Italian first name, chosen because no other planet had a name beginning with Q so far	DMP · 755
756 Lilliana	1908 DC	Sister of American astronomer Harlow Shapley	DMP · 756
757 Portlandia	1908 EJ	Portland, Maine, US, where the discoverer was a church minister at the time of his death	DMP · 757
758 Mancunia	1912 PE	Latin name of Manchester, UK, the discoverer's native city	DMP · 758
759 Vinifera	1913 SJ	Vitis vinifera, the wine grape, former means of livelihood of the discoverer's ancestors	DMP · 759
760 Massinga	1913 SL	Adam Massinger, German astronomer	DMP · 760
761 Brendelia	1913 SO	Martin Brendel (Otto Rudolph Martin Brendel), German astronomer, director of the International Planet Institute, who chose this minor planet amongst Kaiser's unnamed discoveries for its small orbital inclination	DMP · 761
762 Pulcova	1913 SQ	Pulkovo Heights, hills near St. Petersburg, site of the oldest Russian observatory, Pulkovo Observatory	DMP · 762
763 Cupido	1913 ST	Cupid, Roman god, because of the minor planet's relative closeness to the Sun	DMP · 763
764 Gedania	1913 SU	Gdańsk, Poland, at the observatory of which the discoverer was first assistant 1921–1925	DMP · 764
765 Mattiaca	1913 SV	Mattiacum, Latin name for Wiesbaden, Germany, the discoverer's home town	DMP · 765
766 Moguntia	1913 SW	Latin name for Mainz, Germany, at the University of which the discoverer taught	DMP · 766
767 Bondia	1913 SX	William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, American father and son, astronomers	DMP · 767
768 Struveana	1913 SZ	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Otto Wilhelm Struve and Hermann Struve, Russo-German astronomers	DMP · 768
769 Tatjana	1913 TA	A colleague of the discover, or perhaps the heroine of Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin	DMP · 769
770 Bali	1913 TE	Bali, King of the Daityas in the Hindu Puranas	DMP · 770
771 Libera	1913 TO	A friend of the discoverer (the minor planet was named by his widow)	DMP · 771
772 Tanete	1913 TR	Tanete, Sulawesi, Indonesia ? ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 772
773 Irmintraud	1913 TV	Feminine German first name, common in old myths and legends	DMP · 773
774 Armor	1913 TW	Armorica, Celtic name for Northwest France (Brittany and Normandy)	DMP · 774
775 Lumière	1914 TX	Auguste and Louis Lumière, French cinematic pioneers	DMP · 775
776 Berbericia	1914 TY	Adolf Berberich, German astronomer	DMP · 776
777 Gutemberga	1914 TZ	Johann Gensfleisch (Gutenberg), printing pioneer	DMP · 777
778 Theobalda	1914 UA	Theobald Kaiser, the discoverer's father	DMP · 778
779 Nina	1914 UB	Nina Nikolaevna Neujmina (1877–1956), mathematician and sister of Russian discoverer Grigory Neujmin	DMP · 779
780 Armenia	1914 UC	Armenia	DMP · 780
781 Kartvelia	1914 UF	Kartveli, Georgian name for the Georgian people	DMP · 781
782 Montefiore	1914 UK	Arthur Montefiore, secretary of Jackson's Arctic Expedition (1894–1898)	DMP · 782
783 Nora	1914 UL	Heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House	DMP · 783
784 Pickeringia	1914 UM	Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering, American astronomer brothers	DMP · 784
785 Zwetana	1914 UN	Tsvetana Popova, daughter of K. Popov (also Popoff or Pophoff) of Sofia, Bulgaria	DMP · 785
786 Bredichina	1914 UO	Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin, Russian astronomer	DMP · 786
787 Moskva	1914 UQ	Moscow, Russia	DMP · 787
788 Hohensteina	1914 UR	Hohenstein, near Bad Schwalbach in the Rhine province in Germany, hometown of the wife of the discoverer; her family name (Breder or Broeder) derives from the castle's Order of Knighthood, "Breder von Hohenstein"	DMP · 788
789 Lena	1914 UU	Elena Petrovna Neujmina, mother of the discoverer ([H] simply says « feminine Russian first name, diminutive of Helen »)	DMP · 789
790 Pretoria	1912 NW	Pretoria, South Africa	DMP · 790
791 Ani	1914 UV	Ani, ruined city in Armenia	DMP · 791
792 Metcalfia	1907 ZC	Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer	DMP · 792
793 Arizona	1907 ZD	Arizona, US, location of Lowell Observatory	DMP · 793
794 Irenaea	1914 VB	Irene, daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 794
795 Fini	1914 VE	Diminutive of Josephine, feminine German/Austrian first name	DMP · 795
796 Sarita	1914 VH	unknown origin of name	DMP · 796
797 Montana	1914 VR	From mons, the Latin for mountain, in honour of Hamburg Observatory, located at Bergedorf, in Germany. It was the observatory's first minor-planet discovery	DMP · 797
798 Ruth	1914 VT	Ruth, Biblical heroine in the Old Testament	DMP · 798
799 Gudula	1915 WO	German feminine first name, from the calendar Lahrer Hinkender Bote for January 9	DMP · 799
800 Kressmannia	1915 WP	Major A. Kressmann, who donated the "Kressmann refractor" to the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory in Germany	DMP · 800

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
801 Helwerthia	1915 WQ	Elise Helwerth-Wolf, the discoverer's mother	DMP · 801
802 Epyaxa	1915 WR	Wife of Syennesis, King of Cilicia.^[2]	DMP · 802
803 Picka	1915 WS	Friedrich Pick, Czech physician	DMP · 803
804 Hispania	1915 WT	Latin name for Spain, whence this is the first minor planet discovery	DMP · 804
805 Hormuthia	1915 WW	Hormuth Kopff, wife of German astronomer August Kopff	DMP · 805
806 Gyldénia	1915 WX	Hugo Gyldén (1841–1896), Swedish astronomer at Stockholm Observatory	DMP · 806
807 Ceraskia	1915 WY	Vitold Ceraski (1849–1925), Russian astronomer and stellar and solar photometrist at Moscow Observatory	DMP · 807
808 Merxia	1901 GY	Adalbert Merx, the discoverer's father-in-law	DMP · 808
809 Lundia	1915 XP	Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden	DMP · 809
810 Atossa	1915 XQ	Atossa, ancient Persian queen, daughter of Cyrus, wife of Darius	DMP · 810
811 Nauheima	1915 XR	Bad Nauheim, Germany	DMP · 811
812 Adele	1915 XV	Sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer	DMP · 812
813 Baumeia	1915 YR	"H. Baum", an astronomy student who died in World War I	DMP · 813
814 Tauris	1916 YT	Tauris, ancient name of Crimea, Ukraine (Schmadel says "Tauric Mount", but there is no such mountain)	DMP · 814
815 Coppelia	1916 YU	Coppélia, ballet by Léo Delibes	DMP · 815
816 Juliana	1916 YV	Queen Juliana of the Netherlands	DMP · 816
817 Annika	1916 YW	unknown origin of name	DMP · 817
818 Kapteynia	1916 YZ	Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer	DMP · 818
819 Barnardiana	1916 ZA	Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer	DMP · 819
820 Adriana	1916 ZB	unknown origin of name	DMP · 820
821 Fanny	1916 ZC	unknown origin of name	DMP · 821
822 Lalage	1916 ZD	unknown origin of name	DMP · 822
823 Sisigambis	1916 ZG	Sisygambis, mother of Darius III of Persia	DMP · 823
824 Anastasia	1916 ZH	Anastasia Semenoff, an acquaintance of Russian discoverer Grigory Neujmin	DMP · 824
825 Tanina	1916 ZL	Tanina, one of the White Russian princesses whose family were slaughtered during the 1918 revolution	DMP · 825
826 Henrika	1916 ZO	unknown origin of name	DMP · 826
827 Wolfiana	1916 ZW	Max Wolf, German astronomer	DMP · 827
828 Lindemannia	1916 ZX	Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-born British amateur astronomer, inventor of the electrometer †	DMP · 828
829 Academia	1916 ZY	The Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, on the occasion of its 200th anniversary	DMP · 829
830 Petropolitana	1916 ZZ	Saint Petersburg, Russia ("Petropolis" in Latin)	DMP · 830
831 Stateira	1916 AA	Stateira, wife of Artaxerxes II of Persia	DMP · 831
832 Karin	1916 AB	Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden	DMP · 832
833 Monica	1916 AC	unknown origin of name	DMP · 833
834 Burnhamia	1916 AD	Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer	DMP · 834
835 Olivia	1916 AE	unknown origin of name	DMP · 835
836 Jole	1916 AF	Iole, wife of divine hero Heracles in Greek mythology	DMP · 836
837 Schwarzschilda	1916 AG	Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer	DMP · 837
838 Seraphina	1916 AH	unknown origin of name	DMP · 838
839 Valborg	1916 AJ	Valborg, heroine of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger's play Axel e Valborg	DMP · 839
840 Zenobia	1916 AK	Zenobia, Slavic goddess of hunting (No such goddess is known, and the name Zenobia is not Slavic in form. There were several Classical Zenobias, however, most notably Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra.)	DMP · 840
841 Arabella	1916 AL	Arabella, opera by Richard Strauss	DMP · 841
842 Kerstin	1916 AM	German feminine first name	DMP · 842
843 Nicolaia	1916 AN	Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, father of the discoverer, Holger Thiele	DMP · 843
844 Leontina	1916 AP	Lienz, Austria, birthplace of the discoverer (named by his widow)	DMP · 844
845 Naëma	1916 AS	unknown origin of name	DMP · 845
846 Lipperta	1916 AT	Eduard Lippert, German businessman and philanthropist, benefactor of Hamburg Observatory † ‡	DMP · 846
847 Agnia	1915 XX	Agnia Ivanovna Bad'ina (1877–1956), a Russian physician from Simeiz, on the Crimean peninsula	DMP · 847
848 Inna	1915 XS	Nikolaevna Leman-Balanovskaya (1881–1945), a Russian astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory near St Petersburg	DMP · 848
849 Ara	1912 NY	American Relief Administration (ARA), in appreciation of the help it gave during the Russian famine of 1922–1923	DMP · 849
850 Altona	1916 S24	Altona, Germany, location of the observatory at which H. C. Schumacher began publication of the astronomical journal Astronomische Nachrichten in 1821	DMP · 850
851 Zeissia	1916 S26	Zeiss Optical Works	DMP · 851
852 Wladilena	1916 S27	Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Russian communist revolutionary, politician and Soviet leader	DMP · 852
853 Nansenia	1916 S28	Fridtjof Nansen (1861–1930), Norwegian polar explorer	DMP · 853
854 Frostia	1916 S29	Edwin Brant Frost (1866–1935), an American astronomer	DMP · 854
855 Newcombia	1916 ZP	Simon Newcomb (1835–1909), a Canadian–American professor of astronomy and director of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office at United States Naval Observatory^[3]	DMP · 855
856 Backlunda	1916 S30	Johan Oskar Backlund (Oscar Andreevich Backlund), Swedish-Russian astronomer	DMP · 856
857 Glasenappia	1916 S33	Sergey Glazenap (1848–1937), a Soviet astronomer, director of both St. Petersburg and Pulkovo Observatory and founder of the Russian Astronomical Society	DMP · 857
858 El Djezaïr	1916 a	Arabian name of Algiers, Algeria (meaning "the islands")	DMP · 858
859 Bouzaréah	1916 c	Bouzaréah, Algiers, site of Algiers Observatory	DMP · 859
860 Ursina	1917 BD	unknown origin of name	DMP · 860
861 Aïda	1917 BE	Aïda, opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi	DMP · 861
862 Franzia	1917 BF	Franz Wolf, the discoverer's son	DMP · 862
863 Benkoela	1917 BH	Benkoelen, a city on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia (possibly)	DMP · 863
864 Aase	A921 SB	Character in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt	DMP · 864
865 Zubaida	1917 BO	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan	DMP · 865
866 Fatme	1917 BQ	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan	DMP · 866
867 Kovacia	1917 BS	Friedrich Kovacs, physician who treated the discoverer's wife	DMP · 867
868 Lova	1917 BU	unknown origin of name	DMP · 868
869 Mellena	1917 BV	Werner von Melle, mayor of Hamburg who promoted the establishment of the University of Hamburg †	DMP · 869
870 Manto	1917 BX	Manto, mythological Greek soothsayer, erector of Apollo's oracle in Claros	DMP · 870
871 Amneris	1917 BY	Amneris, character in Verdi's opera Aida	DMP · 871
872 Holda	1917 BZ	Edward S. Holden (1846–1914), American astronomer at Lick Observatory and fifth president of the University of California	DMP · 872
873 Mechthild	1917 CA	Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th-century German mystic	DMP · 873
874 Rotraut	1917 CC	Feminine German first name	DMP · 874
875 Nymphe	1917 CF	The Nymphs, Greek mythological figures	DMP · 875
876 Scott	1917 CH	Miss E. Scott, of the Society of Friends in Vienna, Austria, a friend of discoverer Johann Palisa. This minor planet has also been erroneously attributed to the English polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott	DMP · 876
877 Walküre	1915 S7	The Valkyries, mythological German warrior women ([H] has no explanation)	DMP · 877
878 Mildred	1916 f	Mildred, daughter of American astronomer Harlow Shapley	DMP · 878
879 Ricarda	1917 CJ	Ricarda Huch, German poet	DMP · 879
880 Herba	1917 CK	Herba, Greek god of misery and poverty	DMP · 880
881 Athene	1917 CL	Athena, Greek goddess, also known as Minerva	DMP · 881
882 Swetlana	1917 CM	unknown origin of name	DMP · 882
883 Matterania	1917 CP	August Matter, maker of photographic plates for the discoverer, German astronomer Max Wolf	DMP · 883
884 Priamus	1917 CQ	Priam, Trojan king	DMP · 884
885 Ulrike	1917 CX	Ulrike von Levetzow (1804–1899), a friend and the last love of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; alternatively: Ulrica, a character in Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera	DMP · 885
886 Washingtonia	1917 b	George Washington, American president	DMP · 886
887 Alinda	1918 DB	Alinda (Caria), ancient city in Asia Minor; alternatively: Alinda – the Man in the Moon in Australian aboriginal mythology	DMP · 887
888 Parysatis	1918 DC	Parysatis, wife of Darius II of Persia	DMP · 888
889 Erynia	1918 DG	The Erinyes, or Furies, Greek mythological creatures	DMP · 889
890 Waltraut	1918 DK	Waltraut, character in Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung	DMP · 890
891 Gunhild	1918 DQ	Feminine German first name	DMP · 891
892 Seeligeria	1918 DR	Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger, Austrian-German astronomer	DMP · 892
893 Leopoldina	1918 DS	The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina	DMP · 893
894 Erda	1918 DT	Erda, Norse goddess	DMP · 894
895 Helio	1918 DU	Helium, whose spectrum Paschen and Runge investigated together (Paschen named it at Wolf's request)	DMP · 895
896 Sphinx	1918 DV	The Sphinx, Greek mythological monster	DMP · 896
897 Lysistrata	1918 DZ	Lysistrata, Aristophanes' anti-war comedy	DMP · 897
898 Hildegard	1918 EA	Saint Hildegard of Bingen †	DMP · 898
899 Jokaste	1918 EB	Jocasta, mother and wife of Oedipus, the mythical Greek king of Thebes	DMP · 899
900 Rosalinde	1918 EC	Rosalinde, character in Johann Strauss' opera Die Fledermaus	DMP · 900

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
901 Brunsia	1918 EE	Ernst Heinrich Bruns, German astronomer	DMP · 901
902 Probitas	1918 EJ	Probity, a quality attributed to the late discoverer	DMP · 902
903 Nealley	1918 EM	Amateur astronomer from New York	DMP · 903
904 Rockefellia	1918 EO	John D. Rockefeller, American philanthropist	DMP · 904
905 Universitas	1918 ES	University of Hamburg, Germany †	DMP · 905
906 Repsolda	1918 ET	Johann Georg Repsold, optical manufacturer †	DMP · 906
907 Rhoda	1918 EU	Wife of American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard	DMP · 907
908 Buda	1918 EX	Buda, Hungary, part of Budapest	DMP · 908
909 Ulla	1919 FA	Ulla Ahrens, daughter of a friend of the discoverer	DMP · 909
910 Anneliese	1919 FB	Friend of German astronomer Julius Dick at Babelsberg Observatory, Germany	DMP · 910
911 Agamemnon	1919 FD	Agamemnon, Greek king	DMP · 911
912 Maritima	1919 FJ	The annual end-of-term three- to four-day ocean liner trips on the North Sea organised by the University of Hamburg †	DMP · 912
913 Otila	1919 FL	Female name chosen by discoverer Karl Reinmuth from the calendar Der Lahrer hinkende Bote	DMP · 913
914 Palisana	1919 FN	Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer	DMP · 914
915 Cosette	1918 b	Youngest daughter of the discoverer	DMP · 915
916 America	1915 S1	America, for the help rendered by the American Relief Administration (under Herbert C. Hoover) during the famine in Crimea	DMP · 916
917 Lyka	1915 S4	A friend of the discoverer's sister, or: a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis	DMP · 917
918 Itha	1919 FR	Saint Itha, whose feast day is January 15	DMP · 918
919 Ilsebill	1918 EQ	Character in 'The Fisherman and his Wife' by the Brothers Grimm	DMP · 919
920 Rogeria	1919 FT	Female first name (not named after a specific person)	DMP · 920
921 Jovita	1919 FV	Saint Jovita, whose feast day is February 15	DMP · 921
922 Schlutia	1919 FW	German businessman Edgar Schlubach and Henry Frederic Tiarks, FRAS, British banker and amateur astronomer, who together financed the solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Java	DMP · 922
923 Herluga	1919 GB	Saint Herluga, whose feast day is March 2	DMP · 923
924 Toni	1919 GC	Female first name (not named after a specific person)	DMP · 924
925 Alphonsina	1920 GM	Alfonso X of Castile and Alfonso XIII of Spain	DMP · 925
926 Imhilde	1920 GN	Saint Imhilde, whose feast day is May 15	DMP · 926
927 Ratisbona	1920 GO	Latin name of Regensburg, Germany	DMP · 927
928 Hildrun	1920 GP	Saint Hildrun, whose feast day is May 19	DMP · 928
929 Algunde	1920 GR	Saint Algunde (Adelgunde), whose feast day is January 30	DMP · 929
930 Westphalia	1920 GS	Westphalia, Germany, birthplace of the discoverer	DMP · 930
931 Whittemora	1920 GU	Thomas Edward Whittemore, American physicist	DMP · 931
932 Hooveria	1920 GV	Herbert C. Hoover, American president, then secretary of state, in recognition of his help to Austria after World War I	DMP · 932
933 Susi	1927 CH	Wife of German astronomer Kasimir Graff	DMP · 933
934 Thüringia	1920 HK	The Thüringia, an Atlantic liner on which German astronomer Walter Baade travelled on his visits to New York; the captain was an amateur astronomer, and was invited to name one of Baade's asteroids †	DMP · 934
935 Clivia	1920 HM	Clivia, genus of flowering plant	DMP · 935
936 Kunigunde	1920 HN	Saint Kunigunde (Cunigunde of Luxemburg), whose feast day is March 3	DMP · 936
937 Bethgea	1920 HO	Hans Bethge, German poet	DMP · 937
938 Chlosinde	1920 HQ	Saint Chlosinde, whose feast day is June 21	DMP · 938
939 Isberga	1920 HR	Saint Isberga, whose feast day is January 24	DMP · 939
940 Kordula	1920 HT	Saint Cordula, whose feast day is October 22	DMP · 940
941 Murray	1920 HV	Gilbert Murray, British classical scholar and diplomat who helped Austria in 1920 through the League of Nations	DMP · 941
942 Romilda	1920 HW	Saint Romilda, whose feast day is March 25	DMP · 942
943 Begonia	1920 HX	Begonia, genus of herbs and flowers	DMP · 943
944 Hidalgo	1920 HZ	Miguel Hidalgo, father of the independence of Mexico, where German astronomers went in 1923 to observe a solar eclipse †	DMP · 944
945 Barcelona	1921 JB	Barcelona, Spain, where the discoverer was born and the asteroid discovered	DMP · 945
946 Poësia	1921 JC	Poësia, goddess of poetry	DMP · 946
947 Monterosa	1921 JD	The Monterosa, a ship used by the University of Hamburg on their outings on the North Sea †	DMP · 947
948 Jucunda	1921 JE	Saint Jucunda of Nicomedia, from a collection of lives of Saints (feast day November 25)	DMP · 948
949 Hel	1921 JK	Hel, Norse goddess	DMP · 949
950 Ahrensa	1921 JP	The Ahrens family, friends of the discoverer	DMP · 950
951 Gaspra	1916 S45	Gaspra, Ukraine	DMP · 951
952 Caia	1916 S61	Character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis	DMP · 952
953 Painleva	1921 JT	Paul Painlevé, French mathematician	DMP · 953
954 Li	1921 JU	Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife	DMP · 954
955 Alstede	1921 JV	Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife	DMP · 955
956 Elisa	1921 JW	Elisa Reinmuth, the discoverer's mother	DMP · 956
957 Camelia	1921 JX	Camellia, genus of flowering plants	DMP · 957
958 Asplinda	1921 KC	Bror Ansgar Asplind (1890–1954), Swedish astronomer	DMP · 958
959 Arne	1921 KF	Arne Asplind, son of Swedish astronomer Bror Asplind, see 958 Asplinda	DMP · 959
960 Birgit	1921 KH	Birgit Asplind, daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Asplind, see 958 Asplinda	DMP · 960
961 Gunnie	1921 KM	Gunnie Asplind, daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Asplind, see 958 Asplinda	DMP · 961
962 Aslög	1921 KP	Aslög, mythological Norse woman	DMP · 962
963 Iduberga	1921 KR	Saint Iduberga (Saint Ida of Nivelles), whose feast day is June 28	DMP · 963
964 Subamara	1921 KS	Latin for 'very bitter' (referring to the observing conditions at the Vienna Observatory)	DMP · 964
965 Angelica	1921 KT	Angelica Hartmann, the discoverer's wife	DMP · 965
966 Muschi	1921 KU	Nickname ("Kitty") of the wife of German astronomer Walter Baade, the discoverer	DMP · 966
967 Helionape	1921 KV	Greek version of the name of Adolf Ritter von Sonnenthal, an Austrian actor	DMP · 967
968 Petunia	1921 KW	Petunia, a genus of flowering plants	DMP · 968
969 Leocadia	1921 KZ	Feminine Russian first name	DMP · 969
970 Primula	1921 LB	The flower genus Primula (primroses)	DMP · 970
971 Alsatia	1921 LF	Alsace, France; the discoverer first named it "Alsace", but the Rechen Institut changed that to "Alsatia"	DMP · 971
972 Cohnia	1922 LK	Fritz Cohn, German astronomer	DMP · 972
973 Aralia	1922 LR	Aralia, genus of ivy-like plant	DMP · 973
974 Lioba	1922 LS	Saint Lioba (Lioba von Tauberbischofsheim), whose feast day is December 21	DMP · 974
975 Perseverantia	1922 LT	Perseverance, a quality posthumously attributed to the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa	DMP · 975
976 Benjamina	1922 LU	Benjamin, son of discoverer Benjamin Jekhowsky	DMP · 976
977 Philippa	1922 LV	Baron Philippe de Rothschild, French financier	DMP · 977
978 Aidamina	1922 LY	Aida Minaievna, a friend of the discoverer's family	DMP · 978
979 Ilsewa	1922 MC	Ilse Waldorf, an acquaintance of the discoverer	DMP · 979
980 Anacostia	1921 W19	Anacostia, Washington, DC, and the nearby Anacostia River	DMP · 980
981 Martina	1917 S92	Henri Martin, French revolutionary	DMP · 981
982 Franklina	1922 MD	John Franklin Adams (1843–1912), British amateur astronomer and stellar cartographer	DMP · 982
983 Gunila	1922 ME	Saint Gunila, whose feast day is November 9	DMP · 983
984 Gretia	1922 MH	Sister-in-law of German astronomer Albrecht Kahrstedt	DMP · 984
985 Rosina	1922 MO	Saint Rosina, whose feast day is July 19	DMP · 985
986 Amelia	1922 MQ	Amelia, wife of discoverer Josep Comas i Solà	DMP · 986
987 Wallia	1922 MR	Saint Wallia, whose feast day is October 13	DMP · 987
988 Appella	1922 MT	Paul Émile Appell, French astronomer	DMP · 988
989 Schwassmannia	1922 MW	Arnold Schwassmann, German astronomer †	DMP · 989
990 Yerkes	1922 MZ	Yerkes Observatory, where the asteroid was discovered	DMP · 990
991 McDonalda	1922 NB	McDonald Observatory, Texas, originally endowed by the Texas banker William Johnson McDonald	DMP · 991
992 Swasey	1922 ND	Ambrose Swasey, American benefactor, co-founder, with Worcester Reed Warner of the Warner & Swasey Company which manufactured astronomical telescopes and precision instruments, including the McDonald Observatory 82-inch reflector telescope. They gave their own observatory to Case Western University and it took the name Warner and Swasey Observatory.	DMP · 992
993 Moultona	1923 NJ	Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and mathematician	DMP · 993
994 Otthild	1923 NL	Saint Otthild, whose feast day is July 2	DMP · 994
995 Sternberga	1923 NP	Pavel Karlovich Shternberg, Russian astronomer	DMP · 995
996 Hilaritas	1923 NM	Contentedness, a quality posthumously attributed to the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa	DMP · 996
997 Priska	1923 NR	Saint Priska (Saint Priscilla), whose feast days is January 18	DMP · 997
998 Bodea	1923 NU	Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer	DMP · 998
999 Zachia	1923 NW	Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, German astronomer †	DMP · 999
1000 Piazzia	1923 NZ	Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer	DMP · 1000

References

↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
↑ http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3282.html
↑ The USNO Asteroid Connection, The USNO Transit, volume 1, issue 2, April/May 2009

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[1] Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.

[2] ttp://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/3282.html

[USNO_Transit_1_2-3] The USNO Asteroid Connection, The USNO Transit, volume 1, issue 2, April/May 2009