[meteorite-list] Named minor planets

Ron Baalke baalke at zagami.jpl.nasa.gov
Wed Jun 29 12:05:06 EDT 2011



There's nearly 300,000 numbered asteroids now.  All of them are eligible to be named,
though I'm not sure how many of those have been named yet, but it's a long list.

I have several named asteroids list on my Space Calendar

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar

Some interesting asteroids that may be of interest this list include:

1877 Marsden
2068 Dangreen 
2074 Shoemaker
2099 Opik
2198 Ceplecha
2246 Bowell
2409 Chapman
2410 Morrison 
2421 Nininger
2554 Skiff 
2710 Veverka
2753 Duncan
2873 Binzel
2874 Jim Young
2887 Krinov
2929 Harris
2956 Yeomans
3066 McFadden
3123 Dunham
3169 Ostro
3173 McNaught
3192 A'Hearn
3255 Tholen
3259 Brownlee
3267 Glo
3594 Scotti
3635 Kreutz
3673 Levy
3693 Barringer 
3783 Morris
4151 Alanhale
4255 Spacewatch
4337 Arecibo
4433 Goldstone
4446 Carolyn
4701 Milani
4766 Malin 
4768 Hartley
4969 Lawrence
4783 Wasson 
5000 IAU
5066 Garradd
5223 McSween
5430 Luu 
5471 Tunguska 
5553 Chodas
5682 Beresford
5811 Keck
5948 Longo
6030 Zolensky
6135 Billowen
6226 Paulwarren
6227 Alanrubin
6373 Stern 
6434 Jewitt
6524 Baalke
6560 Pravdo
6639 Marchis
6775 Giorgini  
7086 Bopp
7231 Porco
7273 Garyhuss
7291 Hyakutake 
7392 Kowalski
7610 Sudbury
8721 AMOS
8734 Warner
8952 ODAS
9250 Chamberlin
9523 Torino
10001 Palermo 
10799 Yucatan
11714 Mikebrown
12104 Chesley 
12397 Peterbrown 
12574 LONEOS 
15058 Billcooke 
17033 Rusty 
17898 Scottsheppard
18725 Atacama
21459 Chrisrussell
21564 Widmanstatten
32096 Puckett
35334 Yarkovsky
48300 Kronk
64070 NEAT 
73491 Robmatson 
78756 Sloan
84225 Verish
99905 Jeffgrossman 
118401 LINEAR
132904 Notkin
163800 Richardnorton 
149244 Kriegh
195998 Skipwilson

Ron Baalke



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