Meanings of asteroid names (5501-6000)
Encyclopedia
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
5501–5600
5501 - -
5502 Brashear
5502 Brashear
5502 Brashear is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
1984 EC John Brashear
John Brashear
Dr. John Alfred Brashear was an American astronomer and instrument builder.- Life and work :Brashear was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, a town 35 miles south of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River. His father, Basil Brown Brashear, was a saddler, and his mother, Julia Smith Brashear, was a...

, American astronomer and instrument builder*
5503 - -
5504 Lanzerotti
5504 Lanzerotti
5504 Lanzerotti is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1985 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
Louis John Lanzerotti, American astronomer*
5505 Rundetaarn
5505 Rundetaarn
5505 Rundetaarn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 6, 1986 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

 
The Rundetårn
Rundetårn
The Rundetårn is a 17th-century tower located in central Copenhagen, Denmark. One of the many architectural projects of Christian IV, it was built as an astronomical observatory...

, Copenhagen
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 ("the Round Tower") an astronomical observatory built in Copenhagen by King Christian IV
5506 - -
5507 Niijima
5507 Niijima
5507 Niijima is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1987 by Suzuki and Urata at Toyota.- External links :*...

 
1987 UJ Tsuneo Niijima
Tsuneo Niijima
is a Japanese astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He co-discovered the periodic comet 112P/Urata-Niijima.Asteroid 5507 Niijima is named after him.-References:...

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5508 - 1988 EB -
5509 Rennsteig
5509 Rennsteig
5509 Rennsteig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 8, 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
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5510 - -
5511 Cloanthus
5511 Cloanthus
5511 Cloanthus is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 8, 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Cloanthus, mythical person related to Trojan War: Cloanthus wins the ship race held as part of Anchises' funeral games (Aeneid
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...

, Book V)*
5512 - -
5513 Yukio
5513 Yukio
5513 Yukio is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 27, 1988 by Kakei-Kizawa-Urata at Oohira.- External links :*...

 
1988 WB Yukio Hasegawa, Japanese amateur astronomer
5514 - -
5515 - -
5516 Jawilliamson
5516 Jawilliamson
5516 Jawilliamson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 JK Jack Williamson
Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson , who wrote as Jack Williamson was a U.S. writer often referred to as the "Dean of Science Fiction" following the death in 1988 of Robert A...

, American science-fiction author
5517 Johnerogers
5517 Johnerogers
5517 Johnerogers is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 4, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 LJ John E. Rogers, American amateur astronomer*
5518 Mariobotta
5518 Mariobotta
5518 Mariobotta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 30, 1989 by J. M. Baur at Chions.- External links :*...

 
1989 YF Mario Botta
Mario Botta
Mario Botta is a Swiss architect. He studied at the Liceo Artistico in Milan and the IUAV in Venice. His ideas were influenced by Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Louis Kahn. He opened his own practice in 1970 in Lugano.-Career:...

, Swiss architect*
5519 Lellouch
5519 Lellouch
5519 Lellouch is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 23, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Emmanuel Lellouch, French astronomer*
5520 Natori
5520 Natori
5520 Natori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1990 by T. Urata at Oohira.- External links :*...

 
1990 RB Akira Natori, Japanese astronomer †
5521 Morpurgo
5521 Morpurgo
5521 Morpurgo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 15, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Pieter Anthony Bridge Morpurgo, British producer (1981-1998) of the long-running BBC programme The Sky at Night
The Sky at Night
The Sky at Night is a monthly documentary television programme on astronomy produced by the BBC. The show has had the same permanent presenter, Sir Patrick Moore, from its first airing on 24 April 1957, making it the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history.The...

*
5522 De Rop
5522 De Rop
5522 De Rop is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 3, 1991 by Elst, E. W. at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Willy De Rop, Belgian astronomer
5523 Luminet
5523 Luminet
5523 Luminet is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.The French composer Thérèse Brenet wrote a work for concert band named for this asteroid, which was premièred in Paris in 2003 by the Musique de L'armée de Terre in Paris.- External links :*...

 
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specialized in black holes and cosmology. He works as research director for the CNRS , and is a member of the Laboratoire Univers et Théories of the observatory of Paris-Meudon.The asteroid 5523 Luminet, was named after him .-Timeline:* 2003 - An...

, French astrophysicist, essayist, novelist, and poet
5524 Lecacheux
5524 Lecacheux
5524 Lecacheux is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Jean Lecacheux, French astronomer*
5525 - -
5526 Kenzo
5526 Kenzo
5526 Kenzo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 18, 1991 by T. Urata at Oohira.- External links :*...

 
Kenzo Suzuki
Kenzo Suzuki (astronomer)
is a Japanese astronomer from Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Between 1984 and 1992, he, along with Takeshi Urata, discovered 34 minor planets.He is the discoverer of asteroid 3533 Toyota and it is named after his home town.Asteroid 5526 Kenzo is named after him....

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5527 - -
5528 - 1992 AJ -
5529 Perry
5529 Perry
5529 Perry is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2557 P-L Marcus Perry, chief engineer at Spacewatch
Spacewatch
Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona led by Robert S. McMillan that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets...

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5530 Eisinga
5530 Eisinga
5530 Eisinga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2835 P-L Eise Eisinga
Eise Eisinga
Eise Jeltes Eisinga was a Dutch amateur astronomer who built an orrery in his house in Franeker, Netherlands. The orrery still exists and is the oldest functioning planetarium in the world.-Biography:...

, Frisian astronomer who built a planetarium
5531 Carolientje
5531 Carolientje
5531 Carolientje is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1051 T-2 Caroline van Houten, granddaughter of the Dutch astronomers (husband and wife) Cornelis
Cornelis Johannes van Houten
Cornelis Johannes van Houten was a Dutch astronomer, sometimes referred to as Kees van Houten.Born in The Hague, he spent his entire career at Leiden University except for a brief period as research assistant at Yerkes Observatory...

 and Ingrid van Houten
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld
Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld is a Dutch astronomer.In a jointly-credited trio with Tom Gehrels and her husband Cornelis Johannes van Houten, she was an extremely prolific discoverer of many thousands of asteroids...

 
5532 Ichinohe
5532 Ichinohe
5532 Ichinohe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1932 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 
1932 CY Naozō Ichinohe, Japanese astronomer and science writer
5533 Bagrov
5533 Bagrov
5533 Bagrov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1935 by Pelageya Shajn at Simeis.- External links :*...

 
1935 SC Nikolaj Vasil'evich Bagrov, geographer at the Simferopol State University [MPC 34621]
5534 - 1941 UN -
5535 Annefrank
5535 Annefrank
5535 Annefrank is an inner main-belt asteroid, and member of the Augusta family. It was discovered by Karl Reinmuth in 1942. It is named after Anne Frank, the Dutch-Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp...

 
1942 EM Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...

 (Annelies Frank), German Jewish diarist and
5536 Honeycutt
5536 Honeycutt
5536 Honeycutt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1955-08-23 at Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana University. It is named for astronomer Kent Honeycutt....

 
1955 QN R. Kent Honeycutt, American astronomer* or Jay Honeycutt, former Director of Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...

*
5537 - -
5538 Luichewoo
5538 Luichewoo
5538 Luichewoo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1964 by Purple Mountain Obs. at Nanking.- External links :*...

 
Lui Che-woo, Chinese mineralogist
5539 Limporyen
5539 Limporyen
5539 Limporyen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1965 by the Purple Mountain Observatory at Nanking.- External links :*...

 
Lim Por-yen
Lim Por-yen
Lim Por-yen was a Hong Kong textiles tycoon and banker. He founded the Lai Sun Group , and his family was the biggest shareholder of Asia Television .-Biography:...

, Hong Kong media tycoon and banker
5540 Smirnova
5540 Smirnova
5540 Smirnova is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1971 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova
Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova
Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova was a Russian astronomer.From 1966 to 1988 she was a staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy at Leningrad. She co-discovered the periodic comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh, along with Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh. She has also discovered various asteroids...

, Russian astronomer
5541 Seimei
5541 Seimei
5541 Seimei is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1976 by Kosai and Hurukawa at Kiso Observatory.- External links :*-References:...

 
Abe no Seimei
Abe no Seimei
was an onmyōji, a leading specialist of onmyōdō during the middle of the Heian Period in Japan. In addition to his prominence in history, he is a legendary figure in Japanese folklore and has been portrayed in a number of stories and films....

, Onmyōji
Onmyodo
is a traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism. It is based on the Chinese philosophies of Wu Xing and Yin and yang, introduced into Japan at the turn of the 6th century, and accepted as a practical system of divination...

5542 Moffatt
5542 Moffatt
- External links :*...

 
Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, of South Australia, a direct descendant of the brother of the first Astronomer Royal of England, Rev. John Flamsteed
John Flamsteed
Sir John Flamsteed FRS was an English astronomer and the first Astronomer Royal. He catalogued over 3000 stars.- Life :Flamsteed was born in Denby, Derbyshire, England, the only son of Stephen Flamsteed...

5543 Sharaf
5543 Sharaf
5543 Sharaf is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
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5544 Kazakov
5544 Kazakov
5544 Kazakov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 2, 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Matvej Fedorovich Kazakov, Russian architect [MPC 34621]
5545 Makarov
5545 Makarov
5545 Makarov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 1, 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5546 Salavat
5546 Salavat
5546 Salavat is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 18, 1979 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
1979 YS *
5547 Acadiau
5547 Acadiau
5547 Acadiau is a main belt asteroid discovered on June 11, 1980 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.-References:...

 
Acadia University
Acadia University
Acadia University is a predominantly undergraduate university located in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada with some graduate programs at the master's level and one at the doctoral level...

, Canada
5548 Thosharriot
5548 Thosharriot
5548 Thosharriot is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Zdeňka Vávrová at the Kleť Observatory near České Budějovice, Czech Republic, on October 3, 1980. It is named after Thomas Harriot, an English astronomer and mathematician.-External links:*...

 
1980 TH Thomas Harriot
Thomas Harriot
Thomas Harriot was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. Some sources give his surname as Harriott or Hariot or Heriot. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to Great Britain and Ireland...

, 16th-17th-century English mathematician, inventor of the < and > symbols, and who drew the Moon from Syon House, near London, on 1609 July 26 (O.S.), several months before Galileo
5549 Bobstefanik
5549 Bobstefanik
5549 Bobstefanik is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1981 by Harvard Observatory at Harvard.- External links :*...

 
Robert Phillip Stefanik, American astronomer*
5550 - -
5551 Glikson
5551 Glikson
5551 Glikson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1982 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1982 BJ Andrew Yoram Glikson, Australian geologist*
5552 Studnička
5552 Studnicka
5552 Studnička is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1688.6785129 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 16, 1982....

 
František Josef Studnička
František Josef Studnicka
František Josef Studnička was a Czech mathematician and popular pedagogue at Charles University in Prague. He was also an active contributor to astronomy and meteorology. He was known as the author of several textbooks and popular articles....

, Czech mathematician
5553 Chodas
5553 Chodas
5553 Chodas is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1984 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Paul Winchester Chodas, Canadian astronomer
5554 Keesey
5554 Keesey
5554 Keesey is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 15, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Michael Savage West Keesey, American astronomer*
5555 Wimberly
5555 Wimberly
5555 Wimberly is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 5, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Ravenel N. Wimberly (also as Ray or Raymond Wimberly), of the Solar System Dynamics Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

5556 - 1988 AL -
5557 Chimikeppuko
5557 Chimikeppuko
5557 Chimikeppuko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 7, 1989 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
Lake Chimikeppu, Hokkaidō, Japan
5558 - -
5559 - 1990 MV -
5560 Amytis
5560 Amytis
5560 Amytis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 27, 1990 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1990 MX Amytis
Amytis
Amytis was a Persian princess, daughter of king Xerxes I and queen Amestris, and sister of king Artaxerxes I. She was given in marriage to the nobleman Megabyzus...

, daughter of Cyaxares
Cyaxares
Cyaxares, Cyaxares the Great or Hvakhshathra , the son of King Phraortes, was the first king of Media. According to Herodotus, Cyaxares, grandson of Deioces, had a far greater military reputation than his father or grandfather, therefore he is often being described as the first official Median...

, king of Media
Medes
The MedesThe Medes...

, married to Nebuchadnezzar II, who constructed the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were considered to be one of the greatest Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one of the Wonders which may in fact have been legendary. They were purportedly built in the ancient city-state of Babylon, near present-day Al Hillah, Babil, in Iraq...

 for her*
5561 Iguchi
5561 Iguchi
5561 Iguchi is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1991 by Otomo, S. at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1991 QD Masatoshi Iguchi, president of the Photovoltaic Popularization Associaction in Japan
5562 - 1991 VS -
5563 - -
5564 - -
5565 Ukyounodaibu
5565 Ukyounodaibu
5565 Ukyounodaibu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 10, 1991 by Natori and Urata at Yakiimo.- External links :*...

 
Kenreimon-In Ukyō no Daibu, Japanese poet and lady-in-waiting attended to Taira no Tokuko
Taira no Tokuko
For the asteroid, see 5242 Kenreimonin, later known as , was the last Heike Imperial survivor from the modest vessel carrying the emperor in the great naval battle of Dan-no-ura....

5566 - -
5567 Durisen
5567 Durisen
- External links :*...

 
Richard Henry Durisen, American astronomer
5568 Mufson
5568 Mufson
- External links :*...

 
Stuart Lee Mufson, American astronomer
5569 Colby
5569 Colby
5569 Colby is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1974 by C. Torres at Cerro El Roble.- External links :*...

 
1974 FO Michael John Colby, American spacecraft integration manager of NASA's New Horizons
New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1. Its estimated arrival date at the Pluto-Charon system is July 14th, 2015...

 Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission
5570 Kirsan
5570 Kirsan
5570 Kirsan is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on April 4, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
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5571 Lesliegreen
5571 Lesliegreen
5571 Lesliegreen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 1, 1978 by K. W. Kamper at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1978 LG Leslie Green, British treasurer of the Junior Astronomical Society (now the Society for Popular Astronomy
Society for Popular Astronomy
The Society for Popular Astronomy is a national astronomical society based in the United Kingdom for beginners to amateur astronomy.It was founded in 1953 as the Junior Astronomical Society by experienced amateur astronomers including Patrick Moore, Ernest Noon and Eric Turner to encourage...

), 1967–2007
5572 Bliskunov
5572 Bliskunov
5572 Bliskunov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978 by Zhuravleva, L. V. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Aleksandr Ivanovich Bliskunov, Crimea
Crimea
Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

n orthopaedic surgeon [MPC 34621]
5573 - 1981 QX -
5574 - 1984 FS -
5575 - -
5576 Albanese
5576 Albanese
5576 Albanese is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1986 by CERGA at Caussols.- External links :*...

 
Giacomo Albanese
Giacomo Albanese
Giacomo Albanese was an Italian mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry. He took a permanent position in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1936.-External links:...

, Italian mathematician and physicist * or
Lucia Albanese, Italian soprano who sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera* or ...
5577 Priestley
5577 Priestley
5577 Priestley is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on November 21, 1986 by Duncan Waldron at Siding Spring. It was named 5577 Priestley (1986 WQ2) is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on November 21, 1986 by Duncan Waldron at Siding Spring. It was named 5577 Priestley (1986 WQ2) is an...

 
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political theorist who published over 150 works...

, English chemist . Also, the wavelength, in Ångstrom units, of green light in the Aurora borealis, due to atomic oxygen (Priestley was credited as co-discoverer of oxygen) *
5578 Takakura
5578 Takakura
5578 Takakura is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 28, 1987 by T. Niijima and T. Urata at Ojima.- External links :*...

 
1987 BC Emperor Takakura
Emperor Takakura
Emperor Takakura was the 80th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1168 through 1180.-Genealogy:...

, Japan
5579 Uhlherr
5579 Uhlherr
5579 Uhlherr is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on May 11, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 JL Ralph Uhlherr, meteoritics researcher with the United States Geological Survey
United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, and the natural hazards that threaten it. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology,...

*
5580 Sharidake
5580 Sharidake
- External links :*...

 
Mount Shari
Mount Shari
is a quaternary stratovolcano and one of Japan's 100 famous mountains. Its summit is . The summit consists of Mount Shari, and the western ridge. It is located on the Hokkaidō's Shiretoko Peninsula on the border of Shari and Kiyosato in Shari District, Abashiri and Shibetsu in Shibetsu District,...

, Hokkaidō, Japan
5581 Mitsuko
5581 Mitsuko
5581 Mitsuko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 10, 1989 by Iwamoto and Furuta at Tokushima.- External links :*...

 
Mitsuko Iwamoto, wife of one of discovers
5582 - -
5583 Braunerová
5583 Braunerová
5583 Braunerová is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1783.1625765 days .The asteroid was discovered on March 5, 1989.-References:...

 
Zdenka Braunerová
Zdenka Braunerová
Zdenka Braunerová was a Czech painter and graphic designer.A prominent Czech artist, she takes her place on history alongside the likes of Chittussi, Mrštík, Zeyer, Marten, Joža Uprka and sculptors František Bílek and Jan Zrzavý.Zrzavý described her as ".....

, Czech artist
5584 Izenberg
5584 Izenberg
5584 Izenberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 31, 1989 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 KK Noam Raphael Izenberg, of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and contributor to the NEAR Shoemaker mission
5585 Parks
5585 Parks
5585 Parks is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on June 28, 1990 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1990 MJ *
5586 - -
5587 - 1990 SB -
5588 Jennabelle
5588 Jennabelle
5588 Jennabelle is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1700.3773562 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 23, 1990....

 
Jenna Belle Weathers Roman, grandmother of the discoverer
5589 De Meis
5589 De Meis
5589 De Meis is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1664.7669056 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 23, 1990.-References:...

 
Salvatore De Meis, Italian astronomer and historian
5590 - 1990 VA -
5591 Koyo
5591 Koyo
5591 Koyo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 10, 1990 by T. Urata at Oohira.- External links :*...

 
Koyo Kawanishi
Koyo Kawanishi
is a Japanese dentist and amateur astronomer.He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. Asteroid 5591 Koyo is named after him.- References :...

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5592 Oshima
5592 Oshima
5592 Oshima is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 14, 1990 by Suzuki and Urata at Toyota.- External links :*...

 
Yoshiaki Oshima
Yoshiaki Oshima
is a Japanese astronomer and prolific discoverer of asteroids.The asteroid 5592 Oshima is named after him.-Works:* Isobe, S., Atsuo, A., Asher, D., Fuse, T., Hashimoto, N., Nakano, S., K. Nishiyama, Y. Oshima, N. Takahashi, J. Terazono, H. Umehara, T. Urata, M. Yoshikawa...

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5593 Jonsujatha
5593 Jonsujatha
5593 Jonsujatha is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 9, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5594 Jimmiller
5594 Jimmiller
5594 Jimmiller is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 12, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Jim Miller, deputy navigation team manager with NEAR
Near
- Science, mathematics, technology, biology, and medicine :* Nicking Enzyme Amplification Reaction, a method for in vitro DNA amplification* Near-Earth object, an object in the Solar System whose orbit brings it close to the Earth** Near-Earth asteroid...

 at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

*
5595 Roth
5595 Roth
5595 Roth is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 PJ Mary Roth, administrative assistant in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

 
5596 Morbidelli
5596 Morbidelli
5596 Morbidelli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 7, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Alessandro Morbidelli
Alessandro Morbidelli (astronomer)
Alessandro Morbidelli, born May 2, 1966, is an Italian astronomer and planetary scientist currently employed by the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice....

, Italian astronomer
5597 Warren
5597 Warren
5597 Warren is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Jeffrey R. Warren, of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and contributor to the NEAR Shoemaker mission
5598 Carlmurray
5598 Carlmurray
5598 Carlmurray is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 8, 1991 by Holt, H. E. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Carl Desmond Murray, British astronomer, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary College London
5599 - -
5600 - 1991 UY -
5601–5700
5601 - 1991 VR -
5602 - -
5603 Rausudake
5603 Rausudake
5603 Rausudake is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 5, 1992 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 CE Mount Rausu
Mount Rausu
is a stratovolcano on the Shiretoko Peninsula on Hokkaidō, Japan. It sits on the border between the towns of Shari and Rausu. Mount Rausu is the northeastern most Holocene volcano on Hokkaidō. It is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan....

, Hokkaidō, Japan
5604 - 1992 FE -
5605 Kushida
5605 Kushida
5605 Kushida is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 17, 1993 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1993 DB Yoshio Kushida
Yoshio Kushida
is a Japanese astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids.He discovered comet 144P/Kushida and was co-discoverer of comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.-External links:* http://www.nayoro-star.jp/photo/tenmondai-houmon/kushida.html...

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5606 Muramatsu
5606 Muramatsu
5606 Muramatsu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1993 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1993 EH Osamu Muramatsu
Osamu Muramatsu
is a Japanese astronomer, and is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. He also co-discovered periodic comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu.-External links:*...

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5607 - 1993 EN -
5608 Olmos
5608 Olmos
5608 Olmos is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1,567.8586879 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 12, 1993, and named after actor Edward James Olmos.-References:...

 
1993 EO Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...

, American actor
5609 Stroncone
5609 Stroncone
5609 Stroncone is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1993 by A. Vagnozzi at Stroncone.- External links :*...

 
1993 FU Stroncone
Stroncone
Stroncone* Osservatorio Astrometrico Santa Lucia Stroncone * Stroncone, Umbria...

, hill town in the Terni
Terni
Terni is a city in southern Umbria, central Italy, capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is 104 km N of Rome, 36 km NW of Rieti, and 29 km S of Spoleto.-History:...

 province of southern Umbria, Italy*
5610 Balster
5610 Balster
5610 Balster is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2041 T-3 Harry Balster, Dutch amateur astronomer and his sister Yvonne
5611 - 1943 DL -
5612 Nevskij
5612 Nevskij
5612 Nevskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5613 Donskoj
5613 Donskoj
5613 Donskoj is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 16, 1976 by Chernykh, L. I. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5614 Yakovlev
5614 Yakovlev
5614 Yakovlev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 11, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
1979 VN Oleg Izosimovich Yakovlev, Russian geochemist and planetary geologist, or Oleg Anatol'evich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, or Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev
Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau. -Biography:...

, Russian aircraft designer or Aleksandr Evgen'evich Yakovlev
Alexandre Jacovleff
Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff was a Russian neoclassicist painter, draughtsman, designer and etcher.-Biography:...

, Russian artist*
5615 Iskander
5615 Iskander
5615 Iskander is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 4, 1983 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
1983 PZ Central Asian name for Alexander the Great*
5616 Vogtland
5616 Vogtland
5616 Vogtland is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1560.1908633 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 29, 1987....

 
*
5617 Emelyanenko
5617 Emelyanenko
5617 Emelyanenko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 EL Vyacheslav V. Emel'yanenko, Russian (Ukrainian?) astronomer*
5618 Saitama
5618 Saitama
5618 Saitama is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1990 by A. Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1990 EA Saitama Prefecture
Saitama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of the island of Honshu. The capital is the city of Saitama.This prefecture is part of the Greater Tokyo Area, and most of Saitama's cities can be described as suburbs of Tokyo, to which a large amount of residents commute each day.- History...

, Japan
5619 Shair
5619 Shair
5619 Shair is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 26, 1990 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Frederick Shair, Manager of the Educational Affairs Office at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

*
5620 Jasonwheeler
5620 Jasonwheeler
5620 Jasonwheeler is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1158.1572229 days . The asteroid was discovered on July 19, 1990....

 
1990 OA Jason Wheeler Roman, youngest son of the first discoverer
5621 Erb
5621 Erb
5621 Erb is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on September 23, 1990 by Lawrence, K. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Bryan Erb and Dona Marie Erb, Canadian space scientists
5622 - -
5623 Iwamori
5623 Iwamori
5623 Iwamori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1990 by A. Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1990 UY Yasuke Iwamori, Japanese astronomy teacher and principal of highschool
5624 Shirley
5624 Shirley
5624 Shirley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Donna Shirley
Donna Shirley
Donna Shirley is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is the author of the book Managing Martians: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman's Lifelong Quest to Get to Mars—and of the Team Behind the Space Robot That Has Captured the Imagination of the World...

, American engineer and author, member of the Advisory Council of the Planetary Society
Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is a large, publicly supported, non-government and non-profit organization that has many research projects related to astronomy...

 
5625 - -
5626 - 1991 FE -
5627 - 1991 MA -
5628 Preussen
5628 Preussen
5628 Preussen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1991 by Freimut Börngen and Schmadel, L. D. at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 name for Prussia
Prussia
Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

5629 Kuwana
5629 Kuwana
5629 Kuwana is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 20, 1993 by Hioki and Hayakawa at Okutama.- External links :*...

 
Kuwana, Mie
Kuwana, Mie
is a city located in the northern end of Mie Prefecture, Japan. It is known as a major sightseeing city in the prefecture. Located at the mouth of the three rivers dividing Mie and Aichi prefectures, the city has functioned as a regional center of fishing, industry, business, and culture.As of...

, Japan
5630 Billschaefer
5630 Billschaefer
5630 Billschaefer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 21, 1993 by Child, J. B. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1993 FZ *
5631 Sekihokutouge
5631 Sekihokutouge
5631 Sekihokutouge is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1993 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
Sekihoku Pass, Hokkaidō, Japan
5632 Ingelehmann
5632 Ingelehmann
5632 Ingelehmann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 15, 1993 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1993 GG Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...

, Danish seismologist *
5633 - -
5634 - -
5635 Cole
5635 Cole
5635 Cole is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by Bus, S. J. at Siding Spring.- External links :*...

 
*
5636 Jacobson
5636 Jacobson
5636 Jacobson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1985 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
1985 QN *
5637 Gyas
5637 Gyas
5637 Gyas is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 10, 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Gyas, mythical person related to Trojan War: he participated in the ship race held as part of Anchises' funeral games (Aeneid
Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of roughly 10,000 lines in dactylic hexameter...

, Book V)*
5638 Deikoon
5638 Deikoon
5638 Deikoon is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on October 10, 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Deikoon, mythical person related to Trojan War: son of Pergasus, killed by Agamemnon
Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes. Mythical legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area...

 (Iliad
Iliad
The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles...

, Book V); there is another Deikoon, one of three sons of Herakles by Megara*
5639 - 1989 PE -
5640 Yoshino
5640 Yoshino
5640 Yoshino is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1989 by M. Mukai and M. Takeishi at Kagoshima.- External links :*...

 
Yoshino, a town of Kagoshima
Kagoshima, Kagoshima
is the capital city of Kagoshima Prefecture at the southwestern tip of the Kyūshū island of Japan, and the largest city in the prefecture by some margin...

, Japan
5641 McCleese
5641 McCleese
5641 McCleese is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on February 27, 1990 by E. Helin at Palomar.- External links :...

 
1990 DJ Daniel J. McCleese, American planetary scientist*
5642 Bobbywilliams
5642 Bobbywilliams
5642 Bobbywilliams is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on July 27, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :...

 
*
5643 Roques
5643 Roques
5643 Roques is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5644 Maureenbell
5644 Maureenbell
5644 Maureenbell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar. It is named after Maureen E. Ockert-Bell, who has published work on physical and optical properties of outer planet ring systems....

 
Maureen Bell, member of the NEAR Shoemaker
NEAR Shoemaker
The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous - Shoemaker , renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a...

 computer team *
5645 - 1990 SP -
5646 - 1990 TR -
5647 - 1990 TZ -
5648 - -
5649 Donnashirley
5649 Donnashirley
5649 Donnashirley is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on November 18, 1990 by Helin, E. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Donna Shirley
Donna Shirley
Donna Shirley is a former manager of Mars Exploration at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She is the author of the book Managing Martians: The Extraordinary Story of a Woman's Lifelong Quest to Get to Mars—and of the Team Behind the Space Robot That Has Captured the Imagination of the World...

, American engineer and author, formerly of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

, member of the Advisory Council of the Planetary Society
Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is a large, publicly supported, non-government and non-profit organization that has many research projects related to astronomy...

 
5650 Mochihito-o
5650 Mochihito-o
5650 Mochihito-o is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1546.9328534 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 10, 1990....

 
1990 XK Prince Mochihito
Prince Mochihito
' , also known as the Takakura Prince, and as Minamoto Mochimitsu, was a son of Emperor Go-Shirakawa. He is noted for his role in starting the Genpei War....

, Japan
5651 Traversa
5651 Traversa
5651 Traversa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1991 by E. W. Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Gilles Traversa, French(?) observatory assistant
5652 Amphimachus
5652 Amphimachus
5652 Amphimachus is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on April 24, 1992 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Amphimachus
Amphimachus
In Greek mythology, Amphimachus is a name attributed to multiple individuals.-Son of Cteatus:Amphimachus was the son of Cteatus and Theronice, daughter of Dexamenus. He was one of the leaders of the Elean contingent at the Trojan War and was slain by Hector.-Son of Nomion:Amphimachus was the son...

, mythical person related to Trojan War*
5653 Camarillo
5653 Camarillo
5653 Camarillo is an Amor asteroid with a perihelion of 1.248795 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.30403 and an orbital period of 877.922 days .This asteroid was discovered on November 21, 1992 by Eleanor F. Helin and Kenneth J. Lawrence....

 
*
5654 Terni
5654 Terni
5654 Terni is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 20, 1993 by A. Vagnozzi at S L Stroncone.- External links :*...

 
1993 KG The town and province of Terni
Terni
Terni is a city in southern Umbria, central Italy, capital of the province of Terni, located in the plain of the Nera river. It is 104 km N of Rome, 36 km NW of Rieti, and 29 km S of Spoleto.-History:...

 in Italy
5655 Barney
5655 Barney
5655 Barney is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1159 T-2 *
5656 Oldfield
5656 Oldfield
5656 Oldfield is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1920 by W. Baade at Bergedorf. It has been named after the British multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, creator of the famed Tubular Bells albums.- External links :*...

 
A920 TA Mike Oldfield
Mike Oldfield
Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music, New Age, and more recently, dance. His music is often elaborate and complex in nature...

, English composer and multi-instrumentalist
5657 - -
5658 Clausbaader
5658 Clausbaader
5658 Clausbaader is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 17, 1950 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 
1950 DO Claus Baader, German amateur astronomer
5659 - -
5660 - 1974 MA -
5661 Hildebrand
5661 Hildebrand
5661 Hildebrand is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 14, 1977 by Chernykh, N. S. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Alan Russell Hildebrand, Canadian geologist
5662 Wendycalvin
5662 Wendycalvin
5662 Wendycalvin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
Wendy Marie Calvin, American planetary geologist
5663 McKeegan
5663 McKeegan
5663 McKeegan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
Kevin McKeegan, American geochemist and meteoriticist
5664 Eugster
5664 Eugster
5664 Eugster is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :* -References:...

 
Otto Eugster, Swiss meteoriticist
5665 Begemann
5665 Begemann
5665 Begemann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 30, 1982 by S. J. Bus at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Friedrich Begemann, German cosmochemist and meteoriticist
5666 Rabelais
5666 Rabelais
5666 Rabelais is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named for the French satirist François Rabelais.- External links :*...

 
François Rabelais
François Rabelais
François Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...

, French writer
5667 Nakhimovskaya
5667 Nakhimovskaya
5667 Nakhimovskaya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 1983 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5668 Foucault
5668 Foucault
5668 Foucault is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 22, 1984 by Antonín Mrkos at Klet. It is named for the French physicist Léon Foucault.-External links:*...

 
1984 FU Léon Foucault
Léon Foucault
Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was a French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation...

, French physicist and astronomer
5669 - -
5670 Rosstaylor
5670 Rosstaylor
5670 Rosstaylor is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1985 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar and named after New Zealand geochemist and planetary scientist Professor Stuart Ross Taylor.- External links :*...

 
Stuart Ross Taylor, New Zealand-born planetary scientist (geochemist, geologist)
5671 Chanal
5671 Chanal
5671 Chanal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 13, 1985 by CERGA at Caussols.- External links :*...

 
1985 XR *
5672 Libby
5672 Libby
5672 Libby is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1986 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
Willard Frank Libby, winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1990*
5673 McAllister
5673 McAllister
5673 McAllister is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
Howard Conlee McAllister, American astronomer*
5674 Wolff
5674 Wolff
5674 Wolff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
*
5675 Evgenilebedev
5675 Evgenilebedev
5675 Evgenilebedev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1986 by Chernykh, L. I. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Evgenij Alekseevich Lebedev, Russian actor [MPC 34622]
5676 Voltaire
5676 Voltaire
5676 Voltaire is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1430.7047683 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1986, by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Karachkina. It is named in honor of the eighteenth-century French philosopher Voltaire....

 
Voltaire
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet , better known by the pen name Voltaire , was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion, free trade and separation of church and state...

, French writer
5677 Aberdonia
5677 Aberdonia
5677 Aberdonia is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1987 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-References:...

 
University of Aberdeen
University of Aberdeen
The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

, on the occasion of the quincentenary of its founding
5678 DuBridge
5678 DuBridge
5678 DuBridge is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1989 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 TS Lee Alvin DuBridge
Lee Alvin DuBridge
Lee Alvin DuBridge was an American educator and physicist.DuBridge was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and graduated from Cornell College in 1922, and then began a teaching assignment at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, from which he received an M.A. degree in 1924 and a Ph.D. in 1926...

, American nuclear physicist, Director of MIT Radiation Laboratory and latterly of CalTech*
5679 Atsukadou
5679 Atsukadou
5679 Akkado is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1989 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1989 VR Akka cave, Iwate, Japan
5680 - -
5681 Bakulev
5681 Bakulev
5681 Bakulev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1990 by Zhuravleva, L. V. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bakulev, Soviet surgeon [MPC 34622]
5682 Beresford
5682 Beresford
5682 Beresford is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 9, 1990 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.Named in honor of Anthony Charles Beresford , prominentAustralian amateur astronomer. Amongst his wide ranging astronomical...

 
1990 TB *
5683 Bifukumonin
5683 Bifukumonin
5683 Bifukumonin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 19, 1990 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1990 UD Bifukumon-In, Empress of Emperor Toba
Emperor Toba
was the 74th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Toba's reign spanned the years from 1107 through 1123.- Genealogy :...

, Japan
5684 Kogo
5684 Kogo
5684 Kogo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1990 by T. Urata at the Nihondaira Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Kogō no Tsubone, consort of Emperor Takakura
Emperor Takakura
Emperor Takakura was the 80th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1168 through 1180.-Genealogy:...

, Japan
5685 Sanenobufukui
5685 Sanenobufukui
5685 Sanenobufukui is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 8, 1990 by T. Nomura and K. Kawanishi at Minami-Oda.- External links :*...

 
1990 XA Sanenobu Fukui, Japanese amateur astronomer
5686 Chiyonoura
5686 Chiyonoura
5686 Chiyonoura is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1990 by Masanori Matsuyama and Watanabe at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
1990 YQ Chiyo's Beach, Kushiro, Hokkaidō
Kushiro, Hokkaido
is a city located in Kushiro Subprefecture, Hokkaidō, Japan. It is the capital city of Kushiro Subprefecture, as well as the most populous city in eastern Hokkaidō....

, Japan
5687 Yamamotoshinobu
5687 Yamamotoshinobu
5687 Yamamotoshinobu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 13, 1991 by Yoshio Kushida and Osamu Muramatsu at Yatsugatake.- External links :*...

 
Shinobu Yamamoto, director of the planetarium in Japan
5688 Kleewyck
5688 Kleewyck
5688 Kleewyck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar. It is named after the name given by the Nuu-chah-nulth of Vancouver Island's west coast to Canadian artist Emily Carr.- External links :*...

 
Klee Wyck, native name for Canadian artist Emily Carr
Emily Carr
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. One of the first painters in Canada to adopt a post-impressionist painting style, Carr did not receive widespread recognition for her work until later in her life...

 
5689 Rhön
5689 Rhön
5689 Rhön is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1672.0779289 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 9, 1991....

 
*
5690 - 1992 EU -
5691 Fredwatson
5691 Fredwatson
5691 Fredwatson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 26, 1992 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1992 FD Frederick Garnett Watson, British astronomer*
5692 Shirao
5692 Shirao
5692 Shirao is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 23, 1992 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 FR Motomaro Shirao, Japanese photographer and amateur astronomer
5693 - 1993 EA -
5694 Berényi
5694 Berényi
5694 Berényi is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1538.5142030 days .The asteroid was discovered on September 24, 1960.-References:...

 
3051 P-L Dénes Berényi, Hungarian physicist
5695 Remillieux
5695 Remillieux
5695 Remillieux is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4577 P-L Alban Remillieux, French physicist*
5696 Ibsen
5696 Ibsen
5696 Ibsen is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4582 P-L Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen
Henrik Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. He is often referred to as "the father of prose drama" and is one of the founders of Modernism in the theatre...

, Norwegian playwright*
5697 Arrhenius
5697 Arrhenius
5697 Arrhenius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
6766 P-L Svante August Arrhenius, Swedish chemist and 1903 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...

 *
5698 Nolde
5698 Nolde
5698 Nolde is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 26, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4121 T-1 Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde
Emil Nolde was a German painter and printmaker. He was one of the first Expressionists, a member of Die Brücke, and is considered to be one of the great oil painting and watercolour painters of the 20th century. He is known for his vigorous brushwork and expressive choice of colors...

, German Expressionist painter*
5699 Munch
5699 Munch
5699 Munch is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2141 T-3 Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch was a Norwegian Symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream, is part of a series The Frieze of Life, in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia, and anxiety.- Childhood :Edvard Munch...

, Norwegian artist
5700 Homerus
5700 Homerus
5700 Homerus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.It was named after the Greek poet Homer.- External links :*...

 
5166 T-3 Homer
Homer
In the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...

, Greek epic poet*
5701–5800
5701 Baltuck
5701 Baltuck
5701 Baltuck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1929 by C. W. Tombaugh at the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1929 VS Miriam Baltuck, American geologist, NASA's representative in Australia and southeast Asia (1997-2002), director of university advancement at the Australian National University
Australian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

 (2005)
5702 Morando
5702 Morando
5702 Morando is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1931 by M. Wolf at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 
1931 FC Bruno Morando, French astronomer, former Director of the Bureau des Longitudes
Bureau des Longitudes
The Bureau des Longitudes is a French scientific institution, founded by decree of 25 June 1795 and charged with the improvement of nautical navigation, standardisation of time-keeping, geodesy and astronomical observation. During the 19th century, it was responsible for synchronizing clocks...

*
5703 Hevelius
5703 Hevelius
5703 Hevelius is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1931 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg. It is named after Johannes Hevelius.- External links :*...

 
1931 VS Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius
Johannes Hevelius Some sources refer to Hevelius as Polish:Some sources refer to Hevelius as German:*Encyplopedia Britannica * of the Royal Society was a councilor and mayor of Danzig , Pomeranian Voivodeship, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...

, astronomer
5704 Schumacher
5704 Schumacher
5704 Schumacher is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 17, 1950 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg.- External links :*...

 
1950 DE Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Heinrich Christian Schumacher was a German-Danish astronomer.-Biography:He was born at Bramstedt, in Holstein, and studied at Kiel, Jena, Copenhagen, and Göttingen. In 1810, he became adjunct professor of astronomy in Copenhagen...

, German astronomer*
5705 Ericsterken
5705 Ericsterken
5705 Ericsterken is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1965 by H. Debehogne at Uccle.- External links :*...

 
1965 UA *
5706 Finkelstein
5706 Finkelstein
5706 Finkelstein is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1971 by Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5707 Shevchenko
5707 Shevchenko
5707 Shevchenko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 2, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Vasilii G. Shevchenko, Ukrainian astronomer*
5708 Melancholia
5708 Melancholia
5708 Melancholia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1977 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :...

 
*
5709 Tamyeunleung
5709 Tamyeunleung
- External links :*...

 
Fong Tamyeunleung, Chinese charity worker
5710 Silentium
5710 Silentium
5710 Silentium is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 18, 1977 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...

 
1977 UP *
5711 Eneev
5711 Eneev
5711 Eneev is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1978 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
5712 Funke
5712 Funke
5712 Funke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1979 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1979 SR Jaromír Funke
Jaromír Funke
Jaromír Funke was a Czech photographer.Funke was a leading figure in Czech photography in the 1920s and 30s. In 1924 he, Josef Sudek and Adolf Schneeberger founded the Czech Photographic Society...

, Czech photographer
5713 - -
5714 Krasinsky
5714 Krasinsky
5714 Krasinsky is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 14, 1982 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
1982 PR *
5715 Kramer
5715 Kramer
5715 Kramer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
*
5716 Pickard
5716 Pickard
5716 Pickard is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1982 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
1982 UH *
5717 Damir
5717 Damir
5717 Damir is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1982 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Alim Matveevich Damir 1894-1982, professor of physics*
5718 - 1983 PB -
5719 Křižík
5719 Križík
5719 Křižík is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1205.8547867 days . The asteroid is named in honor of Czech electrical engineer and inventor František Křižík, who contributed significantly to the electrification of Bohemia....

 
1983 RX František Křižík
František Križík
František Křižík was a Czech inventor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur. The main belt asteroid 5719 Křižík was named in his honor....

, Czech inventor
5720 Halweaver
5720 Halweaver
5720 Halweaver is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on March 29, 1984 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1984 FN Harold Anthony Weaver, American astronomer
5721 - -
5722 Johnscherrer
5722 Johnscherrer
5722 Johnscherrer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1986 by INAS at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1986 JS John Randell Scherrer, American project manager and deputy payload manager on NASA's New Horizons
New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1. Its estimated arrival date at the Pluto-Charon system is July 14th, 2015...

 Pluto Kuiper Belt mission
5723 Hudson
5723 Hudson
5723 Hudson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
Scott Hudson
Scott Hudson
Raymond Scott Hudson is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Washington State University. Hudson was educated at Caltech, where he received his bachelor's degree in engineering and applied science in 1985, his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1986, and his PhD...

 (Raymond Scott Hudson), American electrical engineer and radar astronomer
5724 - 1986 WE -
5725 Nördlingen
5725 Nördlingen
5725 Nördlingen is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1602.7350496 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 23, 1988....

 
*
5726 Rubin
5726 Rubin
5726 Rubin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin
Vera Rubin is an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She is famous for uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves...

, American astronomer*
5727 - -
5728 - -
5729 - -
5730 Yonosuke
5730 Yonosuke
5730 Yonosuke is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1815.9165082 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 13, 1988....

 
Yonosuke Nakano, 19th-20th century Japanese astronomer and educator, one of the founders of the Gekko Observatory
5731 Zeus
5731 Zeus
5731 Zeus is an Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on November 4, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. Based on its observed brightness and assumed albedo it is estimated to have a diameter between 2.1 and 4.7 km....

 
Zeus
Zeus
In the ancient Greek religion, Zeus was the "Father of Gods and men" who ruled the Olympians of Mount Olympus as a father ruled the family. He was the god of sky and thunder in Greek mythology. His Roman counterpart is Jupiter and his Etruscan counterpart is Tinia.Zeus was the child of Cronus...

, Greek god
5732 - 1988 WC -
5733 - 1989 AQ -
5734 Noguchi
5734 Noguchi
5734 Noguchi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 15, 1989 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
Soichi Noguchi
Soichi Noguchi
is a Japanese aeronautical engineer and a JAXA astronaut. His first spaceflight was as a Mission Specialist aboard STS-114 on 26 July 2005 for NASA's first "return to flight" Space Shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster. He was most recently in space as part of the Soyuz TMA-17 crew and...

, Japanese astronaut
5735 Loripaul
5735 Loripaul
5735 Loripaul is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 4, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 LM *
5736 Sanford
5736 Sanford
5736 Sanford is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on June 6, 1989 by Eleanor F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 LW *
5737 Itoh
5737 Itoh
5737 Itoh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 30, 1989 by T. Nomura and K. Kawanishi at Minami-Oda.- External links :*...

 
1989 SK Kazuyuki Itoh, Japanese amateur astronomer
5738 Billpickering
5738 Billpickering
5738 Billpickering is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 27, 1989 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :...

 
*
5739 - -
5740 Toutoumi
5740 Toutoumi
5740 Toutoumi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 29, 1989 by Y. Oshima at the Gekko Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Tōtōmi Province
Totomi Province
was a province of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka Prefecture. Tōtōmi bordered on Mikawa, Suruga and Shinano Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was .-History:...

, ancient name of western part of Shizuoka Prefecture
Shizuoka Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Shizuoka.- History :Shizuoka prefecture was formed from the former Tōtōmi, Suruga and Izu provinces.The area was the home of the first Tokugawa Shogun...

, Japan
5741 - 1989 XC -
5742 - -
5743 Kato
5743 Kato
5743 Kato is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 19, 1990 by Akiyama and Furuta at Mishima.- External links :*...

 
1990 UW Yasuo Katō, Japanese mountain climber
5744 Yorimasa
5744 Yorimasa
5744 Yorimasa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 14, 1990 by Natori and Urata at Yakiimo.- External links :*...

 
1990 XP Minamoto no Yorimasa
Minamoto no Yorimasa
' was a prominent Japanese poet whose works appeared in various anthologies. He served eight different emperors in his long career, holding posts such as hyōgo no kami...

, early samurai
5745 - 1991 AN -
5746 - 1991 CK -
5747 - -
5748 Davebrin
5748 Davebrin
5748 Davebrin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1991 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 DX Glen David Brin
David Brin
Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...

, American science fiction writer*
5749 - 1991 FV -
5750 Kandatai
5750 Kandatai
5750 Kandatai is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 11, 1991 by Takahashi and Watanabe at Kitami.-External links:...

 
Tai Kanda, Japanese astronomer
5751 Zao
5751 Zao
5751 Zao also designated 1992 AC is an Amor asteroid discovered on January 5, 1992 by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory.-Physical properties:...

 
1992 AC Mount Zaō
Mount Zao
is a complex volcano on the border between Yamagata Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture in Japan. It consists of a cluster of stratovolcanoes and is the most active volcano in northern Honshū. The central volcano of the group includes several lava domes and a tuff cone, Goshiki-dake, which contains...

, Tōhoku region, Japan
5752 - 1992 CJ -
5753 Yoshidatadahiko
5753 Yoshidatadahiko
5753 Yoshidatadahiko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1992 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 EM Tadahiko Yoshida, vice president of AES (Advanced Engineering Services), Japanese aerospace company
5754 - -
5755 - -
5756 Wassenbergh
5756 Wassenbergh
5756 Wassenbergh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.-Designation:...

 
6034 P-L Henri Wassenbergh
Henri Wassenbergh
Henry Abraham Wassenbergh , known to his friends and colleagues as "Or" Wassenbergh, is a Dutch academic, professor of law, and writer.Wassenbergh earned a law degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1950...

 (familiarly known as 'Or' Wassenbergh), former Professor of Air and Space Law at the University of Leiden and founder of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden
5757 Tichá
5757 Tichá
5757 Tichá is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1838.0559372 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 6, 1967. It is named after Czech astronomer Jana Tichá.-References:...

 
1967 JN Jana Tichá
Jana Tichá
Jana Tichá is a Czech astronomer. She studied at the University of Economics in Prague and graduated in 1987. In 1992 she was selected for the position of a director of the Kleť Observatory. She specializes in discoveries of asteroids and comets especially Near-Earth objects...

, Czech astronomer*
5758 Brunini
5758 Brunini
5758 Brunini is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1231.0262943 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 20, 1976.-References:...

 
Adrián Brunini, Argentine astronomer
5759 Zoshchenko
5759 Zoshchenko
5759 Zoshchenko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 22, 1980 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Mikhail Zoshchenko
Mikhail Zoshchenko
-Biography:Zoshchenko was born in 1895, in Poltava, but spent most of his life in St. Petersburg / Leningrad. His Ukrainian father was a mosaicist responsible for the exterior decoration of the Suvorov Museum in Saint Petersburg. The future writer attended the Faculty of Law at the Saint Petersburg...

, Russian satirist
5760 Mittlefehldt
5760 Mittlefehldt
5760 Mittlefehldt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
David W. ("Duck") Mittlefehldt, American astronomer and geochemist
5761 Andreivanov
5761 Andreivanov
5761 Andreivanov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
Andrei V. Ivanov, Russian cosmochemist and meteoriticist
5762 Wänke
5762 Wänke
5762 Wänke is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1306.1161465 days . The asteroid was discovered on March 2, 1981....

 
Heinrich Wänke, German cosmochemist and meteoriticist
5763 - 1982 MA -
5764 - -
5765 Izett
5765 Izett
5765 Izett is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 4, 1986 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1986 GU *
5766 - -
5767 Moldun
5767 Moldun
5767 Moldun is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
*
5768 Pittich
5768 Pittich
5768 Pittich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1986 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
Eduard Pittich, Slovak astronomer*
5769 Michard
5769 Michard
5769 Michard is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1987 by CERGA at Caussols.- External links :*...

 
1987 PL Raymond Michard, French astronomer, or Gilles Michard and Annie Michard, French geochemists*
5770 - 1987 RY -
5771 Somerville
5771 Somerville
5771 Somerville is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1987 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville
Mary Fairfax Somerville was a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was discouraged...

, British mathematician and scientific author*
5772 Johnlambert
5772 Johnlambert
5772 Johnlambert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 15, 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 LB John Vincent Lambert, American astronomer*
5773 - 1989 NO -
5774 Ratliff
5774 Ratliff
5774 Ratliff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 NR Nicholas Paul Ratliff, Amateur American astronomer
5775 Inuyama
5775 Inuyama
5775 Inuyama is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1989 by Y. Mizuno and T. Furuta at Kani.- External links :*...

 
1989 SP Inuyama, Aichi
Inuyama, Aichi
is a city located near Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.In 2010, the city had a population of 75,449 and a population density of 1,010 persons per km². The total area is 74.97 km². The city lies along the edge of Aichi Prefecture, separated from neighbouring Gifu Prefecture by the Kiso River...

, Japan
5776 - -
5777 Hanaki
5777 Hanaki
5777 Hanaki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 3, 1989 by Y. Mizuno and T. Furuta at Kani.- External links :*...

 
1989 XF Yōichi Hanaki, Japanese amateur astronomer
5778 Jurafrance
5778 Jurafrance
5778 Jurafrance is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 28, 1989 by E. W. Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Jura Mountains
Jura mountains
The Jura Mountains are a small mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of the watershed of each...

, France*
5779 Schupmann
5779 Schupmann
5779 Schupmann is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1910.2251487 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 23, 1990 and named in honor of German optician Ludwig Schupmann.-References:...

 
Ludwig Schupmann
Ludwig Schupmann
Ludwig Ignaz Schupmann was a German professor of architecture and an optical designer...

, German 19th-20th-century optician, who described in Die Medial-Fernrohre a reflecting-refracting telescope with Mangin mirrors that eliminates chromatic aberrations while using common optical glasses
5780 Lafontaine
5780 Lafontaine
5780 Lafontaine is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1990 by E. W. Elst at La Silla. It is named for the French lyric poet Jean de La Fontaine.- External links :*...

 
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...

, French poet
5781 Barkhatova
5781 Barkhatova
5781 Barkhatova is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1990 by Chernykh, N. S. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Klavdiia Aleksandrovna Barkhatova, Russian astronomer*
5782 Akirafujiwara
5782 Akirafujiwara
5782 Akirafujiwara is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on January 7, 1991 by R.H. McNaught at the Siding Spring Observatory.-References:...

 
1991 AF Akira Fujiwara, Japanese project scientist for the Hayabusa mission
Hayabusa
was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to return a sample of material from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further analysis....

 to the near-Earth object 25143 Itokawa
25143 Itokawa
25143 Itokawa is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was the first asteroid to be the target of a sample return mission, the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.-Discovery and naming:...

 
5783 Kumagaya
5783 Kumagaya
5783 Kumagaya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 5, 1991 by Hioki and Hayakawa at Okutama.- External links :*...

 
1991 CO Kumagaya, Saitama
Kumagaya, Saitama
is a city in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.As of 2010, the city has an estimated population of 203,089 . The total area is 159.88 km². The city is one of the biggest in northern Saitama Prefecture. It is the administrative, business and commercial centre in northern Saitama Prefecture. Eight...

, Japan
5784 - 1991 CY -
5785 Fulton
5785 Fulton
5785 Fulton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 17, 1991 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 FU *
5786 Talos
5786 Talos
5786 Talos is a Apollo asteroid discovered on September 3, 1991 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.-References:...

 
1991 RC Either Talos
Talos
In Greek mythology, Talos or Talon was a giant man of bronze who protected Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders by circling the island's shores three times daily while guarding it.- History :...

, the mythological bronze automaton that kept ships away from Crete
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, or Talos
Talos (inventor)
Talos, is probably Perdix and nephew of Daedalus, invented the saw after seeing a fish's jawbone. Daedalus was so jealous of the invention that he tried to murder him, but Athena intervened and turned Talos/Peridix into a partridge to save his life...

, nephew of Daedalus
Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artisan.-Family:...

, who tried to murder him because he was jealous of his inventiveness*
5787 - -
5788 - 1992 NJ -
5789 Sellin
5789 Sellin
5789 Sellin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4018 P-L *
5790 Nagasaki
5790 Nagasaki
5790 Nagasaki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
9540 P-L Nagasaki, Japan
5791 Comello
5791 Comello
5791 Comello is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.Named after Georg Comello, Dutch amateur astronomer.- External links :*...

 
4053 T-2 Georg Comello, Dutch amateur astronomer
5792 Unstrut
5792 Unstrut
5792 Unstrut is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 18, 1964 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
1964 BF *
5793 Ringuelet
5793 Ringuelet
5793 Ringuelet is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1578.5727343 days . The asteroid was discovered on October 5, 1975....

 
Adela Ringuelet, Argentine astronomer, co-founder of the Asociación Argentina de Astronomía (Argentinian Astronomical Association)
5794 Irmina
5794 Irmina
5794 Irmina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1976 by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5795 Roshchina
5795 Roshchina
5795 Roshchina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1978 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5796 - -
5797 Bivoj
5797 Bivoj
5797 Bivoj is an Amor asteroid discovered on January 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1980 AA Bivoj, mythological Bohemian hero
5798 Burnett
5798 Burnett
5798 Burnett is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1980 by S. J. Bus at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Donald Burnett, American cosmochemist, lead investigator for the Genesis mission 
5799 Brewington
5799 Brewington
5799 Brewington is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1980 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Howard Brewington, American amateur astronomer*
5800 Pollock
5800 Pollock
5800 Pollock is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1982 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...

, American artist
5801–5900
5801 Vasarely
5801 Vasarely
5801 Vasarely is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 26, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1984 BK Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely
Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian French artist whose work is generally seen aligned with Op-art.His work entitled Zebra, created by Vasarely in the 1930s, is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op-art...

 (Vásárhelyi Gyõzõ), Hungarian-born French artist +
5802 - -
5803 Ötzi
5803 Ötzi
5803 Ötzi is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1568.1815271 days . The asteroid was discovered on July 21, 1984....

 
1984 OA Ötzi
Ötzi the Iceman
Ötzi the Iceman , Similaun Man, and Man from Hauslabjoch are modern names for a well-preserved natural mummy of a man who lived about 5,300 years ago. The mummy was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps, near Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. The nickname comes from the...

, the mummified 'iceman'
5804 Bambinidipraga
5804 Bambinidipraga
5804 Bambinidipraga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 9, 1985 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Bambini di Praga, Czech children's choir
5805 Glasgow
5805 Glasgow
5805 Glasgow is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 18, 1985 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
1985 YH Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

, UK and The Astronomical Society of Glasgow
5806 Archieroy
5806 Archieroy
5806 Archieroy is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1986 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.- External links :* - References :...

 
Archie Roy
Archie Roy
- Career :Professor Archie Edminston Roy , was educated at Hillhead High School and the University of Glasgow. He is married to Frances with three sons; Dr. Archie W N Roy, Ian Roy and David Roy....

 (Archibald Edmiston Roy), astronomer, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow
University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...

, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Royal Society of Edinburgh is Scotland's national academy of science and letters. It is a registered charity, operating on a wholly independent and non-party-political basis and providing public benefit throughout Scotland...

, The Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...

 
5807 Mshatka
5807 Mshatka
5807 Mshatka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1986 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Country estate of Nikolaj Yakovlevich Danilevskij, Russian thinker [MPC 34622]
5808 Babel'
5808 Babel'
5808 Babel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1987 by Karachkina, L. G. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5809 Kulibin
5809 Kulibin
5809 Kulibin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1987 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. It is named in honor of Russian engineer Ivan Kulibin.- External links :*...

 
Ivan Petrovich Kulibin, Russian engineer [MPC 34622]
5810 - 1988 EN -
5811 Keck
5811 Keck
5811 Keck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 19, 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 KC The Keck telescopes
Keck telescopes
The W. M. Keck Observatory is a two-telescope astronomical observatory at an elevation of near the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawai'i. The primary mirrors of each of the two telescopes are in diameter, making them the second largest optical telescopes in the world, slightly behind the Gran Telescopio...

5812 Jayewinkler
5812 Jayewinkler
5812 Jayewinkler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 11, 1988 by A. J. Noymer at Siding Spring.- External links :...

 
*
5813 - 1988 VL -
5814 - -
5815 Shinsengumi
5815 Shinsengumi
5815 Shinsengumi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 3, 1989 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1989 AH The Shinsengumi
Shinsengumi
The were a special police force of the late shogunate period.-Historical background:After Japan opened up to the West following U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's visits in 1853, its political situation gradually became more and more chaotic...

, Japanese group of samurai warriors
5816 Potsdam
5816 Potsdam
5816 Potsdam is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Potsdam Observatory*
5817 Robertfrazer
5817 Robertfrazer
5817 Robertfrazer is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on September 5, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1989 RZ *
5818 - -
5819 Lauretta
5819 Lauretta
Lauretta is an asteroid. It was discovered on October 29, 1989 by Schelte J. Bus at Cerro Tololo. It was named after Dr. Dante Lauretta.-External links:*...

 
Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta
Dante Lauretta is an Associate Professor of Planetary Science and Cosmochemistry at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. He received a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Washington...

, American cosmochemist and meteoriticist at the University of Arizona
University of Arizona
The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

 
5820 Babelsberg
5820 Babelsberg
5820 Babelsberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Babelsberg Observatory*
5821 - 1989 VV -
5822 Masakichi
5822 Masakichi
5822 Masakichi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 21, 1989 by T. Hioki and S. Hayakawa at Okutama.- External links :*...

 
1989 WL Masakichi Hioki, father of one of discover
5823 Oryo
5823 Oryo
5823 Oryo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1989 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1989 YH Oryo Narasaki, wife of Japanese samurai hero Ryoma Sakamoto 
5824 Inagaki
5824 Inagaki
5824 Inagaki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 24, 1989 by Seki, T. at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1989 YM Minoru Inagaki, Japanese classical guitarist
5825 Rakuyou
5825 Rakuyou
5825 Rakuyou is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1990 by A. Sugie at Dynic Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Rakuyō Industrial Highschool, Kyoto, Japan
5826 - 1990 DB -
5827 Letunov
5827 Letunov
5827 Letunov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1990 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
5828 - 1991 AM -
5829 Ishidagoro
5829 Ishidagoro
5829 Ishidagoro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1991 by S. Otomo and Muramatsu at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
Gorō Ishida, Japanese astronomer
5830 Simohiro
5830 Simohiro
5830 Simohiro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 9, 1991 by T. Niijima and T. Urata at Ojima.- External links :*...

 
1991 EG Hirofumi or Hiroshi Shimoda, Japanese amateur astronomer
5831 Dizzy
5831 Dizzy
5831 Dizzy is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 4, 1991 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
1991 JG John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, American trumpeter, co-inventor of bebop
Bebop
Bebop differed drastically from the straightforward compositions of the swing era, and was instead characterized by fast tempos, asymmetrical phrasing, intricate melodies, and rhythm sections that expanded on their role as tempo-keepers...

 
5832 Martaprincipe
5832 Martaprincipe
5832 Martaprincipe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on June 15, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5833 Peterson
5833 Peterson
5833 Peterson is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 PQ *
5834 - -
5835 Mainfranken
5835 Mainfranken
5835 Mainfranken is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
*
5836 - 1993 MF *
5837 Hedin
5837 Hedin
5837 Hedin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2548 P-L Sven Anders Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer *
5838 Hamsun
5838 Hamsun
5838 Hamsun is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2170 T-2 Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun
Knut Hamsun was a Norwegian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. He was praised by King Haakon VII of Norway as Norway's soul....

, Norwegian author, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for literature
5839 GOI
5839 GOI
5839 GOI is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1974 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
S. I. Vavilov State Optical Institute (GOI) (Russian Государственный Оптический Институт (ГОИ) имени С. И. Вавилова), Russian producer of large and high-quality lenses and optical equipment for space applications*
5840 Raybrown
5840 Raybrown
- External links :*...

 
1978 ON Raymond Matthews ("Ray") Brown, American jazz bassist, who played in Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer, and composer dubbed "the sound of surprise".Together with Charlie Parker, he was a major figure in the development of bebop and modern jazz...

's band and later with the Oscar Peterson Trio, husband and musical director of Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as the "First Lady of Song" and "Lady Ella," was an American jazz and song vocalist...

 
5841 Stone
5841 Stone
5841 Stone is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1982 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1982 ST Prof. Ed Stone is the former Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1991-2001) and the project scientist for the Voyager Mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1972.
5842 - -
5843 - 1986 UG -
5844 - 1986 UQ -
5845 - 1988 QP -
5846 Hessen
5846 Hessen
5846 Hessen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1989 by Freimut Börngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
*
5847 Wakiya
5847 Wakiya
5847 Wakiya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 18, 1989 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1989 YB Nanayo Wakiya, member of Japan Planetarium Laboratory
5848 Harutoriko
5848 Harutoriko
5848 Harutoriko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 30, 1990 by Matsuyama and Watanabe at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
Lake Harutori, Hokkaidō, Japan
5849 - -
5850 Masaharu
5850 Masaharu
5850 Masaharu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 8, 1990 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1990 XM Masaharu Suzuki, member of Goto Optical Mfg. Co.
5851 - -
5852 Nanette
5852 Nanette
5852 Nanette is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 19, 1991 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 HO *
5853 - 1992 QG -
5854 - 1992 UP -
5855 Yukitsuna
5855 Yukitsuna
5855 Yukitsuna is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1992 by Natori and Urata at Yakiimo.- External links :*...

 
Tada Yukitsuna, early samurai
5856 - -
5857 Neglinka
5857 Neglinka
5857 Neglinka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5858 Borovitskia
5858 Borovitskia
5858 Borovitskia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1978 by Chernykh, L. I. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5859 Ostozhenka
5859 Ostozhenka
5859 Ostozhenka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 23, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5860 - -
5861 Glynjones
5861 Glynjones
5861 Glynjones is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1982 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
1982 RW Kenneth Glyn Jones, British astronomer and historian *
5862 Sakanoue
5862 Sakanoue
5862 Sakanoue is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 13, 1983 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1983 AB Tsutomu Sakanoue, Japanese astronomer and meteorologist
5863 Tara
5863 Tara
5863 Tara is an Amor asteroid discovered on September 7, 1983 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1983 RB *
5864 Montgolfier
5864 Montgolfier
5864 Montgolfier is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1983 by N. G. Thomas at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
The Montgolfier brothers
Montgolfier brothers
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier were the inventors of the montgolfière-style hot air balloon, globe aérostatique. The brothers succeeded in launching the first manned ascent, carrying Étienne into the sky...

, French aeronauts
5865 Qualytemocrina
5865 Qualytemocrina
5865 Qualytemocrina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 31, 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1984 QQ Scrambled letters of International Comet Quarterly, an astronomical journal
5866 Sachsen
5866 Sachsen
5866 Sachsen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
*
5867 - 1988 RE -
5868 Ohta
5868 Ohta
5868 Ohta is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1988 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1988 TQ Kentarō Ohta, member of Goto Optical Mfg. Co.
5869 Tanith
5869 Tanith
5869 Tanith is an Amor asteroid discovered on November 4, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5870 Baltimore
5870 Baltimore
5870 Baltimore is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on February 11, 1989 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
5871 Bobbell
5871 Bobbell
5871 Bobbell is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1989, by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5872 Sugano
5872 Sugano
5872 Sugano is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 30, 1989 by T. Nomura and K. Kawanishi at Minami-Oda....

 
1989 SL Matsuo Sugano
Matsuo Sugano
is a Japanese astronomer.He has discovered a number of asteroids, including 5881 Akashi , 6559 Nomura , and 8892 Kakogawa . He was also a co-discoverer of Comet Sugano-Saigusa-Fujikawa ....

, Japanese amateur astronomer
5873 Archilochos
5873 Archilochos
5873 Archilochos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Archilochos, Ancient Greek poet
5874 - 1989 XB -
5875 Kuga
5875 Kuga
5875 Kuga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 5, 1989 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1989 XO Naoto or Naohito (or Tadahito) Kuga, member of Goto Optical Mfg. Co.
5876 - -
5877 - 1990 FP -
5878 Charlene
5878 Charlene
5878 Charlene is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1991 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Charlene Anderson, Associate Director of the Planetary Society
Planetary Society
The Planetary Society is a large, publicly supported, non-government and non-profit organization that has many research projects related to astronomy...

 
5879 Almeria
5879 Almeria
5879 Almeria is an Amor asteroid discovered on February 8, 1992 by K. Birkle and U. Hopp at the Calar Alto Observatory.- External links :...

 
*
5880 - 1992 MA -
5881 Akashi
5881 Akashi
5881 Akashi is a main belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1992 by M. Sugano and T. Nomura at Minami-Oda.- External links :*...

 
Akashi, Hyōgo
Akashi, Hyogo
is a city located in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, on the Seto Inland Sea west of Kobe.As of April 1, 2011, the city has an estimated population of 290,776, with 117,392 households, and a population density of 5,907.68 persons per km²...

, Japan
5882 - -
5883 - -
5884 Dolezal
5884 Dolezal
5884 Dolezal is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
6045 P-L Erich Dolezal, Austrian writer and popularizer of astronomy and space science, co-founder of the Austrian Society for Space Research 
5885 Apeldoorn
5885 Apeldoorn
5885 Apeldoorn is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 30, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
3137 T-2 Berend Caspar Jan ("Ben") Apeldoorn, Dutch amateur astronomer and science publicist, on the occasion of his 50th birthday
5886 Rutger  1975 LR Lyle Lee Rutger, American leader of the Nuclear Launch Approval office of the Department of Energy
United States Department of Energy
The United States Department of Energy is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government concerned with the United States' policies regarding energy and safety in handling nuclear material...

 for NASA's New Horizons
New Horizons
New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, Hydra and S/2011 P 1. Its estimated arrival date at the Pluto-Charon system is July 14th, 2015...

Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission
5887 Yauza
5887 Yauza
5887 Yauza is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5888 - *
5889 Mickiewicz
5889 Mickiewicz
5889 Mickiewicz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It is named after Adam Mickiewicz, polish poet.- External links :*...

 
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...

, poet and playwright
5890 Carlsberg
5890 Carlsberg
5890 Carlsberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 19, 1979 by Richard Martin West at La Silla Observatory.- External links :...

 
1979 KG *
5891 Gehrig
5891 Gehrig
5891 Gehrig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1981 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1981 SM Lou Gehrig
Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig , nicknamed "The Iron Horse" for his durability, was an American Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his entire 17-year baseball career for the New York Yankees . Gehrig set several major league records. He holds the record for most career grand slams...

, American baseball player
5892 Milesdavis
5892 Milesdavis
- External links :*...

 
Miles Dewey Davis III, American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer
5893 Coltrane
5893 Coltrane
5893 Coltrane is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 15 March 1982 by Z. Vavrova at Klet, Czech Republic.- External links :*...

 
1982 EF John William Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist and composer
5894 Telč
5894 Telc
5894 Telč is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1182.7363466 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 14, 1982....

 
Telč
Telc
Telč is a town in southern Moravia, near Jihlava, in the Czech Republic. The town was founded in 13th century as a royal water fort on the crossroads of busy merchant routes between Bohemia, Moravia and Austria....

, Czech Republic
5895 - -
5896 Narrenschiff
5896 Narrenschiff
5896 Narrenschiff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 12, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Named on the occasion of the quincentenary of the publication of the Narrenschiff, immortal satiric poem by Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant
Sebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...

, German writer and humanist
5897 Novotná
5897 Novotná
5897 Novotná is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1512.9815710 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 29, 1984.-References:...

 
Jarmila Novotná-Daubková, Czech opera singer
5898 - 1985 KE -
5899 Jedicke
5899 Jedicke
5899 Jedicke is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on January 9, 1986 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1986 AH The Jedicke family (Robert, Peter, and June), Canadian astronomers
5900 Jensen
5900 Jensen
5900 Jensen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1986 by P. Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

 
1986 TL Poul Jensen
Poul Jensen (astronomer)
Poul Jensen is a Danish astronomer.While working at Brorfelde Observatory he discovered numerous asteroids. Between 1967–69 he assisted in positional observations with the observatory's 7" transit circle. He is also a co-discoverer of theComet Jensen-Shoemaker . As of 2004 he isstill...

, Danish astronomer
5901–6000
5901 - -
5902 Talima
5902 Talima
5902 Talima is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 27, 1987 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Tatiana Alimovna Damir, friend of the discoverer, daughter of Alim Matveevich Damir (5717) and wife of Sergej Petrovich Kapitsa (5094)
5903 - -
5904 Württemberg
5904 Württemberg
5904 Württemberg is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1747.5573759 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 10, 1989....

 
Württemberg
Württemberg
Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....

, Germany
5905 Johnson
5905 Johnson
5905 Johnson is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5906 - -
5907 - -
5908 Aichi
5908 Aichi
5908 Aichi is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1989 by Y. Mizuno and T. Furuta at Kani.- External links :*...

 
1989 UF Aichi Prefecture
Aichi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region. The region of Aichi is also known as the Tōkai region. The capital is Nagoya. It is the focus of the Chūkyō Metropolitan Area.- History :...

, Japan
5909 Nagoya
5909 Nagoya
5909 Nagoya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1989 by Y. Mizuno and T. Furuta at Kani.- External links :*...

 
1989 UT Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
5910 Zátopek
5910 Zátopek
5910 Zátopek is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1257.4626479 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 29, 1989....

 
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek
Emil Zátopek was a Czech long-distance runner best known for winning three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. He won gold in the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres runs, but his final medal came when he decided at the last minute to compete in the first marathon of his life...

, Czech Olympic long distance runner
5911 - -
5912 Oyatoshiyuki
5912 Oyatoshiyuki
5912 Oyatoshiyuki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 20, 1989 by T. Niijima and T. Urata at Ojima.- External links :*...

 
1989 YR Toshiyuki Oya, Japanese amateur astronomer
5913 - 1990 BU -
5914 Kathywhaler
5914 Kathywhaler
5914 Kathywhaler is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2438.5257811 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 20, 1990....

 
1990 WK Kathryn Anne Whaler, Scottish professor of geophysics, Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...

 president 2004–2006
5915 Yoshihiro
5915 Yoshihiro
5915 Yoshihiro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 9, 1991 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1991 EU Yoshihiro Yamada, Japanese astronomy educator
5916 van der Woude
5916 van der Woude
5916 van der Woude is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 8, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Jurrie van der Woude, Dutch-born former Public Affairs Officer and Image Coordinator at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

 
5917 - 1991 NG -
5918 - -
5919 Patrickmartin
5919 Patrickmartin
5919 Patrickmartin is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5920 - -
5921 - 1992 UL -
5922 Shouichi
5922 Shouichi
5922 Shouichi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1992 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1992 UV Shouichi Satō, Japanese electric engineer.
5923 Liedeke
5923 Liedeke
5923 Liedeke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 26, 1992 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...

 
*
5924 Teruo
5924 Teruo
5924 Teruo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 7, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
Teruo Saegusa, Japanese mountain climber
5925 - -
5926 Schönfeld
5926 Schönfeld
5926 Schönfeld is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1317.2198801 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 4, 1929.-References:...

 
1929 PB Eduard Schönfeld
Eduard Schönfeld
Eduard Schönfeld was a German astronomer.-Education:Schönfeld was born at Hildburghausen, in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, where he had a distinguished career at the gymnasium. On leaving the gymnasium, he desired to devote himself to astronomy, but abandoned the idea in deference to his father's...

, German astronomer*
5927 - 1938 HA -
5928 Pindarus
5928 Pindarus
5928 Pindarus is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Pindar
Pindar
Pindar , was an Ancient Greek lyric poet. Of the canonical nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, his work is the best preserved. Quintilian described him as "by far the greatest of the nine lyric poets, in virtue of his inspired magnificence, the beauty of his thoughts and figures, the rich...

, Ancient Greek poet*
5929 Manzano
5929 Manzano
5929 Manzano is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1321.8411970 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 14, 1974....

 
1974 XT José Roberto Manzano, Argentine astronomer and physicist
5930 Zhiganov
5930 Zhiganov
5930 Zhiganov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1975 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5931 Zhvanetskij
5931 Zhvanetskij
5931 Zhvanetskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5932 Prutkov
5932 Prutkov
5932 Prutkov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*- References :...

 
*
5933 Kemurdzhian
5933 Kemurdzhian
5933 Kemurdzhian is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 26, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
1976 QN Alexander Kemurdzhian
Alexander Kemurdzhian
Alexander Leonovich Kemurdzhian was a pioneering scientist, from Armenian origin, in the space flight program of the Soviet Union...

 (1921-2003), Soviet designer of Lunokhod moon rover
5934 Mats
5934 Mats
5934 Mats is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1976 by Lagerkvist and Rickman at Kvistaberg.- External links :*...

 
1976 SJ Mats Lindgren
Mats Lindgren
Mats Lindgren is a former Swedish professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the first round of the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, 15th overall, by the Winnipeg Jets, although he never had the opportunity to play for them.Despite versatility and a good on-ice work ethic, Lindgren never lived up...

, Swedish astronomer
5935 Ostankino
5935 Ostankino
5935 Ostankino is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
The Ostankino Tower
Ostankino Tower
Ostankino Tower is a free-standing television and radio tower in Moscow, Russia. Standing tall, Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin. It is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers, currently the tallest in Europe and 4th tallest in the world. The tower was the first free-standing...

 in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

*
5936 Khadzhinov
5936 Khadzhinov
5936 Khadzhinov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 29, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
*
5937 Lodén
5937 Lodén
5937 Lodén is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1240.7566217 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 11, 1979.The asteroid is named after Kerstin Lodén and Lars Olof Lodén....

 
1979 XQ Kerstin and Lars Olof Lodén, Swedish astronomers
5938 Keller
5938 Keller
5938 Keller is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1980 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Horst Uwe Keller, German physicist
5939 Toshimayeda
5939 Toshimayeda
5939 Toshimayeda is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
Toshiko Mayeda, Japanese meteoriticist
5940 Feliksobolev
5940 Feliksobolev
5940 Feliksobolev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1981 by Chernykh, L. I. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Feliks Mikhailovich Sobolev, Ukrainian producer [MPC 34622]
5941 Valencia
5941 Valencia
5941 Valencia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1982 by Lyudmila Karachkina at Nauchnyj. It is named after the city of Valencia, Spain.- External links :*...

 
Valencia, Spain 
5942 Denzilrobert
5942 Denzilrobert
5942 Denzilrobert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1983 by B. E. Behymer and M. S. Marley at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5943 Lovi
5943 Lovi
5943 Lovi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 1, 1984 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of Flagstaff. It is named in honor of the deceased Hungarian-American astronomer George Lovi , a columnist for Sky & Telescope magazine who prepared their star charts 1968 to 1992, and did the...

 
1984 EG George Lovi, Hungarian-born writer on astronomy and author*
5944 Utesov
5944 Utesov
5944 Utesov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1984 by L. G. Karachkina at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Leonid Osipovich Utesov, Russian singer, musician, actor, founder and artistic leader of the first Russian theatricalized jazz band (on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary his birth)
5945 Roachapproach
5945 Roachapproach
5945 Roachapproach is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1984 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of Lowell Observatory.- External links :...

 
Steve Roach, American musician and composer of 'space music'
5946 Hrozný
5946 Hrozný
5946 Hrozný is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1308.2206332 days .The asteroid was discovered on October 28, 1984....

 
Bedřich Hrozný
Bedrich Hrozný
Bedřich Hrozný was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He deciphered the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology. Though of Czech origin, he published his work in German or French.Hrozný was born in Lysá nad...

, Czech archeologist, orientalist and linguist, decipherer of Hittite
5947 Bonnie
5947 Bonnie
5947 Bonnie is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 21, 1985 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1985 FD *
5948 Longo
5948 Longo
5948 Longo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 15, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1985 JL Giuseppe Longo, Italian astronomer
5949 - *
5950 Leukippos
5950 Leukippos
5950 Leukippos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1986 by Elst and Ivanova at Rozhen.- External links :*...

 
Leucippus
Leucippus
Leucippus or Leukippos was one of the earliest Greeks to develop the theory of atomism — the idea that everything is composed entirely of various imperishable, indivisible elements called atoms — which was elaborated in greater detail by his pupil and successor, Democritus...

, Ancient Greek philosopher
5951 Alicemonet
5951 Alicemonet
5951 Alicemonet is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1986 by Edward L. G. Bowell at Flagstaff. It was named after Alice Kay Monet , an American astronomer.-External links:*...

 
Alice Kay Monet (Alice Kay Babcock), American astronomer, wife of David Monet*
5952 Davemonet
5952 Davemonet
5952 Davemonet is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 4, 1987 by Bowell, E. at Flagstaff.-External links:*...

 
1987 EV David Gilbert Monet, American astronomer, husband of Alice Monet*
5953 Shelton
5953 Shelton
5953 Shelton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 25, 1987 by husband and wife teams Carolyn and Gene Shoemaker at Palomar. It was named after Canadian astronomer Ian Shelton, discoverer of SN 1987A, the first supernova event observed since the invention of the telescope.- External links :*...

 
1987 HS Ian Shelton
Ian Shelton
Ian Keith Shelton is a Canadian astronomer famous for discovering SN 1987A, the first modern supernova close and bright enough to be visible to the naked eye.He received his B.Sc...

, Canadian astronomer
5954 Epikouros
5954 Epikouros
5954 Epikouros is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 19, 1987 by Elst, E. W. at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Epicurus
Epicurus
Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism.Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works...

, Ancient Greek philosopher
5955 Khromchenko
5955 Khromchenko
5955 Khromchenko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1987 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
5956 d'Alembert
5956 d'Alembert
5956 d'Alembert is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 13, 1988 by Elst, E. W. at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist. He was also co-editor with Denis Diderot of the Encyclopédie...

, French philosopher and mathematician
5957 Irina
5957 Irina
5957 Irina is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on May 11, 1988 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 JN *
5958 Barrande
5958 Barrande
5958 Barrande is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 29, 1989 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande
Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris...

, French palaeontologist
5959 Shaklan
5959 Shaklan
5959 Shaklan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
5960 Wakkanai
5960 Wakkanai
5960 Wakkanai is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 21, 1989 by M. Mukai and Takeishi at Kagoshima.- External links :*...

 
1989 US Wakkanai, Hokkaidō
Wakkanai, Hokkaido
is a city located in Sōya, Hokkaidō. It is the capital of Sōya Subprefecture and the northernmost city in Japan. It contains Japan's northernmost point, Cape Soya, from which the Russian island of Sakhalin can be seen....

, Japan
5961 - -
5962 Shikokutenkyo
5962 Shikokutenkyo
5962 Shikokutenkyo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 18, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1990 HK Shikoku Ten-mon Kyōkai, Japanese name for the Astronomical Society of Shikoku Island
5963 - -
5964 - -
5965 - -
5966 Tomeko
5966 Tomeko
5966 Tomeko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Tomeko Goto, wife of Seizo Goto, Japanese former president of Goto Optical Mfg. Co.
5967 Edithlevy
5967 Edithlevy
5967 Edithlevy is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on February 9, 1991 by Shoemaker, C. S. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Edith Pailet Levy, American-Canadian geneticist, and mother of the second discoverer
5968 Trauger
5968 Trauger
5968 Trauger is an inner main-belt asteroid discovered on March 17, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1991 FC John Trauger, American physicist, Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center located in the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles County, California, United States. The facility is headquartered in the city of Pasadena on the border of La Cañada Flintridge and Pasadena...

*
5969 Ryuichiro
5969 Ryuichiro
5969 Ryuichiro is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 17, 1991 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1991 FT Ryuichiro Goto, Japanese current president of Goto Optical Mfg. Co.
5970 Ohdohrikouen
5970 Ohdohrikouen
5970 Ohdohrikouen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 13, 1991 by K. Watanabe at Sapporo.- External links :*...

 
Ohdohri Park
Odori Park
is a park located in the heart of Sapporo, Hokkaidō, Japan. Odori means "large street" in Japanese. It stretches east to west through Nishi 1 chōme, Ōdōri to Nishi 12 chōme, Ōdōri , and divides the city into north and south sections. Odori Park spans about 1.5 km and covers 78,901 m²...

, Sapporo, Japan
5971 Tickell
5971 Tickell
5971 Tickell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 12, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Crispin Tickell
Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO, MA , DSc , FRSGS , FRIBA , FZS, FRI , FCIWEM is a British diplomat, environmentalist, and academic.-Background:...

, British diplomat, who chaired the board of the Climate Institute of Washington (1990-2002) and the Government Panel on Sustainable Development (1994-2000), and who also served on the UK government's Task Force on Near-Earth Objects
5972 Harryatkinson
5972 Harryatkinson
5972 Harryatkinson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 5, 1991 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Harry Atkinson
Harry Atkinson
Henry Albert "Harry" Atkinson served as the tenth Premier of New Zealand on four separate occasions in the late 19th century, and was Colonial Treasurer for a total of ten years...

, New Zealand-born British physicist, head of astronomy and space for the Science Research Council (1972-1978), chair of the European Space Agency Council (1984-1987), and chair of the UK Task Force on Near-Earth Objects in 2000
5973 Takimoto
5973 Takimoto
5973 Takimoto is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 17, 1991 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1991 QC Daisuke Takimoto, Japanese activist in the nuclear-power phase-out movement
5974 - -
5975 Otakemayumi
5975 Otakemayumi
5975 Otakemayumi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1992 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 SG Mayumi Ōtake, music composer of Japanese planetarium
5976 Kalatajean
5976 Kalatajean
5976 Kalatajean is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1992 by Oak Ridge Obs. at Harvard.- External links :*...

 
*
5977 - -
5978 Kaminokuni
5978 Kaminokuni
5978 Kaminokuni is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 16, 1992 by Endate and Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 WT Kaminokuni, Hokkaidō
Kaminokuni, Hokkaido
is a town located in Hiyama District, Hiyama, Hokkaidō, Japan.In 2008, the town had an estimated population of 6,379 and a density of 12.25 per km²...

, Japan
5979 - 1992 XF -
5980 - -
5981 Kresilas
5981 Kresilas
5981 Kresilas is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2140 P-L Kresilas
Kresilas
Kresilas was a Greek sculptor from Kydonia. He lived in the 5th century BC. He worked in Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war, as a follower of the idealistic portraiture of Myron.-Pericles statue:...

, Ancient Greek sculptor
5982 Polykletus
5982 Polykletus
5982 Polykletus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 13, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory....

 
4862 T-1 Polykleitos, the Elder
Polykleitos
Polykleitos ; called the Elder, was a Greek sculptor in bronze of the fifth and the early 4th century BCE...

 and Polykleitos the Younger
Polykleitos the Younger
Polykleitos the Younger was an ancient Greek sculptor of athletes. His greatest achievements, however, were as an architect. A renowned sculptor, Polykleitos the Younger was architect of the Theatre and Tholos at Epidaurus. Started around 360 BC, the Tholos exhibited elaborate detailing,...

, Ancient Greek sculptors*
5983 Praxiteles
5983 Praxiteles
5983 Praxiteles is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2285 T-2 Praxiteles
Praxiteles
Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC. He was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue...

, Ancient Greek sculptor
5984 Lysippus
5984 Lysippus
5984 Lysippus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4045 T-3 Lysippos
Lysippos
Lysippos was a Greek sculptor of the 4th century BC. Together with Scopas and Praxiteles, he is considered one of the three greatest sculptors of the Classical Greek era, bringing transition into the Hellenistic period. Problems confront the study of Lysippos because of the difficulty of...

, Ancient Greek sculptor
5985 - 1942 RJ -
5986 Xenophon
5986 Xenophon
5986 Xenophon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 2, 1969 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...

 
1969 TA Xenophon
Xenophon
Xenophon , son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates...

, Ancient Greek historian
5987 Liviogratton
5987 Liviogratton
5987 Liviogratton is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1385.5396995 days . The asteroid was discovered on June 6, 1975....

 
1975 LQ Livio Gratton, Italo-Argentine astrophysicist
5988 Gorodnitskij
5988 Gorodnitskij
5988 Gorodnitskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 1, 1976 by Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Aleksandr Moiseevich Gorodnitskij, Soviet geophysicist and mineralogist, poet and songwriter [MPC 34622]
5989 Sorin
5989 Sorin
5989 Sorin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 26, 1976 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Sergej Ivanovich Sorin, Soviet astronomer [MPC 34622]
5990 Panticapaeon
5990 Panticapaeon
5990 Panticapaeon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 9, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj....

 
1977 EO Panticapæon or Panticapaeum, ancient Greek colony, now Kerch
Kerch
Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. Kerch, founded 2600 years ago, is considered as one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine.-Ancient times:...

, Ukrainian seaport at the eastern extremity of the Crimea
Crimea
Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

n peninsula [MPC 34622]
5991 Ivavladis
5991 Ivavladis
5991 Ivavladis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 25, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Ivanov, Russian engineer [MPC 34622]
5992 Nittler
5992 Nittler
5992 Nittler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 28, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
1981 DZ Larry Nittler, American meteoriticist
5993 Tammydickinson
5993 Tammydickinson
5993 Tammydickinson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 2, 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring Observatory in the course of the U.K. Schmidt-Caltech Asteroid Survey.- External links :*...

 
Tamara Dickinson, American meteoriticist
5994 Yakubovich
5994 Yakubovich
5994 Yakubovich is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1981 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...

 
Leonid Arkad'evich Yakubovich, Russian writer [MPC 34622]
5995 Saint-Aignan
5995 Saint-Aignan
-General:The asteroid 5995 Saint-Aignan is a main belt asteroid discovered by Ted Bowell and named for Charles de Saint-Aignan.-Orbital diagram:This orbital diagram is courtesy of the -See also:* Asteroid beltCategory:Asteroid groups and families...

 
1982 DK Charles P. de Saint-Aignan
Charles P. de Saint-Aignan
Charles P. de Saint-Aignan is an American software engineer who currently works for IBM on the LotusLive project. He graduated from St. Paul's School , in 1995, followed by Brown University , in 1999.In 1994, Charles worked for Ted Bowell at Lowell Observatory, where he discovered a number of...

, American astronomer*
5996 Julioangel
5996 Julioangel
5996 Julioangel is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 11, 1983 by E. Bowell at Flagstaff.- External links :*...

 
1983 NR Julio Angel Fernandez
Julio Ángel Fernández
Dr. Julio Ángel Fernández Alves is a Uruguayan astronomer and member of the department of astronomy at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. He is also a member of PEDECIBA, . From 2005 to 2010, he was the Dean of the Universidad de la Republica's Faculty of Sciences...

 (b. 1946), Uruguayan astronomer
5997 Dirac
5997 Dirac
5997 Dirac is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1983 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1983 TH Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics...

, British physicist and Nobelist
5998 Sitenský
5998 Sitenský
5998 Sitenský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1677.4172806 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 2, 1986.-References:...

 
Ladislav Sitenský
Ladislav Sitenský
Ladislav Sitenský was a Czech landscape photographer, well-known also for his photography from World War II, when he was a technician for the Czech wing of the Royal Air Force.-External links: - extensive biography...

, Czech photographer
5999 Plescia
5999 Plescia
5999 Plescia is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on April 23, 1987 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1987 HA Jeffrey Plescia, American geophysist and planetary geologist, researcher of terrestrial impact craters*
6000 United Nations
6000 United Nations
6000 United Nations is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1987 by Poul Jensen at Brorfelde.- External links :*...

 
1987 UN The United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

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