Meanings of asteroid names (8001-8500)
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Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
8001–8100
8001 Ramsden
8001 Ramsden
8001 Ramsden is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1986 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Jesse Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden
Jesse Ramsden FRSE was an English astronomical and scientific instrument maker.Ramsden was born at Salterhebble, Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England. After serving his apprenticeship with a cloth-worker in Halifax, he went in 1755 to London, where in 1758 he was apprenticed to a...

, British inventor of navigational instruments
8003 Kelvin
8003 Kelvin
8003 Kelvin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1987 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1987 RJ William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin OM, GCVO, PC, PRS, PRSE, was a mathematical physicist and engineer. At the University of Glasgow he did important work in the mathematical analysis of electricity and formulation of the first and second laws of thermodynamics, and did much to unify the emerging...

, British physicist
8005 Albinadubois
8005 Albinadubois
8005 Albinadubois is a main belt asteroid discovered on June 16, 1988 by Helin, E. F. at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 MJ Albina du Boisrouvray
Albina du Boisrouvray
Albina du Boisrouvray is a former journalist and film producer who has become a global philanthropist and social entrepreneur working with AIDS orphans and vulnerable children around the world. She is a grandchild of the Bolivian King of Tin, Simón Patiño, who was one of the wealthiest men in the...

, French philanthropist
8006 Tacchini
8006 Tacchini
8006 Tacchini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 22, 1988 at Osservatorio San Vittore.- External links :*...

 
1988 QU Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini was an Italian astronomer.He was born and raised in Modena, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Padova. At the age of 21, he was appointed the director of a small observatory in Modena. By 1863 he became the Primo Astronomo Aggiunto, or director of the observatory,...

, Italian astronomer, founder of the Italian Society of Spectroscopists, the forerunner of the Societá Astronomica Italiana (Italian Astronomical Society)
8009 Béguin
8009 Béguin
8009 Béguin is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1686.2565176 days .The asteroid was discovered on January 25, 1989.-References:...

 
Jean Béguin
Jean Beguin
Jean Beguin was an iatrochemist noted for his 1610 Tyrocinium Chymicum , which many consider to be one of the first chemistry textbooks. In the 1615 edition of his textbook, Beguin made the first-ever chemical equation or rudimentary reaction diagrams, showing the results of reactions in which...

, French chemist*
8010 Böhnhardt
8010 Böhnhardt
8010 Böhnhardt is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 2056.1413401 days .The asteroid was discovered on April 3, 1989.-References:...

 
Hermann Böhnhardt, German astronomer
8011 Saijokeiichi
8011 Saijokeiichi
8011 Saijokeiichi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 29, 1989 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8013 Gordonmoore
8013 Gordonmoore
8013 Gordonmoore is an Amor asteroid discovered on May 18, 1990 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1990 KA Gordon Earl Moore, American physicist and businessman*
8019 Karachkina
8019 Karachkina
8019 Karachkina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1990, by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is a Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.Working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1978, she has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. She has received a Ph.D. in astronomy from I. I...

, Ukrainian astronomer, wife of Yurii Vasilievich Karachkin, physics teacher, after whom 8089 Yukar
8089 Yukar
8089 Yukar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1990 by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 was named
8020 Erzgebirge
8020 Erzgebirge
8020 Erzgebirge is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1990 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
The Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge) of Saxony and Bohemia
8021 Walter
8021 Walter
8021 Walter is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1990 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8034 Akka
8034 Akka
8034 Akka is an Amor asteroid discovered on June 3, 1992 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1992 LR *
8036 Maehara
8036 Maehara
8036 Maehara is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8039 Grandprism
8039 Grandprism
8039 Grandprism is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1993 by H. Debehogne and E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8040 Utsumikazuhiko
8040 Utsumikazuhiko
8040 Utsumikazuhiko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 16, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8041 Masumoto
8041 Masumoto
8041 Masumoto is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1993 by F. Uto at Kashihara.- External links :*...

 
*
8043 Fukuhara
8043 Fukuhara
8043 Fukuhara is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 6, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8044 Tsuchiyama
8044 Tsuchiyama
8044 Tsuchiyama is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 28, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1994 YT *
8045 Kamiyama
8045 Kamiyama
8045 Kamiyama is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 6, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1995 AW *
8046 Ajiki
8046 Ajiki
8046 Ajiki is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 25, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1995 BU *
8047 Akikinoshita
8047 Akikinoshita
8047 Akikinoshita is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 31, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8048 Andrle
8048 Andrle
8048 Andrle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 22, 1995 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Pavel Andrle, Czech astronomer
8050 Beishida
8050 Beishida
8050 Beishida is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1996 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.- External links :*...

 
1996 ST *
8051 Pistoria
8051 Pistoria
8051 Pistoria is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 13, 1997 by L. Tesi and G. Cattani at San Marcello Pistoiese.- External links :*...

 
Pistoia
Pistoia
Pistoia is a city and comune in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of the same name, located about 30 km west and north of Florence and is crossed by the Ombrone Pistoiese, a tributary of the River Arno.-History:...

, Italy
8052 Novalis
8052 Novalis
8052 Novalis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24, 1960 Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2093 P-L Novalis
Novalis
Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg , an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.-Biography:...

, German author*
8053 Kleist
8053 Kleist
8053 Kleist is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4082 P-L Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...

, German poet and novelist*
8054 Brentano
8054 Brentano
8054 Brentano 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 :*...

 
4581 P-L Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano
Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano was a German poet and novelist.-Overview:He was born in Ehrenbreitstein, near Koblenz, Germany. His sister was Bettina von Arnim, Goethe's correspondent. His father's family was of Italian descent. He studied in Halle and Jena, afterwards residing at...

, German poet and novelist*
8055 Arnim
8055 Arnim
8055 Arnim 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 :*...

 
5004 P-L Achim von Arnim, German poet and novelist*
8056 Tieck
8056 Tieck
8056 Tieck 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 :*...

 
6038 P-L Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Tieck
Johann Ludwig Tieck was a German poet, translator, editor, novelist, writer of Novellen, and critic, who was one of the founding fathers of the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Early life:...

, German poet*
8057 Hofmannsthal
8057 Hofmannsthal
8057 Hofmannsthal 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 :*...

 
4034 T-1 Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal ; , was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.-Early life:...

, Austrian poet and novelist*
8058 Zuckmayer
8058 Zuckmayer
8058 Zuckmayer 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 :*...

 
3241 T-3 Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer
Carl Zuckmayer was a German writer and playwright.-Biography:Born in Nackenheim in Rheinhessen, he was four years old when his family moved to Mainz. With the outbreak of World War I, he finished school with a facilitated "emergency"-Abitur and volunteered for military service...

, German writer
8059 Deliyannis
8059 Deliyannis
8059 Deliyannis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1957, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana. It is named for Constantine Deliyannis, an Indiana University faculty member.- External links :*...

 
1957 JP *
8060 Anius
8060 Anius
8060 Anius is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 19, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8061 Gaudium
8061 Gaudium
8061 Gaudium is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1975 by P. Wild at Zimmerwald.- External links :*...

 
1975 UF *
8062 Okhotsymskij
8062 Okhotsymskij
8062 Okhotsymskij is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.It was named after the Russian space scientist Dmitry Okhotsimsky.- External links :*...

 
1977 EZ *
8064 Lisitsa
8064 Lisitsa
8064 Lisitsa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1978 RR *
8065 Nakhodkin
8065 Nakhodkin
8065 Nakhodkin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 31, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8066 Poldimeri
8066 Poldimeri
8066 Poldimeri is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1980 by R. M. West at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8067 Helfenstein
8067 Helfenstein
8067 Helfenstein is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 7, 1980 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1980 RU Paul Helfenstein, American astronomer
8071 Simonelli
8071 Simonelli
8071 Simonelli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 5, 1981 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1981 GO Damon Paul Simonelli, American astronomer
8072 Yojikondo
8072 Yojikondo
8072 Yojikondo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 1 April 1981 at the Agassiz Station of the Harvard College Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Yoji Kondo
Yoji Kondo
is a Japanese astrophysicist who also writes science fiction under the pseudonym Eric Kotani. He edited Requiem: New Collected Works by Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master , and contributed to New Destinies, Vol. VI/Winter 1988 — Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Issue , after his...

, NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

 physicist*
8073 Johnharmon
8073 Johnharmon
8073 Johnharmon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1982 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1982 BS John Harmon, scientist at Arecibo Observatory
Arecibo Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory is a radio telescope near the city of Arecibo in Puerto Rico. It is operated by SRI International under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation...

 
8074 Slade
8074 Slade
8074 Slade is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 20, 1984 by E. Bowell at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Martin Slade, 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...

 
8075 Roero
8075 Roero
8075 Roero is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 14, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1985 PE *
8077 Hoyle
8077 Hoyle
8077 Hoyle is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1986 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Sir Fred Hoyle
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer and mathematician noted primarily for his contribution to the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis and his often controversial stance on other cosmological and scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term originally...

, British astronomer*
8078 Carolejordan
8078 Carolejordan
8078 Carolejordan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Carole Jordan
Carole Jordan
Professor Dame Carole Jordan, DBE, FRS, FInstP, was the first ever female president of the Royal Astronomical Society. She was also only the third female recipient of its Gold Medal .-Education:Carole Jordan was educated at Harrow County Grammar School for Girls and at University College London...

, astrophysicist*
8079 Bernardlovell
8079 Bernardlovell
8079 Bernardlovell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 4, 1986 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Sir Bernard Lovell
Bernard Lovell
Sir Alfred Charles Bernard Lovell OBE, FRS is an English physicist and radio astronomer. He was the first Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, from 1945 to 1980.-Early Life:...

, British radio-astronomer*
8080 Intel
8080 Intel
8080 Intel is a Main belt asteroid.It was discovered by CERGA on November 17, 1987 in Caussols. It was named after the influential Intel 8080 microprocessor.- References :*[ftp://ftp.lowell.edu/pub/elgb/astorb.html The Asteroid Orbital Elements Database]...

 
Intel, computer component manufacturer*
8081 Leopardi
8081 Leopardi
- External links :*...

 
1988 DD Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Leopardi
Giacomo Taldegardo Francesco di Sales Saverio Pietro Leopardi was an Italian poet, essayist, philosopher, and philologist...

, Italian poet*
8082 Haynes
8082 Haynes
8082 Haynes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 12, 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
1988 NR *
8083 Mayeda
8083 Mayeda
8083 Mayeda is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 1, 1988 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1988 VB Shizuo Mayeda, Japanese amateur astronomer*
8084 Dallas
8084 Dallas
8084 Dallas is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 6, 1989 by M. Koishikawa at the Ayashi Station of the Sendai Astronomical Observatory.-External links:...

 
Dallas, Texas*
8086 Peterthomas
8086 Peterthomas
8086 Peterthomas is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 1, 1989 by E. Bowell at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Peter Chew Thomas, American astronomer
8087 Kazutaka
8087 Kazutaka
8087 Kazutaka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 29, 1989 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8088 Australia
8088 Australia
8088 Australia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1990 by G. R. Kastel' and L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

*
8089 Yukar
8089 Yukar
8089 Yukar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1990 by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Yurii Vasil'evich Karachkin, physics teacher at the school attached to the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. Yurii is the husband of astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is a Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.Working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1978, she has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. She has received a Ph.D. in astronomy from I. I...

, after whom 8019 Karachkina
8019 Karachkina
8019 Karachkina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1990, by L. D. Schmadel and F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 is named
8096 Emilezola
8096 Emilezola
8096 Emilezola is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 20, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Émile Zola
Émile Zola
Émile François Zola was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism...

, French writer
8097 Yamanishi
8097 Yamanishi
8097 Yamanishi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 12, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1993 RE *
8098 Miyamotoatsushi
8098 Miyamotoatsushi
8098 Miyamotoatsushi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
Atsushi Miyamoto, Japanese astronomer*
8100 Nobeyama
8100 Nobeyama
8100 Nobeyama is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 4, 1993 by M. Hirasawa and S. Suzuki at Nyukasa.- External links :*...

 
1993 XF Nobeyama Radio Observatory
Nobeyama radio observatory
The Nobeyama Radio Observatory is a division of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and consists of three radio instruments located in Nobeyama, a village in the Japan Alps at an elevation of 1350m....

, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan*
8101–8200
8101 Yasue
8101 Yasue
8101 Yasue is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 15, 1993 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8102 Yoshikazu
8102 Yoshikazu
8102 Yoshikazu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 14, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8103 Fermi
8103 Fermi
8103 Fermi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1994 at Farra d'Isonzo, Italy. It was named for the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.-References:...

 
1994 BE Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi was an Italian-born, naturalized American physicist particularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle physics, and statistical mechanics...

, physicist*
8104 Kumamori
8104 Kumamori
8104 Kumamori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 19, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8106 Carpino
8106 Carpino
8106 Carpino is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 23, 1994 by M. Cavagna and P. Sicoli at Sormano.- External links :*...

 
1994 YB Mario Carpino, Italian astronomer
8108 Wieland
8108 Wieland
8108 Wieland is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 30, 1995 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland
Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...

, German poet*
8110 Heath
8110 Heath
8110 Heath is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 27, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8111 Hoepli
8111 Hoepli
8111 Hoepli is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 2, 1995 by A. Testa and V. Giuliani at Sormano.- External links :*...

 
1995 GE Ulrico Hoepli, Italian publisher, who donated a planetarium to the city of Milan
8112 Cesi
8112 Cesi
- External links :*...

 
1995 JJ Federico Cesi
Federico Cesi
Federico Angelo Cesi was an Italian scientist, naturalist, and founder of the Accademia dei Lincei. On his father's death in 1630, he became briefly lord of Acquasparta.- Biography :...

, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei
Accademia dei Lincei
The Accademia dei Lincei, , is an Italian science academy, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy....

*
8113 Matsue
8113 Matsue
8113 Matsue is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1996 by R. H. McNaught and H. Abe at Yatsuka.- External links :*...

 
*
8114 Lafcadio
8114 Lafcadio
8114 Lafcadio is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 24, 1996 by H. Abe at Yatsuka.- External links :*...

 
Lafcadio Hearn
Lafcadio Hearn
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn , known also by the Japanese name , was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

, author*
8115 Sakabe
8115 Sakabe
8115 Sakabe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 24, 1996 by R. H. McNaught and Y. Ikari at Moriyama.- External links :*...

 
*
8116 Jeanperrin
8116 Jeanperrin
8116 Jeanperrin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 17, 1996 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin
Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:Born in Lille, France, Perrin attended the École Normale Supérieure, the elite grande école in Paris. He became an assistant at the school during the period of 1894-97 when he began the study of cathode rays and X-rays...

, French physicist
8117 Yuanlongping
8117 Yuanlongping
8117 Yuanlongping is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1996 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. It is named after Yuan Longping.- External links :*...

 
*
8120 Kobe
8120 Kobe
8120 Kobe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1997 by H. Abe at Yatsuka.- External links :*...

 
1997 VT *
8121 Altdorfer
8121 Altdorfer
8121 Altdorfer 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 :*...

 
2572 P-L Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter, printmaker and architect of the Renaissance era.-Biography:Altdorfer was born in Regensburg or Altdorf around 1480....

, German painter of the Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...

*
8122 Holbein
8122 Holbein
8122 Holbein 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....

 
4038 P-L Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history...

, German artist*
8123 Canaletto
8123 Canaletto
8123 Canaletto is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 1.99 AU It has an eccentricity of 0.131 and an orbital period of 1263.5 days .Caldeira has an average orbital speed of 19.692 km/s and an inclination of 3.754°....

 
3138 T-1 Canaletto
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal better known as Canaletto , was a Venetian painter famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.- Early career :...

, Venetian artist*
8124 Guardi
8124 Guardi
8124 Guardi 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 :*...

 
4370 T-1 Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....

, Italian painter of the Rococo
Rococo
Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

 period*
8125 Tyndareus
8125 Tyndareus
8125 Tyndareus is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 30, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
5493 T-2 Tyndareus
Tyndareus
In Greek mythology, Tyndareus or Tyndareos was a Spartan king, son of Oebalus and Gorgophone , husband of Leda and father of Helen, Castor and Polydeuces, Clytemnestra, Timandra, Phoebe and Philonoe.Tyndareus had a brother named Hippocoon , who seized power and exiled Tyndareus...

, mythological Spartan king*
8126 Chanwainam
8126 Chanwainam
8126 Chanwainam is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered at the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing, China, on January 20, 1966. It is named for Chan Wainam, a Chinese philanthropist.-External links:*...

 
1966 BL Chan Wainam, Chinese educator and charity worker
8127 Beuf
8127 Beuf
8127 Beuf is a Main belt asteroid discovered on April 27, 1967 by C. U. Cesco at the Félix Aguilar Observatory in El Leoncito. It was named after the French astronomer, Francisco Beuf.- References :...

 
1967 HA Francisco Beuf, 19th-century French astronomer, who participated in the organization of the Argentinian Navy School and the La Plata Observatory, of which he was the first director
8128 Nicomachus
8128 Nicomachus
8128 Nicomachus is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1967 by C. U. Cesco and A. R. Klemola at El Leoncito.- External links :*...

 
1967 JP Nicomachus
Nicomachus
Nicomachus was an important mathematician in the ancient world and is best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic and Manual of Harmonics in Greek. He was born in Gerasa, in the Roman province of Syria , and was strongly influenced by Aristotle...

, Greek mathematician*
8130 Seeberg
8130 Seeberg
8130 Seeberg is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on February 27, 1976 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
*
8131 Scanlon
8131 Scanlon
8131 Scanlon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 27, 1976 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.Named for Leo Scanlon, an Amateur Astronomer, co-founder of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, or AAAP. Member of the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh. - External links :*...

 
1976 SC Leo Scanlon Amateur Astronomer, co-founder of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, or AAAP. Member of the Academy of Science and Art of Pittsburgh.*
8132 Vitginzburg
8132 Vitginzburg
8132 Vitginzburg is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1555.0141323 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 18, 1976....

 
Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, Russian physicist and Nobelist
8133 Takanochoei
8133 Takanochoei
8133 Takanochoei is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on February 18, 1977 by H. Kosai and K. Hurukawa at the Kiso Station of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8134 Minin
8134 Minin
8134 Minin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8137 Kvíz
8137 Kvíz
8137 Kvíz is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1296.8449204 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 19, 1979....

 
1979 SJ Zdeněk Kvíz, Czech astronomer
8141 Nikolaev
8141 Nikolaev
8141 Nikolaev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 20, 1982 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8142 Zolotov
8142 Zolotov
8142 Zolotov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 20, 1982 by L. G. Karachkina at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8143 Nezval
8143 Nezval
8143 Nezval is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory near České Budějovice, Czech Republic, on November 11, 1982. It is named after Vítězslav Nezval, a noted Czech poet and surrealist; the name was proposed by astronomer Jana Tichá.-External links:*...

 
1982 VN Vítezslav Nezval
Vítezslav Nezval
Vítězslav Nezval was one of the most prolific avant-garde Czech writers in the first half of the twentieth century and a co-founder of the Surrealist movement in Czechoslovakia....

, 20th-century Czech poet, founder of the Poetism movement and later founder of the surrealist group of Czechoslovakia
8144 Hiragagennai
8144 Hiragagennai
8144 Hiragagennai is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 14, 1982 by H. Kosai and K. Hurukawa at the Kiso Station of the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8145 Valujki
8145 Valujki
8145 Valujki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1983 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8146 Jimbell
8146 Jimbell
8146 Jimbell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 28, 1983 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*Astronomer and Planetary Scientist James F. Bell, III...

 
1983 WG James Francis Bell, American astronomer
8147 Colemanhawkins
8147 Colemanhawkins
8147 Colemanhawkins is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1984 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Randolph Hawkins was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Hawkins was one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument. As Joachim E. Berendt explained, "there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn"...

, jazz musician*
8149 Ruff
8149 Ruff
8149 Ruff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 11, 1985 by C. Shoemaker and E. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
8150 Kaluga
8150 Kaluga
8150 Kaluga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 24, 1985 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8151 Andranada
8151 Andranada
8151 Andranada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 12, 1986 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8154 Stahl
8154 Stahl
8154 Stahl is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 15, 1988 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8155 Battaglini
8155 Battaglini
- External links :*...

 
1988 QA Giuseppe Battaglini, Italian mathematician*
8156 Tsukada
8156 Tsukada
8156 Tsukada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 13, 1988 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1988 TR *
8158 Herder
8158 Herder
8158 Herder is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1989 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottfried von Herder was a German philosopher, theologian, poet, and literary critic. He is associated with the periods of Enlightenment, Sturm und Drang, and Weimar Classicism.-Biography:...

, German poet, theologian and philosopher*
8159 Fukuoka
8159 Fukuoka
8159 Fukuoka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 24, 1990 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8161 Newman
8161 Newman
- External links :*...

 
*
8163 Ishizaki
8163 Ishizaki
8163 Ishizaki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 27, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Masako Ishizaki, amateur astronomer*
8164 Andreasdoppler
8164 Andreasdoppler
8164 Andreasdoppler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1990 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Andreas Doppler, Minor Planet Center Associate and amateur astronomer at the Archenhold Observatory
8165 Gnädig
8165 Gnädig
8165 Gnädig is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1257.5018280 days .The asteroid was discovered on November 21, 1990....

 
Arno Gnädig, German amateur astronomer at the Archenhold Observatory
8166 Buczynski
8166 Buczynski
8166 Buczynski is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1991, by B. G. W. Manning at Stakenbridge.- External links :*...

 
Denis Buczynski, British amateur astronomer
8167 Ishii
8167 Ishii
8167 Ishii is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1991 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8168 Rogerbourke
8168 Rogerbourke
8168 Rogerbourke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 18, 1991 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Roger Bourke*
8169 Mirabeau
8169 Mirabeau
8169 Mirabeau is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 2, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Mirabeau
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau was a French revolutionary, as well as a writer, diplomat, freemason, journalist and French politician at the same time. He was a popular orator and statesman. During the French Revolution, he was a moderate, favoring a constitutional monarchy built on...

, French writer, orator and statesman*
8171 Stauffenberg
8171 Stauffenberg
8171 Stauffenberg is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1991 by F. Borngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Claus von Stauffenberg, German aristocrat and Wehrmacht officer, one of the leading figures in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler*
8175 Boerhaave
8175 Boerhaave
8175 Boerhaave is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 2, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement was to demonstrate the relation of symptoms to lesions...

, Dutch physician and anatomist
8181 Rossini
8181 Rossini
8181 Rossini is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1992 by Lyudmila Zhuravlyova at Nauchnyj. It is named after Italian composer Gioachino Rossini.- External links :*...

 
Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer
8182 Akita
8182 Akita
8182 Akita is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 1, 1992 by M. Yanai and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1992 TX *
8184 Luderic
8184 Luderic
8184 Luderic is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 16, 1992 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
1992 WL Child of astronomer Alain Maury
Alain Maury
Alain J. Maury is a French astronomer.He discovered the periodic comet 115P/Maury as well as the non-periodic C/1988 C1 ....

*
8187 Akiramisawa
8187 Akiramisawa
8187 Akiramisawa is a main belt asteroid discovered on December 15, 1992 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1992 XL *
8188 Okegaya
8188 Okegaya
8188 Okegaya is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Yoshikane Mizuno and Toshimasa Furuta in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, on December 18, 1992. It is named after the Okegaya Marsh in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.-External links:*...

 
Okegaya Marsh, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan
8189 Naruke
8189 Naruke
8189 Naruke is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 30, 1992 by T. Hioki and S. Hayakawa at Okutama.- External links :*...

 
*
8190 Bouguer
8190 Bouguer
8190 Bouguer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 20, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Pierre Bouguer
Pierre Bouguer
Pierre Bouguer was a French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer. He is also known as "the father of naval architecture"....

, French mathematician*
8191 Mersenne
8191 Mersenne
8191 Mersenne is an asteroid discovered 1993 July 20 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla Observatory, according to http://www.angelfire.com/id/ericelst/Citapla.html. It was named after Marin Mersenne because 8191, the number of the object discovered, is sequentially the fifth Mersenne prime.- External...

 
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne
Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne was a French theologian, philosopher, mathematician and music theorist, often referred to as the "father of acoustics"...

, French theologian and mathematician*
8192 Tonucci
8192 Tonucci
- External links :*...

 
1993 RB Guiseppe Tonucci, Italian cyclist
8193 Ciaurro
8193 Ciaurro
- External links :*...

 
1993 SF *
8194 Satake
8194 Satake
8194 Satake is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 16, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami....

 
*
8197 Mizunohiroshi
8197 Mizunohiroshi
8197 Mizunohiroshi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 15, 1993 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1993 VX *
8199 Takagitakeo
8199 Takagitakeo
8199 Takagitakeo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 9, 1993 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1993 XR *
8200 Souten
8200 Souten
8200 Souten is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 7, 1994 by M. Hirasawa and S. Suzuki at Nyukasa.- External links :*...

 
*
8201–8300
8202 Gooley
8202 Gooley
8202 Gooley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 11, 1994 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8203 Jogolehmann
8203 Jogolehmann
8203 Jogolehmann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 7, 1994 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory....

 
*
8204 Takabatake
8204 Takabatake
8204 Takabatake is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 8, 1994 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8205 Van Dijck
8205 Van Dijck
8205 Van Dijck is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 10, 1994 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.- External links :*...

 
Anthony Van Dyck
Anthony van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next...

, Flemish painter
8206 Masayuki
8206 Masayuki
8206 Masayuki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 27, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8207 Suminao
8207 Suminao
8207 Suminao is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 31, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8208 Volta
8208 Volta
8208 Volta is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1479.3123104 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 28, 1995....

 
Alessandro Volta
Alessandro Volta
Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta was a Lombard physicist known especially for the invention of the battery in 1800.-Early life and works:...

, Italian physicist
8210 NANTEN
8210 NANTEN
8210 NANTEN is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1995 EH *
8212 Naoshigetani
8212 Naoshigetani
8212 Naoshigetani is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 6, 1995 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
*
8214 Mirellalilli
8214 Mirellalilli
8214 Mirellalilli is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1566.1235640 days ....

 
1995 FH Mirella Lilli, Italian wife of the discoverer, on the occasion of their twentieth wedding anniversary (2007 August)
8216 Melosh
8216 Melosh
8216 Melosh is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 27, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.The asteroid is named for geophysicist and planetary scientist Jay Melosh.- External links :*...

 
Jay Melosh, geophysicist and planetary scientist*
8217 Dominikhašek
8217 Dominikhašek
8217 Dominikhašek is a main-belt asteroid named by its discoverers, Petr Pravec and Lenka Šarounová of the Observatoř Ondřejov , in 2003. It is the namesake of NHL goaltender, Dominik Hašek, and it was named in his honour for helping win the gold medal for the Czech Republic in the 1998 Winter...

 
1995 HC Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek
Dominik Hašek is a Czech ice hockey goaltender who is currently with HC Spartak Moscow of the KHL.In his 16-season National Hockey League career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks, Buffalo Sabres, Detroit Red Wings, and the Ottawa Senators. During his years in Buffalo, he became one of the...

, hockey player*
8218 Hosty
8218 Hosty
8218 Hosty is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 8, 1996 by R. H. McNaught at Siding Spring.- External links :*...

 
1996 JH *
8220 Nanyou
8220 Nanyou
8220 Nanyou is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1244.8598526 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 13, 1996....

 
*
8221 La Condamine
8221 La Condamine
8221 La Condamine is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 14, 1996 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician. He spent ten years in present-day Ecuador measuring the length of a degree latitude at the equator and preparing the first map of the Amazon region based on astronomical observations.-Biography:Charles Marie de La...

, French geographer and mathematician*
8222 Gellner
8222 Gellner
8222 Gellner is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 22, 1996 by M. Tichy and Z. Moravec at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1996 OX František Gellner
František Gellner
František Gellner was a Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist.-Biography:František Gellner was born to a poor Jewish family in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia. His father was a seller and a keen socialist...

, Czech poet
8223 Bradshaw
8223 Bradshaw
8223 Bradshaw is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...

 
1996 PD *
8224 Fultonwright
8224 Fultonwright
8224 Fultonwright is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...

 
1996 PE Fulton Wright?*
8225 Emerson
8225 Emerson
8225 Emerson is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 16, 1996 by C. F. Durman and B. M. Ewen-Smith at Portimão.- External links :*...

 
1996 QC David Emerson, 1943–1996, astrophysicist at the Department of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh.*
8229 Kozelský
8229 Kozelský
8229 Kozelský is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1984.3103885 days . The asteroid was discovered on December 28, 1996.-References:...

 
*
8230 Perona
8230 Perona
8230 Perona is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1997 by at Stroncone.- External links :*...

 
*
8231 Tetsujiyamada
8231 Tetsujiyamada
8231 Tetsujiyamada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 6, 1997 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8232 Akiramizuno
8232 Akiramizuno
8232 Akiramizuno is a main belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8233 Asada
8233 Asada
8233 Asada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 5, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8234 Nobeoka
8234 Nobeoka
8234 Nobeoka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1997 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Nobeoka, Miyazaki
Nobeoka, Miyazaki
is the northernmost city located in Miyazaki, Japan.-Population:As of the January 1, 2008 merger, the city has an estimated population of 130,435 and a population density of 150 persons per km². The total area is 867.97 km².-History:...

, Japan*
8235 Fragonard
8235 Fragonard
8235 Fragonard 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 :*...

 
2096 P-L Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings , of which only five...

, French painter*
8236 Gainsborough
8236 Gainsborough
8236 Gainsborough 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 :*...

 
4040 P-L Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...

, British artist*
8237 Constable
8237 Constable
8237 Constable 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 :*...

 
7581 P-L John Constable
John Constable
John Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...

, British artist*
8238 Courbet
8238 Courbet
8238 Courbet 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 :*...

 
4232 T-1 *
8239 Signac
8239 Signac
8239 Signac 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 :*...

 
1153 T-2 *
8240 Matisse
8240 Matisse
8240 Matisse 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 :*...

 
4172 T-2 Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...

, French artist*
8241 Agrius
8241 Agrius
8241 Agrius is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 19, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8244 Mikolaichuk
8244 Mikolaichuk
8244 Mikolaichuk is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1975 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8246 Kotov
8246 Kotov
8246 Kotov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 20, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8248 Gurzuf
8248 Gurzuf
8248 Gurzuf is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 14, 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8249 Gershwin
8249 Gershwin
8249 Gershwin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 13, 1980 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1980 GG George Gershwin
George Gershwin
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known...

, composer
8250 Cornell
8250 Cornell
8250 Cornell is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1980 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1980 RP 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...

 
8251 Isogai
8251 Isogai
8251 Isogai is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on November 8, 1980 by T. Furuta at Tokai.- External links :*...

 
1980 VA *
8256 Shenzhou
8256 Shenzhou
8256 Shenzhou is an asteroid named after the Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft.-References:*...

 
Shenzhou spacecraft
Shenzhou spacecraft
Shenzhou is a spacecraft developed and operated by the People's Republic of China to support its manned spaceflight program. The name is variously translated as "Divine Craft," "Divine Vessel of God," "Magic Boat" or similar and is also homophonous with an ancient name for China...

 
8257 Andycheng
8257 Andycheng
8257 Andycheng is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 28, 1982 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. It was named in honor of Andrew F. Cheng , Chief Scientist at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University.- External links :*...

 
Andrew F. Cheng, of the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University and contributor to the NEAR Shoemaker mission
8261 Ceciliejulie
8261 Ceciliejulie
- External links :*...

 
1985 RD Cecilie Ida and Julie Liv Cetti Hansen, twin daughters of Danish astrophysicist Anja C. Andersen (see 8820)
8262 Carcich
8262 Carcich
8262 Carcich is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 1.9123369 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.2083963 and an orbital period of 1373.4961934 days .Carchich has an average orbital speed of 19.15063214 km/s and an inclination of 0.99287°....

 
1985 RG Brian Carcich, systems programmer with 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...

, member of the Galileo Imaging Team and NEAR Shoemaker imaging
8266 Bertelli
8266 Bertelli
- External links :*...

 
1986 TC *
8268 Goerdeler
8268 Goerdeler
8268 Goerdeler is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1987 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.See also Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.- External links :*...

 
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a monarchist conservative German politician, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime...

, German politician, opponent of the Nazi regime, who was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo
Gestapo
The Gestapo was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police...

 and executed in Berlin in February 1945*
8269 Calandrelli
8269 Calandrelli
8269 Calandrelli is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.0175394 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.2103645 and an orbital period of 1491.71 days ....

 
1988 QB Ignazio Calandrelli, Italian astronomer*
8270 Winslow
8270 Winslow
8270 Winslow is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 2, 1989 by E. F. Helin at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1989 JF *
8273 Apatheia
8273 Apatheia
8273 Apatheia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 29, 1989 by M. Akiyama and T. Furuta at Susono.- External links :*...

 
*
8274 Soejima
8274 Soejima
8274 Soejima is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 15, 1990 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8275 Inca
8275 Inca
8275 Inca is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 11, 1990 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
The Inca people of South America*
8276 Shigei
8276 Shigei
8276 Shigei is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 17, 1991 by S. Otomo and O. Muramatsu at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
1991 FL *
8279 Cuzco
8279 Cuzco
8279 Cuzco is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 6, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Cuzco
Cusco
Cusco , often spelled Cuzco , is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba Valley of the Andes mountain range. It is the capital of the Cusco Region as well as the Cuzco Province. In 2007, the city had a population of 358,935 which was triple the figure of 20 years ago...

, Peru*
8282 Delp
8282 Delp
8282 Delp is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 10, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
*
8284 Cranach
8284 Cranach
8284 Cranach is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 8, 1991 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder , was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving...

, Dutch artist*
8286 Kouji
8286 Kouji
8286 Kouji is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 8, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8289 An-Eefje
8289 An-Eefje
8289 An-Eefje is a main-belt asteroid, discovered on May 3, 1992 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. It is named after An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks, two Belgian women who were kidnapped and killed by Marc Dutroux in 1996.-References:...

 
An Marchal (age 17) and Eefje Lambrechts (age 19), two victims of Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein,...

*
8291 Bingham
8291 Bingham
8291 Bingham is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1992 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...

, explorer*
8294 Takayuki
8294 Takayuki
8294 Takayuki is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8295 Toshifukushima
8295 Toshifukushima
8295 Toshifukushima is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8296 Miyama
8296 Miyama
8296 Miyama is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1793.0962209 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 13, 1993.-References:...

 
1993 AD *
8297 Gérardfaure
8297 Gérardfaure
8297 Gérardfaure is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1222.6612935 days .The asteroid was discovered on August 18, 1993....

 
Gérard Fauré, French amateur astronomer
8298 Loubna
8298 Loubna
8298 Loubna is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 22, 1993 by H. Debehogne and E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Loubna Mahjoubi (age 9), victim of Ali Madani in Oujda
Oujda
Oujda is a city in eastern Morocco with an estimated population of 1 million. The city is located about 15 kilometers west of Algeria and about 60 kilometers south of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Oriental Region of Morocco and the birthplace of the current Algerian president,...

, Morocco*
8299 Téaleoni
8299 Téaleoni
8299 Téaleoni is an asteroid named after actress Téa Leoni; probably in reference to her role in the 1998 film Deep Impact....

 
Téa Leoni
Téa Leoni
Elizabeth Téa Pantaleoni , better known by her stage name Téa Leoni, is an American actress. She has starred in a wide range of films including Jurassic Park III, The Family Man, Deep Impact, Fun with Dick and Jane, Spanglish, Bad Boys, and Ghost Town.-Early life:Leoni was born in New York City...

, actress*
8300 Iga
8300 Iga
8300 Iga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 9, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8301–8400
8301 Haseyuji
8301 Haseyuji
8301 Haseyuji is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 30, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8302 Kazukin
8302 Kazukin
8302 Kazukin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 3, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1995 CY *
8303 Miyaji
8303 Miyaji
8303 Miyaji is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 9, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8304 Ryomichico
8304 Ryomichico
8304 Ryomichico is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 22, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
*
8305 Teika
8305 Teika
8305 Teika is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 22, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.-External links:*...

 
*
8306 Shoko
8306 Shoko
8306 Shoko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 24, 1995 by A. Nakamura at Kuma Kogen.- External links :*...

 
*
8307 Peltan
8307 Peltan
8307 Peltan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 5, 1995 by J. Ticha at Klet.- External links :*...

 
1995 EN The Peltans, the family of discoverer 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...

 (née Peltanová)
8308 Julie-Mélissa
8308 Julie-Mélissa
8308 Julie-Mélissa is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1277.9911116 days . The asteroid was discovered on April 17, 1996....

 
Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo (both age 8), two victims of Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux
Marc Dutroux is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 and 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered. He was also convicted of having killed a suspected former accomplice, Bernard Weinstein,...

*
8310 Seelos
8310 Seelos
8310 Seelos is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1996 by JPL/GEODSS NEAT at Haleakala.- External links :*...

 
*
8311 Zhangdaning
8311 Zhangdaning
8311 Zhangdaning is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 3, 1996 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.- External links :*...

 
*
8313 Christiansen
8313 Christiansen
8313 Christiansen is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 19, 1996 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.- External links :*...

 
*
8314 Tsuji
8314 Tsuji
8314 Tsuji is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 25, 1997 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8315 Bajin
8315 Bajin
8315 Bajin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 25, 1997 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. The asteroid in named afrer Chinese writer Ba Jin.- External links :*...

 
Ba Jin
Ba Jin
Li Yaotang , courtesy name Feigan , is considered to be one of the most important and widely-read Chinese writers of the 20th century. He wrote under the pen name of Ba Jin , Pa Chin, Li Fei-Kan, Li Pei-Kan, Pa Kin, allegedly taking his pseudonym from Russian anarchists Bakunin and Kropotkin...

, Chinese anarchist author*
8316 Wolkenstein
8316 Wolkenstein
8316 Wolkenstein 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 :*...

 
3002 P-L *
8317 Eurysaces
8317 Eurysaces
8317 Eurysaces is a Jupiter Trojan discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
4523 P-L Eurysaces
Eurysaces
Eurysaces in Greek mythology was the son of the Telemonian Ajax and the former-princess captive-slave girl Tecmessa. He was venerated in Athens. Eurysaces was named after his father's famous shield...

, Greek Homeric hero*
8318 Averroes
8318 Averroes
8318 Averroes 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 :*...

 
1306 T-2 Averroes
Averroes
' , better known just as Ibn Rushd , and in European literature as Averroes , was a Muslim polymath; a master of Aristotelian philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Islamic theology, Maliki law and jurisprudence, logic, psychology, politics, Arabic music theory, and the sciences of medicine, astronomy,...

, Islamic philosopher*
8319 Antiphanes
8319 Antiphanes
8319 Antiphanes is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 25, 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :...

 
3365 T-2 Antiphanes, Greek dramatist*
8320 van Zee
8320 van Zee
8320 van Zee is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1955 by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory, Brooklyn, Indiana. The name honors Liese van Zee, a member of the faculty of Indiana University's astronomy department....

 
1955 RV *
8321 Akim
8321 Akim
8321 Akim is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1977 EX *
8322 Kononovich
8322 Kononovich
8322 Kononovich is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Edvard Vladimirovich Kononovich, Russian astrophysicist*
8323 Krimigis
8323 Krimigis
8323 Krimigis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1979 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory. Named after Dr Stamatios Krimigis . The I.A.U. in 1999 named asteroid "8323 Krimigis", in his honor.- External links :*...

 
1979 UH Stamatios ("Tom") Krimigis
Stamatios Krimigis
Stamatios M. Krimigis is a Greek-American scientist in space exploration. He has contributed to the majority of the United States' unmanned space exploration programs of the Solar system and beyond. He has contributed to exploration missions to almost every planet of our solar system...

, Greek-born American physicist, Head of the Space Department of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
8326 Paulkling
8326 Paulkling
8326 Paulkling is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1981 by C. Shoemaker and E. Shoemaker at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Paul Kling
Paul Kling
Paul Kling is a Czech born American violinist. He was sent to Theresienstadt at the age of 15, where he was the violinist chosen to play in Viktor Ullmann's opera, The Kaiser from Atlantis, although the opera was never performed. Kling was transported to Auschwitz on 28 September 1944, but survived...

, violinist and survivor of Theresienstadt*
8327 Weihenmayer
8327 Weihenmayer
8327 Weihenmayer is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1981 by C. S. and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer
Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled Blind to Failure...

, first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest*
8328 Uyttenhove
8328 Uyttenhove
8328 Uyttenhove is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 23, 1981 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Jozef Uyttenhove, Belgian (Flemish) physicist and historian of the exact sciences
8329 Speckman
8329 Speckman
8329 Speckman is a main-belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, discovered on March 22, 1982 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory. It is named for Willamette University football coach Mark Speckman.- External links :...

 
Mark Speckman
Mark Speckman
Mark Speckman is the head coach for the Willamette University football team in Salem, Oregon, United States. A California native, he was born without hands and played football at the college level. He also works as a motivational speaker...

, American handicapped football coach
8330 Fitzroy
8330 Fitzroy
8330 Fitzroy is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 28, 1982 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Robert FitzRoy
Robert FitzRoy
Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, and as a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality...

, 19th-century British Naval Officer, hydrographer and meteorologist, captain of the HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle
HMS Beagle was a Cherokee-class 10-gun brig-sloop of the Royal Navy. She was launched on 11 May 1820 from the Woolwich Dockyard on the River Thames, at a cost of £7,803. In July of that year she took part in a fleet review celebrating the coronation of King George IV of the United Kingdom in which...

, governor of New Zealand, founder of the British Meteorological Office
8331 Dawkins
8331 Dawkins
8331 Dawkins is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 27, 1982 by C. S. Shoemaker and S. J. Bus at Palomar. The asteroid is named after the famous biologist, professor and author Richard Dawkins.- External links :*...

 
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...

, British evolutionary biologist
8332 Ivantsvetaev
8332 Ivantsvetaev
8332 Ivantsvetaev is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1328.6848065 days ....

 
Ivan Vladimirovich Tsvetaev, Russian art critic*
8335 Sarton
8335 Sarton
8335 Sarton is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 28, 1984 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
George Alfred Leon Sarton, Belgian-born American mathematician and author, founder of the magazines Isis and Osiris
8336 Šafařík
8336 Šafarík
8336 Šafařík is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1989.1383103 days . The asteroid was discovered on September 27, 1984....

 
Vojtěch Šafařík
Vojtech Šafarík
Vojtěch Šafařík was a Czech chemist, specializing in inorganic chemistry. He wrote many popular textbooks as well as making over 20,000 observations of variable stars.The crater Šafařík on the Moon is named after him.- External links :*...

, Czech astronomer and his wife Paulína Šafaříková
8338 Ralhan
8338 Ralhan
8338 Ralhan is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered at the Brorfelde Observatory near Holbæk, Denmark, on March 27, 1985. It is named after Philip Ralhan Bidstrup, a Danish physicist.-External links:*...

 
Philip Ralhan Bidstrup, Danish physicist
8339 Kosovichia
8339 Kosovichia
8339 Kosovichia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1985 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8340 Mumma
8340 Mumma
8340 Mumma 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 J. Mumma, planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center*
8343 Tugendhat
8343 Tugendhat
8343 Tugendhat is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 4, 1986 by A. Mrkos at Klet.- External links :*...

 
Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat
Villa Tugendhat is a historical building in Brno, Czech Republic. It is one of the pioneering prototypes of modern architecture in Europe, and was designed by the German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe...

, Brno
Brno
Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

, Czech Republic; architectural landmark
8344 Babette
8344 Babette
8344 Babette is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Tsuneo Niijima and Takeshi Urata in Ojima, Gunma, on January 25, 1987. It is named after Babette Whipple, a teacher, researcher, psychotherapist, and the wife of astronomer Fred Lawrence Whipple.-External links:*...

 
1987 BB Babette ("Babbie") Whipple, née Samelson, American teacher, researcher, psychotherapist, and wife of astronomer Fred L. Whipple 
8345 Ulmerspatz
8345 Ulmerspatz
8345 Ulmerspatz is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 22, 1987 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8347 Lallaward
8347 Lallaward
8347 Lallaward is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 21, 1987 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar. It was named in honour of Lalla Ward, an actress best known for her role as Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is also the wife of the...

 
1987 HK Lalla Ward
Lalla Ward
Sarah Ward known as Lalla Ward, is an English actor, author and illustrator. As an actor, she is known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.-Early career:Ward's stage name, "Lalla", comes...

, British actress and wife of Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...

. Best known for her role as Romana
Romana
Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...

 in the long-running British sci-fi TV series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...

*
8348 Bhattacharyya
8348 Bhattacharyya
8348 Bhattacharyya is an inner main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by R. Rajamohan at the Vainu Bappu Observatory in Kavalur, India, on January 26, 1988. It is named after Jagadish Chandra Bhattacharyya, an Indian astronomer and director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics.-External...

 
1988 BX Jagadish Chandra Bhattacharyya, Indian astronomer, director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics
Indian Institute of Astrophysics
The Indian Institute of Astrophysics , with its headquarters in Bangalore , India, is a premier national institute of India for the study of and research into topics pertaining to astronomy, astrophysics and related subjects....

 in Bangalore, instrumental in the completion of the 2.3-m Vainu Bappu telescope 
8353 Megryan
8353 Megryan
8353 Megryan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 3, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra , professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. Raised in Bethel, Connecticut, Ryan began her acting career in 1981 in minor roles, before joining the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns in 1982...

, American actress*
8356 Wadhwa
8356 Wadhwa
8356 Wadhwa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 3, 1989 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8357 O'Connor
8357 O'Connor
- External links :*...

 
*
8358 Rickblakley
8358 Rickblakley
8358 Rickblakley is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 4, 1989 by C. S. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
Rick Blakley?*
8367 Bokusui
8367 Bokusui
8367 Bokusui is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 23, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Bokusui Wakayama, Japanese poet*
8370 Vanlindt
8370 Vanlindt
8370 Vanlindt is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1991 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8371 Goven
8371 Goven
-General:The asteroid 8371 Goven is a Main belt asteroid discovered by Charles de Saint-Aignan at Lowell Observatory, examining films taken at Palomar.-Citation from the MPCs:...

 
*
8373 Stephengould
8373 Stephengould
8373 Stephengould is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 1, 1992 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene Merle Shoemaker at Palomar. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. The asteroid was named after the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay...

 
1992 AB Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation....

, evolutionary biologist*
8374 Horohata
8374 Horohata
8374 Horohata is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on January 10, 1992 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*...

 
*
8375 Kenzokohno
8375 Kenzokohno
8375 Kenzokohno is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 12, 1992 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Kenzo Kohno, amateur astronomer*
8377 Elmerreese
8377 Elmerreese
8377 Elmerreese is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1992 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8378 Sweeney
8378 Sweeney
8378 Sweeney is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1992 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
8379 Straczynski
8379 Straczynski
8379 Straczynski is an asteroid discovered on September 27, 1992 at the Kitt Peak National Observatory by the Spacewatch project. It was named in honour of science fiction writer J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the television series Babylon 5.... | Previous asteroid | 8379 Straczynski | Next...

 
J. Michael Straczynski
J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski , known professionally as J. Michael Straczynski and informally as Joe Straczynski or JMS, is an American writer and television producer. He works in films, television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is a playwright, a former journalist,...

, science fiction writer*
8380 Tooting
8380 Tooting
8380 Tooting is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 29, 1992 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
8381 Hauptmann
8381 Hauptmann
8381 Hauptmann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 21, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.-Life and work:...

, German dramatist*
8382 Mann
8382 Mann
8382 Mann is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 23, 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.- External links :*...

 
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual...

, German novelist*
8386 Vanvinckenroye
8386 Vanvinckenroye
8386 Vanvinckenroye is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 27, 1993 by E. W. Elst at Caussols.- External links :*...

 
*
8387 Fujimori
8387 Fujimori
8387 Fujimori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 19, 1993 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1993 DO Kenichi Fujimori, Japanese astronomer*
8391 Kring
8391 Kring
8391 Kring is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 20, 1993 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...

 
David Kring, American Geophysicist and Planetary Scientist*
8393 Tetsumasakamoto
8393 Tetsumasakamoto
8393 Tetsumasakamoto is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 15, 1993 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
*
8395 Rembaut
8395 Rembaut
8395 Rembaut is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8397 Chiakitanaka
8397 Chiakitanaka
8397 Chiakitanaka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 8, 1993 by S. Otomo at Kiyosato.- External links :*-References:...

 
1993 XO *
8398 Rubbia
8398 Rubbia
8398 Rubbia is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 12, 1993 by the Astronomical Observatory of Farra d'Isonzo at Farra d'Isonzo.- External links :*...

 
1993 XY Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia
Carlo Rubbia Knight Grand Cross is an Italian particle physicist and inventor who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer for work leading to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.-Biography:...

, Italian physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 in Physics in 1984*
8399 Wakamatsu
8399 Wakamatsu
8399 Wakamatsu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 2, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1994 AD *
8400 Tomizo
8400 Tomizo
8400 Tomizo is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 4, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1994 AQ *
8401–8500
8401 Assirelli
8401 Assirelli
- External links :*...

 
1994 DA Giuseppe Assirelli, Italian photographer
8403 Minorushimizu
8403 Minorushimizu
8403 Minorushimizu is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1994 JG Shimizu Minoru?*
8405 Asbolus
8405 Asbolus
8405 Asbolus is a centaur, that is, an icy asteroid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune. It was discovered by James V. Scotti and Robert Jedicke of Spacewatch at Kitt Peak Observatory on April 5, 1995. It is named after Asbolus , a centaur in Greek mythology...

 
1995 GO Asbolus
Asbolus
In Greek mythology, Asbolus was a centaur. He was a diviner who read omens in the flight of birds. When Heracles came to visit the centaur Pholus, Pholus opened a jug of wine for him which belonged to all the Centaurs; Asbolus saw Pholus do this and brought the other Centaurs running...

, mythological Greek centaur*
8406 Iwaokusano
8406 Iwaokusano
8406 Iwaokusano is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 20, 1995 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
1995 HJ Japanese amateur astronomer Kusano Iwao(草野 磐) *
8407 Houlahan
8407 Houlahan
8407 Houlahan is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 25, 1995 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.8407 25 is also the way to win a tenner.- External links :*...

 
1995 ON *
8408 Strom
8408 Strom
8408 Strom is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 18, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.- External links :*...

 
Robert G. Strom, American Planetary Scientist*
8409 Valentaugustus
8409 Valentaugustus
8409 Valentaugustus is an outer main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Robert Weber in Socorro, New Mexico, on November 28, 1995. It is named after his grandfather, Valentin Augustus Weber who immigrated to the United States from Germany.-External links:*...

 
Valentin Augustus Weber, 19th-century German-American stained-glass designer and constructor and mahogany furniture builder, grandfather of the discovery team leader
8410 Hiroakiohno
8410 Hiroakiohno
8410 Hiroakiohno is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on August 24, 1996 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
*
8411 Celso
8411 Celso
- External links :*...

 
1996 TO *
8413 Kawakami
8413 Kawakami
8413 Kawakami is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1996 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
*
8414 Atsuko
8414 Atsuko
8414 Atsuko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1996 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
*
8416 Okada
8416 Okada
8416 Okada is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1996 by S. Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
*
8417 Lancetaylor
8417 Lancetaylor
8417 Lancetaylor is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1996 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

 
Lance Taylor, science educator
8418 Mogamigawa
8418 Mogamigawa
8418 Mogamigawa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 10, 1996 by T. Okuni at Nanyo.- External links :*...

 
*
8419 Terumikazumi
8419 Terumikazumi
8419 Terumikazumi is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 7, 1996, by Seiji Ueda and H. Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...

 
Kazumi Terumi? *
8420 Angrogna
8420 Angrogna
8420 Angrogna is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 17, 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.- External links :*...

 
1996 WQ Angrogna, a town in the Province of Turin
Province of Turin
The Province of Turin is a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Turin.It has an area of 6,830 km², and a total population of 2,277,686 . There are 315 comuni in the province – the most of any province in Italy...

 in the Piedmont
Piedmont
Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

 region of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

8421 Montanari
8421 Montanari
- External links :*...

 
Geminiano Montanari
Geminiano Montanari
thumb|150px|Geminiano Montanari.Geminiano Montanari was an Italian astronomer, lens-maker, and proponent of the experimental approach to science....

, Italian mathematician
8422 Mohorovičić
8422 Mohorovicic
8422 Mohorovičıć is an asteroid named after Croatian scientist Andrija Mohorovičić.Its orbital period is 5 years and 38 days. It was discovered on December 5, 1996 from Farra d'Isonzo .-External links:...

 
Andrija Mohorovičić
Andrija Mohorovicic
Andrija Mohorovičić was a Croatian meteorologist and seismologist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered a founder of modern seismology.-Early years:...

, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

n seismologist
8423 Macao
8423 Macao
8423 Macao is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 11, 1997 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.- External links :*...

 
Macau
Macau
Macau , also spelled Macao , is, along with Hong Kong, one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China...

*
8424 Toshitsumita
8424 Toshitsumita
8424 Toshitsumita is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 1, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
1997 CP *
8425 Zirankexuejijin
8425 Zirankexuejijin
8425 Zirankexuejijin is a main-belt asteroid discovered on February 14, 1997 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong....

 
*
8428 Okiko
8428 Okiko
8428 Okiko is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1997 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
Okiko Seki, wife of the discoverer, Tsutomu Seki
Tsutomu Seki
is a Japanese astronomer, born in Kōchi, Japan.He has discovered a number of comets, including the celebrated bright C/1965 S1 .He has also discovered a large number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid 1992 JE and the Trojan asteroid .Many of his discoveries are named after famous sites in...

*
8430 Florey
8430 Florey
8430 Florey is a main-belt asteroid discovered on 25 December 1997, by Frank B. Zoltowski at Woomera.- External links :*...

 
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey
Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey OM FRS was an Australian pharmacologist and pathologist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Sir Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the making of penicillin. Florey's discoveries are estimated to have saved...

, pathologist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

 for physiology and medicine
8431 Haseda
8431 Haseda
8431 Haseda is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 31, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.- External links :*...

 
Haseda Katsumi, Japanese amateur astronomer
8432 Tamakasuga
8432 Tamakasuga
8432 Tamakasuga is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 27, 1997 by A. Nakamura at Kuma Kogen.It is named after the sumo wrestler Tamakasuga Ryōji.- External links :*...

 
*
8433 Brachyrhynchus
8433 Brachyrhynchus
8433 Brachyrhynchus 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 :*...

 
2561 P-L Pink-footed Goose
Pink-footed Goose
The Pink-footed Goose is a goose which breeds in eastern Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. It is migratory, wintering in northwest Europe, especially Great Britain, the Netherlands, and western Denmark...

 (Anser brachyrhynchus)*
8434 Columbianus
8434 Columbianus
8434 Columbianus 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 :*...

 
6571 P-L Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus)*
8435 Anser
8435 Anser
8435 Anser is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
6643 P-L One of the goose
Goose
The word goose is the English name for a group of waterfowl, belonging to the family Anatidae. This family also includes swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller....

 genera*
8436 Leucopsis
8436 Leucopsis
8436 Leucopsis is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 25, 1971 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
2259 T-1 Barnacle Goose
Barnacle Goose
The Barnacle Goose belongs to the genus Branta of black geese, which contains species with largely black plumage, distinguishing them from the grey Anser species...

 (Branta leucopsis)*
8437 Bernicla
8437 Bernicla
8437 Bernicla 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 :*...

 
3057 T-1 Brent Goose
Brent Goose
The Brant or Brent Goose, Branta bernicla, is a species of goose of the genus Branta. The Black Brant is an American subspecies. The specific descriptor bernicla is from the same source as "barnacle" in Barnacle Goose, which looks similar but is not a close relation.-Appearance:The Brant Goose is...

 (Branta bernicla)*
8438 Marila
8438 Marila
8438 Marila is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1247.0584144 days . The asteroid was discovered on May 13, 1971....

 
4825 T-1 Greater Scaup
Greater Scaup
The Greater Scaup , just Scaup in Europe, or colloquially known as "Bluebill", for its bright blue bill, is small compared to other diving ducks, however it is larger than the closely related Lesser Scaup...

 (Aythya marila)*
8439 Albellus
8439 Albellus
8439 Albellus 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 :*...

 
2034 T-2 Smew
Smew
The Smew is a small duck, which is somewhat intermediate between the typical mergansers and the goldeneyes . It is the only member of the genus Mergellus; sometimes included in Mergus, this genus is distinct and might actually be a bit closer to the goldeneyes...

 (Mergellus albellus)*
8440 Wigeon
8440 Wigeon
8440 Wigeon is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 17, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...

 
1017 T-3 Wigeon
Wigeon
The Eurasian Wigeon, also known as Widgeon or Eurasian Widgeon is one of three species of wigeon in the dabbling duck genus Anas. It is common and widespread within its range...

 (Anas penelope)*
8441 Lapponica
8441 Lapponica
8441 Lapponica 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. Named for the Bar-tailed Godwit a migratory bird of the family Scolopacidae.- References :...

 
4008 T-3 Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit
The Bar-tailed Godwit is a large wader in the family Scolopacidae, which breeds on Arctic coasts and tundra mainly in the Old World, and winters on coasts in temperate and tropical regions of the Old World...

 (Limosa lapponica)*
8442 Ostralegus
8442 Ostralegus
8442 Ostralegus 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 :*...

 
4237 T-3 Eurasian Oystercatcher
Eurasian Oystercatcher
The Eurasian Oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus, also known as the Common Pied Oystercatcher, or just Oystercatcher, is a wader in the oystercatcher bird family Haematopodidae. It is the most widespread of the oystercatchers, with three races breeding in western Europe, central Eurasia,...

 (Haematopus ostralegus)*
8443 Svecica
8443 Svecica
8443 Svecica 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 :*...

 
4343 T-3 Bluethroat
Bluethroat
The Bluethroat is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae...

 (Luscinia svecica)*
8444 Popovich
8444 Popovich
8444 Popovich is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on October 8, 1969 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :...

 
Pavel Romanovich Popovich, Russian cosmonaut*
8445 Novotroitskoe
8445 Novotroitskoe
8445 Novotroitskoe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 31, 1973 by T. M. Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
This minor planet is being named on the occasion of the 50th anniversary
of the signing of the friendship agreement between Novotroitskoe, the district
center of the Chersonian region
Kherson Oblast
Kherson Oblast is an oblast in southern Ukraine, just north of Crimea. Its administrative center is Kherson. The area of the region is 29000 km², its population is 1.12 million.Important cities in the oblast include:...

 in Ukraine, and the town of Genichesk
Henichesk
Henichesk is a port city along the Sea of Azov in the Kherson Oblast of southern Ukraine. Serving as the administrative center of the Henichesky Raion , the city itself is also designated as a separate raion within the oblast.-References:...

,Ukraine.
8446 Tazieff
8446 Tazieff
8446 Tazieff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 28, 1973 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Haroun Tazieff
Haroun Tazieff
Haroun Tazieff was a French volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books about volcanoes....

, French vulcanologist*
8447 Cornejo
8447 Cornejo
8447 Cornejo is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered from the Félix Aguilar Observatory at the Leoncito Astronomical Complex in Argentina on July 16, 1974. It is named after Antonio Cornejo, founder of the Galileo Galilei planetarium in Buenos Aires.-External links:*...

 
1974 OE Antonio Cornejo, Argentinian founder and director of the Galileo Galilei planetarium
Galileo Galilei planetarium
The Galileo Galilei planetarium, commonly known as Planetario, is located in Parque Tres de Febrero in the Palermo district of Buenos Aires, Argentina.-History:...

 in Buenos Aires
8448 Belyakina
8448 Belyakina
8448 Belyakina is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1976 by T. M. Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8449 Maslovets
8449 Maslovets
8449 Maslovets is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 13, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8450 Egorov
8450 Egorov
8450 Egorov is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 19, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8451 Gaidai
8451 Gaidai
8451 Gaidai is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 11, 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8452 Clay
8452 Clay
- External links :*...

 
1978 WB *
8470 Dudinskaya
8470 Dudinskaya
8470 Dudinskaya is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 17, 1982 by N. S. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Natalya Dudinskaya, Russian ballerina*
8471 Obrant
8471 Obrant
8471 Obrant is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 5, 1983 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8472 Tarroni
8472 Tarroni
8472 Tarroni is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 12, 1983 by Osservatorio San Vittore at Bologna.- External links :...

 
1983 TC Gino Tarroni, Italian amateur astronomer
8474 Rettig
8474 Rettig
8474 Rettig is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 15, 1985 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8475 Vsevoivanov
8475 Vsevoivanov
8475 Vsevoivanov is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1973.7206767 days . The asteroid was discovered on August 13, 1985....

 
*
8477 Andrejkiselev
8477 Andrejkiselev
8477 Andrejkiselev is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 6, 1986 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8485 Satoru
8485 Satoru
8485 Satoru is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 29, 1989 by T. Seki at Geisei. The asteroid is named after, Minoru Honda's wife.- External links :*...

 
1989 FL Satoru Honda, wife of astronomer Minoru Honda
Minoru Honda
was a Japanese amateur astronomer.He discovered twelve comets between 1940 and 1968, including the periodic comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdušáková.He was the first to report the very bright V1500 Cygni at magnitude 3.0 on August 29, 1975; it peaked at 2.0, and many hundreds of independent discoveries...

*
8488 d'Argens
8488 d'Argens
8488 d'Argens is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French writer and philosopher*
8489 Boulder
8489 Boulder
8489 Boulder is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 7, 1989 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.- External links :*...

 
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...

, USA*
8491 Joelle-gilles
8491 Joelle-gilles
8491 Joelle-gilles is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1369.9942266 days .The asteroid was discovered on December 28, 1989....

 
*
8492 Kikuoka
8492 Kikuoka
8492 Kikuoka is a main-belt asteroid discovered on January 21, 1990 by T. Seki at Geisei.- External links :*...

 
1990 BZ Hidekazu Kikuoka, amateur astronomer*
8493 Yachibozu
8493 Yachibozu
8493 Yachibozu is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1422.7115507 days . The asteroid was discovered on January 30, 1990....

 
Yachibozu (tussocks), often seen in the Kushiro Marsh on the island of Hokkaido
8494 Edpatvega
8494 Edpatvega
8494 Edpatvega is a main-belt asteroid discovered on July 25, 1990 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.- External links :*...

 
*
8496 Jandlsmith
8496 Jandlsmith
- External links :*...

 
*
8498 Ufa
8498 Ufa
8498 Ufa is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 15, 1990 by L. V. Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory.- External links :*...

 
*
8500 Hori
8500 Hori
8500 Hori is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 10, 1990 by K. Endate and K. Watanabe at Kitami.- External links :*...

1990 TU *
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