Dictionary of Minor Planet NamesSpringer Science & Business Media, 10.06.2012 - 1452 Seiten The quantity of numbered minor planets has now well exceeded a quarter million. The new sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, which is the IAU’s official reference work for the field, now covers more than 17,000 named minor planets. In addition to being of practical value for identification purposes, the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names provides authoritative information on the basis of the rich and colorful variety of ingenious names, from heavenly goddesses to artists, from scientists to Nobel laureates, from historical or political figures to ordinary women and men, from mountains to buildings, as well as a variety of compound terms and curiosities. This sixth edition of the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names has grown by more than 7,000 entries compared to the fifth edition and by more than 2,000 compared to the fifth edition, including its two addenda published in 2006 and 2009. In addition, there are many corrections, revisions and updates to the entries published in earlier editions. This work is an abundant source of information for anyone interested in minor planets and who enjoys reading about the people and things minor planets commemorate. |
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... writers have thought it to be Iceland, Greenland, or the Shetland Islands. To the ancients, it was the northern ... writer Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). (H 33) (283). Emma. [3.05, 0.15, 8.0] Discovered 1889 Feb. 8 by A. Charlois at Nice ...
... writer Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807-1887). Selinur represents a Celtic Moon goddess whose symbol is the half moon. She is opposed by the evil spirit ”Grippo” who is responsible for having inflicted the ”Grippe” (influenza) on the ...
... writer Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870). (H 59) (559). Nanon. [2.71, 0.07, 9.3] 1905 QD. Discovered 1905 Mar. 8 by M. F. Wolf at Heidelberg. (* AN 169, 285) Named after the operetta Nanon, die Wirtin vom Goldenen Lamm (1877) by the German ...
... writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoj (1828-1910) spent many years of his life. (H 91) This planet was the first space mission asteroid target with the Galileo spacecraft. Galileo submitted the first detailed photograph of a minor planet from ...
... writer. (M 6831) Name proposed by J. Meeus. (1665). Gaby. [2.41, 0.21, 10.8] 1930 DQ. Discovered 1930 Feb. 27 by K. Reinmuth at Heidelberg. (* M 2436) Named by the discoverer for his daughter-in-law, Gaby Reinmuth. (M 2901) (1666). van.
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Appendix 1 Discoverers in Alphabetical Order | 1309 |
Appendix 2 Discoverers Ranking List | 1318 |
Appendix 3 Surveys Corporate Discoveries | 1320 |
Appendix 4 Discovery Places in Alphabetical Order | 1321 |
Appendix 5 Discovery Places Ranking List | 1327 |
Categories of Minor Planet Names | 1330 |
Appendix 8 Nobel Laureates | 1331 |
Appendix 9 IAU Officers | 1334 |
Appendix 10 Special Type Numbered Minor Planets | 1335 |
Appendix 11 Minor Planet Names with Unknown Meaning | 1339 |
Appendix 12 Synonymous Minor Planet Names | 1342 |
References | 1347 |
Index of Minor Planet Names | 1350 |