posted May 01, 2010 02:07 PM         

* 2009 Abels (Abel Abraham)
* 2009 Adams (Adam Elghor)
* 187 Lamberta (Johann Heinrich Lambert)
* 1001 Gaussia (Carl Friedrich Gauss)
* 1005 Arago (François Arago)
* 1006 Lagrangea (Joseph Louis Lagrange)
* 1552 Bessel (Friedrich Bessel)
* 1858 Lobachevskij (Nikolai Lobachevsky)
* 1859 Kovalevskaya (Sofia Kovalevskaya)
* 1888 Zu Chong-Zhi (Zu Chongzhi)
* 1996 Adams (John Couch Adams)
* 1997 Leverrier (Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier)
* 2002 Euler (Leonhard Euler)
* 2010 Chebyshev (Pafnuti Chebyshev)
* 2587 Gardner (Martin Gardner)
* 3251 Eratosthenes (Eratosthenes)
* 3600 Archimedes (Archimedes)
* 4283 Stöffler (Johannes Stöffler)
* 4354 Euclides (Euclid)
* 4628 Laplace (Pierre-Simon Laplace)
* 5956 d'Alembert (Jean le Rond d'Alembert)
* 6765 Fibonacci (Leonardo Fibonacci of Pisa)
* 6143 Pythagoras (Pythagoras)
* 9999 Wiles (Andrew Wiles)
* 12493 Minkowski (Hermann Minkowski)
* 14100 Weierstrass (Karl Weierstrass)
* 27500 Mandelbrot (Benoît Mandelbrot)
* 27947 Emilemathieu (Émile Léonard Mathieu)
* 28516 Möbius (August Ferdinand Möbius)
* 29552 Chern (Shiing-Shen Chern)
* 38237 Roche (Édouard Roche)
* 50033 Perelman (Grigori Perelman)

[edit] Physicists

* 837 Schwarzschilda (Karl Schwarzschild)
* 1069 Planckia (Max Planck)
* 1565 Lemaitre (Georges Lemaître)
* 1979 Sakharov (Andrei Sakharov)
* 2001 Einstein (Albert Einstein)
* 2352 Kurchatov (Igor Kurchatov)
* 3905 Doppler (Christian Doppler)
* 3949 Mach (Ernst Mach)
* 4065 Meinel (Aden Meinel)
* 4530 Smoluchowski (Roman Smoluchowski, Polish born physicist and astrophysicist)
* 5103 Diviš (Prokop Václav Diviš)
* 5224 Abbe (Ernst Abbe)
* 5668 Foucault (Léon Foucault)
* 7000 Curie (Maria Skłodowska-Curie)
* 7279 Hagfors (Tor Hagfors)
* 7495 Feynman (Richard Feynman)
* 7672 Hawking (Stephen Hawking)
* 8000 Isaac Newton (Isaac Newton)
* 8103 Fermi (Enrico Fermi)
* 10506 Rydberg (Johannes Rydberg)
* 10979 Fristephenson (Professor F. Richard Stephenson)
* 12320 Loschmidt (Johann Josef Loschmidt)
* 13092 Schrödinger (Erwin Schrödinger)
* 13149 Heisenberg (Werner Heisenberg)
* 30828 Bethe (Hans Bethe)
* 37582 Faraday (Michael Faraday)
* 48798 Penghuanwu (Peng Huanwu)

[edit] Astronomers

* 238 Hypatia (Hypatia)
* 281 Lucretia (Caroline Lucretia Herschel)
* 366 Vincentina (Vincenzo Cerulli)
* 676 Melitta (Philibert Jacques Melotte)
* 729 Watsonia (James Craig Watson)
* 767 Bondia (William Cranch Bond)
* 768 Struveana (Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve and Karl Hermann Struve)
* 784 Pickeringia (Edward Charles Pickering)
* 786 Bredichina (Fyodor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin)
* 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard)
* 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf)
* 834 Burnhamia (Sherburne Wesley Burnham)
* 854 Frostia (Edwin Brant Frost)
* 914 Palisana (Johann Palisa)
* 993 Moultona (Forest Ray Moulton)
* 995 Sternberga (Pavel Shternberg)
* 999 Zachia (Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach)
* 1000 Piazzia (Giuseppe Piazzi, discoverer of the asteroid 1 Ceres)
* 1002 Olbersia (Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers)
* 1004 Belopolskya (Aristarkh Belopolsky)
* 1021 Flammario (Camille Flammarion)
* 1024 Hale (George Ellery Hale)
* 1040 Klumpkea (Dorothea Klumpke)
* 1111 Reinmuthia (Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth)
* 1120 Cannonia (Annie Jump Cannon)
* 1123 Shapleya (Harlow Shapley)
* 1129 Neujmina (Grigory Neujmin)
* 1134 Kepler (Johannes Kepler)
* 1186 Turnera (Herbert Hall Turner)
* 1215 Boyer (Louis Boyer)
* 1239 Queteleta (Adolphe Quetelet)
* 1241 Dysona (Sir Frank Watson Dyson)
* 1280 Baillauda (Jules Baillaud, son of the astronomer Benjamin Baillaud)
* 1303 Luthera (Karl Theodor Robert Luther)
* 1412 Lagrula (Joanny-Philippe Lagrula)
* 1455 Mitchella (Maria Mitchell)
* 1501 Baade (Walter Baade)
* 1510 Charlois (Auguste Charlois)
* 1529 Oterma (Liisi Oterma)
* 1539 Borrelly (Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly)
* 1551 Argelander (Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander)
* 1563 Noël (Emanuel Arend, son of the astronomer Sylvain Julien Victor Arend)
* 1573 Väisälä (Yrjö Väisälä)
* 1578 Kirkwood (Daniel Kirkwood)
* 1591 Baize (Paul Baize)
* 1594 Danjon (André-Louis Danjon)
* 1600 Vyssotsky (Emma T. R. Williams Vyssotsky)
* 1601 Patry (André Patry)
* 1614 Goldschmidt (Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt)
* 1622 Chacornac (Jean Chacornac)
* 1637 Swings (Pol Swings)
* 1642 Hill (George William Hill)
* 1655 Comas Solá (Josep Comas Solá)
* 1686 De Sitter (Willem de Sitter)
* 1677 Tycho Brahe (Tycho Brahe)
* 1691 Oort (Jan Oort)
* 1693 Hertzsprung (Ejnar Hertzsprung)
* 1714 Sy (Frédéric Sy)
* 1741 Giclas (Henry L. Giclas)
* 1745 Ferguson (James Ferguson)
* 1761 Edmondson (Frank K. Edmondson)
* 1766 Slipher (V. M. Slipher and E. C. Slipher)
* 1776 Kuiper (Gerard Kuiper)
* 1778 Alfvén (Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén)
* 1780 Kippes (Otto Kippes)
* 1803 Zwicky (Fritz Zwicky)
* 1830 Pogson (Norman Robert Pogson)
* 1831 Nicholson (Seth Barnes Nicholson)
* 1832 Mrkos (Antonín Mrkos)
* 1846 Bengt (Bengt Strömgren)
* 1850 Kohoutek (Luboš Kohoutek)
* 1877 Marsden (Brian G. Marsden)
* 1886 Lowell (Percival Lowell)
* 1896 Beer (Wilhelm Beer)
* 1913 Sekanina (Zdeněk Sekanina)
* 1940 Whipple (Fred Lawrence Whipple)
* 1965 van de Kamp (Peter van de Kamp)
* 1983 Bok (Bart Bok)
* 1995 Hajek (Tadeáš Hájek)
* 1998 Titius (Johann Daniel Titius)
* 1999 Hirayama (Kiyotsugu Hirayama)
* 2000 Herschel (William Herschel)
* 2003 Harding (Karl Ludwig Harding)
* 2005 Hencke (Karl Ludwig Hencke)
* 2012 Guo Shou-Jing (Guo Shoujing)
* 2018 Schuster (Hans-Emil Schuster)
* 2069 Hubble (Edwin Hubble)
* 2074 Shoemaker (Eugene Shoemaker)
* 2097 Galle (Johann Gottfried Galle)
* 2099 Öpik (Ernst Julius Öpik)
* 2126 Gerasimovich (Boris Gerasimovich)
* 2136 Jugta (Jay U. Gunter)
* 2165 Young (Charles Augustus Young)
* 2198 Ceplecha (Zdeněk Ceplecha)
* 2227 Otto Struve (Otto Struve)
* 2281 Biela (Wilhelm von Biela)
* 2308 Schilt (Jan Schilt)
* 2325 Chernykh (Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh and Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh)
* 2383 Bradley (James Bradley)
* 2439 Ulugbek (Ulugh Beg)
* 2602 Moore (Sir Patrick Moore)
* 2635 Huggins (William Huggins)
* 2646 Abetti (Antonio Abetti and Giorgio Abetti)
* 2688 Halley (Edmond Halley)
* 2709 Sagan (Carl Sagan)
* 2751 Campbell (William Wallace Campbell)
* 2772 Dugan (Raymond Smith Dugan)
* 2780 Monnig (Oscar Monnig)
* 2801 Huygens (Christiaan Huygens)
* 2813 Zappalŕ (Vincenzo Zappalŕ)
* 2842 Unsöld (Albrecht Unsöld)
* 2849 Shklovskij (Iosif Shklovsky)
* 2874 Jim Young (James Whitney Young)
* 2875 Lagerkvist (Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist)
* 2897 Ole Römer (Ole Rřmer)
* 2900 Luboš Perek (Luboš Perek)
* 2917 Sawyer Hogg (Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg)
* 2996 Bowman (Fred N. Bowman)
* 3070 Aitken (Robert Grant Aitken)
* 3078 Horrocks (Jeremiah Horrocks)
* 3095 Omarkhayyam (Omar Khayyám)
* 3115 Baily (Francis Baily)
* 3116 Goodricke (John Goodricke)
* 3123 Dunham (David Waring Dunham)
* 3169 Ostro (Steven J. Ostro)
* 3174 Alcock (George Alcock)
* 3216 Harrington (Robert Sutton Harrington)
* 3236 Strand (Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand)
* 3255 Tholen (David J Tholen)
* 3267 Glo (Eleanor "Glo" Helin)
* 3277 Aaronson (Marc Aaronson)
* 3282 Spencer Jones (Harold Spencer Jones)
* 3299 Hall (Asaph Hall)
* 3337 Miloš (Miloš Tichý)
* 3449 Abell (George Ogden Abell)
* 3467 Bernheim (Robert Burnham, Jr.)
* 3487 Edgeworth (Kenneth Edgeworth)
* 3549 Hapke (Bruce William Hapke)
* 3673 Levy (David H. Levy)
* 3722 Urata (Takeshi Urata)
* 3808 Tempel (Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel)
* 3847 Šindel (Jan Šindel)
* 3866 Langley (Samuel Pierpont Langley)
* 3936 Elst (Eric Walter Elst)
* 3999 Aristarchus (Aristarchus of Samos)
* 4000 Hipparchus (Hipparchus)
* 4001 Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
* 4037 Ikeya (Kaoru Ikeya)
* 4062 Schiaparelli (Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli)
* 4169 Celsius (Anders Celsius)
* 4279 De Gasparis (Annibale de Gasparis)
* 4364 Shkodrov (Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov)
* 4549 Burkhardt (Gernot Burkhardt)
* 4567 Bečvář (Antonín Bečvář
* 4587 Rees (Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow)
* 4593 Reipurth (Bo Reipurth, Danish astronomer)
* 4790 Petrpravec (Petr Pravec)
* 4866 Badillo (Jesuit astronomer and former director of the Manila Observatory, Fr. Victor L. Badillo)
* 4897 Tomhamilton (American astronomer & planetarium director Thomas Wm. Hamilton)
* 5704 Schumacher (Heinrich Christian Schumacher)
* 5035 Swift (Lewis Swift)
* 5036 Tuttle (Horace Parnell Tuttle)
* 5392 Parker (Donald C. Parker)
* 5726 Rubin (Vera Rubin)
* 5757 Tichá (Jana Tichá)
* 5943 Lovi George Lovi, astronomical columnist and planetarium educator
* 6006 Anaximandros (Anaximander)
* 6075 Zajtsev (Alexander L. Zaitsev)
* 6076 Plavec (Miroslav Plavec)
* 6391 Africano (John L. Africano)
* 6398 Timhunter (Tim Hunter)
* 6779 Perrine (Charles Dillon Perrine)
* 7086 Bopp (Thomas Bopp)
* 7291 Hyakutake (Yuji Hyakutake)
* 7359 Messier (Charles Messier)
* 8785 Boltwood (Paul Boltwood)
* 9108 Toruyusa Japanese planetarium director and comet chaser Toru Yusa
* 9133 d'Arrest (Heinrich Louis d'Arrest)
* 9134 Encke (Johann Franz Encke)
* 9121 Stefanovalentini (Stefano Valentini, Italian amateur astronomer and computer programmer)
* 9494 Donici (Nicolae Donici, Romanian astronomer)
* 11762 Vogel (Hermann Carl Vogel)
* 12742 Delisle (Joseph-Nicolas Delisle)
* 14124 Kamil (Kamil Hornoch)
* 14120 Espenak (Fred Espenak)
* 14322 Shakura (Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura)
* 15395 Rükl (Antonín Rükl)
* 15955 Johannesgmunden (John of Gmunden)
* 16682 Donati (Giovanni Battista Donati)
* 18150 López Moreno (José Juan López Moreno, Spanish astronomer)
* 36445 Smalley (Kyle E. Smalley)
* 68730 Straizys (Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer, the founder of Vilnius photometric system)
* 72021 Yisunji (Yi, Sunji, Korean astronomer in 15th century)
* 95593 Azusienis (Algimantas Ažusienis, Lithuanian astronomer)
* 99503 Leewonchul (Lee, Wonchul, Korean astronomer)
* 106817 Yubangtaek (Yu, Bangtaek, Korean astronomer in 13th century)
* 165347 Philplait (Phil Plait, US astronomer)

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Raymond

Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

A Different Mind Is Not A Deficient Mind.

posted May 01, 2010 02:08 PM         

* Astrobiologists
o 2410 Morrison (David Morrison)
o 9826 Ehrenfreund (Pascale Ehrenfreund)
o 12859 Marlamoore (Marla Moore)
* Planetary scientists
o 2710 Veverka (Joseph Veverka)
o 4815 Anders (Edward Anders)
o 7231 Porco (Carolyn Porco)
o 8356 Wadhwa (Meenakshi Wadhwa, meteorite analyst)
o many more
* Rocket scientists
o 1590 Tsiolkovskaja (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky)
o 1855 Korolev (Sergei Korolev)
o 8062 Okhotsymskij (Dmitry Okhotsimsky)
o 25143 Itokawa (Hideo Itokawa)
* Soyuz 11 crew members:
o 1789 Dobrovolsky (Georgi Dobrovolski)
o 1790 Volkov (Vladislav Volkov)
o 1791 Patsayev (Viktor Patsayev)
* Other USSR/Russian cosmonauts
o 1772 Gagarin (Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space)
o 1836 Komarov (Vladimir Komarov)
* Apollo 11 crew members:
o 6469 Armstrong (Neil Armstrong)
o 6470 Aldrin ("Buzz" Aldrin)
o 6471 Collins (Michael Collins)
* STS-51-L crew members:
o 3350 Scobee (Francis "Dick" Scobee)
o 3351 Smith (Michael J. Smith)
o 3352 McAuliffe (Christa McAuliffe)
o 3353 Jarvis (Gregory Jarvis)
o 3354 McNair (Ronald McNair)
o 3355 Onizuka (Ellison Onizuka)
o 3356 Resnik (Judith Resnik)
* STS-107 crew members:
o 51823 Rickhusband (Rick D. Husband)
o 51824 Mikeanderson (Michael P. Anderson)
o 51825 Davidbrown (David M. Brown)
o 51826 Kalpanachawla (Kalpana Chawla)
o 51827 Laurelclark (Laurel B. Clark)
o 51828 Ilanramon (see below)
o 51829 Williemccool (William C. McCool)
* Other American astronauts:
o 4763 Ride (Sally Ride)
* Chinese astronauts:
o 9512 Feijunlong (Fei Junlong)
o 9517 Niehaisheng (Nie Haisheng)
o 21064 Yangliwei (Yang Liwei)
* Other astronauts:
o 2552 Remek (Vladimír Remek, Czechoslovak cosmonaut)
o 22901 Ivanbella (Ivan Bella, Slovak cosmonaut)
o 51828 Ilanramon (Ilan Ramon, Israeli astronaut and an STS-107 crew member)

[edit] Other sciences

* 1007 Pawlowia (Ivan Pavlov, physiologist)
* 2177 Oliver (Bernard M. Oliver, research scientist)
* 2496 Fernandus (Fernandus Payne, zoologist)
* 2766 Leeuwenhoek (Anton van Leeuwenhoek, pioneering cell biologist)
* 3069 Heyrovský (Jaroslav Heyrovský, chemist and physicist)
* 3256 Daguerre (Louis Daguerre, photographic pioneer)
* 3313 Mendel (Gregor Mendel, father of genetics)
* 3701 Purkyně (Jan Evangelista Purkyně, fysiologist)
* 3899 Wichterle (Otto Wichterle, chemist)
* 4342 Freud (Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis)
* 4564 Clayton (Robert Clayton, chemist)
* 4565 Grossman (Lawrence Grossman, geochemist)
* 4716 Urey (Harold Urey, chemist)
* 4798 Mercator (Gerardus Mercator, cartographer)
* 5102 Benfranklin (Benjamin Franklin, scientist/philosopher/statesman)
* 5697 Arrhenius (Svante Arrhenius, chemist)
* 5864 Montgolfier (Montgolfier brothers, hot air balloon pioneers)
* 5958 Barrande (Joachim Barrande, geologist and paleontologist)
* 6032 Nobel (Alfred Nobel, chemist)
* 6175 Cori (Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Theresa Cori, biochemists)
* 6826 Lavoisier (Antoine Lavoisier, chemist)
* 7552 Sephton (Mark Sephton, geochemist)
* 8373 Stephengould (Stephen Jay Gould, evolutionist and essayist)
* 9364 Clusius (Carolus Clusius, botanist)
* 9793 Torvalds (Linus Torvalds, computer scientist)
* 9882 Stallman (Richard M. Stallman, computer scientist)
* 15465 Buchroeder (Richard A. Buchroeder, optical engineer)
* 15565 Benjaminsteele (Benjamin Steele, biologist)
* 19139 Apian (Peter Apian)
* 21656 Knuth (Donald Knuth), computer scientist)
* 29227 Wegener (Alfred Wegener), geologist and meteorologist)
* 73079 Davidbaltimore (David Baltimore, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureate)

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Raymond

Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

A Different Mind Is Not A Deficient Mind.

posted May 01, 2010 02:09 PM         

* 12 Victoria (officially named after the Roman goddess of victory, but also honours Queen Victoria)
* 45 Eugenia (Empress Eugénie), with its moon Petit-Prince in part for her son Napoléon Eugčne, Prince Imperial
* 216 Kleopatra (Cleopatra VII of Egypt)
* 220 Stephania (Princess Stéphanie of Belgium)
* 653 Berenike (Berenike II)
* 689 Zita (Zita of Bourbon-Parma)
* 911 Agamemnon (Agamemnon)
* 1068 Nofretete (Nefertiti)
* 1128 Astrid (Astrid of Sweden)
* 2436 Hatshepsut (Pharaoh Hatshepsut)
* 3362 Khufu (Pharaoh Khufu)
* 4414 Sesostris (Greek version of Senusret, name of three pharaohs)
* 4415 Echnaton (Pharaoh Akhenaten; German spelling of his name)
* 4416 Ramses (pharaoh Ramses II)
* 4568 Menkaure (Pharaoh Menkaure)
* 4721 Atahualpa (Atahuallpa)
* 4846 Tuthmosis (Thutmose, name of four pharaohs)
* 4847 Amenhotep (pharaoh Amenhotep IV)
* 4848 Tutenchamun (pharaoh Tutankhamun)
* 4906 Seneferu (Pharaoh Sneferu)
* 5009 Sethos (Greek version of Seti, name of two pharaohs)
* 5010 Amenemhet (Amenemhet, name of four pharaohs)
* 5242 Kenreimonin (Empress Dowager Kenrei)
* 7117 Claudius (Emperor Claudius)
* 7207 Hammurabi (Hammurabi)
* 7208 Ashurbanipal (Ashurbanipal)
* 7209 Cyrus (Cyrus II of Persia)
* 7210 Darius (Darius I of Persia)
* 7211 Xerxes (Xerxes I of Persia)
* 7212 Artaxerxes (Artaxerxes II of Persia)
* 8740 Václav (Václav I, Duke of Bohemia, of Václav)
* 10293 Pribina (Pribina, ruler of Nitrian Principality)
* 11014 Svätopluk (Svätopluk, ruler of Great Moravia)
* 16951 Carolus Quartus (Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia)
* 18349 Dafydd (Dafydd ap Llywelyn, prince of Wales)
* 20969 Samo (Samo, ruler of Samo’s Empire)
* 25340 Segoves (Segoves, Celtic duke)
* 44613 Rudolf (Rudolph II, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary)
* 48844 Belloves (Belloves, Celtic duke)
* 53285 Mojmír (Mojmír I, ruler of Great Moravia)

[edit] Nobility

* 17702 Kryštofharant (Kryštof Harant)

[edit] Politicians

* 852 Wladilena (Vladimir Lenin)
* 932 Hooveria (Herbert Hoover)
* 944 Hidalgo (Miguel Hidalgo)
* 1841 Masaryk (Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st Czechoslovak president)
* 3571 Milanštefánik (Milan Rastislav Štefánik)
* 4317 Garibaldi (Giuseppe Garibaldi)
* 4927 O'Connell (Daniel O'Connell)
* 9275 Persson (Jöran Persson)
* 11830 Jessenius (Jan Jessenius)

[edit] War heroes and veterans
[edit] World War II heroes and veterans

* 1793 Zoya (Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya)
* 1907 Rudneva (Evgeniya Rudneva)
* 2132 Zhukov (Georgy Zhukov)
* 3348 Pokryshkin (Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin)
* 11572 Schindler (Oskar Schindler, rescuer of 1,200 Jewish people)
* 19384 Winton (Nicholas Winton, rescuer of 669 Jewish children)
* 99949 Miepgies (Miep Gies, hid Anne Frank during World War II and discovered and preserved Anne's diary after her arrest and deportation.

[edit] Other war heroes

* 1834 Palach (Jan Palach, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)
* 20164 Janzajíc (Jan Zajíc, Czech student who self-immolated in protest against Soviet occupation of his country)

[edit] Children died in war

* 2127 Tanya (Tanya Savicheva)
* 5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)
* 50413 Petrginz (Petr Ginz, Jewish boy who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)

[edit] Religion

* 89 Julia (Julia of Corsica, martyr and patron saint, 5th century)
* 1840 Hus (John Huss, Czech Jan Hus, religious reformer)
* 5275 Zdislava (Zdislava Berka, in Czech Zdislava z Lemberka)
* 7100 Martin Luther (Martin Luther)
* 7256 Bonhoeffer (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
* 8661 Ratzinger (Joseph Alois Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI)

[edit] Explorers

* 54 Alexandra (Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer)
* 853 Nansenia (Fridtjof Nansen, polar explorer)
* 1065 Amundsenia (Roald Amundsen, polar explorer)
* 2473 Heyerdahl (Thor Heyerdahl, explorer and writer)
* 2785 Sedov (Georgy Sedov, Arctic explorer)
* 3130 Hillary (Edmund Hillary, mountaineer [see Tenzing, below])
* 3357 Tolstikov (Yevgeny Tolstikov, polar explorer)
* 4055 Magellan (Ferdinand Magellan, circumnavigator)
* 6481 Tenzing (Tenzing Norgay, Sherpa [see Hillary, above])
* 6542 Jacquescousteau (Jacques-Yves Cousteau, marine explorer)
* 8291 Bingham (Hiram Bingham III, explorer)
* 15425 Welzl (Jan Welzl, Arctic explorer)

[edit] Historians

* 3092 Herodotus (Herodotus)
* 3097 Tacitus (Tacitus)
* 5946 Hrozný (Bedřich Hrozný, archaeologist, orientalist and linguist)
* 6174 Polybius (Polybius)
* 6304 Josephus Flavius (Josephus)
* 40444 Palacký (František Palacký)

[edit] Other social scientists

* 1861 Komenský (Jan Amos Komenský (Comenius), teacher of nations)
* 13916 Bernolák (Anton Bernolák, linguist)
* 40440 Dobrovský (Josef Dobrovský, linguist)

[edit] Philosophers

* 2807 Karl Marx (Karl Marx)
* 5148 Giordano (Giordano Bruno)
* 5329 Decaro (Mario De Caro)
* 5450 Sokrates (Socrates)
* 5451 Plato (Plato)
* 6001 Thales (Thales)
* 6123 Aristoteles (Aristotle)
* 6629 Kurtz (Paul Kurtz)
* 7009 Hume (David Hume)
* 7010 Locke (John Locke)
* 7012 Hobbes (Thomas Hobbes)
* 7014 Nietzsche (Friedrich Nietzsche)
* 7015 Schopenhauer (Arthur Schopenhauer)
* 8318 Averroes (Averroes or Ibn Rushd)

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Raymond

Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

A Different Mind Is Not A Deficient Mind.

posted May 01, 2010 02:11 PM         

* 1931 Čapek (Karel Čapek)
* 2681 Ostrovskij (Nikolai Ostrovsky)
* 3047 Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
* 3412 Kafka (Franz Kafka)
* 4112 Hrabal (Bohumil Hrabal)
* 5418 Joyce (James Joyce)
* 5535 Annefrank (Anne Frank)
* 5666 Rabelais (François Rabelais)
* 5676 Voltaire (Voltaire)
* 6984 Lewiscarroll (Lewis Carroll or Charles Dodgson)
* 7328 Casanova (Giacomo Casanova)
* 8315 Bajin (Bajin)
* 8379 Straczynski (J. Michael Straczynski)
* 8382 Mann (brothers Heinrich Mann and Thomas Mann)
* 13406 Sekora (Ondřej Sekora)
* 26314 Škvorecký (Josef Škvorecký)
* 40106 Erben (Karel Jaromír Erben)
* 44597 Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau)

[edit] Novelists

* 2362 Mark Twain (Mark Twain)
* 2578 Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
* 2625 Jack London (Jack London)
* 2675 Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien)
* 3453 Dostoevsky (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
* 3628 Božněmcová (Božena Němcová)
* 3836 Lem (Stanisław Lem)
* 4124 Herriot (James Herriot)
* 4266 Waltari (Mika Waltari)
* 4370 Dickens (Charles Dickens)
* 4474 Proust (Marcel Proust)
* 4923 Clarke (Arthur C. Clarke)
* 5020 Asimov (Isaac Asimov)
* 6223 Dahl (Roald Dahl)
* 6371 Heinlein (Robert A. Heinlein)
* 6440 Ransome (Arthur Ransome)
* 7016 Conandoyle (Arthur Conan Doyle)
* 7232 Nabokov (Vladimir Nabokov)
* 7390 Kundera (Milan Kundera)
* 7644 Cslewis (C. S. Lewis)
* 10251 Mulisch (Harry Mulisch)
* 10733 Georgesand (George Sand)
* 10930 Jinyong (Jinyong)
* 11020 Orwell (George Orwell)
* 11379 Flaubert (Gustave Flaubert)
* 17776 Troska (J. M. Troska)
* 25399 Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut)
* 25924 Douglasadams (Douglas Adams)
* 77185 Cherryh (C. J. Cherryh)

[edit] Poets

* 1875 Neruda (Jan Neruda)
* 2106 Hugo (Victor Hugo)
* 2208 Pushkin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
* 2222 Lermontov (Mikhail Lermontov)
* 2604 Marshak (Samuil Marshak)
* 3067 Akhmatova (Anna Akhmatova)
* 4110 Keats (John Keats)
* 4369 Seifert (Jaroslav Seifert)
* 4635 Rimbaud (Arthur Rimbaud)
* 7855 Tagore (Rabindranath Tagore)
* 9495 Eminescu (Mihai Eminescu)
* 18624 Prévert (Jacques Prévert)
* 59830 Reynek (Bohuslav Reynek)

[edit] Playwrights

* 2930 Euripides (Euripides)
* 2985 Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
* 2921 Sophocles (Sophocles)
* 2934 Aristophanes (Aristophanes)
* 3046 Moličre (Moličre, French playwright)
* 3079 Schiller (Friedrich Schiller, German playwright)
* 5696 Ibsen (Henrik Ibsen)
* 9067 Hulldiby (Matthew Hulldiby)

[edit] Satirists

* 2734 Hašek (Jaroslav Hašek)
* 3244 Petronius (Petronius)
* 15017 Cuppy (Will Cuppy)

[edit] Translators

* 4049 Noragal' (Nora Gal, Russian translator)

[edit] Visual arts

* 2730 Barks (Carl Barks, cartoonist)
* 3001 Michelangelo (Michelangelo Buonarroti, painter and sculptor)
* 3246 Bidstrup (Herluf Bidstrup, caricaturist)
* 3566 Levitan (Isaac Levitan, painter)
* 4511 Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn, painter)
* 4671 Drtikol (František Drtikol, photographer)
* 4691 Toyen, (Toyen), painter and graphic artist)
* 5055 Opekushin (Alexander Opekushin, sculptor)
* 5122 Mucha (Alfons Mucha, painter and graphic artist)
* 5363 Kupka (František Kupka, painter and graphic artist)
* 5800 Pollock (Jackson Pollock, painter)
* 6056 Donatello (Donatello, painter)
* 6592 Goya (Francisco Goya, painter)
* 6674 Cézanne (Paul Cézanne, painter)
* 6676 Monet (Claude Monet, painter)
* 6677 Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painter)
* 6701 Warhol (Andy Warhol, artist)
* 6768 Mathiasbraun (Mathias Braun, also known as Matyáš Braun, sculptor and carver)
* 6769 Brokoff (Johann Brokoff, also known as Jan Brokoff, sculptor and carver)
* 7701 Zrzavý (Jan Zrzavý, painter)
* 7867 Burian (Zdeněk Burian, painter and book illustrator)
* 8236 Gainsborough (Thomas Gainsborough, landscape and portrait artist)
* 8237 Constable (John Constable, painter)
* 8240 Matisse (Henri Matisse, painter)
* 14976 Josefčapek (Josef Čapek, painter and writer)
* 17625 Joseflada (Josef Lada, painter)
* 17806 Adolfborn (Adolf Born, painter)
* 20364 Zdeněkmiler (Zdeněk Miler, animator and illustrator)
* 29490 Myslbek (Josef Václav Myslbek, sculptor)
* 46280 Hollar (Václav Hollar, graphic artist and painter)
* 98127 Vilgusová (Hedvika Vilgusová, painter and illustrator of books for children)

[edit] Architects

* 3062 Wren (Christopher Wren)
* 5318 Dientzenhofer (Dientzenhofer family or architects, like Christoph Dientzenhofer and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer)
* 6055 Brunelleschi (Filippo Brunelleschi)
* 6266 Letzel (Jan Letzel)
* 6550 Parléř (Peter Parler, Czech: Petr Parléř
* 19129 Loos (Adolf Loos)
* 35233 Krčín (Jakub Krčín)

[edit] Classical music
[edit] Composers

* 1034 Mozartia (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
* 1059 Mussorgskia (Modest Mussorgsky)
* 1405 Sibelius (Jean Sibelius)
* 1814 Bach (member of Bach family, probably Johann Sebastian Bach)
* 1815 Beethoven (Ludwig van Beethoven)
* 1818 Brahms (Johannes Brahms)
* 2047 Smetana (Bedřich Smetana)
* 2055 Dvořák (Antonín Dvořák)
* 2073 Janáček (Leoš Janáček)
* 2205 Glinka (Mikhail Glinka)
* 2266 Tchaikovsky (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
* 2420 Čiurlionis (Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis)
* 2523 Ryba (Jakub Jan Ryba)
* 2669 Shostakovich (Dmitri Shostakovich)
* 3081 Martinůboh (Bohuslav Martinů
* 3159 Prokof'ev (Sergei Prokofiev)
* 3590 Holst (Gustav Holst)
* 3592 Nedbal (Oskar Nedbal)
* 3784 Chopin (Frédéric Chopin)
* 3826 Handel (George Frideric Handel)
* 3917 Franz Schubert (Franz Schubert)
* 3941 Haydn (Joseph Haydn)
* 3954 Mendelssohn (Felix Mendelssohn)
* 3955 Bruckner (Anton Bruckner)
* 3975 Verdi (Giuseppe Verdi)
* 3992 Wagner (Richard Wagner)
* 4003 Schumann (probably Robert Schumann)
* 4040 Purcell (Henry Purcell)
* 4079 Britten (Benjamin Britten)
* 4132 Bartók (Béla Bartók)
* 4134 Schütz (Heinrich Schütz)
* 4330 Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi)
* 4345 Rachmaninoff (Sergei Rachmaninoff)
* 4382 Stravinsky (Igor Stravinsky)
* 4406 Mahler (Gustav Mahler)
* 4492 Debussy (Claude Debussy)
* 4515 Khrennikov (Tikhon Khrennikov)
* 4527 Schoenberg (Arnold Schoenberg)
* 4528 Berg (Alban Berg)
* 4529 Webern (Anton Webern)
* 4532 Copland (Aaron Copland)
* 4534 Rimskij-Korsakov (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
* 4546 Franck (César Franck)
* 4559 Strauss (Johann Strauss family or Richard Strauss)
* 4579 Puccini (Giacomo Puccini)
* 4625 Shchedrin (Rodion Shchedrin)
* 4727 Ravel (Maurice Ravel)
* 4734 Rameau (Jean-Philippe Rameau)
* 4802 Khatchaturian (Aram Khatchaturian)
* 4818 Elgar (Edward Elgar)
* 4850 Palestrina (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
* 4972 Pachelbel (Johann Pachelbel)
* 5004 Bruch (Max Bruch)
* 5063 Monteverdi (Claudio Monteverdi)
* 5157 Hindemith (Paul Hindemith)
* 5177 Hugowolf (Hugo Wolf)
* 5210 Saint-Saëns (Camille Saint-Saëns)
* 6480 Scarlatti (Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti)
* 6549 Skryabin (Alexander Scriabin)
* 6777 Balakirev (Mily Balakirev)
* 6780 Borodin (Alexander Borodin)
* 6798 Couperin (François Couperin)
* 7622 Pergolesi (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)
* 7624 Gluck (Christoph Willibald Gluck)
* 7625 Louisspohr (Louis Spohr)
* 7903 Albinoni (Tomaso Albinoni)
* 8181 Rossini (Gioacchino Rossini)
* 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin)
* 8877 Rentaro (Taki Rentaro)
* 9438 Satie (Erik Satie)
* 9493 Enescu (George Enescu)
* 9912 Donizetti (Gaetano Donizetti)
* 9913 Humperdinck (Engelbert Humperdinck)
* 10055 Silcher (Friedrich Silcher)
* 10116 Robertfranz (Robert Franz)
* 10820 Offenbach (Jacques Offenbach)
* 10875 Veracini (Francesco Maria Veracini)
* 11050 Messiaen (Olivier Messiaen)
* 11289 Frescobaldi (Girolamo Frescobaldi)
* 11530 d'Indy (Vincent d'Indy)
* 11899 Weill (Kurt Weill)
* 15808 Zelter (Carl Friedrich Zelter)
* 16590 Brunowalter (Bruno Walter, composer and conductor)
* 17509 Ikumadan (Ikuma Dan)
* 53159 Mysliveček (Josef Mysliveček)
* 69288 Berlioz (Hector Berlioz)

[edit] Others

* 5203 Pavarotti (Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer)
* 5230 Asahina (Takashi Asahina, conductor)
* 6432 Temirkanov (Yuri Temirkanov, conductor)
* 6583 Destinn (Ema Destinnová, also known as Emmy Destinn, opera singer)
* 11201 Talich (Václav Talich, conductor)
* 18460 Pecková (Dagmar Pecková, opera singer)
* 21801 Ančerl (Karel Ančerl, conductor)
* 21804 Václavneumann (Václav Neumann, conductor)
* 36226 Mackerras (Charles Mackerras, conductor)

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* 1889 Pakhmutova (Aleksandra Pakhmutova, composer)
* 2620 Santana (Carlos Santana, musician)
* 2644 Victor Jara (Víctor Jara, musician)
* 3834 Zappafrank (Frank Zappa, musician)
* The Beatles members:
o 4147 Lennon (John Lennon)
o 4148 McCartney (Paul McCartney)
o 4149 Harrison (George Harrison)
o 4150 Starr (Ringo Starr)
* 4305 Clapton (Eric Clapton, musician)
* 4422 Jarre (Maurice Jarre and Jean Michel Jarre, French composers)
* 4442 Garcia (Jerry Garcia, musician)
* 5656 Oldfield (Mike Oldfield, composer)
* 5945 Roachapproach (Steve Roach, musician)
* 6354 Vangelis (Vangelis Papathanassiou, composer)
* 6433 Enya (Enya, musician)
* 7226 Kryl (Karel Kryl, musician)
* 7707 Yes (Yes, band)
* 7934 Sinatra (Frank Sinatra, vocalist)
* 8249 Gershwin (George Gershwin, composer)
* 9179 Satchmo (Louis Armstrong, musician)
* 10313 Vanessa-Mae (Vanessa-Mae, musician)
* 14024 Procol Harum (Procol Harum, band)
* 15092 Beegees (Bee Gees, band)
* 16155 Buddy (Buddy Holly, musician)
* 17059 Elvis (Elvis Presley, musician)
* 18132 Spector (Phil Spector, musician)
* 18125 Brianwilson (Brian Wilson, musician)
* 19367 Pink Floyd (Pink Floyd, band)
* 19383 Rolling Stones (Rolling Stones, band)
* 23990 Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen, musician)
* 44016 Jimmypage (Jimmy Page, musician)
* 79896 Billhaley (Bill Haley, musician)
* 110393 Rammstein (Rammstein, band)

[edit] Film, TV and Theatre

* 2374 Vladvysotskij, (Vladimir Vysotsky, singer, poet, writer, movie and theatre actor)
* 2816 Pien, (Armand Pien (1920-2003), Belgian TV weatherman)
* 3252 Johnny (Johnny Carson, Talk Show Host)
* 3998 Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka, pioneering Japanese comic artist and animator)
* 4238 Audrey (Audrey Hepburn, actress)
* 4535 Adamcarolla (Adam Carolla, comedian, television and radio host)
* 4536 Drewpinsky (Drew Pinsky, television and radio host, actor)
* 4659 Roddenberry (Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator)
* 5608 Olmos (Edward James Olmos, actor)
* 6318 Cronkite (Walter Cronkite, TV newsreader)
* 6377 Cagney (James Cagney, actor)
* 6546 Kaye (Danny Kaye, actor and comedian)
* 7032 Hitchcock (Alfred Hitchcock, film director)
* 7037 Davidlean (David Lean, film director)
* 7307 Takei (George Takei, actor)
* 8299 Téaleoni (Téa Leoni, actress)
* 8353 Megryan (Meg Ryan, actress
* 8883 Miyazakihayao (Hayao Miyazaki, animator)
* 9341 Gracekelly (Grace Kelly, actress)
* 9342 Carygrant (Cary Grant, actor)
* Monty Python members:
o 9617 Grahamchapman (Graham Chapman)
o 9618 Johncleese (John Cleese)
o 9619 Terrygilliam (Terry Gilliam)
o 9620 Ericidle (Eric Idle)
o 9621 Michaelpalin (Michael Palin)
o 9622 Terryjones (Terry Jones)
* 10221 Kubrick (Stanley Kubrick)
* 10378 Ingmarbergman (Ingmar Bergman, film director)
* 11333 Forman (Miloš Forman, film director)
* 11548 Jerrylewis (Jerry Lewis, comedian and actor)
* 13070 Seanconnery (Sean Connery, actor)
* 17744 Jodiefoster (Jodie Foster, actress)
* 19291 Karelzeman (Karel Zeman, film director)
* 19578 Kirkdouglas (Kirk Douglas, actor)
* 26733 Nanavisitor (Nana Visitor, actress)
* 26734 Terryfarrell (Terry Farrell, actress)
* 26858 Misterrogers (Fred Rogers, US children's television host)
* 38461 Jiřítrnka (Jiří Trnka, puppet maker and puppet-film director)
* 68410 Nichols (Nichelle Nichols, actress)
* 71000 Hughdowns (Hugh Downs, Television and radio anchorman)
* 116939 Jonstewart (Jon Stewart, comedian and TV host)

[edit] Sports

* 1740 Nurmi (Paavo Nurmi, Olympic medalist)
* 1909 Alekhin (Alexander Alekhine, chess world champion)
* 2472 Bradman (Donald Bradman, cricketer)
* 3027 Shavarsh (Shavarsh Karapetyan, finswimmer)
* 5891 Gehrig (Lou Gehrig, baseball player)
* 5910 Zátopek (Emil Zátopek, long-distance runner, Olympic medalist)
* 6758 Jesseowens (Jesse Owens, athlete)
* 7835 Myroncope (Myron Cope, sportscaster and journalist)
* 8217 Dominikhašek (Dominik Hašek, ice hockey player, Olympic medalist)
* 9224 Železný (Jan Železný, javelin thrower, Olympic medalist)
* 10634 Pepibican (Josef Bican, called "Pepi", football player)
* 10675 Kharlamov (Valeri Kharlamov, hockey player)
* 12373 Lancearmstrong (Lance Armstrong, cyclist)
* 12414 Bure (Pavel Bure, ice hockey player)
* 26986 Čáslavská (Věra Čáslavská, gymnast, Olympic medalist)
* 82656 Puskás (Ferenc Puskás, football player)
* 90414 Karpov (Anatoly Karpov, chess world champion)
* 128036 Rafaelnadal (Rafael Nadal Parera, tennis player and Olympic Gold medalist)

[edit] Other entertainers

* 3163 Randi (James Randi, magician and skeptic)

[edit] Others

* 83 Beatrix (Beatrice Portinari, immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy)
* 1038 Tuckia (Edward Tuck, philanthropist)
* 1462 Zamenhof (L. L. Zamenhof, father of Esperanto)
* 3018 Godiva (Lady Godiva)
* 3044 Saltykov (Nikita Saltykov, Russian vegetable grower, one of the discoverers' grandfathers)
* 3147 Samantha (Samantha Smith, peace activist)
* 4318 Baťa (Tomáš Baťa, founder of the Bata shoe company)
* 4487 Pocahontas (Pocahontas)
* 4987 Flamsteed (Ethelwin ("Win") Frances Flamsteed Moffatt, a direct descendant of the brother of John Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Royal of England)
* 6282 Edwelda (Edwin L. Aguirre and Imelda B. Joson, Filipino editors of the Sky & Telescope)
* 7166 Kennedy (Malcolm Kennedy, secretary of the Astronomical Society of Glasgow)
* 11697 Estrella (Allan Noriel Estrella, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
* 12088 Macalintal (Jeric Valles Macalintal, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
* 12522 Rara (Prem Vilas Fortran Rara, Filipino high school student and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
* 13241 Biyo (Josette Biyo, Filipino high school teacher and 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
* 20780 Chanyikhei (Chan Yik Hei, Hong Kong high school student and 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winner)
* 69275 Wiesenthal (Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter)

[edit] Fictional characters
[edit] Characters in classic fiction

* 92 Undina (Undine, heroine of the novella Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué)
* 264 Libussa (Libuše, mythical Bohemian prophetess)
* 1143 Odysseus (Odysseus, legendary king of Ithaca)
* 2041 Lancelot (Arthurian knight)
* 2082 Galahad (Arthurian knight)
* 2483 Guinevere (Guinevere, King Arthur's queen)
* 2597 Arthur (King Arthur, legendary king of England)
* 2598 Merlin (Merlin, wizard who helped King Arthur)
* 3102 Krok (Krok, mythical Bohemian duke, father of Libuše, Kazi and Teta)
* 3552 Don Quixote (Don Quixote, hero of the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes)
* 5797 Bivoj (Bivoj, mythical Bohemian hero)
* 7695 Přemysl (Přemysl the Ploughman, mythical founder of the Přemyslid dynasty)
* 9551 Kazi (Kazi, Bohemian mythical female healer)
* 10764 Rübezahl (Rübezahl, Czech Krakonoš, giant ruler of the Giant Mountains)
* 15374 Teta (Teta, mythical Bohemian prophetess)
* 38086 Beowulf (Beowulf)

[edit] Characters in modern fiction

* 1683 Castafiore (the diva in Hergé's The Adventures of Tintin)
* 2309 Mr. Spock (Mr. Spock, the famous Vulcan, by way of the discoverer's cat)
* 2521 Heidi (title character in Johanna Spyri's well-known book Heidi)
* 4512 Sinuhe (title hero of The Egyptian by Mika Waltari)
* Characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle:
o 5048 Moriarty (Professor Moriarty, archenemy of Sherlock Holmes)
o 5049 Sherlock (Sherlock Holmes, detective)
o 5050 Doctorwatson (Doctor Watson, sidekick of Sherlock Holmes)
* Characters created by Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland:
o 6042 Cheshirecat (the Cheshire cat)
o 6735 Madhatter (the Mad Hatter)
o 6736 Marchare (the March Hare)
* Fabulous beasts described or mentioned by Lewis Carroll in Jabberwocky:
o 7470 Jabberwock (the Jabberwock)
* 7796 Járacimrman (Jára Cimrman, a fictional Czech genius)
* 7896 Švejk (Josef Švejk, the good soldier)
* 9007 James Bond (James Bond, fictional spy created by Ian Fleming)
* 12448 Mr. Tompkins (Mr. Tompkins, hero of science books by George Gamow)
* 12796 Kamenrider (Kamen Rider, Japanese hero created by Shotaro Ishinomori)
* 18610 Arthurdent (Arthur Dent, hapless protagonist in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series)
* 20496 Jeník (Jeník, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)
* 20497 Mařenka (Mařenka, hero of Bedřich Smetana’s opera Bartered Bride)
* 29401 Asterix (Asterix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)
* 29402 Obelix (Obélix, famous comic strip character by Goscinny and Uderzo)
* 29471 Spejbl (Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
* 29472 Hurvínek (Hurvínek, son of Spejbl, popular puppet character created by Josef Skupa)
* 33377 Večerníček (Večerníček, animated character inviting Czech children to watch evening TV fairytale)
* Petit-Prince, moon of 45 Eugenia (The Little Prince, hero of book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
* 99942 Apophis (Apophis, character from sci-fi TV show Stargate SG-1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asteroids_named_after_important_people

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Supporting the Neurodiversity Movement

A Different Mind Is Not A Deficient Mind.