MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (31001-32000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
31001-31100
31020 Skarupa Valerie Skarupa, American AMOS program manager
31043 Sturm 1996 LT Charles-François Sturm, 19th-century Swiss-French mathematician
31061 Tamao Tamao Nakamura, Japanese actress
31065 Beishizhang Shi-Zhang Bei, Chinese biophysicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on the occasion of his 100th birthday
31086 Gehringer Tom Gehringer, American teacher †
31097 Nucciomula Alfonso Maria Giovanni Mula, Italian (Sicilian) art critic, poet and writer, founder of the Empedocles International Academy of Culture and Philosophical Investigation, recipient of the 1994 Premio Telemone for literature
31098 Frankhill Frank Hill, American astronomer and heliosismologist
31101-31200
31110 Clapas ''Clapàs'', an occitan word meaning « pile of rock debris », now the nickname of the Montpellier area of France
31113 Stull 1997 QC John Stull, American telescope maker, builder of the observatory at Alfred University
31122 Brooktaylor 1997 SD Brook Taylor, 17th-18th-century British mathematician
31139 Garnavich Peter M. Garnavich, American observational astrophysicist and associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
31189 Tricomi Francesco Giacomo Tricomi, 20th-century Italian mathematician
31190 Toussaint Roberta Marie Toussaint, American experimental physicist
31192 Aigoual Mont Aigoual, highest (1567 m) mountain of the Cévennes of southern France
31201-31300
31203 Hersman Chris Becker Hersman, American spacecraft systems engineer for the New Horizons Pluto Kuiper Belt mission
31231 Uthmann 1998 CA Barbara Uthmann, 16th-century German businesswoman, said to have introduced the art of lace-making in the Erzgebirge mountains of Saxony
31232 Slavonice 1998 CF Slavonice, Czech Republic
31238 Kroměříž Kroměříž, Moravia, Czech Republic, whose gardens and castle are a UNESCO World Heritage Site †
31239 Michaeljames Michael James, American high-school teacher of English
31240 Katrianne Katrin Susanne Lehmann, German teacher of physics and astronomy, and wife of the discoverer
31268 Welty 1998 FA Sandra Welty, American high-school teacher of English
31301-31400
31323 Lysá hora Lysá hora, highest (1323 m) mountain of the Beskids (Beskydy) mountain range, the Czech Republic
31324 Jiřímrázek Jiří Mrázek, 20th-century Czech geophysicist, TV and radio popularizer of astronautics, astronomy, computer science and related subjects
31401-31500
31414 Rotarysusa Rotary Club, Val Susa, Italy †
31442 Stark Lawrence W. Stark, American professor emeritus of physiological optics and engineering
31458 Delrosso Renzo Del Rosso, Italian amateur astronomer †
31501-31600
31555 Wheeler John Archibald Wheeler, American theoretical physicist
31601-31700
31605 Braschi Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress
31650 Frýdek-Místek 1999 HW Frýdek-Místek, twin cities on the Silesia-Moravia border, Czech Republic, the discoverer's childhood home town
31664 Randiiwessen Randii Wessen, American program engineer at JPL
31665 Veblen Oswald Veblen, early 20th-century American mathematician
31671 Masatoshi Masatoshi Nakamura, Japanese actor and singer
31823 Viète François Viète, 16th-century French lawyer and mathematician, inventor of the modern algebraic notation
31824 Elatus Elatus, mythological centaur, killed during a battle with Hercules by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee
31901-32000
31931 Sipiera Paul P. Sipiera, American planetary geologist and meteoricist
31956 Wald Abraham Wald, 20th-century American statistician
31982 Johnwallis John Wallis, 17th-century British mathematician, inventor of the symbol ∞ for infinity


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