MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (38001-39000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
38001-38100
38020 Hannadam 1998 MP Hanna Smigiel, Polish friend of the first discoverer, and Adam, her son
38046 Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, where in 1772 the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas identified a 700-kg stony-iron meteorite, now known as a pallasite
38083 Rhadamanthus Rhadamanthus, mythological son of Zeus and Europa, one of the three judges of the dead in Elysium (together with Aeacus and Minos)
38086 Beowulf 1999 JB Beowulf, hero of one of the oldest surviving texts from early Britain
38203 Sanner 1999 MJ Glen Sanner, American co-author of the two-volume ''Night Sky Observer's Guide'', and member of the Huachuca Astronomy Club †
38237 Roche 1999 OF Édouard Roche, French astronomer and mathematician
38245 Marcospontes Marcos Cesar Pontes, Brazilian astronaut
38250 Tartois Lucien Tartois, French amateur astronomer
38268 Zenkert Arnold Zenkert, German author and amateur astronomer † ‡
38269 Gueymard Adolphe G. Gueymard, American businessman, benefactor of the George Observatory
38442 Szilárd Leó Szilárd, 20th-century Hungarian-American nuclear physicist and molecular biologist
38454 Boroson Todd A. Boroson, American astronomer, deputy director of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
38461 Jiřítrnka Jiří Trnka, 20th century Czech graphic artist, painter, puppet-maker, film-maker, author and illustrator
38501-38600
38540 Stevens Berton L. Stevens, American amateur astronomer at the Desert Moon Observatory near Las Cruces, New Mexico
38541 Rustichelli Vittorio Rustichelli, Italian telescope maker and amateur astronomer
38601-38700
38628 Huya Huya, rain god of the Wayuu Indians of Venezuela and Colombia
38671 Verdaguer Jacint Verdaguer, 19th century Spanish (Catalan) poet
38674 Těšínsko Těšínsko, a region in south-eastern part of Silesia, in 1920 divided between Czechoslovakia and Poland
38684 Velehrad Velehrad, Moravia, Czech Republic, traditional seat of the great Moravian princes and of Archbishop Methodius
38821 Linchinghsia Lin Ching Hsia, Chinese actress
38901-39000
38962 Chuwinghung Chu Wing Hung (Alan Chu), Chinese amateur astronomer, compiler of the lunar atlas ''Photographic Moon Book''
38976 Taeve 2000 UR Nickname of Gustav Adolf Schur, German cyclist
38980 Gaoyaojie Gao yao-jie, Chinese medical doctor, pioneer of AIDS prevention in China and winner of the 2001 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights and of the 2007 Vital Voices Global Leadership Human Rights award


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