MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (40001-41000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
40106 Erben Karel Jaromír Erben, 19th-century Czech author, poet, and collector of folk songs, rhymes and fairy tales
40201-40300
40206 Lhenice Lhenice, South Bohemia, Czech market town †
40227 Tahiti Tahiti, the largest island in French Polynesia, where the British astronomer Charles Green observed the 1769 transit of Venus
40301-40400
40328 Dow 1999 MK Marjorie Dow Healy, the discoverer's mother †
40401-40500
40409 Taichikato Taichi Kato, Japanese astronomer
40410 Příhoda Pavel Príhoda, Czech author and astronomy popularizer, editor-in-chief of the ''The Czech Astronomical Yearbook''
40436 Sylviecoyaud Sylvie Coyaud, French-Italian scientific reporter and amateur astronomer
40440 Dobrovský Josef Dobrovský, 18th-19th century Czech linguist, who codified the rules of the written Czech language
40441 Jungmann Josef Jungmann, 18th-19th century Czech poet, publicist and literary historian, author of the Czech-German Dictionary
40444 Palacký Frantisek Palacký, 19th-century Czech historian and politician
40457 Williamkuhn William Kuhn, American amateur astronomer, designer of the Orange County Astronomers 57 cm Kuhn telescope at Anza, California †
40459 Rektorys Karel Rektorys, Czech mathematician and professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague
40764 Gerhardiser Gerhard Iser, German amateur astronomer and mentor of one of the discoverers
40994 Tekaridake Tekaridake, a mountain in the northern part of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan


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