MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (44001-45000)

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Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
44001-44100
44001 Jonquet Pierre Jonquet, French astronomer, a founding member of the Société astronomique de Montpellier
44005 Migliardi Marco Migliardi, Italian teacher of Italian language and literature, amateur astronomer and friend of the discoverer
44016 Jimmypage James Patrick "Jimmy" Page, OBE, British composer, producer and master guitarist, leader of the Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin
44027 Termain 1998 AD Patricia Ann Termain Eliason, American support scientist for Viking, Voyager and other spacecraft missions, project manager for the GONG heliosiesmic program
44101-44200
44103 Aldana Fernando Aldana Mayor, Spanish astrophysicist, promoter of the 10-m Gran Telescopio Canarias
44117 Haroldlarson Harold P. Larson, American pioneer of airborne infrared astronomy and educator at the University of Arizona
44201-44300
44216 Olivercabasa 1998 PH Josep Maria Oliver i Cabasa, Spanish amateur astronomer, co-founder of the Agrupació Astronómica de Sabadell
44217 Whittle Frank Whittle, British aeronautical engineer and pilot, inventor of the turbo-jet engine
44479 Oláheszter Eszter Kiss, ''née'' Oláh, mother of the first discoverer
44501-44600
44574 Lavoratti Piero Lavoratti, Italian amateur astronomer
44597 Thoreau 1999 PW Henry David Thoreau, American essayist and naturalist †
44601-44700
44613 Rudolf Rudolf II von Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor, 16th-17th century Czech and Hungarian king, who employed Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler as his court astronomers
44701-44800
44711 Carp The Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Japanese baseball team
44801-44900
44821 Amadora Amadora Gonzalez, Spanish wife of David Martínez-Delgado, who first observed this minor planet on 1998 September 15 at the Las Campanas Observatory (more than a year before the actual discovery)


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