MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (68001-69000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
68109 Naomipasachoff Naomi Pasachoff, American scientific biographer and amateur astronomer
68144 Mizser Attila Mizser, one of the leaders of Hungarian amateur astronomy, editor-in-chief of ''Meteor''
68201-68300
68218 Nealgalt Neal Galt, American amateur astronomer and newspaper columnist †
68301-68400
68325 Begues Observatorio de Begues (a.k.a. "Observatori Astronòmic de Begues" in Catalan), an amateur observatory operated by Pepe Manteca in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain †
68401-68500
68410 Nichols Nichelle Nichols, American author and actress, best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the ''Star Trek'' series †
68448 Sidneywolff Sidney C. Wolff, American director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (1984-1987) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (1987-2001), president of the American Astronomical Society (1992-1994) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1985-1986), and a founding editor of the ''Astronomy Education Review''
68718 Safi 2002 DQ Safi, Morocco, birthplace of the discoverer's wife
68719 Jangyeongsil 2002 DW Jang Yeongsil, fifteenth century Korean scientist (after whom the JangYeongSil Award, an annual Korean new technology product award, is also named)
68730 Straizys Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer
68779 Schöninger Schöninger (a.k.a. Šenýgl), 17th-19th-century German name of Kleť mountain, meaning "a place with a beautiful view"
68801-68900
68853 Vaimaca Vaimaca, one of the four "last charrás", native Uruguayans sold by the state to be exhibited in France in 1833; he had been a chief and served as a soldier in the army of the Uruguayan national hero José Artigas
68901-69000
68947 Brunofunk Bruno Funk, German amateur astronomer and founder and president of the ''Sternfreunde Donzdorf'', an organisation of amateur astronomers in Donzdorf, and founder of the amateur observatory there, the Messelberg-Sternwarte (Messelberg Observatory) † ‡ +
68948 Mikeoates Michael Oates, British amateur astronomer †


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