MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (90001-91000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
90001-90100
90138 Diehl 2002 YD Jacqueline (Jackie) Diehl, American first chair of the White Sands Star Party, member of the Alamogordo Astronomy Club, manager of Space Camp at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, and education and public outreach coordinator at the National Solar Observatory
90140 Gómezdonet Josep Julia Gómez Donet, Spanish friend of the discoverer and a pioneer of CCD astrometry of asteroids and comets †
90288 Dalleave Sergio Dalle Ave, Italian technician and night assistant at the ''Osservatorio Astrofisico di Asiago'' (Asiago Astrophysical Observatory)
90301-90400
90377 Sedna Sedna, Inuit goddess of the sea
90401-90500
90414 Karpov Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess grandmaster and World Champion for 16 years
90463 Johnrichard John B. and Richard R. Dixon, American amateur astronomers, in recognition of their help in transporting observatory domes from Michigan to New Mexico and then in the construction of the Jornada Observatory
90481 Wollstonecraft 2004 DA Mary Wollstonecraft, British writer, philosopher, and early feminist
90482 Orcus 2004 DW Orcus, Roman god of the underworld, punisher of broken oaths
90501-90600
90525 Karijanberg Karen, wife of the discoverer, and her parents, Richard and Janet Halberg
90528 Raywhite Raymond E. White, Jr., American astronomer, archaeoastronomer, and teacher
90533 Laurentblind Laurent Blind, French computer programmer, paraglider, equestrian, and the discoverer's boyfriend
90564 Markjarnyk Mark Andrew Jarnyk, Australian software engineer at the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics
90703 Indulgentia ''Indulgentia'', Latin for "indulgence, goodness, kindness, love, tenderness, fondness", and also "the gratification of another's desires, inclinations or humors"
90709 Wettin Wettin, a castle near Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, ancestral seat of the Wettiner dynasty
90712 Wittelsbach Wittelsbach, a castle ruin near Aichach in Bavaria, Germany, ancestral seat of the Wittelsbacher dynasty
90713 Chajnantor Chajnantor (5000 m), a plateau in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, where the Atacama Large Millimeter Array will be constructed
90801-90900
90817 Doylehall 1995 RO Doyle Hall, American astronomer and member of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) team
90818 Daverichards 1995 RR Dave Richards, AMOS commander during the last years of the twentieth century
90820 McCann Jeff McCann, American AMOS commander


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