Meanings of asteroid names (44001-45000)
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Contents: 44001... 44101... 44201... 44301... 44401... 44501... 44601... 44701... 44801... 44901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 44001-44100 | ||
| 44001 Jonquet | 1997 RE3 | Pierre Jonquet, French astronomer, a founding member of the Société astronomique de Montpellier † |
| 44005 Migliardi | 1997 SY3 | Marco Migliardi, Italian teacher of Italian language and literature, amateur astronomer and friend of the discoverer † |
| 44016 Jimmypage | 1997 WQ28 | 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 | 1998 GE1 | Fernando Aldana Mayor, Spanish astrophysicist, promoter of the 10-m Gran Telescopio Canarias † |
| 44201-44300 | ||
| 44216 Olivercabasa | 1998 PH | Josep Maria Oliver i Cabasa, Spanish amateur astronomer, co-founder of the Agrupació Astronómica de Sabadell † |
| 44217 Whittle | 1998 PO1 | Frank Whittle, British aeronautical engineer and pilot, inventor of the turbo-jet engine † |
| 44401-44500 | ||
| 44479 Oláheszter | 1998 WS8 | Eszter Kiss, née Oláh, mother of the first discoverer † |
| 44501-44600 | ||
| 44574 Lavoratti | 1999 GF1 | Piero Lavoratti, Italian amateur astronomer † |
| 44597 Thoreau | 1999 PW | Henry David Thoreau, American essayist and naturalist † |
| 44601-44700 | ||
| 44613 Rudolf | 1999 RU31 | 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 | 1999 TD4 | The Hiroshima Toyo Carp, Japanese baseball team † |
| 44801-44900 | ||
| 44821 Amadora | 1999 TZ236 | 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) † |
| Preceded by 43001–44000 |
Meanings of asteroid names List of asteroids (44001-45000) |
Succeeded by 45001–46000 |
