Talk:Meanings of asteroid names (4501-5000)

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[edit] A few suggestions

As I've done for the preceding list, here are a few suggestions of probable explanations. As they are only guesses, please point out where I may be wrong!

• 4528 Berg - for Alban Berg, Austrian composer and member of the Second Viennese School along with Schoenberg and Webern
• 4529 Webern - for the composer Anton Webern
• 4621 Tambov - for the Russian city of Tambov
• 4681 Ermak - for Yermak Timofeyevich, a Russian explorer of Siberia
• 4729 Mikhailmil' - for Mikhail Leontyevich Mil, the creator of many Soviet helicopters
• 4735 Gary - for Romain Gary, a French author (the only one to have won the Goncourt prize twice).
• 4752 Myron - for the Greek sculptor Myron
• 4926 Smoktunovskij - for Innokenty Smoktunovsky (or Smoktunovsky - the translitteration is unfortunately not obvious), a Soviet actor
• 4930 Polenov - for Vasily Polenov, a Russian painter
• 4982 Bartini - for Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, an Italian-born Soviet aircraft designer

Mithrandir1986 01:43, May 26, 2005 (UTC)

My only advice is:

• Try to locate sources. Googling for the number and the name (not the sentence "<number> <name>", which is too restrictive), for example. Its usually possible to spot promising web pages from the abstracts, and there are usually less than 50 or so hits --although other combinations will turn up a lot more irrelevant hits. If you do find a source, mark it as a hyperlink (I use the dagger as anchor: †). Now and then the only plausible sources are not in English, which is where babelfish can help.
• Mark the uncertain ones with the standard asterisk.
• Mark the really uncertain ones with a question mark.

Urhixidur 13:17, 2005 May 26 (UTC)

In the dedication of the asteroid "4993 Cossard" I have deleted "or Jacques Cossard, French pioneer of shorthand" because this asteroid has be named by myself in honor of "Guido Cossard, Italian archaeoastronomer" only. Mario Di Martino, Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, astronomer.

[edit] Tomoe Gozen

Tomoe Gozen WASN'T married with Minamoto no Yoshinaka and she wasn't his concubine. She was a female attendant who was dismissed by Yoshinaka and is a mythological and fictional figure. In fact Yoshinaka had two other attendants beside Tomoe called Yamabuki Gozen and Aoi Gozen. Tomoe wasn't anything special. By the way Tomoe was married to Wada no Yoshimori and had a son called Asahina no Saburo Yoshihide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahina_Yoshihide) with Wada.

Lord Kiso had brought with him from Shinano two women ATTENDANTS, Tomoe and Yamabuki. Yamabuki had remained in the capital because of illness. Tomoe was especially beautiful, with white skin, long hair, and charming features. She was also a remarkably strong archer, and as a swordswoman she was a warrior worth a thousand, ready to confront a demon or a god, mounted or on foot. She handled unbroken horses with superb skill; she rode unscathed down perilous descents. Whenever a battle was imminent, Yoshinaka sent her out as his first captain, equipped with strong armor, an oversized sword, and a mighty bow; and she performed more deeds of valor than any of his other warriors. —Tale of the Heike, translated by Helen McCullough, page 291.

Minamoto no Yoshinaka was married wirh the 16 year old Fuyuhime the daughter of the former regent of Kyoto who also appears in the Heike Monogatari.