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| 433 | Eros | Named after the Greek god of love (in Latin called Cupido or Amor), son of Mercury and Venus. He pro |
| 719 | Albert | Named by the Vienna astronomers in honor of Albert Freiherr von Rothschild, a benefactor of the Vien |
| 887 | Alinda | According to Australian aboriginal mythology, Alinda is the man in the moon. He drowned his two sons |
| 1036 | Ganymed | Named after the beautiful youth in classical mythology carried off to Olympus to be the cupbearer of |
| 1221 | Amor | Amor is the Latin name for the Greek Eros, the god of love. Like (433) Eros this planet makes close |
| 1580 | Betulia | This planet has been named at the request of Dr. S. J. Herrick in honor of his wife. (M 768) |
| 1627 | Ivar | This planet is named by the discoverer in honor of his late brother Ivar. (M 1860) |
| 1915 | Quetzalcoatl | Named for the god of wisdom and culture who brought learning to the Toltec people and has been famil |
| 1916 | Boreas | Named for the god of the north wind, this Amor-type {see planet (1221)} object was discovered as it |
| 1917 | Cuyo | Named in honor of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, which operated the observatory at El Leoncito {s |
| 1943 | Anteros | Anteros was in attendance upon Eros and was sometimes said to be the avenger of slighted love, somet |
| 1980 | Tezcatlipoca | Named for the Toltec god of matter, “the smoking mirror”, the counterpart to (1915) Quetzálcoatl, “t |
| 2059 | Baboquivari | This Amor-type object, recovered with the Steward Observatory’s 2.3-m reflector on |
| 2061 | Anza | Named for Captain Juan Bautista de Anza, born at the Presidio of Fronteras, 250 km southeast of Tucs |
| 2202 | Pele | Named for the goddess of fire in Hawaiian legend. She made her home in the volcano Kilauea, after be |
| 2368 | Beltrovata | This Amor object shares the name given by the Zurich-born writer Gottfried Keller to his friend Bett |
| 2608 | Seneca | Named for the great Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca {4 B.C.-65}. (M 6835) Sene |
| 3102 | Krok | Krok was a mythical prince of the Slavonic tribes in ancient Bohemia. He had three daughters. The yo |
| 3122 | Florence | Named in memory of Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), English nurse and hospital reformer, who almost |
| 3199 | Nefertiti | Named for the beautiful consort of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten of the seventeenth dynasty in |
| 3271 | Ul | Named for the spirit of night-time and the moon in the mythology of the Melanesians of the New Hebri |
| 3288 | Seleucus | Named for one of the generals of Alexander the Great and heir to the largest part of his empire. Sel |
| 3352 | McAuliffe | Named in memory of S. Christa C. McAuliffe (1948–1986), teacher, observer. (M 10550) See the comment |
| 3551 | Verenia | Named for the first vestal virgin consecrated by the legendary Roman king Numa Pompilius, builder of |
| 3552 | Don Quixote | Named for the hero of Cervantes’ {1547–1616} great romance, the Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance, |
| 3553 | Mera | Named for a daughter of Praetus. She was a follower of Artemis {see planet (105)} and was killed by |
| 3671 | Dionysus | Originating in Thrace, where he was revered as a god of wine, the cult of Dionysus spread gradually |
| 3691 | Bede | The Venerable Bede (c. 672-735), the “Father of English History” who popularized the A.D. reckoning |
| 3757 | Anagolay | Anagolay is the goddess of lost things in ancient Philippine Tagalog mythology. Name suggested by t |
| 3908 | Nyx | Named for the goddess and personification of the night. She was a daughter of Chaos and had many ch |
| 3988 | Huma | The Huma (or Homa) are legendary birds within Iranian mythology and Sufi fable. A huma is a bird of |
| 4055 | Magellan | Named for the leader of the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth and the present highly succ |
| 4401 | Aditi | Aditi was an Indian goddess of the sky and the air. She was the mother of 33 gods and of the sun, an |
| 4487 | Pocahontas | An Indian princess and daughter of Powhatan, celebrated sachem and chief of the Chickahominy tribe o |
| 4503 | Cleobulus | Named for Cleobulus (fl. c. 560 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of Greece. A native and tyrant of Lind |
| 4587 | Rees | Named in honor of Martin J. Rees (1942– ), English astronomer, professor of astronomy at the Univers |
| 4947 | Ninkasi | Named for the Sumerian goddess of wine and beer. She aided the god Lugalbanda in rescuing the tablet |
| 4954 | Eric | The name dates back to ancient Norse times, and was also prominent among Scandinavian monarchs. Eric |
| 4957 | Brucemurray | Named in honor of Bruce C. Murray, professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Tec |
| 5324 | Lyapunov | This unusual object is named in honor of the outstanding Russian mathematician Alexandr Mikhailovich |
| 5332 | Davidaguilar | David Aguilar (b. 1945), director of public affairs at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysi |
| 5370 | Taranis | Named after the Gaulish god of thunder (Irish “torann” and Gallic “Taran”). His symbols are the whee |
| 5620 | Jasonwheeler | Jason Wheeler Roman (b. 1995) is the youngest son of the first discoverer. |
| 5626 | Melissabrucker | Melissa J. Brucker (b. 1977) researches small bodies in the solar system. As Deputy Principal Invest |
| 5653 | Camarillo | At his private observatory in Camarillo, John Rogers secured follow-up observations of this minor pl |
| 5751 | Zao | Mt. Zao is the general name of the volcanic mountains that lie in the northern part of mainland Japa |
| 5797 | Bivoj | This Amor-type object is named for the honorable hero of ancient Bohemian myths, known for his great |
| 5863 | Tara | In Indian Hinduism, the star-goddess Tara is a manifestation of the queen of time. She is the absolu |
| 5869 | Tanith | Seen as a heavenly goddess by the conquering Romans who called her Caelestis, Tanith was worshipped |
| 5879 | Almeria | Named for the Spanish city and province where the Calar Alto Observatory of the German-Spanish Astro |
| 6050 | Miwablock | Miwa Block (b. 1972) is an astronomical observer and programmer for Spacewatch. She created Spacewa |
| 6569 | Ondaatje | Michael Ondaatje (b. 1943), a Canadian novelist, poet and writer, was born in Sri Lanka into a Burgh |
| 7088 | Ishtar | Named for the chief goddess of the Mesopotamian pantheon and a principal goddess of the Assyrians an |
| 7336 | Saunders | R. Stephen Saunders (b. 1940), chief scientist for the Solar System Exploration Office at the Jet Pr |
| 7358 | Oze | Oze is a basin highland lying astride the prefectures Fukushima, Gunma and Niigata. The highland is |
| 7480 | Norwan | Norwan, as the “dancing porcupine woman” of the California Wintuns, was a goddess of light who broug |
| 8013 | Gordonmoore | A life-long contributor to and supporter of education, research and technology, Gordon Moore (b. 192 |
| 8034 | Akka | Akka was the Finnish earth mother and goddess of the harvest and female sexuality. She was the wife |
| 9172 | Abhramu | Abhramu, the “cloud-knitter”, was the original female elephant who was a supernatural winged being w |
| 9950 | ESA | ESA is an acronym for the European Space Agency. This agency, formed in 1974, manages impressive sc |
| 11284 | Belenus | Belenus, husband of Belisana, is the Gaulish god of light, with responsibilities also to sheep and c |
| 13553 | Masaakikoyama | Masaaki Koyama (b. 1934), Japanese baseball player, was known for his superb ball control and was ca |
| 15745 | Yuliya | Yuliya Germanova (b. 1986), studied English and Chinese at the Ural University in Chelyabinsk. Duri |
| 15817 | Lucianotesi | Luciano Tesi (b. 1931) founded the Amateur Group of the Pistoiese Mountain in 1980. This later led |
| 16064 | Davidharvey | David Harvey (b. 1958) is a software engineer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory. H |
| 16912 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon was a version of the celtic horse-goddess Epona and of sovereignty. She was mistress of th |
| 18106 | Blume | William H. Blume (b. 1948), a senior mission designer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has played a |
| 20460 | Robwhiteley | Robert J. Whiteley (b. 1971) is a member of the University of Hawaii Aten Survey and the Catalina Sk |
| 21088 | Chelyabinsk | Chelyabinsk is a city in the Urals, Siberia. On 2013 February 15 a small asteroidal fragment explod |
| 39557 | Gielgud | Renowned for his portrayal of Hamlet in 1936, British actor John Gielgud (1904-2000) later played al |
| 52387 | Huitzilopochtli | Huitzilopochtli is an Aztec god associated with the sun. His name, meaning “hummingbird of the sout |
| 65803 | Didymos | Greek for “twin”, this rapid-rotator Amor possesses a satellite with an orbital period of 11.9 hr. |