Meanings of minor planet names: 13001–14000
Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for Ref · Catalog
13206 Baer 1997 GC 22 James J. Baer ( born 1965 ) , a member of the Faculty of Mathematics at South University MPC · 13206
13207 Tamagawa 1997 GZ 25 Tamagawa , located in the eastern part of Ehime prefecture , is home of Tamagawa Junior High School JPL · 13207
13208 Fraschetti 1997 GA 38 George Fraschetti ( born 1941 ) , a technical advisor and contributor to the NEAT instruments JPL · 13208
13209 Arnhem 1997 GQ 41 Arnhem , a name derived from the presence of eagles , is a city near the Rhine river in the eastern part of the Netherlands . It is famous for archaeological evidence of human activity there in the Stone Age , some 70~000 years ago JPL · 13209
13211 Stucky 1997 JH 6 Mark P. Stucky ( born 1958 ) served as a NASA research pilot at the Johnson Space Center , Houston , Texas , instructing Space Shuttle astronauts in the T-38 and the Gulfstream-II Shuttle Training Aircraft , and at the Dryden Flight Research Center , Edwards , California JPL · 13211
13212 Jayleno 1997 JL 13 Jay Leno ( born 1950 ) is an American television personality . He has the genius also to make his shows pleasant for the European public JPL · 13212
13213 Maclaurin 1997 JB 15 Colin Maclaurin ( 1698-1746 ) , a Scottish mathematician known for his Taylor adapted series , which he used for adding powers of arithmetic progressions . He is particularly honored for his Treatise of Fluxions ( 1742 ) , in which he presented for the first time Newton 's methods on this subject JPL · 13213
13214 Chirikov 1997 JJ 16 Aleksei Chirikov ( 1703-1748 ) was a Russian navigator who in 1741 discovered and reached the coast of Alaska , during the great Northern Expedition . He also discovered some of the Aleutian islands and took part in creating a general map of the Russian discoveries in the Pacific Ocean JPL · 13214
13217 Alpbach 1997 ML 2 Alpbach , an Austrian mountain village situated in the Tyrolean Alps , hosts the annual Summer School Alpbach . It is also famous for the international congress European Forum Alpbach , organized there every summer since 1945 to provide an important platform for economists , scientists , politicians and artists JPL · 13217
13219 Cailletet 1997 MB 9 Louis Paul Cailletet ( 1832-1913 ) , a French physicist who was the first to liquefy oxygen , nitrogen , hydrogen and other gases . Liquefied nitrogen is used by astronomers to refrigerate imaging detectors to reduce thermal background noise and make faint minor planets detectable JPL · 13219
13220 Kashiwagura 1997 NG 3 Mitsuru Kashiwagura ( born 1950 ) , a Japanese amateur astronomer and high school teacher in Ooe , Yamagata prefecture . He has been observing occultations since 1994 JPL · 13220
13221 Nao 1997 OY Naomi Nakamura ( born 1965 ) , whose nickname is Nao , is the wife of the discoverer , Akimasa Nakamura JPL · 13221
13222 Ichikawakazuo 1997 OV 2 Kazuo Ichikawa ( born 1955 ) is a postman and the associate president of the Nanyo Astronomical Club since 1988 JPL · 13222
13223 Cenaceneri 1997 PQ 4 The Ash Wednesday Supper ( Italian : La Cena delle Ceneri ) , is a philosophical work by Giordano Bruno that was published in 1584 , in which , for the first time in Western philosophical thought , there is discussion of the infinity of worlds in the universe JPL · 13223
13224 Takamatsuda 1997 PL 5 Takashi Matsuda , Japanese primary-school teacher and amateur astronomer JPL · 13224
13225 Manfredi 1997 QU 1 Eustachio Manfredi ( 1674-1739 ) , and his brothers Gabriele ( 1681-1761 ) and Eraclito ( 1682-1759 ) , were professors at the University of Bologna , of astronomy , mathematics and medicine-cum-geometry . Eustachio was the author of the famous Istituzioni astronomiche , published as the second volume of his works JPL · 13225
13226 Soulié 1997 SH Guy Soulié ( born 1920 ) made photometric observations of the zodiacal light , measured positions of comets , planets and their satellites and wrote astrometric reduction programs . A member of the Hipparcos Input Catalog team , he also discovered double stars and minor planets JPL · 13226
13227 Poor 1997 SR 8 Kim Poor ( born 1952 ) , an American astronomical artist known for his use of brilliant colors and dramatic scenery . He founded NovaSpace Galleries , which promotes space art and provides a focused outreach to the public for the genre JPL · 13227
13229 Echion 1997 VB 1 Echion from Greek mythology , one of the Achaean warriors who entered Troy in the wooden horse - but who died when jumping down from it JPL · 13229
13231 Blondelet 1998 BL 14 Jacques Blondelet ( 1934-1998 ) was a former president of the Société Lorraine d´Astronomie and vice president of the Observatoire Provençal d´Astrophotographie JPL · 13231
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