Meanings of minor planet names: 8001–9000
Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for Ref · Catalog
8202 Gooley 1994 CX 2 Barry Gooley ( born 1956 ) , president of the astronomy shop Kokusai Kohki in Kyoto JPL · 8202
8203 Jogolehmann 1994 CP 10 Johann Gottlob Lehmann ( 1719-1767 ) , a German geologist JPL · 8203
8204 Takabatake 1994 GC 1 Tohru Takabatake ( born 1957 ) , a junior-high-school teacher and secretary of the Okayama Astronomical Society JPL · 8204
8205 Van Dijck 1994 PE 10 Anthony van Dyck ( 1599-1641 ) , Flemish painter MPC · 8205
8206 Masayuki 1994 WK 1 Masayuki Okumura ( born 1960 ) , a hydrographer for the Japanese Coast Guard . JPL MPC · 8206
8207 Suminao 1994 YS 1 Suminao Murakami ( born 1935 ) , the son and grandson of astronomers , is a representative of the Laboratory of Urban Safety Planning in Tokyo and a former professor at the Yokohama National and other Universities JPL · 8207
8208 Volta 1995 DL 2 Alessandro Volta ( 1745-1827 ) , Italian physicist and pioneer of electricity and power MPC · 8208
8209 Toscanelli 1995 DM 2 Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli ( 1397-1482 ) was an Italian physician , astronomer , cosmographer and mathematician . Columbus may have used his map of the world on the 1492 voyage . Toscanelli was the first to plot observations of comets on star charts , thereby supplying considerably improved information about their sky positions JPL · 8209
8210 NANTEN 1995 EH NANTEN , a 4-meter telescope for millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths , is operated by Nagoya University JPL · 8210
8212 Naoshigetani 1995 EF 1 Naoshige Tani ( 1925- ) , a member of the Photovoltaic Popularization Association in Japan and producer of the organization 's web site JPL · 8212
8214 Mirellalilli 1995 FH Mirella Lilli ( born 1959 ) , wife of Italian discoverer Stefano Mottola , on the occasion of their twentieth wedding anniversary ( 2007 August ) JPL · 8214
8215 Zanonato 1995 FZ Flavio Zanonato ( born 1950 ) is a prominent businessman and civic-minded amateur astronomer in his native city of Padova . For the past 15 years he has spearheaded initiatives to restore Padova 's great astronomical heritage , e.g. , the great clock JPL · 8215
8216 Melosh 1995 FX 14 Jay Melosh ( born 1947 ) , of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory , has worked on the formation of impact craters on the terrestrial planets and the giant impact origin of the moon . His Panspermia idea involves the ejection by impact of spall products containing microorganisms and their transfer to other planets JPL · 8216
8217 Dominikhašek 1995 HC Dominik Hašek ( born 1965 ) , goalkeeper of the Czech Olympic hockey team JPL · 8217
8218 Hosty 1996 JH John Graham Hosty ( 1949-2001 ) , was the visual discoverer of the nova HS Sge from Huddersfield , West Yorkshire , in 1977 . This find , made with a simple 10×50 monocular , encouraged others to join the U.K. Nova Patrol to look for such objects . The name was suggested by G. M. Hurst and B. G. Marsden JPL · 8218
8220 Nanyou 1996 JD 1 Nanyou , the city where the discoverer lives and his observatory is located JPL · 8220
8221 La Condamine 1996 NA 4 Charles-Marie de La Condamine ( 1701-1774 ) , a French naturalist and mathematician JPL · 8221
8222 Gellner 1996 OX František Gellner ( 1881-1914 ) , a Czech poet and Bohemian anarchist . His poetry depicted , sometimes in shocking ways , night life in a big city . He died in the front lines during World War I JPL · 8222
8223 Bradshaw 1996 PD The Bradshaw mountains , located south of Prescott , Arizona , in the United States . This area of sparsely populated pine-covered mountains provides a dark southern sky for the Prescott Observatory . The mountains themselves were named for William D. Bradshaw , a Western adventurer and miner JPL · 8223
8224 Fultonwright 1996 PE Fulton Wright Jr. ( born 1937 ) , a friend of the discoverer , professor at Yavapai College JPL · 8224
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