Meanings of minor planet names: 67001–68000

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Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
67070 Rinaldi 2000 AZ2 Alvaro Rinaldi, topographer at the Military Geographic Institute of Florence for 40 years
67085 Oppenheimer 2000 AG42 J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist, also known as the "father of the atomic bomb"
67235 Fairbank 2000 EJ15 William Martin Fairbank, American physicist
67308 Öveges 2000 HD József Öveges, Hungarian physics teacher and radio and television personality
67712 Kimotsuki 2000 UG Kimotsuki Town is the location of JAXA’s Uchinoura Space Center.
67853 Iwamura 2000 WO9 Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
67979 Michelory 2000 XS10 Michel Ory, Swiss physicist, teacher, and amateur astronomer
Preceded by
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 67,001–68,000
Succeeded by