Meanings of asteroid names (501-1000)

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This is a list of the sources of asteroid names. Those meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names or Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets to ensure that the identification is correct. Names established from other sources should quote the reference.

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Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
501-600
501 Urhixidur 1903 LB Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer
502 Sigune 1903 LC Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer
503 Evelyn 1903 LF Evelyn Smith Dugan, the discoverer's mother
504 Cora 1902 LK Cora, wife of one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology [†]
505 Cava 1902 LL Cava, figure in Inca mythology
506 Marion 1903 LN Marion Orcutt, the discoverer's cousin [†]
507 Laodica 1903 LO Laodica, daughter of Priam and Hecuba[†]
508 Princetonia 1903 LQ Princeton University
509 Iolanda 1903 LR *
510 Mabella 1903 LT Mabel Loomis Todd, wife of David Peck Todd (see below)
511 Davida 1903 LU David Peck Todd, American astronomer
512 Taurinensis 1903 LV Turin, Italy
513 Centesima 1903 LY 100th (the discoverer's 100th asteroid)
514 Armida 1903 MB Character in Gluck's opera Armide
515 Athalia 1903 ME Athalia, Biblical queen
516 Amherstia 1903 MG Amherst College
517 Edith 1903 MH Edith Dugan Eveleth, the discoverer's sister
518 Halawe 1903 MO Halawe, type of Arabic sweetmeat
519 Sylvania 1903 MP Forests
520 Franziska 1903 MV *
521 Brixia 1904 NB Latin for Brescia, Italy
522 Helga 1904 NC *
523 Ada 1904 ND Ada Helme, friend of the discoverer
524 Fidelio 1904 NN Leonora's pseudonym in Beethoven's opera Fidelio
525 Adelaide 1908 EKa Queen Adelaide, consort to King William IV
526 Jena 1904 NQ Jena, Germany
527 Euryanthe 1904 NR Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe
528 Rezia 1904 NS Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon
529 Preziosa 1904 NT Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Preziosa
530 Turandot 1904 NV Character in Puccini's opera Turandot
531 Zerlina 1904 NW Character in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni
532 Herculina 1904 NY *
533 Sara 1904 NZ A friend of the discoverer
534 Nassovia 1904 OA Latin for Nassau Hall, Princeton University
535 Montague 1904 OC Montague, Massachusetts, USA
536 Merapi 1904 OF Mount Merapi, Sumatra
537 Pauly 1904 OG Max Pauly, German businessman (manager of a sugar factory) and amateur optician whom Ernst Abbe appointed as head of the newly established Astronomy Division of Zeiss to design and produce telescope lenses
538 Friederike 1904 OK Friend of the discoverer
539 Pamina 1904 OL Character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
540 Rosamunde 1904 ON Character in Schubert's opera Rosamunde
541 Deborah 1904 OO Deborah, Biblical prophetess
542 Susanna 1904 OQ Friend of the discoverer
543 Charlotte 1904 OT Friend of the discoverer
544 Jetta 1904 OU Jetta, legendary figure of Heidelberg
545 Messalina 1904 OY Messalina, Roman empress
546 Herodias 1904 PA Herodias, Biblical princess
547 Praxedis 1904 PB Character in German poet and author Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard
548 Kressida 1904 PC Cressida, Trojan princess
549 Jessonda 1904 PK Character in German composer, violinist and conductor Ludwig Spohr's opera Jessonda
550 Senta 1904 PL Character in German composer Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman (?)
551 Ortrud 1904 PM The wife of Ferederick of Telramund in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin [†]
552 Sigelinde 1904 PO Character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre
553 Kundry 1904 PP Character in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal
554 Peraga 1905 PS Peraga, Italy
555 Norma 1905 PT Character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma
556 Phyllis 1905 PW Phyllis, mythological Greek princess
557 Violetta 1905 PY Character in Verdi's opera La Traviata
558 Carmen 1905 QB Character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen
559 Nanon 1905 QD Nanon, operetta by Richard Genée
560 Delila 1905 QF Delilah, Biblical character
561 Ingwelde 1905 QG Ingwelde, opera by Max von Schillings (?)
562 Salome 1905 QH Salomé, Biblical daughter of Herod the Great
563 Suleika 1905 QK Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra
564 Dudu 1905 QM Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra
565 Marbachia 1905 QN Marbach, town in Germany
566 Stereoskopia 1905 QO The stereo-comparator, an apparatus used by astronomers to detect astronomical objects such as asteroids (for instance) on photographic images of an area of the sky taken at different times
567 Eleutheria 1905 QP Eleutheria, Greek goddess of liberty
568 Cheruskia 1905 QS Cheruskia, student fraternity at Heidelberg University
569 Misa 1905 QT Misa, goddess in the Orphic Mysteries
570 Kythera 1905 QX Kythira, Greek island
571 Dulcinea 1905 QZ Dulcinea, character in Cervantes' novel Don Quixote
572 Rebekka 1905 RB A young woman from Heidelberg
573 Recha 1905 RC Character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise
574 Reginhild 1905 RD *
575 Renate 1905 RE *
576 Emanuela 1905 RF A friend of the discoverer
577 Rhea 1905 RH Rhea, mythological Greek Titaness
578 Happelia 1905 RZ Carl Happel, German painter and benefactor of Heidelberg Observatory. The Happel Laboratory there is named after him [†]
579 Sidonia 1905 SD Character in Armida, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
580 Selene 1905 SE Selene, Greek goddess
581 Tauntonia 1905 SH Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
582 Olympia 1906 SO Olympia, Greece
583 Klotilde 1905 SP Daughter of Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss
584 Semiramis 1906 SY Semiramis of Babylon, Assyrian princess
585 Bilkis 1906 TA Bilqis, Balqis or Balkis, the Quranic name for the Queen of Sheba [†]
586 Thekla 1906 TC Saint Thecla (?)
587 Hypsipyle 1906 TF Hypsipyle, mythological Greek queen
588 Achilles 1906 TG Achilles, mythological Greek warrior
589 Croatia 1906 TM Croatia, country
590 Tomyris 1906 TO Tomryis, Queen of the Massagetae
591 Irmgard 1906 TP *
592 Bathseba 1906 TS Bathsheba, wife of King David
593 Titania 1906 TT Titania, folkloric queen of the fairies
594 Mireille 1906 TW Mireille (Mirèio in the original Provençal), a narrative poem by French poet Frédéric Mistral, the source of inspiration for the opera of that name by the French composer Charles Gounod*
595 Polyxena 1906 TZ Polyxena, mythological Trojan princess
596 Scheila 1906 UA An English student at the University of Heidelberg, a friend of the discoverer
597 Bandusia 1906 UB Bandusia, fountain near Polezzo, Apulia, Italy
598 Octavia 1906 UC Octavia Thurina Minor, Roman noblewoman
599 Luisa 1906 UJ *
600 Musa 1906 UM The Greek Muses
601-700
601 Nerthus 1906 UN Nerthus, Germanic goddess
602 Marianna 1906 TE *
603 Timandra 1906 TJ Timandra, mythological Greek woman
604 Tekmessa 1906 TK Tecmessa, mythological Greek woman
605 Juvisia 1906 UU Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, Camille Flammarion's home
606 Brangäne 1906 VB Character in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde
607 Jenny 1906 VC Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer
608 Adolfine 1906 VD Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer
609 Fulvia 1906 VF Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony
610 Valeska 1906 VK *
611 Valeria 1906 VL *
612 Veronika 1906 VN *
613 Ginevra 1906 VP Guinevere, wife of King Arthur or the Italian name for Geneva, Switzerland*
614 Pia 1906 VQ Pia-Sternwarte (Pia Observatory), in Trieste, the private observatory of Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865-1902), German amateur astronomer and selenographer*
615 Roswitha 1906 VR Roswitha von Gandersheim, German poet
616 Elly 1906 VT Elly Boehm (Elly Meyer-Ellès), translator, wife of Karl Boehm, German mathematician*
617 Patroclus 1906 VY Patroclus, mythological Greek warrior
618 Elfriede 1906 VZ *
619 Triberga 1906 WC Triberg im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
620 Drakonia 1906 WE Drake University, Iowa, USA (?)
621 Werdandi 1906 WJ Verdandi, one of the Norns in Norse mythology
622 Esther 1906 WP Esther, Biblical woman
623 Chimaera 1907 XJ Chimera, mythological Greek monster
624 Hektor 1907 XM Hector, Trojan hero
625 Xenia 1907 XN *
626 Notburga 1907 XO Saint Notburga
627 Charis 1907 XS Charis, Greek goddess
628 Christine 1907 XT *
629 Bernardina 1907 XU *
630 Euphemia 1907 XW Saint Euphemia
631 Philippina 1907 YJ Philipp Kessler, friend of the discoverer
632 Pyrrha 1907 YX Pyrrha, Greek mythological woman
633 Zelima 1907 ZM *
634 Ute 1907 ZN A friend of the discoverer
635 Vundtia 1907 ZS Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist*
636 Erika 1907 XP *
637 Chrysothemis 1907 YE Chrysothemis, mythological daughter of Agamemnon
638 Moira 1907 ZQ Moira, Greek goddess
639 Latona 1907 ZT Latona, Roman goddess
640 Brambilla 1907 ZW Prinzessi Brambilla, novel by E.T.A. Hoffman
641 Agnes 1907 ZX *
642 Clara 1907 ZY One of the discoverer's housekeepers
643 Scheherezade 1907 ZZ Scheherezade, legendary Arabic storyteller in 1001 Nights
644 Cosima 1907 AA Cosima Wagner, wife of composer Richard Wagner
645 Agrippina 1907 AG Agrippina, two Roman noblewomen of that name [†]
646 Kastalia 1907 AC Castalia, Greek nymph
647 Adelgunde 1907 AD Adelgunde Marie Auguste Therese, Princess of Bavaria?*
648 Pippa 1907 AE Character in Und Pippa tanzt, novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann
649 Josefa 1907 AF *
650 Amalasuntha 1907 AM Amalasuntha, Ostrogoth queen
651 Antikleia 1907 AN Anticlea, mother of Greek hero Odysseus
652 Jubilatrix 1907 AU The 60 year jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria
653 Berenike 1907 BK Queen Berenice II of Egypt
654 Zelinda 1908 BM Daughter of mathematician Ulisse Dini
655 Briseïs 1907 BF Briseis, mythological Trojan slave
656 Beagle 1908 BU HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship
657 Gunlöd 1908 BV Gunnlod, mythological Norse giantess
658 Asteria 1908 BW Asteria, various Greek figures
659 Nestor 1908 CS Nestor, mythological Greek king
660 Crescentia 1908 CC *
661 Cloelia 1908 CL Cloelia, legendary Roman woman (?)
662 Newtonia 1908 CW Newton, Massachusetts, USA
663 Gerlinde 1908 DG *
664 Judith 1908 DH Biblical heroine dramatised in Friedrich Hebbel's play Judith
665 Sabine 1908 DK *
666 Desdemona 1908 DM Desdemona, character in Shakespeare's Othello
667 Denise 1908 DN *
668 Dora 1908 DO A friend of the discoverer's wife
669 Kypria 1908 DQ Kypria, poem sometimes attributed to Homer
670 Ottegebe 1908 DR Character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's play Der arme Heinrich
671 Carnegia 1908 DV Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman and philanthropist
672 Astarte 1908 DY `Ashtart, Phoenician goddess
673 Edda 1908 EA The Norse Edda, a collection of myths
674 Rachele 1908 EP Wife of Italian astronomer Emilio Bianchi
675 Ludmilla 1908 DU Character in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
676 Melitta 1909 FN Attic name for Melissa, Greek nymph
677 Aaltje 1909 FR Aaltje Noordewier Reddingius, Dutch singer [†]
678 Fredegundis 1909 FS Fredegund (Fredegund, Fredegunda, Fredegundis, or Frédégonde), Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons, or Fredigundis, the opera based on the life of Fredegund by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt*
679 Pax 1909 FY Pax, Roman goddess
680 Genoveva 1909 GW Main character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva (?)
681 Gorgo 1909 GZ The Gorgon, a mythological Greek monster
682 Hagar 1909 HA Hagar, Biblical woman
683 Lanzia 1909 HC Heinrich Lanz, the German industrialist who provided the funds for the establishment of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences [†]
684 Hildburg 1909 HD *
685 Hermia 1909 HE Unknown (possibly the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?)
686 Gersuind 1909 HF Character in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gersuind
687 Tinette 1909 HG *
688 Melanie 1909 HH *
689 Zita 1909 HJ Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
690 Wratislavia 1909 HZ Latin for Wrocław, Poland
691 Lehigh 1909 JG Lehigh University, USA
692 Hippodamia 1901 HD Hippodamia, mythological mother of Agamemnon
693 Zerbinetta 1909 HN Character in Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos
694 Ekard 1909 JA Drake University, USA ('Ekard' is 'Drake' backwards)
695 Bella 1909 JB *
696 Leonora 1910 JJ Mary Leonora Snow, wife of the orbit computer
697 Galilea 1910 JO The discovery of Jupiter's Galilean moons by Galileo Galilei
698 Ernestina 1910 JX Ernst Wolf, son of the discoverer
699 Hela 1910 KD Hel, Norse goddess (?)
700 Auravictrix 1910 KE Latin 'victory against the wind' (named for the first Schütte-Lanz Zeppelin flights in 1911)
701-800
701 Oriola 1910 KN The Old World Orioles, a bird family
702 Alauda 1910 KQ The Alaudidae family of birds (larks)
703 Noëmi 1910 KT Valentine Noëmi von Rothschild, wife of an astronomical benefactor
704 Interamnia 1910 KU Latin for Teramo, Italy
705 Erminia 1910 KV The comic opera Erminie
706 Hirundo 1910 KX The Hirundinidae family of birds (swallows)
707 Steïna 1910 LD Mr Steïn, a benefactor of Breslau Observatory
708 Raphaela 1911 LJ Raphael von Bischoffsheim, founder of Nice Observatory
709 Fringilla 1911 LK The Fringillidae family of birds (finches)
710 Gertrud 1911 LM A granddaughter of the discoverer
711 Marmulla 1911 LN Possibly the German word marmel (marble)
712 Boliviana 1911 LO Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary
713 Luscinia 1911 LS The Luscinia genus of birds (nightingales)
714 Ulula 1911 LW The Ulula order of birds (owls)
715 Transvaalia 1911 LX Transvaal, South Africa
716 Berkeley 1911 MD Berkeley, California, USA
717 Wisibada 1911 MJ Wiesbaden, Germany, where the discoverer Franz Kaiser was born [†]
718 Erida 1911 MS Daughter of American astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner
719 Albert 1911 MT Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild
720 Bohlinia 1911 MW Karl Petrus Theodor Bohlin, Swedish astronomer
721 Tabora 1911 MZ The Tabora, an ocean liner visited during an astronomical conference
722 Frieda 1911 NA Daughter of Austrian astronomer Karl Hillebrand
723 Hammonia 1911 NB Hamburg, Germany [†]
724 Hapag 1911 NC The Hamburg-Amerika Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft, after the shipping line [†]
725 Amanda 1911 ND Wife of German astronomer Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr [†]
726 Joëlla 1911 NM Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer
727 Nipponia 1912 NT Japan
728 Leonisis 1912 NU Leo Gans, president of the Physical Society, and the goddess Isis, emblem of the Society
729 Watsonia 1912 OD James Craig Watson, Canadian-American astronomer [† †]
730 Athanasia 1912 OK Greek for immortality
731 Sorga 1912 OQ Surga, Indonesian for 'heavens'
732 Tjilaki 1912 OR Tjilaki, river near Malabar, Indonesia
733 Mocia 1912 PF Werner Wolf, son of the discoverer, nicknamed 'Mok'
734 Benda 1912 PH Anna Benda, wife of the discoverer
735 Marghanna 1912 PY Margarete Vogt, the discoverer's mother, and Hanna, a relative of German astronomer Heinrich Vogt
736 Harvard 1912 PZ Harvard University, USA
737 Arequipa 1912 QB Arequipa, Peru
738 Alagasta 1913 QO Original name of Gau Algesheim, Germany [†]
739 Mandeville 1913 QR Mandeville, Jamaica
740 Cantabia 1913 QS Contraction of Cantabrigia, Latin for Cambridge, named in honour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
741 Botolphia 1913 QT Saint Botolph, eponym of a street in Boston, Massachusetts
742 Edisona 1913 QU Thomas Edison, American inventor
743 Eugenisis 1913 QV Greek for 'good creation' (named for the birth of the discoverer's daughter) [†]
744 Aguntina 1913 QW Aguntinum, Roman town in the province of Noricum
745 Mauritia 1913 QX Saint Mauritius, patron saint of a church in Wiesbaden, Germany [†]
746 Marlu 1913 QY Marie-Louise Kaiser, the discoverer's daughter, a physician [†]
747 Winchester 1913 QZ Winchester, MA, USA
748 Simeïsa 1913 RD Simeïs Observatory, Crimea, Ukraine
749 Malzovia 1913 RF S.I. Maltsov, amateur astronomer, founder of Simeïs Observatory
750 Oskar 1913 RG *Oskar Ruben von Rothschild, benefactor (?)
751 Faïna 1913 RK Faïna Neujmin, the discoverer's first wife
752 Sulamitis 1913 RL Sulamith, Biblical woman identified with the Queen of Sheba
753 Tiflis 1913 RM Tbilisi, Georgia
754 Malabar 1906 UT Malabar, Java, Indonesia, commemorating the Dutch-German solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Christmas Island [†]
755 Quintilla 1908 CZ An Italian girl
756 Lilliana 1908 DC Sister of American astronomer Harlow Shapley
757 Portlandia 1908 EJ Portland, Maine, USA
758 Mancunia 1912 PE Manchester, UK
759 Vinifera 1913 SJ Vitis vinifera, the wine grape [†]
760 Massinga 1913 SL Adam Massinger, German astronomer
761 Brendelia 1913 SO Martin Brendel (Otto Rudolph Martin Brendel), German astronomer
762 Pulcova 1913 SQ Pulkovo Observatory, Russia
763 Cupido 1913 ST Cupid, Roman god
764 Gedania 1913 SU Gdansk, Poland
765 Mattiaca 1913 SV Mattiacum, Latin name for Wiesbaden, Germany
766 Moguntia 1913 SW Latin name for Mainz, Germany [†]
767 Bondia 1913 SX William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, American astronomers
768 Struveana 1913 SZ Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Otto Wilhelm Struve and Hermann Struve, astronomers
769 Tatjana 1913 TA A colleague of the discover, or perhaps the heroine of Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
770 Bali 1913 TE Bali, Indonesia
771 Libera 1913 TO A friend of the discoverer
772 Tanete 1913 TR Tanete, Sulawesi, Indonesia (?)
773 Irmintraud 1913 TV A common German name in old myths and legends
774 Armor 1913 TW Armorica, Celtic name for Northwest France
775 Lumière 1914 TX Auguste and Louis Lumière, cinematic pioneers
776 Berbericia 1914 TY Adolf Berberich, German astronomer
777 Gutemberga 1914 TZ Johann Gensfleisch (Gutenberg), printing pioneer [†]
778 Theobalda 1914 UA Theobald Kaiser, the discoverer's father [†]
779 Nina 1914 UB Nina Nikolaevna Neujmina, mathematician, the discoverer's sister
780 Armenia 1914 UC Armenia
781 Kartvelia 1914 UF Kartveli, Georgian name for the Georgian people
782 Montefiore 1914 UK Montefiore, wife of Alfons von Rothschild
783 Nora 1914 UL Heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House
784 Pickeringia 1914 UM Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering, American astronomers
785 Zwetana 1914 UN Tsvetana Popova, daughter of K. Popov (K. Popoff) of Sofia
786 Bredichina 1914 UO Feodor Aleksandrovich Bredichin, Russian astronomer
787 Moskva 1914 UQ Moscow, Russia
788 Hohensteina 1914 UR Hohenstein, near Bad Schwalbach in the Rhine province in Germany, hometown of the wife of the discoverer [†]
789 Lena 1914 UU Elena Petrovna Neujmina, mother of the discoverer
790 Pretoria 1912 NW Pretoria, South Africa
791 Ani 1914 UV Ani, ruined city in Armenia
792 Metcalfia 1907 ZC Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer
793 Arizona 1907 ZD Arizona, USA, location of Lowell Observatory
794 Irenaea 1914 VB Irene, daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss
795 Fini 1914 VE *
796 Sarita 1914 VH *
797 Montana 1914 VR From mons, the Latin for mountain, in honour of Hamburg Observatory, located at Bergedorf, in Germany. This was the first minor planet discovered there [†] [‡]
798 Ruth 1914 VT *
799 Gudula 1915 WO A feminine name (not named after a specific person)
800 Kressmannia 1915 WP A. Kressman, benefactor of Heidelberg Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl)
801-900
801 Helwerthia 1915 WQ Elise Helwerth-Wolf, the discoverer's mother
802 Epyaxa 1915 WR *
803 Picka 1915 WS Friedrich Pick, Czech physician
804 Hispania 1915 WT Latin name for Spain
805 Hormuthia 1915 WW Hormuth Kopff, wife of German astronomer August Kopff
806 Gyldenia 1915 WX Hugo Gyldén, Swedish astronomer
807 Ceraskia 1915 WY Vitol'd Karlovich Tseraskii, Russian astronomer
808 Merxia 1901 GY Adalbert Merx, the discoverer's father
809 Lundia 1915 XP Lund, Sweden, site of the Lund Observatory
810 Atossa 1915 XQ Atossa, ancient Persian queen
811 Nauheima 1915 XR Bad Nauheim, Germany
812 Adele 1915 XV Character in Johann Strauss' opera Die Fledermaus (?)
813 Baumeia 1915 YR H. Baum, astronomy student killed in World War I
814 Tauris 1916 YT Tauris - ancient bame of Crimea, Ukraine
815 Coppelia 1916 YU Coppélia, ballet by Léo Delibes
816 Juliana 1916 YV Queen Juliana of the Netherlands [†]
817 Annika 1916 YW *
818 Kapteynia 1916 YZ Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer [†]
819 Barnardiana 1916 ZA Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer
820 Adriana 1916 ZB *
821 Fanny 1916 ZC *
822 Lalage 1916 ZD *
823 Sisigambis 1916 ZG Sisigambis, mother of Darius III of Persia
824 Anastasia 1916 ZH Anastasia Semenoff, an acquaintance of the discoverer
825 Tanina 1916 ZL *
826 Henrika 1916 ZO *
827 Wolfiana 1916 ZW Max Wolf, German astronomer
828 Lindemannia 1916 ZX Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-born British amateur astronomer
829 Academia 1916 ZY The Russian Academy of Sciences
830 Petropolitana 1916 ZZ Saint Petersburg, Russia
831 Stateira 1916 AA Stateira, wife of Artaxerxes II of Persia
832 Karin 1916 AB Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden
833 Monica 1916 AC *
834 Burnhamia 1916 AD Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer
835 Olivia 1916 AE *
836 Jole 1916 AF Iole, wife of Heracles in Greek mythology
837 Schwarzschilda 1916 AG Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer
838 Seraphina 1916 AH *
839 Valborg 1916 AJ Character in Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger's play Axel e Valborg
840 Zenobia 1916 AK Zenobia, Slavic goddess of hunting (?) or, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (?)
841 Arabella 1916 AL Arabella, opera by Richard Strauss
842 Kerstin 1916 AM *
843 Nicolaia 1916 AN Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, father of the discoverer, Holger Thiele*
844 Leontina 1916 AP Lienz, Austria
845 Naëma 1916 AS *
846 Lipperta 1916 AT Eduard Lippert, German businessman and philanthropist, benefactor of Hamburg Observatory [†] [‡]
847 Agnia 1915 XX Agnia Ivanovna Bad'ina, Russian physician
848 Inna 1915 XS Inna Nikolaevna Leman-Balanovskaya, Russian astronomer
849 Ara 1912 NY American Relief Administration
850 Altona 1916 S24 Altona, Germany, location of the observatory at which H. C. Schumacher began publication of the astronomical journal Astronomische Nachrichten in 1821
851 Zeissia 1916 S26 Carl Zeiss, German optician, founder of the company that bears his name (Zeiss)
852 Wladilena 1916 S27 Vladimir Lenin, Soviet leader
853 Nansenia 1916 S28 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer
854 Frostia 1916 S29 Edwin Brant Frost, American astronomer
855 Newcombia 1916 ZP Simon Newcomb, American astronomer [† †]
856 Backlunda 1916 S30 Oskar Backlund, Swedish astronomer
857 Glasenappia 1916 S33 Sergei Pavlovich Glasenapp, Russian astronomer
858 El Djezaïr 1916 a Algiers, Algeria
859 Bouzaréah 1916 c Bouzaréah, Algiers, site of Algiers Observatory
860 Ursina 1917 BD *
861 Aïda 1917 BE Aïda, opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi
862 Franzia 1917 BF Franz Wolf, the discoverer's son
863 Benkoela 1917 BH Benkoelen, Sumatra (?)
864 Aase A921 SB Character in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt
865 Zubaida 1917 BO Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan
866 Fatme 1917 BQ Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan
867 Kovacia 1917 BS Friedrich Kovacs, physician who treated the discoverer's wife
868 Lova 1917 BU *
869 Mellena 1917 BV Werner von Melle, mayor of Hamburg who promoted the establishment of the University of Hamburg [†]
870 Manto 1917 BX Manto, mythological Greek woman
871 Amneris 1917 BY Character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida
872 Holda 1917 BZ Edward Singleton Holden, American astronomer
873 Mechthild 1917 CA *
874 Rotraut 1917 CC Schön Rotraut, poem by Eduard Möricke (?)
875 Nymphe 1917 CF The Nymphs, Greek mythological figures
876 Scott 1917 CH Miss E. Scott, benefactor
877 Walküre 1915 S7 The Valkyries, mythological German warrior women
878 Mildred 1916 f Mildred, daughter of American astronomer Harlow Shapley
879 Ricarda 1917 CJ Ricarda Huch, German poet
880 Herba 1917 CK Herba, Greek god
881 Athene 1917 CL Athena, Greek goddess
882 Swetlana 1917 CM *
883 Matterania 1917 CP August Matter, maker of photographic plates for the discoverer, German astronomer Max Wolf
884 Priamus 1917 CQ Priam, Trojan king
885 Ulrike 1917 CX Ulrike von Levetzow, beloved of Goethe
886 Washingtonia 1917 b George Washington, American president
887 Alinda 1918 DB Alinda, figure in Australian aboriginal mythology; or Alinda (Caria), an ancient city in Asia Minor (?)
888 Parysatis 1918 DC Parysatis, wife of Darius II of Persia
889 Erynia 1918 DG The Erinyes, or Furies, Greek mythological creatures
890 Waltraut 1918 DK Character in Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung
891 Gunhild 1918 DQ *
892 Seeligeria 1918 DR Hugo Hans Seeliger, German astronomer
893 Leopoldina 1918 DS The Leopoldina, German scientific academy
894 Erda 1918 DT Erda, Norse goddess
895 Helio 1918 DU Helium
896 Sphinx 1918 DV The Sphinx
897 Lysistrata 1918 DZ Lysistrata, character from Aeschylus
898 Hildegard 1918 EA Saint Hildegard of Bingen [†]
899 Jokaste 1918 EB Jocasta, mother/wife of Oedipus
900 Rosalinde 1918 EC Character in Johann Strauss' opera Die Fledermaus [H]
901-1000
901 Brunsia 1918 EE Ernst Heinrich Bruns, German astronomer [H]
902 Probitas 1918 EJ [[Wiktionary:Probity>Probity]], a quality attributed to the late discoverer [H]
903 Nealley 1918 EM Amateur astronomer from New York [H]
904 Rockefellia 1918 EO John D. Rockefeller, American philanthropist [H]
905 Universitas 1918 ES University of Hamburg, Germany [†] [H]
906 Repsolda 1918 ET Johann Georg Repsold, optical manufacturer [†] [H]
907 Rhoda 1918 EU Wife of American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard [H]
908 Buda 1918 EX Buda, Hungary, part of Budapest [H]
909 Ulla 1919 FA Ulla Ahrens, daughter of a friend of the discoverer [H]
910 Anneliese 1919 FB Friend of German astronomer Julius Dick [H]
911 Agamemnon 1919 FD Agamemnon, Greek king [H]
912 Maritima 1919 FJ The annual end-of-term three to four day ocean liner trips on the North Sea organised by the University of Hamburg [†] [H]
913 Otila 1919 FL Saint Otila, whose feast day is February 26 [H]
914 Palisana 1919 FN Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer [H]
915 Cosette 1918 b Youngest daughter of the discoverer [H]
916 America 1915 S1 America, for the help rendered by the American Relief Administration (under Herbert C. Hoover) during the famine in Crimea [H]
917 Lyka 1915 S4 A friend of the discoverer's sister, or [H]: a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis
918 Itha 1919 FR Saint Itha, whose feast day is January 15 [H]
919 Ilsebill 1918 EQ Character in 'The Fisherman and his Wife' by the Brothers Grimm [H]
920 Rogeria 1919 FT Female first name (not named after a specific person)
921 Jovita 1919 FV Saint Jovita, whose feast day is February 15 [H]
922 Schlutia 1919 FW German businessman Edgar Schlubach and Henry Frederick Tiarks, British banker and amateur astronomer, who together financed the solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Java [H]
923 Herluga 1919 GB Saint Herluga, whose feast day is March 2 [H]
924 Toni 1919 GC Female first name (not named after a specific person)
925 Alphonsina 1920 GM Alfonso X of Castile and Alfonso XIII of Spain [H]
926 Imhilde 1920 GN Saint Imhilde, whose feast day is May 15 [H]
927 Ratisbona 1920 GO Latin name of Regensburg, Germany [H]
928 Hildrun 1920 GP Saint Hildrun, whose feast day is May 19 [H]
929 Algunde 1920 GR Saint Algunde (Adelgunde), whose feast day is January 30 [H]
930 Westphalia 1920 GS Westphalia, Germany, birthplace of the discoverer [H]
931 Whittemora 1920 GU Thomas Edward Whittemore, American physicist [H]
932 Hooveria 1920 GV Herbert C. Hoover, American president, then secretary of state, in recognition of his help to Austria after World War I [H]
933 Susi 1927 CH Wife of German astronomer Kasimir Graff [H]
934 Thüringia 1920 HK The Thüringia, an Atlantic liner on which German astronomer Walter Baade travelled on his visits to New York; the captain was an amateur astronomer, and was invited to name one of Baade's asteroids [†] [H]
935 Clivia 1920 HM Clivia, genus of flowering plant [H]
936 Kunigunde 1920 HN Saint Kunigunde (Cunigunde of Luxemburg), whose feast day is March 3 [H]
937 Bethgea 1920 HO Hans Bethge, German poet [H]
938 Chlosinde 1920 HQ Saint Chlosinde, whose feast day is June 21 [H]
939 Isberga 1920 HR Saint Isberga, whose feast day is January 24 [H]
940 Kordula 1920 HT Saint Cordula, whose feast day is October 22 [H]
941 Murray 1920 HV Gilbert Murray, British classical scholar and diplomat who helped Austria in 1920 through the League of Nations [H]
942 Romilda 1920 HW Saint Romilda, whose feast day is March 25 [H]
943 Begonia 1920 HX Begonia, genus of herbs and flowers [H]
944 Hidalgo 1920 HZ Miguel Hidalgo, father of the independence of Mexico, where German astronomers went in 1923 to observe a solar eclipse [†] [H]
945 Barcelona 1921 JB Barcelona, Spain, where the discoverer was born and the asteroid discovered [H]
946 Poësia 1921 JC Poësia, goddess of poetry [H]
947 Monterosa 1921 JD The Monterosa, a ship used by the University of Hamburg on their outings on the North Sea [†] [H]
948 Jucunda 1921 JE Saint Jucunda of Nicomedia, from a collection of lives of Saints (feast day November 25) [H]
949 Hel 1921 JK Hel, Norse goddess
950 Ahrensa 1921 JP The Ahrens family, friends of the discoverer [H]
951 Gaspra 1916 S45 Gaspra, Ukraine [H]
952 Caia 1916 S61 Character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis [H]
953 Painleva 1921 JT Paul Painlevé, French mathematician [H]
954 Li 1921 JU Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife [H]
955 Alstede 1921 JV Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife [H]
956 Elisa 1921 JW Elisa Reinmuth, the discoverer's mother [H]
957 Camelia 1921 JX Camellia, genus of flowering plants [H]
958 Asplinda 1921 KC Bror Ansgar Asplind, Swedish astronomer [H]
959 Arne 1921 KF Son of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind [†] [H]
960 Birgit 1921 KH Daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind
961 Gunnie 1921 KM Daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind
962 Aslög 1921 KP Aslög, mythological Norse woman [H]
963 Iduberga 1921 KR Saint Iduberga (Saint Ida of Nivelles), whose feast day is June 28 [H]
964 Subamara 1921 KS Latin for 'very bitter' (referring to the observing conditions at the Vienna Observatory)
965 Angelica 1921 KT Angelica Hartmann, the discoverer's wife [H]
966 Muschi 1921 KU Nickname ("Kitty") of the wife of German astronomer Walter Baade, the discoverer [H]
967 Helionape 1921 KV Greek version of the name of Adolf Ritter von Sonnenthal, an Austrian actor [H]
968 Petunia 1921 KW Petunia, a genus of flowering plants [H]
969 Leocadia 1921 KZ Feminine Russian first name [H]
970 Primula 1921 LB The Primula genus of flowers (primroses) [H]
971 Alsatia 1921 LF Alsace, France; the discoverer first named it "Alsace", but the Rechen Institut changed that to "Alsatia" [H]
972 Cohnia 1922 LK Fritz Cohn, German astronomer [H]
973 Aralia 1922 LR Aralia, genus of ivy-like plant [H]
974 Lioba 1922 LS Saint Lioba (Lioba von Tauberbischofsheim), whose feast day is December 21 [H]
975 Perseverantia 1922 LT Perseverance, a quality posthumously attributed to the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa [H]
976 Benjamina 1922 LU The discoverer's son [H]
977 Philippa 1922 LV Baron Philippe de Rothschild, French financier [H]
978 Aidamina 1922 LY Aida Minaievna, a friend of the discoverer's family [H]
979 Ilsewa 1922 MC Ilse Waldorf, an acquaintance of the discoverer [H]
980 Anacostia 1921 W19 Anacostia, Washington, D.C., and the nearby Anacostia River [H]
981 Martina 1917 S92 Henri Martin, French revolutionary [H]
982 Franklina 1922 MD John Franklin Adams, British astronomer and stellar cartographer [H]
983 Gunila 1922 ME Saint Gunila, whose feast day is November 9 [H]
984 Gretia 1922 MH Sister-in-law of German astronomer Albrecht Kahrstedt [H]
985 Rosina 1922 MO Saint Rosina, whose feast day is July 19 [H]
986 Amelia 1922 MQ The discoverer's wife [H]
987 Wallia 1922 MR Saint Wallia, whose feast day is October 13 [H]
988 Appella 1922 MT Paul Émile Appell, French astronomer [H]
989 Schwassmannia 1922 MW Arnold Schwassmann, German astronomer [†] [H]
990 Yerkes 1922 MZ Yerkes Observatory, where the asteroid was discovered [H]
991 McDonalda 1922 NB McDonald Observatory, Texas, originally endowed by the Texas banker William Johnson McDonald [H]
992 Swasey 1922 ND Ambrose Swasey, American benefactor, co-founder, with Worcester Reed Warner of the Warner & Swasey Company which manufactured astronomical telescopes and precision instruments, including the McDonald Observatory 82-inch reflector telescope. They gifted their own observatory to Case Western University and it took the name Warner and Swasey Observatory. [H]
993 Moultona 1923 NJ Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and mathematician [H]
994 Otthild 1923 NL Saint Otthild, whose feast day is July 2 [H]
995 Sternberga 1923 NP Pavel Sternberg, Russian astronomer [H]
996 Hilaritas 1923 NM Contentedness, a quality posthumously attributed to the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa [H]
997 Priska 1923 NR Saint Priska (Saint Priscilla), whose feast days is January 18 [H]
998 Bodea 1923 NU Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer [H]
999 Zachia 1923 NW Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, German astronomer [†] [H]
1000 Piazzia 1923 NZ Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer [H]

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
501-600
501 Urhixidur	1903 LB	Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer
502 Sigune	1903 LC	Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer
503 Evelyn	1903 LF	Evelyn Smith Dugan, the discoverer's mother
504 Cora	1902 LK	Cora, wife of one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology [†]
505 Cava	1902 LL	Cava, figure in Inca mythology
506 Marion	1903 LN	Marion Orcutt, the discoverer's cousin [†]
507 Laodica	1903 LO	Laodica, daughter of Priam and Hecuba[†]
508 Princetonia	1903 LQ	Princeton University
509 Iolanda	1903 LR	*
510 Mabella	1903 LT	Mabel Loomis Todd, wife of David Peck Todd (see below)
511 Davida	1903 LU	David Peck Todd, American astronomer
512 Taurinensis	1903 LV	Turin, Italy
513 Centesima	1903 LY	100th (the discoverer's 100th asteroid)
514 Armida	1903 MB	Character in Gluck's opera Armide
515 Athalia	1903 ME	Athalia, Biblical queen
516 Amherstia	1903 MG	Amherst College
517 Edith	1903 MH	Edith Dugan Eveleth, the discoverer's sister
518 Halawe	1903 MO	Halawe, type of Arabic sweetmeat
519 Sylvania	1903 MP	Forests
520 Franziska	1903 MV	*
521 Brixia	1904 NB	Latin for Brescia, Italy
522 Helga	1904 NC	*
523 Ada	1904 ND	Ada Helme, friend of the discoverer
524 Fidelio	1904 NN	Leonora's pseudonym in Beethoven's opera Fidelio
525 Adelaide	1908 EKa	Queen Adelaide, consort to King William IV
526 Jena	1904 NQ	Jena, Germany
527 Euryanthe	1904 NR	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe
528 Rezia	1904 NS	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon
529 Preziosa	1904 NT	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Preziosa
530 Turandot	1904 NV	Character in Puccini's opera Turandot
531 Zerlina	1904 NW	Character in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni
532 Herculina	1904 NY	*
533 Sara	1904 NZ	A friend of the discoverer
534 Nassovia	1904 OA	Latin for Nassau Hall, Princeton University
535 Montague	1904 OC	Montague, Massachusetts, USA
536 Merapi	1904 OF	Mount Merapi, Sumatra
537 Pauly	1904 OG	Max Pauly, German businessman (manager of a sugar factory) and amateur optician whom Ernst Abbe appointed as head of the newly established Astronomy Division of Zeiss to design and produce telescope lenses
538 Friederike	1904 OK	Friend of the discoverer
539 Pamina	1904 OL	Character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
540 Rosamunde	1904 ON	Character in Schubert's opera Rosamunde
541 Deborah	1904 OO	Deborah, Biblical prophetess
542 Susanna	1904 OQ	Friend of the discoverer
543 Charlotte	1904 OT	Friend of the discoverer
544 Jetta	1904 OU	Jetta, legendary figure of Heidelberg
545 Messalina	1904 OY	Messalina, Roman empress
546 Herodias	1904 PA	Herodias, Biblical princess
547 Praxedis	1904 PB	Character in German poet and author Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard
548 Kressida	1904 PC	Cressida, Trojan princess
549 Jessonda	1904 PK	Character in German composer, violinist and conductor Ludwig Spohr's opera Jessonda
550 Senta	1904 PL	Character in German composer Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman (?)
551 Ortrud	1904 PM	The wife of Ferederick of Telramund in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin [†]
552 Sigelinde	1904 PO	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre
553 Kundry	1904 PP	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal
554 Peraga	1905 PS	Peraga, Italy
555 Norma	1905 PT	Character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma
556 Phyllis	1905 PW	Phyllis, mythological Greek princess
557 Violetta	1905 PY	Character in Verdi's opera La Traviata
558 Carmen	1905 QB	Character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen
559 Nanon	1905 QD	Nanon, operetta by Richard Genée
560 Delila	1905 QF	Delilah, Biblical character
561 Ingwelde	1905 QG	Ingwelde, opera by Max von Schillings (?)
562 Salome	1905 QH	Salomé, Biblical daughter of Herod the Great
563 Suleika	1905 QK	Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra
564 Dudu	1905 QM	Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra
565 Marbachia	1905 QN	Marbach, town in Germany
566 Stereoskopia	1905 QO	The stereo-comparator, an apparatus used by astronomers to detect astronomical objects such as asteroids (for instance) on photographic images of an area of the sky taken at different times
567 Eleutheria	1905 QP	Eleutheria, Greek goddess of liberty
568 Cheruskia	1905 QS	Cheruskia, student fraternity at Heidelberg University
569 Misa	1905 QT	Misa, goddess in the Orphic Mysteries
570 Kythera	1905 QX	Kythira, Greek island
571 Dulcinea	1905 QZ	Dulcinea, character in Cervantes' novel Don Quixote
572 Rebekka	1905 RB	A young woman from Heidelberg
573 Recha	1905 RC	Character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise
574 Reginhild	1905 RD	*
575 Renate	1905 RE	*
576 Emanuela	1905 RF	A friend of the discoverer
577 Rhea	1905 RH	Rhea, mythological Greek Titaness
578 Happelia	1905 RZ	Carl Happel, German painter and benefactor of Heidelberg Observatory. The Happel Laboratory there is named after him [†]
579 Sidonia	1905 SD	Character in Armida, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
580 Selene	1905 SE	Selene, Greek goddess
581 Tauntonia	1905 SH	Taunton, Massachusetts, USA
582 Olympia	1906 SO	Olympia, Greece
583 Klotilde	1905 SP	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss
584 Semiramis	1906 SY	Semiramis of Babylon, Assyrian princess
585 Bilkis	1906 TA	Bilqis, Balqis or Balkis, the Quranic name for the Queen of Sheba [†]
586 Thekla	1906 TC	Saint Thecla (?)
587 Hypsipyle	1906 TF	Hypsipyle, mythological Greek queen
588 Achilles	1906 TG	Achilles, mythological Greek warrior
589 Croatia	1906 TM	Croatia, country
590 Tomyris	1906 TO	Tomryis, Queen of the Massagetae
591 Irmgard	1906 TP	*
592 Bathseba	1906 TS	Bathsheba, wife of King David
593 Titania	1906 TT	Titania, folkloric queen of the fairies
594 Mireille	1906 TW	Mireille (Mirèio in the original Provençal), a narrative poem by French poet Frédéric Mistral, the source of inspiration for the opera of that name by the French composer Charles Gounod*
595 Polyxena	1906 TZ	Polyxena, mythological Trojan princess
596 Scheila	1906 UA	An English student at the University of Heidelberg, a friend of the discoverer
597 Bandusia	1906 UB	Bandusia, fountain near Polezzo, Apulia, Italy
598 Octavia	1906 UC	Octavia Thurina Minor, Roman noblewoman
599 Luisa	1906 UJ	*
600 Musa	1906 UM	The Greek Muses
601-700
601 Nerthus	1906 UN	Nerthus, Germanic goddess
602 Marianna	1906 TE	*
603 Timandra	1906 TJ	Timandra, mythological Greek woman
604 Tekmessa	1906 TK	Tecmessa, mythological Greek woman
605 Juvisia	1906 UU	Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, Camille Flammarion's home
606 Brangäne	1906 VB	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde
607 Jenny	1906 VC	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer
608 Adolfine	1906 VD	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer
609 Fulvia	1906 VF	Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony
610 Valeska	1906 VK	*
611 Valeria	1906 VL	*
612 Veronika	1906 VN	*
613 Ginevra	1906 VP	Guinevere, wife of King Arthur or the Italian name for Geneva, Switzerland*
614 Pia	1906 VQ	Pia-Sternwarte (Pia Observatory), in Trieste, the private observatory of Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865-1902), German amateur astronomer and selenographer*
615 Roswitha	1906 VR	Roswitha von Gandersheim, German poet
616 Elly	1906 VT	Elly Boehm (Elly Meyer-Ellès), translator, wife of Karl Boehm, German mathematician*
617 Patroclus	1906 VY	Patroclus, mythological Greek warrior
618 Elfriede	1906 VZ	*
619 Triberga	1906 WC	Triberg im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
620 Drakonia	1906 WE	Drake University, Iowa, USA (?)
621 Werdandi	1906 WJ	Verdandi, one of the Norns in Norse mythology
622 Esther	1906 WP	Esther, Biblical woman
623 Chimaera	1907 XJ	Chimera, mythological Greek monster
624 Hektor	1907 XM	Hector, Trojan hero
625 Xenia	1907 XN	*
626 Notburga	1907 XO	Saint Notburga
627 Charis	1907 XS	Charis, Greek goddess
628 Christine	1907 XT	*
629 Bernardina	1907 XU	*
630 Euphemia	1907 XW	Saint Euphemia
631 Philippina	1907 YJ	Philipp Kessler, friend of the discoverer
632 Pyrrha	1907 YX	Pyrrha, Greek mythological woman
633 Zelima	1907 ZM	*
634 Ute	1907 ZN	A friend of the discoverer
635 Vundtia	1907 ZS	Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist*
636 Erika	1907 XP	*
637 Chrysothemis	1907 YE	Chrysothemis, mythological daughter of Agamemnon
638 Moira	1907 ZQ	Moira, Greek goddess
639 Latona	1907 ZT	Latona, Roman goddess
640 Brambilla	1907 ZW	Prinzessi Brambilla, novel by E.T.A. Hoffman
641 Agnes	1907 ZX	*
642 Clara	1907 ZY	One of the discoverer's housekeepers
643 Scheherezade	1907 ZZ	Scheherezade, legendary Arabic storyteller in 1001 Nights
644 Cosima	1907 AA	Cosima Wagner, wife of composer Richard Wagner
645 Agrippina	1907 AG	Agrippina, two Roman noblewomen of that name [†]
646 Kastalia	1907 AC	Castalia, Greek nymph
647 Adelgunde	1907 AD	Adelgunde Marie Auguste Therese, Princess of Bavaria?*
648 Pippa	1907 AE	Character in Und Pippa tanzt, novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann
649 Josefa	1907 AF	*
650 Amalasuntha	1907 AM	Amalasuntha, Ostrogoth queen
651 Antikleia	1907 AN	Anticlea, mother of Greek hero Odysseus
652 Jubilatrix	1907 AU	The 60 year jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria
653 Berenike	1907 BK	Queen Berenice II of Egypt
654 Zelinda	1908 BM	Daughter of mathematician Ulisse Dini
655 Briseïs	1907 BF	Briseis, mythological Trojan slave
656 Beagle	1908 BU	HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship
657 Gunlöd	1908 BV	Gunnlod, mythological Norse giantess
658 Asteria	1908 BW	Asteria, various Greek figures
659 Nestor	1908 CS	Nestor, mythological Greek king
660 Crescentia	1908 CC	*
661 Cloelia	1908 CL	Cloelia, legendary Roman woman (?)
662 Newtonia	1908 CW	Newton, Massachusetts, USA
663 Gerlinde	1908 DG	*
664 Judith	1908 DH	Biblical heroine dramatised in Friedrich Hebbel's play Judith
665 Sabine	1908 DK	*
666 Desdemona	1908 DM	Desdemona, character in Shakespeare's Othello
667 Denise	1908 DN	*
668 Dora	1908 DO	A friend of the discoverer's wife
669 Kypria	1908 DQ	Kypria, poem sometimes attributed to Homer
670 Ottegebe	1908 DR	Character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's play Der arme Heinrich
671 Carnegia	1908 DV	Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman and philanthropist
672 Astarte	1908 DY	`Ashtart, Phoenician goddess
673 Edda	1908 EA	The Norse Edda, a collection of myths
674 Rachele	1908 EP	Wife of Italian astronomer Emilio Bianchi
675 Ludmilla	1908 DU	Character in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila
676 Melitta	1909 FN	Attic name for Melissa, Greek nymph
677 Aaltje	1909 FR	Aaltje Noordewier Reddingius, Dutch singer [†]
678 Fredegundis	1909 FS	Fredegund (Fredegund, Fredegunda, Fredegundis, or Frédégonde), Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons, or Fredigundis, the opera based on the life of Fredegund by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt*
679 Pax	1909 FY	Pax, Roman goddess
680 Genoveva	1909 GW	Main character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva (?)
681 Gorgo	1909 GZ	The Gorgon, a mythological Greek monster
682 Hagar	1909 HA	Hagar, Biblical woman
683 Lanzia	1909 HC	Heinrich Lanz, the German industrialist who provided the funds for the establishment of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences [†]
684 Hildburg	1909 HD	*
685 Hermia	1909 HE	Unknown (possibly the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream?)
686 Gersuind	1909 HF	Character in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gersuind
687 Tinette	1909 HG	*
688 Melanie	1909 HH	*
689 Zita	1909 HJ	Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
690 Wratislavia	1909 HZ	Latin for Wrocław, Poland
691 Lehigh	1909 JG	Lehigh University, USA
692 Hippodamia	1901 HD	Hippodamia, mythological mother of Agamemnon
693 Zerbinetta	1909 HN	Character in Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos
694 Ekard	1909 JA	Drake University, USA ('Ekard' is 'Drake' backwards)
695 Bella	1909 JB	*
696 Leonora	1910 JJ	Mary Leonora Snow, wife of the orbit computer
697 Galilea	1910 JO	The discovery of Jupiter's Galilean moons by Galileo Galilei
698 Ernestina	1910 JX	Ernst Wolf, son of the discoverer
699 Hela	1910 KD	Hel, Norse goddess (?)
700 Auravictrix	1910 KE	Latin 'victory against the wind' (named for the first Schütte-Lanz Zeppelin flights in 1911)
701-800
701 Oriola	1910 KN	The Old World Orioles, a bird family
702 Alauda	1910 KQ	The Alaudidae family of birds (larks)
703 Noëmi	1910 KT	Valentine Noëmi von Rothschild, wife of an astronomical benefactor
704 Interamnia	1910 KU	Latin for Teramo, Italy
705 Erminia	1910 KV	The comic opera Erminie
706 Hirundo	1910 KX	The Hirundinidae family of birds (swallows)
707 Steïna	1910 LD	Mr Steïn, a benefactor of Breslau Observatory
708 Raphaela	1911 LJ	Raphael von Bischoffsheim, founder of Nice Observatory
709 Fringilla	1911 LK	The Fringillidae family of birds (finches)
710 Gertrud	1911 LM	A granddaughter of the discoverer
711 Marmulla	1911 LN	Possibly the German word marmel (marble)
712 Boliviana	1911 LO	Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary
713 Luscinia	1911 LS	The Luscinia genus of birds (nightingales)
714 Ulula	1911 LW	The Ulula order of birds (owls)
715 Transvaalia	1911 LX	Transvaal, South Africa
716 Berkeley	1911 MD	Berkeley, California, USA
717 Wisibada	1911 MJ	Wiesbaden, Germany, where the discoverer Franz Kaiser was born [†]
718 Erida	1911 MS	Daughter of American astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner
719 Albert	1911 MT	Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild
720 Bohlinia	1911 MW	Karl Petrus Theodor Bohlin, Swedish astronomer
721 Tabora	1911 MZ	The Tabora, an ocean liner visited during an astronomical conference
722 Frieda	1911 NA	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Karl Hillebrand
723 Hammonia	1911 NB	Hamburg, Germany [†]
724 Hapag	1911 NC	The Hamburg-Amerika Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft, after the shipping line [†]
725 Amanda	1911 ND	Wife of German astronomer Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr [†]
726 Joëlla	1911 NM	Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer
727 Nipponia	1912 NT	Japan
728 Leonisis	1912 NU	Leo Gans, president of the Physical Society, and the goddess Isis, emblem of the Society
729 Watsonia	1912 OD	James Craig Watson, Canadian-American astronomer [† †]
730 Athanasia	1912 OK	Greek for immortality
731 Sorga	1912 OQ	Surga, Indonesian for 'heavens'
732 Tjilaki	1912 OR	Tjilaki, river near Malabar, Indonesia
733 Mocia	1912 PF	Werner Wolf, son of the discoverer, nicknamed 'Mok'
734 Benda	1912 PH	Anna Benda, wife of the discoverer
735 Marghanna	1912 PY	Margarete Vogt, the discoverer's mother, and Hanna, a relative of German astronomer Heinrich Vogt
736 Harvard	1912 PZ	Harvard University, USA
737 Arequipa	1912 QB	Arequipa, Peru
738 Alagasta	1913 QO	Original name of Gau Algesheim, Germany [†]
739 Mandeville	1913 QR	Mandeville, Jamaica
740 Cantabia	1913 QS	Contraction of Cantabrigia, Latin for Cambridge, named in honour of Cambridge, Massachusetts
741 Botolphia	1913 QT	Saint Botolph, eponym of a street in Boston, Massachusetts
742 Edisona	1913 QU	Thomas Edison, American inventor
743 Eugenisis	1913 QV	Greek for 'good creation' (named for the birth of the discoverer's daughter) [†]
744 Aguntina	1913 QW	Aguntinum, Roman town in the province of Noricum
745 Mauritia	1913 QX	Saint Mauritius, patron saint of a church in Wiesbaden, Germany [†]
746 Marlu	1913 QY	Marie-Louise Kaiser, the discoverer's daughter, a physician [†]
747 Winchester	1913 QZ	Winchester, MA, USA
748 Simeïsa	1913 RD	Simeïs Observatory, Crimea, Ukraine
749 Malzovia	1913 RF	S.I. Maltsov, amateur astronomer, founder of Simeïs Observatory
750 Oskar	1913 RG	*Oskar Ruben von Rothschild, benefactor (?)
751 Faïna	1913 RK	Faïna Neujmin, the discoverer's first wife
752 Sulamitis	1913 RL	Sulamith, Biblical woman identified with the Queen of Sheba
753 Tiflis	1913 RM	Tbilisi, Georgia
754 Malabar	1906 UT	Malabar, Java, Indonesia, commemorating the Dutch-German solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Christmas Island [†]
755 Quintilla	1908 CZ	An Italian girl
756 Lilliana	1908 DC	Sister of American astronomer Harlow Shapley
757 Portlandia	1908 EJ	Portland, Maine, USA
758 Mancunia	1912 PE	Manchester, UK
759 Vinifera	1913 SJ	Vitis vinifera, the wine grape [†]
760 Massinga	1913 SL	Adam Massinger, German astronomer
761 Brendelia	1913 SO	Martin Brendel (Otto Rudolph Martin Brendel), German astronomer
762 Pulcova	1913 SQ	Pulkovo Observatory, Russia
763 Cupido	1913 ST	Cupid, Roman god
764 Gedania	1913 SU	Gdansk, Poland
765 Mattiaca	1913 SV	Mattiacum, Latin name for Wiesbaden, Germany
766 Moguntia	1913 SW	Latin name for Mainz, Germany [†]
767 Bondia	1913 SX	William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, American astronomers
768 Struveana	1913 SZ	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Otto Wilhelm Struve and Hermann Struve, astronomers
769 Tatjana	1913 TA	A colleague of the discover, or perhaps the heroine of Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
770 Bali	1913 TE	Bali, Indonesia
771 Libera	1913 TO	A friend of the discoverer
772 Tanete	1913 TR	Tanete, Sulawesi, Indonesia (?)
773 Irmintraud	1913 TV	A common German name in old myths and legends
774 Armor	1913 TW	Armorica, Celtic name for Northwest France
775 Lumière	1914 TX	Auguste and Louis Lumière, cinematic pioneers
776 Berbericia	1914 TY	Adolf Berberich, German astronomer
777 Gutemberga	1914 TZ	Johann Gensfleisch (Gutenberg), printing pioneer [†]
778 Theobalda	1914 UA	Theobald Kaiser, the discoverer's father [†]
779 Nina	1914 UB	Nina Nikolaevna Neujmina, mathematician, the discoverer's sister
780 Armenia	1914 UC	Armenia
781 Kartvelia	1914 UF	Kartveli, Georgian name for the Georgian people
782 Montefiore	1914 UK	Montefiore, wife of Alfons von Rothschild
783 Nora	1914 UL	Heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House
784 Pickeringia	1914 UM	Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering, American astronomers
785 Zwetana	1914 UN	Tsvetana Popova, daughter of K. Popov (K. Popoff) of Sofia
786 Bredichina	1914 UO	Feodor Aleksandrovich Bredichin, Russian astronomer
787 Moskva	1914 UQ	Moscow, Russia
788 Hohensteina	1914 UR	Hohenstein, near Bad Schwalbach in the Rhine province in Germany, hometown of the wife of the discoverer [†]
789 Lena	1914 UU	Elena Petrovna Neujmina, mother of the discoverer
790 Pretoria	1912 NW	Pretoria, South Africa
791 Ani	1914 UV	Ani, ruined city in Armenia
792 Metcalfia	1907 ZC	Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer
793 Arizona	1907 ZD	Arizona, USA, location of Lowell Observatory
794 Irenaea	1914 VB	Irene, daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss
795 Fini	1914 VE	*
796 Sarita	1914 VH	*
797 Montana	1914 VR	From mons, the Latin for mountain, in honour of Hamburg Observatory, located at Bergedorf, in Germany. This was the first minor planet discovered there [†] [‡]
798 Ruth	1914 VT	*
799 Gudula	1915 WO	A feminine name (not named after a specific person)
800 Kressmannia	1915 WP	A. Kressman, benefactor of Heidelberg Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl)
801-900
801 Helwerthia	1915 WQ	Elise Helwerth-Wolf, the discoverer's mother
802 Epyaxa	1915 WR	*
803 Picka	1915 WS	Friedrich Pick, Czech physician
804 Hispania	1915 WT	Latin name for Spain
805 Hormuthia	1915 WW	Hormuth Kopff, wife of German astronomer August Kopff
806 Gyldenia	1915 WX	Hugo Gyldén, Swedish astronomer
807 Ceraskia	1915 WY	Vitol'd Karlovich Tseraskii, Russian astronomer
808 Merxia	1901 GY	Adalbert Merx, the discoverer's father
809 Lundia	1915 XP	Lund, Sweden, site of the Lund Observatory
810 Atossa	1915 XQ	Atossa, ancient Persian queen
811 Nauheima	1915 XR	Bad Nauheim, Germany
812 Adele	1915 XV	Character in Johann Strauss' opera Die Fledermaus (?)
813 Baumeia	1915 YR	H. Baum, astronomy student killed in World War I
814 Tauris	1916 YT	Tauris - ancient bame of Crimea, Ukraine
815 Coppelia	1916 YU	Coppélia, ballet by Léo Delibes
816 Juliana	1916 YV	Queen Juliana of the Netherlands [†]
817 Annika	1916 YW	*
818 Kapteynia	1916 YZ	Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer [†]
819 Barnardiana	1916 ZA	Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer
820 Adriana	1916 ZB	*
821 Fanny	1916 ZC	*
822 Lalage	1916 ZD	*
823 Sisigambis	1916 ZG	Sisigambis, mother of Darius III of Persia
824 Anastasia	1916 ZH	Anastasia Semenoff, an acquaintance of the discoverer
825 Tanina	1916 ZL	*
826 Henrika	1916 ZO	*
827 Wolfiana	1916 ZW	Max Wolf, German astronomer
828 Lindemannia	1916 ZX	Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-born British amateur astronomer
829 Academia	1916 ZY	The Russian Academy of Sciences
830 Petropolitana	1916 ZZ	Saint Petersburg, Russia
831 Stateira	1916 AA	Stateira, wife of Artaxerxes II of Persia
832 Karin	1916 AB	Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden
833 Monica	1916 AC	*
834 Burnhamia	1916 AD	Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer
835 Olivia	1916 AE	*
836 Jole	1916 AF	Iole, wife of Heracles in Greek mythology
837 Schwarzschilda	1916 AG	Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer
838 Seraphina	1916 AH	*
839 Valborg	1916 AJ	Character in Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger's play Axel e Valborg
840 Zenobia	1916 AK	Zenobia, Slavic goddess of hunting (?) or, Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra (?)
841 Arabella	1916 AL	Arabella, opera by Richard Strauss
842 Kerstin	1916 AM	*
843 Nicolaia	1916 AN	Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, father of the discoverer, Holger Thiele*
844 Leontina	1916 AP	Lienz, Austria
845 Naëma	1916 AS	*
846 Lipperta	1916 AT	Eduard Lippert, German businessman and philanthropist, benefactor of Hamburg Observatory [†] [‡]
847 Agnia	1915 XX	Agnia Ivanovna Bad'ina, Russian physician
848 Inna	1915 XS	Inna Nikolaevna Leman-Balanovskaya, Russian astronomer
849 Ara	1912 NY	American Relief Administration
850 Altona	1916 S24	Altona, Germany, location of the observatory at which H. C. Schumacher began publication of the astronomical journal Astronomische Nachrichten in 1821
851 Zeissia	1916 S26	Carl Zeiss, German optician, founder of the company that bears his name (Zeiss)
852 Wladilena	1916 S27	Vladimir Lenin, Soviet leader
853 Nansenia	1916 S28	Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer
854 Frostia	1916 S29	Edwin Brant Frost, American astronomer
855 Newcombia	1916 ZP	Simon Newcomb, American astronomer [† †]
856 Backlunda	1916 S30	Oskar Backlund, Swedish astronomer
857 Glasenappia	1916 S33	Sergei Pavlovich Glasenapp, Russian astronomer
858 El Djezaïr	1916 a	Algiers, Algeria
859 Bouzaréah	1916 c	Bouzaréah, Algiers, site of Algiers Observatory
860 Ursina	1917 BD	*
861 Aïda	1917 BE	Aïda, opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi
862 Franzia	1917 BF	Franz Wolf, the discoverer's son
863 Benkoela	1917 BH	Benkoelen, Sumatra (?)
864 Aase	A921 SB	Character in Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt
865 Zubaida	1917 BO	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan
866 Fatme	1917 BQ	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan
867 Kovacia	1917 BS	Friedrich Kovacs, physician who treated the discoverer's wife
868 Lova	1917 BU	*
869 Mellena	1917 BV	Werner von Melle, mayor of Hamburg who promoted the establishment of the University of Hamburg [†]
870 Manto	1917 BX	Manto, mythological Greek woman
871 Amneris	1917 BY	Character in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida
872 Holda	1917 BZ	Edward Singleton Holden, American astronomer
873 Mechthild	1917 CA	*
874 Rotraut	1917 CC	Schön Rotraut, poem by Eduard Möricke (?)
875 Nymphe	1917 CF	The Nymphs, Greek mythological figures
876 Scott	1917 CH	Miss E. Scott, benefactor
877 Walküre	1915 S7	The Valkyries, mythological German warrior women
878 Mildred	1916 f	Mildred, daughter of American astronomer Harlow Shapley
879 Ricarda	1917 CJ	Ricarda Huch, German poet
880 Herba	1917 CK	Herba, Greek god
881 Athene	1917 CL	Athena, Greek goddess
882 Swetlana	1917 CM	*
883 Matterania	1917 CP	August Matter, maker of photographic plates for the discoverer, German astronomer Max Wolf
884 Priamus	1917 CQ	Priam, Trojan king
885 Ulrike	1917 CX	Ulrike von Levetzow, beloved of Goethe
886 Washingtonia	1917 b	George Washington, American president
887 Alinda	1918 DB	Alinda, figure in Australian aboriginal mythology; or Alinda (Caria), an ancient city in Asia Minor (?)
888 Parysatis	1918 DC	Parysatis, wife of Darius II of Persia
889 Erynia	1918 DG	The Erinyes, or Furies, Greek mythological creatures
890 Waltraut	1918 DK	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung
891 Gunhild	1918 DQ	*
892 Seeligeria	1918 DR	Hugo Hans Seeliger, German astronomer
893 Leopoldina	1918 DS	The Leopoldina, German scientific academy
894 Erda	1918 DT	Erda, Norse goddess
895 Helio	1918 DU	Helium
896 Sphinx	1918 DV	The Sphinx
897 Lysistrata	1918 DZ	Lysistrata, character from Aeschylus
898 Hildegard	1918 EA	Saint Hildegard of Bingen [†]
899 Jokaste	1918 EB	Jocasta, mother/wife of Oedipus
900 Rosalinde	1918 EC	Character in Johann Strauss' opera Die Fledermaus [H]
901-1000
901 Brunsia	1918 EE	Ernst Heinrich Bruns, German astronomer [H]
902 Probitas	1918 EJ	[[Wiktionary:Probity>Probity]], a quality attributed to the late discoverer [H]
903 Nealley	1918 EM	Amateur astronomer from New York [H]
904 Rockefellia	1918 EO	John D. Rockefeller, American philanthropist [H]
905 Universitas	1918 ES	University of Hamburg, Germany [†] [H]
906 Repsolda	1918 ET	Johann Georg Repsold, optical manufacturer [†] [H]
907 Rhoda	1918 EU	Wife of American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard [H]
908 Buda	1918 EX	Buda, Hungary, part of Budapest [H]
909 Ulla	1919 FA	Ulla Ahrens, daughter of a friend of the discoverer [H]
910 Anneliese	1919 FB	Friend of German astronomer Julius Dick [H]
911 Agamemnon	1919 FD	Agamemnon, Greek king [H]
912 Maritima	1919 FJ	The annual end-of-term three to four day ocean liner trips on the North Sea organised by the University of Hamburg [†] [H]
913 Otila	1919 FL	Saint Otila, whose feast day is February 26 [H]
914 Palisana	1919 FN	Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer [H]
915 Cosette	1918 b	Youngest daughter of the discoverer [H]
916 America	1915 S1	America, for the help rendered by the American Relief Administration (under Herbert C. Hoover) during the famine in Crimea [H]
917 Lyka	1915 S4	A friend of the discoverer's sister, or [H]: a character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis
918 Itha	1919 FR	Saint Itha, whose feast day is January 15 [H]
919 Ilsebill	1918 EQ	Character in 'The Fisherman and his Wife' by the Brothers Grimm [H]
920 Rogeria	1919 FT	Female first name (not named after a specific person)
921 Jovita	1919 FV	Saint Jovita, whose feast day is February 15 [H]
922 Schlutia	1919 FW	German businessman Edgar Schlubach and Henry Frederick Tiarks, British banker and amateur astronomer, who together financed the solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Java [H]
923 Herluga	1919 GB	Saint Herluga, whose feast day is March 2 [H]
924 Toni	1919 GC	Female first name (not named after a specific person)
925 Alphonsina	1920 GM	Alfonso X of Castile and Alfonso XIII of Spain [H]
926 Imhilde	1920 GN	Saint Imhilde, whose feast day is May 15 [H]
927 Ratisbona	1920 GO	Latin name of Regensburg, Germany [H]
928 Hildrun	1920 GP	Saint Hildrun, whose feast day is May 19 [H]
929 Algunde	1920 GR	Saint Algunde (Adelgunde), whose feast day is January 30 [H]
930 Westphalia	1920 GS	Westphalia, Germany, birthplace of the discoverer [H]
931 Whittemora	1920 GU	Thomas Edward Whittemore, American physicist [H]
932 Hooveria	1920 GV	Herbert C. Hoover, American president, then secretary of state, in recognition of his help to Austria after World War I [H]
933 Susi	1927 CH	Wife of German astronomer Kasimir Graff [H]
934 Thüringia	1920 HK	The Thüringia, an Atlantic liner on which German astronomer Walter Baade travelled on his visits to New York; the captain was an amateur astronomer, and was invited to name one of Baade's asteroids [†] [H]
935 Clivia	1920 HM	Clivia, genus of flowering plant [H]
936 Kunigunde	1920 HN	Saint Kunigunde (Cunigunde of Luxemburg), whose feast day is March 3 [H]
937 Bethgea	1920 HO	Hans Bethge, German poet [H]
938 Chlosinde	1920 HQ	Saint Chlosinde, whose feast day is June 21 [H]
939 Isberga	1920 HR	Saint Isberga, whose feast day is January 24 [H]
940 Kordula	1920 HT	Saint Cordula, whose feast day is October 22 [H]
941 Murray	1920 HV	Gilbert Murray, British classical scholar and diplomat who helped Austria in 1920 through the League of Nations [H]
942 Romilda	1920 HW	Saint Romilda, whose feast day is March 25 [H]
943 Begonia	1920 HX	Begonia, genus of herbs and flowers [H]
944 Hidalgo	1920 HZ	Miguel Hidalgo, father of the independence of Mexico, where German astronomers went in 1923 to observe a solar eclipse [†] [H]
945 Barcelona	1921 JB	Barcelona, Spain, where the discoverer was born and the asteroid discovered [H]
946 Poësia	1921 JC	Poësia, goddess of poetry [H]
947 Monterosa	1921 JD	The Monterosa, a ship used by the University of Hamburg on their outings on the North Sea [†] [H]
948 Jucunda	1921 JE	Saint Jucunda of Nicomedia, from a collection of lives of Saints (feast day November 25) [H]
949 Hel	1921 JK	Hel, Norse goddess
950 Ahrensa	1921 JP	The Ahrens family, friends of the discoverer [H]
951 Gaspra	1916 S45	Gaspra, Ukraine [H]
952 Caia	1916 S61	Character in Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel Quo Vadis [H]
953 Painleva	1921 JT	Paul Painlevé, French mathematician [H]
954 Li	1921 JU	Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife [H]
955 Alstede	1921 JV	Lina Alstede Reinmuth, the discoverer's wife [H]
956 Elisa	1921 JW	Elisa Reinmuth, the discoverer's mother [H]
957 Camelia	1921 JX	Camellia, genus of flowering plants [H]
958 Asplinda	1921 KC	Bror Ansgar Asplind, Swedish astronomer [H]
959 Arne	1921 KF	Son of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind [†] [H]
960 Birgit	1921 KH	Daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind
961 Gunnie	1921 KM	Daughter of Swedish astronomer Bror Ansgar Asplind
962 Aslög	1921 KP	Aslög, mythological Norse woman [H]
963 Iduberga	1921 KR	Saint Iduberga (Saint Ida of Nivelles), whose feast day is June 28 [H]
964 Subamara	1921 KS	Latin for 'very bitter' (referring to the observing conditions at the Vienna Observatory)
965 Angelica	1921 KT	Angelica Hartmann, the discoverer's wife [H]
966 Muschi	1921 KU	Nickname ("Kitty") of the wife of German astronomer Walter Baade, the discoverer [H]
967 Helionape	1921 KV	Greek version of the name of Adolf Ritter von Sonnenthal, an Austrian actor [H]
968 Petunia	1921 KW	Petunia, a genus of flowering plants [H]
969 Leocadia	1921 KZ	Feminine Russian first name [H]
970 Primula	1921 LB	The Primula genus of flowers (primroses) [H]
971 Alsatia	1921 LF	Alsace, France; the discoverer first named it "Alsace", but the Rechen Institut changed that to "Alsatia" [H]
972 Cohnia	1922 LK	Fritz Cohn, German astronomer [H]
973 Aralia	1922 LR	Aralia, genus of ivy-like plant [H]
974 Lioba	1922 LS	Saint Lioba (Lioba von Tauberbischofsheim), whose feast day is December 21 [H]
975 Perseverantia	1922 LT	Perseverance, a quality posthumously attributed to the discoverer, Austrian astronomer Johann Palisa [H]
976 Benjamina	1922 LU	The discoverer's son [H]
977 Philippa	1922 LV	Baron Philippe de Rothschild, French financier [H]
978 Aidamina	1922 LY	Aida Minaievna, a friend of the discoverer's family [H]
979 Ilsewa	1922 MC	Ilse Waldorf, an acquaintance of the discoverer [H]
980 Anacostia	1921 W19	Anacostia, Washington, D.C., and the nearby Anacostia River [H]
981 Martina	1917 S92	Henri Martin, French revolutionary [H]
982 Franklina	1922 MD	John Franklin Adams, British astronomer and stellar cartographer [H]
983 Gunila	1922 ME	Saint Gunila, whose feast day is November 9 [H]
984 Gretia	1922 MH	Sister-in-law of German astronomer Albrecht Kahrstedt [H]
985 Rosina	1922 MO	Saint Rosina, whose feast day is July 19 [H]
986 Amelia	1922 MQ	The discoverer's wife [H]
987 Wallia	1922 MR	Saint Wallia, whose feast day is October 13 [H]
988 Appella	1922 MT	Paul Émile Appell, French astronomer [H]
989 Schwassmannia	1922 MW	Arnold Schwassmann, German astronomer [†] [H]
990 Yerkes	1922 MZ	Yerkes Observatory, where the asteroid was discovered [H]
991 McDonalda	1922 NB	McDonald Observatory, Texas, originally endowed by the Texas banker William Johnson McDonald [H]
992 Swasey	1922 ND	Ambrose Swasey, American benefactor, co-founder, with Worcester Reed Warner of the Warner & Swasey Company which manufactured astronomical telescopes and precision instruments, including the McDonald Observatory 82-inch reflector telescope. They gifted their own observatory to Case Western University and it took the name Warner and Swasey Observatory. [H]
993 Moultona	1923 NJ	Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and mathematician [H]
994 Otthild	1923 NL	Saint Otthild, whose feast day is July 2 [H]
995 Sternberga	1923 NP	Pavel Sternberg, Russian astronomer [H]

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