Meanings of minor planet names: 501–1000

This is a list of the sources of minor planet 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.

Contents: 501... 601... 701... 801... 901...

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
501–600
501 Urhixidur	1903 LB	Character in Friedrich Theodor Vischer's novel Auch Einer [H]
502 Sigune	1903 LC	Character in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Titurel [H]
503 Evelyn	1903 LF	Evelyn Smith Dugan, the discoverer's (Raymond Smith Dugan) mother [H]
504 Cora	1902 LK	Cora, wife of one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology † [H]
505 Cava	1902 LL	Cava, figure in Inca mythology [H]
506 Marion	1903 LN	Marion Orcutt, the discoverer's (Raymond Smith Dugan) cousin † [H]
507 Laodica	1903 LO	Laodice, daughter of Priam and Hecuba† [H]
508 Princetonia	1903 LQ	Princeton University [H]
509 Iolanda	1903 LR	([H] has no explanation)
510 Mabella	1903 LT	Mabel Loomis Todd, daughter of the American mathematician-astronomer Elias Loomis, wife of David Peck Todd (see 511, below) [H]
511 Davida	1903 LU	David Peck Todd, American astronomer [H]
512 Taurinensis	1903 LV	Taurinum, ancient name of Turin, Italy [H]
513 Centesima	1903 LY	100th (the discoverer's 100th asteroid) [H]
514 Armida	1903 MB	Character in Gluck's opera Armide, based on Torquato Tasso's baroque epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata [H]
515 Athalia	1903 ME	Athalia, Biblical queen of Judah (2 Kings ix) [H]
516 Amherstia	1903 MG	Amherst College, alma mater of the discoverer [H]
517 Edith	1903 MH	Edith Dugan Eveleth, the discoverer's sister [H]
518 Halawe	1903 MO	Halawe, a type of Arabic sweetmeat, a favourite of the discoverer [H]
519 Sylvania	1903 MP	The forests the discoverer enjoyed tramping through even as a small boy [H]
520 Franziska	1903 MV	([H] has no explanation)
521 Brixia	1904 NB	Latin for Brescia, Italy, birthplace of the orbit computer, Emilio Bianchi [H]
522 Helga	1904 NC	([H] only says "Named by Lt. Th. Lassen, orbit computer"; see AN 169, 363)
523 Ada	1904 ND	Ada Helme, school friend and neighbour of the discoverer [H]
524 Fidelio	1904 NN	Leonora's pseudonym in Beethoven's only opera Fidelio [H]
525 Adelaide	1908 EKa	Queen Adelaide, consort to King William IV ([H] says nothing) This name was first borne by a Max Wolf discovery until it was identified as 1171 Rusthawelia; the name was then re-assigned to this J. H. Metcalf discovery
526 Jena	1904 NQ	Jena, Germany, on the occasion of a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft there in 1905 (see AN 172, 287) [H]
527 Euryanthe	1904 NR	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Euryanthe [H]
528 Rezia	1904 NS	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon [H]
529 Preziosa	1904 NT	Character in Cervantes' short story La Gitanilla [H]
530 Turandot	1904 NV	Character in Puccini's opera Turandot [H]
531 Zerlina	1904 NW	Character in Mozart's opera Don Giovanni [H]
532 Herculina	1904 NY	Feminine form of Hercules, Roman demigod ([H] simply says "named by Prof. Elia Millosevich, Observatory of the Collegio Romano" AN 167, 45)
533 Sara	1904 NZ	A friend of the discoverer [H]
534 Nassovia	1904 OA	Latin for Nassau Hall, Princeton University [H]
535 Montague	1904 OC	Montague, Massachusetts, USA, the discoverer's birthplace [H]
536 Merapi	1904 OF	Mount Merapi, Sumatra, site of several expeditions to observe the solar eclipse of 17 May 1901 [H]
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; he ground the 10-inch lens of the Bruce telescope, the "jewel of the Königstuhl" [H]
538 Friederike	1904 OK	Friend of the discoverer [H]
539 Pamina	1904 OL	Character in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute [H]
540 Rosamunde	1904 ON	Character in Schubert's incidental music for the play Rosamunde [H]
541 Deborah	1904 OO	Deborah, Biblical prophetess (Judges 4:5) [H]
542 Susanna	1904 OQ	Friend of the discoverer [H]
543 Charlotte	1904 OT	Friend of the discoverer [H]
544 Jetta	1904 OU	Jetta, legendary figure of Heidelberg [H]
545 Messalina	1904 OY	Messalina, Roman empress [H]
546 Herodias	1904 PA	Herodias, Biblical princess, consort of Herod Antipas [H]
547 Praxedis	1904 PB	Character in German poet and author Victor von Scheffel's Ekkehard [H]
548 Kressida	1904 PC	Cressida, Trojan princess, character of Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida (based on the medieval legend of Troy, as opposed to the classical) [H]
549 Jessonda	1904 PK	Character in German composer, violinist and conductor Ludwig Spohr's opera Jessonda [H]
550 Senta	1904 PL	Character in German composer Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman [H]
551 Ortrud	1904 PM	The wife of Ferederick of Telramund in Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin † [H]
552 Sigelinde	1904 PO	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Die Walküre [H]
553 Kundry	1904 PP	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal [H]
554 Peraga	1905 PS	Peraga, Italy, site of a country villa of relatives of the orbit computer [H]
555 Norma	1905 PT	Character in Vincenzo Bellini's opera Norma [H]
556 Phyllis	1905 PW	Phyllis, mythological Greek princess, who loved Demophoon, son of Theseus [H]
557 Violetta	1905 PY	Character in Verdi's opera La Traviata, in turn based on Alexandre Dumas, fils' Dame aux camélias [H]
558 Carmen	1905 QB	Character in Georges Bizet's opera Carmen, in turn based on Prosper Mérimée's novella of the same name [H]
559 Nanon	1905 QD	Nanon, operetta by 19th-century German-Austrian composer Richard Genée [H] †
560 Delila	1905 QF	Delilah, Biblical character, set to music by Saint-Saëns in his Samson et Délila [H]
561 Ingwelde	1905 QG	Ingwelde, opera by Max von Schillings (?) ([H] simply says « German feminine first name »)
562 Salome	1905 QH	Salomé, Biblical daughter of Herod the Great, character of Richard Strauss' opera Salome, in turn based on Oscar Wilde's Salomé play [H]
563 Suleika	1905 QK	From Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan [H] (see here)
564 Dudu	1905 QM	Character in Friedrich Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra [H]
565 Marbachia	1905 QN	Marbach, town in Germany [H]
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; the first minor planet thus discovered, in 1902 from 1899 plates, was later identified as this one [H]
567 Eleutheria	1905 QP	Eleutheria, the Greek festivals held in honour of Zeus Eleutherius, « the asserter of liberty » [H]
568 Cheruskia	1905 QS	Cheruskia, student fraternity at Heidelberg University, named in turn after the Cherusci, an early German tribe [H]
569 Misa	1905 QT	Misa, Greek divinity in the Orphic Mysteries [H]
570 Kythera	1905 QX	Kythira, Greek island [H] (First name in a long list published in 1914)
571 Dulcinea	1905 QZ	Dulcinea, character in Cervantes' novel Don Quixote [H]
572 Rebekka	1905 RB	A young woman from Heidelberg [H] (possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Rebekka)
573 Recha	1905 RC	Character in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Nathan der Weise ([H] says « Recha, a city in Palestine ») (possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Recha)
574 Reginhild	1905 RD	German feminine first name [H], possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Reginhild)
575 Renate	1905 RE	Possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Renate) ([H] has no explanation)
576 Emanuela	1905 RF	A friend of the discoverer [H]
577 Rhea	1905 RH	Rhea, mythological Greek Titaness [H] (possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters: Rhea)
578 Happelia	1905 RZ	Carl Happel, German painter and benefactor of the Heidelberg Observatory; the Happel Laboratory there is named after him † [H]
579 Sidonia	1905 SD	Character in Armide, opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck (inspired by the provisional designation letters: Sidonia) [H]
580 Selene	1905 SE	Selene, Greek lunar goddess [H]
581 Tauntonia	1905 SH	Taunton, Massachusetts, USA, the discovery site [H]
582 Olympia	1906 SO	Olympia, Greece [H]
583 Klotilde	1905 SP	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Edmund Weiss, director of the Imperial Observatory where the minor planet was discovered [H]
584 Semiramis	1906 SY	Semiramis, Assyrian queen [H]
585 Bilkis	1906 TA	Bilqis, Balqis or Balkis, the Quranic name for the Queen of Sheba † [H]
586 Thekla	1906 TC	Saint Thecla [H]
587 Hypsipyle	1906 TF	Hypsipyle, mythological Greek queen of Lemnos, mother of twins by Jason [H]
588 Achilles	1906 TG	Achilles, mythological Greek warrior [H]
589 Croatia	1906 TM	Croatia, country [H]
590 Tomyris	1906 TO	Tomyris, Scythian Queen of the Massagetae [H]
591 Irmgard	1906 TP	German feminine first name [H]
592 Bathseba	1906 TS	Bathsheba, wife of Urias, mother of Solomon [H]
593 Titania	1906 TT	Titania, folkloric queen of the fairies (name inspired by the provisionla designation letters: Titania) [H]
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 [H]
595 Polyxena	1906 TZ	Polyxena, mythological Trojan princess, daughter of Priam and Hecuba [H]
596 Scheila	1906 UA	An English student at the University of Heidelberg, a friend of the discoverer [H]
597 Bandusia	1906 UB	Spring of Bandusia, fountain near Polezzo, Apulia, Italy [H]
598 Octavia	1906 UC	Claudia Octavia, Roman Empress, stepsister and first wife of Nero [H]
599 Luisa	1906 UJ	([H] has no explanation)
600 Musa	1906 UM	The Greek Muses [H]
601–700
601 Nerthus	1906 UN	Nerthus, Germanic/Scandinavian Earth Mother goddess [H]
602 Marianna	1906 TE	([H] has no explanation)
603 Timandra	1906 TJ	Timandra, mythological Greek woman, sister of Helen of Troy, mother of Evander [H]
604 Tekmessa	1906 TK	Tecmessa, mythological Greek woman, daughter of the Phrygian prince Teubrantes, captive of Ajax, by whom she had a son, Eurysaces [H]
605 Juvisia	1906 UU	Juvisy-sur-Orge, France, where Camille Flammarion's observatory was located [H]
606 Brangäne	1906 VB	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, a maid servant of Isolda [H]
607 Jenny	1906 VC	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see 608) [H]
608 Adolfine	1906 VD	Jenny Adolfine Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see 607) [H]
609 Fulvia	1906 VF	Fulvia, wife of Mark Antony [H]
610 Valeska	1906 VK	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Valeska) ([H] has no explanation)
611 Valeria	1906 VL	Feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Valeria) ([H] has no explanation)
612 Veronika	1906 VN	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Veronika) [H]
613 Ginevra	1906 VP	German feminine first name [H] (most famously Guinevere, wife of King Arthur)
614 Pia	1906 VQ	German feminine first name [H], or possibly Pia-Sternwarte (Pia Observatory), in Trieste, the private observatory of Johann Nepomuk Krieger (1865–1902), German amateur astronomer and selenographer
615 Roswitha	1906 VR	Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, German poet [H]
616 Elly	1906 VT	Elly Boehm (Elly Meyer-Ellès), translator, wife of Karl Boehm, German mathematician [H]
617 Patroclus	1906 VY	Patroclus, mythological Greek warrior [H], and his father Menoetius, son of Iapetus and Clymene ((617) Patroclus I Menoetius)
618 Elfriede	1906 VZ	([H] has no explanation)
619 Triberga	1906 WC	Triberg im Schwarzwald, Baden-Württemberg, Germany [H]
620 Drakonia	1906 WE	Drake University, Iowa, USA, where the orbit computers worked [H]
621 Werdandi	1906 WJ	Verdandi, one of the Norns in Norse mythology ([H] has no explanation)
622 Esther	1906 WP	Esther, Biblical heroine [H]
623 Chimaera	1907 XJ	Mount Chimaera of Lycia, inspiration for the Chimera, mythological Greek monster [H]
624 Hektor	1907 XM	Hector, Trojan hero [H]
625 Xenia	1907 XN	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Xenia) [H]
626 Notburga	1907 XO	Saint Notburga, holy character of the Neckar valley, the discovery site [H]
627 Charis	1907 XS	Charis, Greek goddess, one of the three Graces [H]
628 Christine	1907 XT	The discoverer's wife [H]
629 Bernardina	1907 XU	([H] has no explanation)
630 Euphemia	1907 XW	Saint Euphemia [H]
631 Philippina	1907 YJ	Philipp Kessler, friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of his engagement (see also 634, below) [H]
632 Pyrrha	1907 YX	Pyrrha, wife of Deukalion, Greek mythological woman [H]
633 Zelima	1907 ZM	German feminine first name, possibly inspired by the provisional designation letters (Zelima) [H]
634 Ute	1907 ZN	A friend of the discoverer, on the occasion of her engagement (see also 631, above) [H]
635 Vundtia	1907 ZS	Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist [H]
636 Erika	1907 XP	([H] has no explanation)
637 Chrysothemis	1907 YE	Chrysothemis, mythological daughter of Agamemnon, character in Sophocles' Electra [H]
638 Moira	1907 ZQ	Moira, Greek goddess of fate [H]
639 Latona	1907 ZT	Latona, Roman goddess, daughter of Ceo Titan, loved by Jupiter, mother of Apollo and Diana [H]
640 Brambilla	1907 ZW	Prinzessi Brambilla, novel by E. T. A. Hoffmann [H]
641 Agnes	1907 ZX	([H] has no explanation)
642 Clara	1907 ZY	One of the discoverer's housekeepers [H]
643 Scheherezade	1907 ZZ	Scheherazade, legendary Arabic storyteller in 1001 Nights [H]
644 Cosima	1907 AA	Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt, Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, and second wife of German composer Richard Wagner [H]
645 Agrippina	1907 AG	Agrippina, two Roman noblewomen of that name † ([H] has no explanation)
646 Kastalia	1907 AC	Castalia, Greek nymph whom Apollo transformed into a fountain at Delphi, at the base of Mount Parnassos [H]
647 Adelgunde	1907 AD	Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria? ([H] has no explanation)
648 Pippa	1907 AE	Character in Und Pippa tanzt, novel by Gerhardt Hauptmann [H]
649 Josefa	1907 AF	German feminine first name [H]
650 Amalasuntha	1907 AM	Amalasuntha, Ostrogoth queen, daughter of Theoderich [H]
651 Antikleia	1907 AN	Anticlea, wife of Laertes, mother of Greek hero Odysseus [H]
652 Jubilatrix	1907 AU	The 60-year jubilee of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, during which this minor planet was discovered [H]
653 Berenike	1907 BK	Queen Berenice II of Egypt ([H] has no explanation)
654 Zelinda	1908 BM	Daughter of mathematician Ulisse Dini ([H] has only « German feminine first name »), or the niece of French astronomer Camille Flammarion (the daughter of his sister Berthe) †
655 Briseïs	1907 BF	Briseis, mythological Trojan slave ([H] has no explanation)
656 Beagle	1908 BU	HMS Beagle, Darwin's ship [H]
657 Gunlöd	1908 BV	Gunnlod, mythological Norse giantess ([H] has no explanation)
658 Asteria	1908 BW	Asteria, various Greek figures ([H] has no explanation)
659 Nestor	1908 CS	Nestor, mythological Greek king ([H] only states when it was named)
660 Crescentia	1908 CC	Heroine of a German legend, a variant of the Genevieve of Brabant medieval story, found in the Historie von der geduldigen Konigin Crescentia, itself based on a 12th century poem in the Kaiserchronik [H]
661 Cloelia	1908 CL	Cloelia, legendary Roman woman (?) ([H] has no explanation)
662 Newtonia	1908 CW	previously believed to refer to Isaac Newton, British physicist [H]; but later correctly identified as being named after Newton, Massachusetts[1]. Isaac Newton is now honored by asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton
663 Gerlinde	1908 DG	German feminine first name [H]
664 Judith	1908 DH	Biblical heroine dramatised in Friedrich Hebbel's play Judith [H]
665 Sabine	1908 DK	French feminine first name ([H] has no explanation)
666 Desdemona	1908 DM	Desdemona, character in Shakespeare's Othello (possibly in part because of the letters in the provisional designation: Desdemona) [H]
667 Denise	1908 DN	French feminine first name [H] (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Denise)
668 Dora	1908 DO	A friend of the discoverer's wife [H] (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Dora)
669 Kypria	1908 DQ	Kypria, poem sometimes attributed to Homer, which serves as an introduction to the Iliad [H]
670 Ottegebe	1908 DR	Character in Gerhardt Hauptmann's play Der arme Heinrich [H]
671 Carnegia	1908 DV	The Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, founded by Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born American businessman and philanthropist [H]
672 Astarte	1908 DY	'Ashtart, Phoenician goddess of love and fertility [H]
673 Edda	1908 EA	The Norse Edda, a collection of myths [H]
674 Rachele	1908 EP	Wife of Italian astronomer Emilio Bianchi, the orbit computer [H]
675 Ludmilla	1908 DU	Character in Mikhail Glinka's opera Ruslan and Lyudmila ([H] has no explanation)
676 Melitta	1909 FN	Attic form of the Greek name Melissa, nymph changed into a bee (and also an allusion to the discoverer's name, Melotte) [H]
677 Aaltje	1909 FR	Aaltje Noordewier-Reddingius, Dutch singer † [H]
678 Fredegundis	1909 FS	Fredegundis, an opera based on the life of Fredegund (a.k.a. Fredegunda, Fredegundis, Fredigundis, Frédégonde, Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons), begun by the French composer Ernest Guirand and completed by Saint-Saëns [H]
679 Pax	1909 FY	Pax, Roman goddess [H]
680 Genoveva	1909 GW	Main character in Friedrich Hebbel's play Genoveva [H]
681 Gorgo	1909 GZ	Gorgo, 5th-century B.C. Queen of Sparta, daughter of Kleomenes and wife of Leonidas [H]
682 Hagar	1909 HA	Hagar, Biblical woman (Genesis XXI 14) [H]
683 Lanzia	1909 HC	Heinrich Lanz, the German industrialist who provided the funds for the establishment of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences † [H]
684 Hildburg	1909 HD	German feminine first name [H] (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Hildburg)
685 Hermia	1909 HE	? (possibly the character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream; [H] has no explanation; possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Hermia)
686 Gersuind	1909 HF	Character in Gerhart Hauptmann's play Gersuind [H]
687 Tinette	1909 HG	? ([H] has no explanation)
688 Melanie	1909 HH	? ([H] has no explanation)
689 Zita	1909 HJ	Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of Emperor Charles I of Austria [H]
690 Wratislavia	1909 HZ	Latin for Breslau (Wrocław), now in Poland [H]
691 Lehigh	1909 JG	Lehigh University, USA, where the computer (J. B. Reynolds) was [H]
692 Hippodamia	1901 HD	Hippodamia, Greek mythological ancestor of Agamemnon and wife of Pelops [H] (possibly inspired by the letters of the provisional designation: Hippodamia)
693 Zerbinetta	1909 HN	Character in Richard Strauss' opera Ariadne auf Naxos [H]
694 Ekard	1909 JA	Drake University, USA ('Drake' backwards), where the orbit computers (S. B. Nicholson and his wife) were [H]
695 Bella	1909 JB	? ([H] has no explanation)
696 Leonora	1910 JJ	Mary Leonora Snow, wife of the orbit computer, Arthur Snow [H]
697 Galilea	1910 JO	Galileo Galilei, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the discovery of Jupiter's Galilean moons [H]
698 Ernestina	1910 JX	Ernst Wolf, son of the discoverer [H]
699 Hela	1910 KD	Hel, Norse goddess of the dead [H]
700 Auravictrix	1910 KE	Latin for 'victory against the wind' (named for the first Schütte-Lanz Zeppelin flights in 1911) [H]
701–800
701 Oriola	1910 KN	The Old World Golden Oriole, Oriolus oriolus [H]
702 Alauda	1910 KQ	The Alauda genus of birds (larks) [H]
703 Noëmi	1910 KT	Noemi, Biblical heroine from the Book of Ruth [H]
704 Interamnia	1910 KU	Latin for Terni (Teramo), Italy, the discoverer's birthplace (several Roman towns were called Interamnia, meaning "in between two rivers") [H] †
705 Erminia	1910 KV	The comic operetta Erminie, by Edward Jacobowsky [H]
706 Hirundo	1910 KX	The Hirundo genus of birds (swallows) [H]
707 Steina	1910 LD	Mr. Stein, a benefactor of Breslau Observatory [H]
708 Raphaela	1911 LJ	Raphael Bischoffsheim, French banker and philanthropist, founder of the Observatoire de Nice (Nice Observatory) [H]
709 Fringilla	1911 LK	The Fringilla genus of birds (finches) [H]
710 Gertrud	1911 LM	A granddaughter of the discoverer ([H] has no explanation)
711 Marmulla	1911 LN	Possibly the German word marmel (marble) ([H] has no explanation)
712 Boliviana	1911 LO	Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary [H]
713 Luscinia	1911 LS	The Luscinia genus of birds (nightingales) [H]
714 Ulula	1911 LW	The Ulula genus of birds (owls) [H]
715 Transvaalia	1911 LX	Transvaal, South Africa; this was the first minor planet discovered from there [H]
716 Berkeley	1911 MD	University of California, Berkeley [H]
717 Wisibada	1911 MJ	Wiesbaden, Germany, where the discoverer Franz Kaiser was born † [H]
718 Erida	1911 MS	Daughter of American astronomer Armin Otto Leuschner [H]
719 Albert	1911 MT	Baron Albert Salomon von Rothschild, benefactor of the Vienna Observatory [H]
720 Bohlinia	1911 MW	Karl Petrus Theodor Bohlin, Swedish astronomer, on the occasion of his 65th birthday [H]
721 Tabora	1911 MZ	The Tabora, an ocean liner visited during an astronomical conference [H]
722 Frieda	1911 NA	Daughter of Austrian astronomer Karl Hillebrand ([H] has no explanation)
723 Hammonia	1911 NB	Hamburg, Germany † [H]
724 Hapag	1911 NC	The Hamburg America Line (HAPAG), after the shipping line † [H]
725 Amanda	1911 ND	Amanda Schorr, wife of German astronomer Richard Reinhard Emil Schorr † [H]
726 Joëlla	1911 NM	Feminine form of Joël, for Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer [H]
727 Nipponia	1912 NT	Japan, where the minor planet was accidentally discovered twice (1900 FE; 1908 CV) by Shin Hirayama [H]
728 Leonisis	1912 NU	Leo Gans, president of the Physical Society (on the occasion of his 70th birthday), and the goddess Isis, emblem of the Society [H]
729 Watsonia	1912 OD	James Craig Watson, Canadian-American astronomer † [H]
730 Athanasia	1912 OK	Greek for immortality [H]
731 Sorga	1912 OQ	Surga, Indonesian for 'heavens' ([H] has no explanation)
732 Tjilaki	1912 OR	Tjilaki, river and village near Malabar, Indonesia [H]
733 Mocia	1912 PF	Werner "Mok" Wolf, son of the discoverer [H]
734 Benda	1912 PH	Bendl, Czech composer of the opera Lejla [H]
735 Marghanna	1912 PY	Margarete Vogt, the discoverer's mother, and Hanna, a relative of his [H]
736 Harvard	1912 PZ	Harvard University, USA [H]
737 Arequipa	1912 QB	Arequipa, Peru, where Harvard University had an observing station [H]
738 Alagasta	1913 QO	Original name of Gau-Algesheim, Germany †, the discoverer's family's native city [H]
739 Mandeville	1913 QR	Mandeville, Jamaica [H]
740 Cantabia	1913 QS	Contraction of Cantabrigia, Latin for Cambridge, named in honour of Cambridge, Massachusetts and its Harvard University [H]
741 Botolphia	1913 QT	Saint Botolph, 7th-century founder of the monastery that would become Boston, Lincolnshire, England [H]
742 Edisona	1913 QU	Thomas Edison, American inventor [H]
743 Eugenisis	1913 QV	Greek for 'good creation' (named for the birth of the discoverer's daughter) † ([H] has no explanation)
744 Aguntina	1913 QW	Aguntinum, Roman colony in the province of Noricum, near Lienz [H]
745 Mauritia	1913 QX	Saint Mauritius, patron saint of a church in Wiesbaden, Germany † [H]
746 Marlu	1913 QY	Marie-Louise Kaiser, the discoverer's daughter, a physician † [H]
747 Winchester	1913 QZ	Winchester, Massachusetts, USA, from where the discoverer observed [H]
748 Simeïsa	1913 RD	Simeïs Observatory, Crimea, Ukraine, the discovery site † [H]
749 Malzovia	1913 RF	Nikolai Sergeevich Maltsov, Russian amateur astronomer, founder of Simeïs Observatory † [H]
750 Oskar	1913 RG	Oskar Ruben von Rothschild, benefactor? ([H] has no explanation)
751 Faïna	1913 RK	Faina Mikhajlovna Neujmina, the discoverer's colleague and first wife † [H]
752 Sulamitis	1913 RL	Sulamith, Biblical woman identified with the Queen of Sheba [H]
753 Tiflis	1913 RM	Tbilisi, Georgia, the discoverer's native city [H]
754 Malabar	1906 UT	Malabar, Java, Indonesia, commemorating the Dutch-German solar eclipse expedition of 1922 to Christmas Island † [H]
755 Quintilla	1908 CZ	Feminine Italian first name, chosen because no other planet had a name beginning with Q so far [H]
756 Lilliana	1908 DC	Sister of American astronomer Harlow Shapley [H]
757 Portlandia	1908 EJ	Portland, Maine, USA, where the discoverer was a church minister at the time of his death [H]
758 Mancunia	1912 PE	Latin name of Manchester, UK, the discoverer's native city [H]
759 Vinifera	1913 SJ	Vitis vinifera, the wine grape †, former means of livelihood of the discoverer's ancestors [H]
760 Massinga	1913 SL	Adam Massinger, German astronomer [H]
761 Brendelia	1913 SO	Martin Brendel (Otto Rudolph Martin Brendel), German astronomer, director of the International Planet Institute, who chose this minor planet amongst Kaiser's unnamed discoveries for its small orbital inclination [H]
762 Pulcova	1913 SQ	Pulkovo Heights, hills near St. Petersburg, site of the oldest Russian observatory, Pulkovo Observatory † [H]
763 Cupido	1913 ST	Cupid, Roman god, because of the minor planet's relative closeness to the Sun [H]
764 Gedania	1913 SU	Gdansk, Poland, at the observatory of which the discoverer was first assistant 1921–1925 [H]
765 Mattiaca	1913 SV	Mattiacum, Latin name for Wiesbaden, Germany, the discoverer's home town [H]
766 Moguntia	1913 SW	Latin name for Mainz, Germany †, at the University of which the discoverer taught [H]
767 Bondia	1913 SX	William Cranch Bond and George Phillips Bond, American father and son, astronomers [H]
768 Struveana	1913 SZ	Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve, Otto Wilhelm Struve and Hermann Struve, Russo-German astronomers † [H]
769 Tatjana	1913 TA	A colleague of the discover, or perhaps the heroine of Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin [H]
770 Bali	1913 TE	Bali, King of the Daityas in the Hindu Puranas [H]
771 Libera	1913 TO	A friend of the discoverer (the minor planet was named by his widow) [H]
772 Tanete	1913 TR	Tanete, Sulawesi, Indonesia ? ([H] has no explanation)
773 Irmintraud	1913 TV	Feminine German first name, common in old myths and legends [H]
774 Armor	1913 TW	Armorica, Celtic name for Northwest France (Brittany and Normandy) [H]
775 Lumière	1914 TX	Auguste and Louis Lumière, French cinematic pioneers [H]
776 Berbericia	1914 TY	Adolf Berberich, German astronomer [H]
777 Gutemberga	1914 TZ	Johann Gensfleisch (Gutenberg), printing pioneer † [H]
778 Theobalda	1914 UA	Theobald Kaiser, the discoverer's father † [H]
779 Nina	1914 UB	Nina Nikolaevna Neujmina, mathematician, the discoverer's sister ([H] simply says « feminine Russian first name  »)
780 Armenia	1914 UC	Armenia [H]
781 Kartvelia	1914 UF	Kartveli, Georgian name for the Georgian people [H]
782 Montefiore	1914 UK	Arthur Montefiore, secretary of Jackson's Arctic Expedition (1894–1898) [H]
783 Nora	1914 UL	Heroine of Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House [H]
784 Pickeringia	1914 UM	Edward Charles Pickering and William Henry Pickering, American astronomer brothers [H]
785 Zwetana	1914 UN	Tsvetana Popova, daughter of K. Popov (also Popoff or Pophoff) of Sofia, Bulgaria [H]
786 Bredichina	1914 UO	Fedor Aleksandrovich Bredikhin, Russian astronomer † [H]
787 Moskva	1914 UQ	Moscow, Russia [H]
788 Hohensteina	1914 UR	Hohenstein, near Bad Schwalbach in the Rhine province in Germany, hometown of the wife of the discoverer †; her family name (Breder or Broeder) derives from the castle's Order of Knighthood, "Breder von Hohenstein" [H]
789 Lena	1914 UU	Elena Petrovna Neujmina, mother of the discoverer ([H] simply says « feminine Russian first name, diminutive of Helen »)
790 Pretoria	1912 NW	Pretoria, South Africa [H]
791 Ani	1914 UV	Ani, ruined city in Armenia [H]
792 Metcalfia	1907 ZC	Joel Hastings Metcalf, American Unitarian minister and astronomer [H]
793 Arizona	1907 ZD	Arizona, USA, location of Lowell Observatory [H]
794 Irenaea	1914 VB	Irene, daughter of astronomer Edmund Weiss ([H] has no explanation)
795 Fini	1914 VE	Diminutive of Josephine, feminine German/Austrian first name [H]
796 Sarita	1914 VH	? ([H] has no explanation)
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 † ‡ [H]
798 Ruth	1914 VT	Ruth, Biblical heroine in the Old Testament [H]
799 Gudula	1915 WO	German feminine first name, from the calendar Lahrer Hinkender Bote for January 9 [H]
800 Kressmannia	1915 WP	A. Kressman, benefactor of Heidelberg Observatory (Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl) [H]
801–900
801 Helwerthia	1915 WQ	Elise Helwerth-Wolf, the discoverer's mother [H]
802 Epyaxa	1915 WR	Wife of Syennesis, King of Cilicia [1]. ([H] has no explanation)
803 Picka	1915 WS	Friedrich Pick, Czech physician [H]
804 Hispania	1915 WT	Latin name for Spain, whence this is the first minor planet discovery [H]
805 Hormuthia	1915 WW	Hormuth Kopff, wife of German astronomer August Kopff [H]
806 Gyldenia	1915 WX	Hugo Gyldén, Swedish astronomer † [H]
807 Ceraskia	1915 WY	Vitol'd Karlovich Tseraskii, Russian astronomer [H]
808 Merxia	1901 GY	Adalbert Merx, the discoverer's father-in-law [H]
809 Lundia	1915 XP	Lund Observatory, Lund, Sweden [H]
810 Atossa	1915 XQ	Atossa, ancient Persian queen, daughter of Cyrus, wife of Darius [H]
811 Nauheima	1915 XR	Bad Nauheim, Germany [H]
812 Adele	1915 XV	Sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer [H]
813 Baumeia	1915 YR	H. Baum, astronomy student killed in World War I [H]
814 Tauris	1916 YT	Tauris, ancient name of Crimea, Ukraine ([H] says « Tauric Mount », but there is no such mountain)
815 Coppelia	1916 YU	Coppélia, ballet by Léo Delibes [H]
816 Juliana	1916 YV	Queen Juliana of the Netherlands[2]
817 Annika	1916 YW	? ([H] has no explanation)
818 Kapteynia	1916 YZ	Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer † [H]
819 Barnardiana	1916 ZA	Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer [H]
820 Adriana	1916 ZB	? ([H] has no explanation)
821 Fanny	1916 ZC	? ([H] has no explanation)
822 Lalage	1916 ZD	? ([H] has no explanation)
823 Sisigambis	1916 ZG	Sisygambis, mother of Darius III of Persia [H]
824 Anastasia	1916 ZH	Anastasia Semenoff, an acquaintance of the discoverer ([H] says « one of the White Russian princesses whose entire family was slaughtered in the Revolution of 1918 »)
825 Tanina	1916 ZL	Tanina, one of the White Russian princesses whose family were slaughtered during the 1918 revolution [H]
826 Henrika	1916 ZO	? ([H] has no explanation)
827 Wolfiana	1916 ZW	Max Wolf, German astronomer [H]
828 Lindemannia	1916 ZX	Adolph Friedrich Lindemann, German-born British amateur astronomer, inventor of the electrometer † [H]
829 Academia	1916 ZY	The Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, on the occasion of its 200th anniversary [H]
830 Petropolitana	1916 ZZ	Saint Petersburg, Russia ("Petropolis" in Latin) [H]
831 Stateira	1916 AA	Stateira, wife of Artaxerxes II of Persia [H]
832 Karin	1916 AB	Karin Månsdotter, wife of Eric XIV of Sweden [H]
833 Monica	1916 AC	? ([H] has no explanation)
834 Burnhamia	1916 AD	Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer [H]
835 Olivia	1916 AE	? ([H] says « from the history of the Roman emperors », but there is no notable "Olivia" therein)
836 Jole	1916 AF	Iole, wife of Heracles in Greek mythology ([H] has no explanation)
837 Schwarzschilda	1916 AG	Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer [H]
838 Seraphina	1916 AH	? ([H] has no explanation)
839 Valborg	1916 AJ	Valborg, heroine of Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger's play Axel e Valborg [H]
840 Zenobia	1916 AK	Zenobia, Slavic goddess of hunting [H] (No such goddess is known, and the name Zenobia is not Slavic in form. There were several Classical Zenobias, however, most notably Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra.)
841 Arabella	1916 AL	Arabella, opera by Richard Strauss [H]
842 Kerstin	1916 AM	German feminine first name [H]
843 Nicolaia	1916 AN	Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, father of the discoverer, Holger Thiele [H]
844 Leontina	1916 AP	Lienz, Austria, birthplace of the discoverer (named by his widow) [H]
845 Naëma	1916 AS	? ([H] says « perhaps from the Old Testament »)
846 Lipperta	1916 AT	Eduard Lippert, German businessman and philanthropist, benefactor of Hamburg Observatory † ‡ [H]
847 Agnia	1915 XX	Agnia Ivanovna Bad'ina, Russian physician ([H] says « Feminine Russian first name »)
848 Inna	1915 XS	Inna Nikolaevna Leman-Balanovskaya, Russian astronomer † [H]
849 Ara	1912 NY	American Relief Administration (ARA), in appreciation of the help it gave during the Russian famine of 1922–1923 [H]
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 [H]
851 Zeissia	1916 S26	Zeiss Optical Works [H]
852 Wladilena	1916 S27	Wladimir Ulyanoff-Lenin, Soviet leader [H]
853 Nansenia	1916 S28	Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian polar explorer [H]
854 Frostia	1916 S29	Edwin Brant Frost, American astronomer [H]
855 Newcombia	1916 ZP	Simon Newcomb, American astronomer † [H]
856 Backlunda	1916 S30	Johan Oskar Backlund (Oscar Andreevich Backlund), Swedish-Russian astronomer † [H]
857 Glasenappia	1916 S33	Sergei Pavlovich Glasenapp, Russian astronomer † [H]
858 El Djezaïr	1916 a	Arabian name of Algiers, Algeria (meaning "the islands") [H]
859 Bouzaréah	1916 c	Bouzaréah, Algiers, site of Algiers Observatory [H]
860 Ursina	1917 BD	? ([H] has no explanation)
861 Aïda	1917 BE	Aïda, opera by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi [H]
862 Franzia	1917 BF	Franz Wolf, the discoverer's son [H]
863 Benkoela	1917 BH	Benkoelen, Sumatra (?) ([H] is also uncertain)
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 [H]
866 Fatme	1917 BQ	Character in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Abu Hassan [H]
867 Kovacia	1917 BS	Friedrich Kovacs, physician who treated the discoverer's wife [H]
868 Lova	1917 BU	? ([H] has no explanation)
869 Mellena	1917 BV	Werner von Melle, mayor of Hamburg who promoted the establishment of the University of Hamburg † [H]
870 Manto	1917 BX	Manto, mythological Greek soothsayer, erector of Apollo's oracle in Claros [H]
871 Amneris	1917 BY	Amneris, character in Verdi's opera Aida [H]
872 Holda	1917 BZ	Edward Singleton Holden, American astronomer ([H] has no explanation)
873 Mechthild	1917 CA	Mechthild of Magdeburg, 13th-century German mystic [H]
874 Rotraut	1917 CC	Feminine German first name [H]
875 Nymphe	1917 CF	The Nymphs, Greek mythological figures [H]
876 Scott	1917 CH	Robert Falcon Scott, English polar explorer [H]
877 Walküre	1915 S7	The Valkyries, mythological German warrior women ([H] has no explanation)
878 Mildred	1916 f	Mildred, daughter of American astronomer Harlow Shapley [H]
879 Ricarda	1917 CJ	Ricarda Huch, German poet [H]
880 Herba	1917 CK	Herba, Greek god of misery and poverty [H]
881 Athene	1917 CL	Athena, Greek goddess, also known as Minerva [H]
882 Swetlana	1917 CM	? ([H] has no explanation)
883 Matterania	1917 CP	August Matter, maker of photographic plates for the discoverer, German astronomer Max Wolf [H]
884 Priamus	1917 CQ	Priam, Trojan king [H]
885 Ulrike	1917 CX	Ulrike (Ulrica), character in Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) [H]
886 Washingtonia	1917 b	George Washington, American president [H]
887 Alinda	1918 DB	Alinda (Caria), ancient city in Asia Minor (?) ([H] has no explanation)
888 Parysatis	1918 DC	Parysatis, wife of Darius II of Persia [H]
889 Erynia	1918 DG	The Erinyes, or Furies, Greek mythological creatures [H]
890 Waltraut	1918 DK	Character in Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung [H]
891 Gunhild	1918 DQ	Feminine German first name [H]
892 Seeligeria	1918 DR	Hugo Hans Ritter von Seeliger, Austrian-German astronomer [H]
893 Leopoldina	1918 DS	The German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina [H]
894 Erda	1918 DT	Erda, Norse goddess [H]
895 Helio	1918 DU	Helium, whose spectrum Paschen and Runge investigated together (Paschen named it at Wolf's request) [H]
896 Sphinx	1918 DV	The Sphinx, Greek mythological monster [H]
897 Lysistrata	1918 DZ	Lysistrata, Aristophanes' anti-war comedy [H]
898 Hildegard	1918 EA	Saint Hildegard of Bingen † [H]
899 Jokaste	1918 EB	Jocasta, mother/wife of Oedipus [H]
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	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 Frederic Tiarks, FRAS, 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, DC, 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 Karlovich Shternberg, 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]

Preceded by 1–500

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 1–1000

Succeeded by 1001–1500

References

1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel, Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition.
2. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel, Dictionary of Minor Planet Names: Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2006 - 2008.