Mashteroids

Schelil

The Thuringian pedagogue Friedrich Fröbel (1782-1852) was committed to the education of young children. His very detailed study of the comet now known as P/Crommelin is acknowledged as that object comes now again to perihelion. In 2009 he became the first Japanese athlete to win a World Championship medal in the javelin, with a throw of 82.97 meters.

Suvuthopipaith

Nathaphon Supokaivanich (b. 1988) was awarded first place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his plant sciences team project. An observer of minor planets for many years, he is also a supporter of the Faulkes Telescope Educational Project. He attends the Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Junutcheluve

Named in memory of the two Belgian children Julie and Mélissa, who were murdered tragically in 1996, symbolizing all innocent children suffering from abuse. He introduced symbols for the concepts---now widely used in logic---of assertion, negation, implication and existential and universal quantifier. One of the greatest representatives of Russian lyricism of the nineteenth century, he was a master of Russian poetry. A daughter of earth and sun, Norwan danced, light as warm air, above growing plants; she kept dancing every day until sunset.

Mernyarny

Jeremy Gasper mentored a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. A. B. Severny, who is the director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. This is the first numbered discovery from the Siding Spring Survey.

vaaraoghaoraatao

Pierre-Yves Schwaar (1946-2000) was a well-regarded amateur optician and telescope maker. He popularized astronomy in Tokushima prefecture, where this minor planet was discovered. Citation prepared by Kristina Leterme, at the request of the discoverer.

Data from The IAU Minor Planet Center, mashed up by Leonard Richardson.

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