Mashteroids

Opisaperry

Named in memory of Aleksandr Mikhailovich Opekushin (1838-1923), outstanding Russian sculptor. Artaxerxes I, Macrocheir (484-424 B.C. The one in the middle with a scared-porcupine hairstyle, Larry was often the recipient of the collateral damage of slaps, pokes and bumps while trying to keep the peace between the other two.

Zdvyzhankonkiv

Hungarian astronomer József Vinkó (b. 1965) is the leader of the Bright Supernova Observing Group at the Unversity of Szeged. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. He is a well known expert in the theory of light scattering and in optical measurements of laboratory analogues of asteroid regolith and cometary particles. His principal research is in stellar spectroscopy, stellar atmospheres, abundance analysis of stars and investigations of chemically peculiar stars of different types. It is a birthplace of metropolitan Ivan Ogienko (1882-1979), famous Ukrainian scientist, linguist and writer.

Doupouss

Named in memory of the Austrian composer Johann Strauss (1825-1899), who represented Viennese dance music at its zenith. Thousands of different scale models have been built and used in the program. With Michel Meunier, he was the first amateur to discover a comet (C/1997 J2) using a remote-control telescope.

Tydenmirreun

Named in honor of Bruce C. Murray, professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology and former director of the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He attends the Millburn High School, Millburn, New Jersey. Several great civilizations, among them Olmec, Toltec, Mayan and Aztec, flourished there from about 100 A.D. His son Diomedes was a great hero at Troy. Forever outnumbered by the women in his life, the discoverer chose to acknowledge those most significant with an appellation formed by letters in the names of his mother, Edith (Johnson) di Cicco (1912-1994); wife, Hilary F. Bennett (b. 1952); and daughter, Hannah di Cicco (b. 1987).

Keninims

Named in honor of Terence Dickinson (1943- ), Canada's foremost popularizer of astronomy. Named by the discoverers following suggestions by F. Ring and S. Kimura. He attends the Catlin Gabel School, Beaverton, Oregon, U.S.A.

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

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