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This is a list of named minor planets (mostly asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
s), with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named for.








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This is a list of named minor planets (mostly asteroid
Asteroid

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets or planetoids, are small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun, smaller than planets but larger than meteoroids....
s), with links to the Wikipedia articles on the people, places, characters and concepts that they are named for.

See also

  • List of minor planets
    List of minor planets

    This is a list of the lists of small solar system bodies and dwarf planets.* List of minor planets* List of comets* List of trans-Neptunian objects...
  • List of minor planets named after people
  • List of minor planets named after places


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Two systematic sources of citations are:
  • The Show Citation script of the Harvard University Center for Astronomy MPES (Minor Planet Ephemeris Service): http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/ShowCitation.COM?num=37601
  • The JPL Small-Body Database Browser: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=37601
In both cases you need only modify the last argument of the address. The first's data base is being slowly built up in reverse chronological order; the second is more complete as of 2006.