18091 Iranmanesh (2000 JN58) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 6, 2000 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro.
In 1918, the Japanese astronomer Kiyotsugu Hirayama noticed that the orbits of some of the asteroids had similar parameters, forming families or groups.
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On January 1, 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, Chair of Astronomy at the University of Palermo, Sicily, found a tiny moving object in an orbit with exactly the radius predicted by the Titius–Bode law.
10997 Gahm, a main-belt asteroid discovered on 2 September 1978, is named in honor of Gahm.
Not only does Aldaz have a mountain named in association with him, but he also has a main-belt minor planet named in his honor, 13004 Aldaz (provisional designation: 1982 RR), discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station in Coconino County, Arizona, on September 15, 1982.
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13801 Kohlhase (1998 VP44) is a main-belt asteroid discovered November 11, 1998 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station This Asteroid belt is named after Charles Kohlhase, a pioneer in the design, development and execution of planetary missions for more than four decades at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
14972 Olihainaut (1997 QP3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 30, 1997 by the OCA-DLR Asteroid Survey at Caussols, named after Belgian astronomer Olivier (Oli) Hainaut.
165 Loreley is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by C. H. F. Peters on August 9, 1876, in Clinton, New York and named after the Lorelei, a figure in German folklore.
187 Lamberta is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French (Corsican) astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia on April 11, 1878 and named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert.
19528 Delloro (1999 GB1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 4, 1999 by Germano D'Abramo and A. Boattini at San Marcello Pistoiese.
22370 Italocalvino (1993 TJ2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 15, 1993 by Italian Osservatorio Astronomico Bassano Bresciano at Bassano Bresciano.
2328 Robeson (1972 HW) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on April 19, 1972 by T. Smirnova at Nauchnyj it was named after Paul Robeson
4776 Luyi (1975 VD) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 3, 1975 by Harvard University researchers at the Harvard College Observatory.The asteroid is named for a town in the eastern Henan province of China that was the birthplace of Laotze, founder of Taoism.
53157 Akaishidake (1999 CP) is a main belt asteroid discovered on February 5, 1999 by Japanese astronomer M. Akiyama at Mishima, and named after Mount Akaishi in Japan.
9680 Molina (3557 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 22, 1960, by C.J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groenefeld on plates taken by T. Gehrels with the Schmidt telescope at Palomar Observatory.
Holger Thiele was the son of Thorvald Nicolai Thiele, the noted Danish astronomer, actuary and mathematician, after whom the Asteroid belt 1586 Thiele is named.
It is named for Daniel Kirkwood (1814 - 1895) an astronomer and professor of mathematics at Indiana University who discovered the divisions of the asteroid belt known as the Kirkwood Gaps.
In July 1995 the International Astronomical Union chose to honour her naming one of the asteroids in the Asteroid belt Noragal.
Like all L chondrites NWA 3009 probably comes from the asteroid Eros which may have collided millions of years ago with another fragment in the asteroid belt.
The debris from this meteor became known as the Millbillillie meteorite and is understood to be actual pieces of the asteroid Vesta that had at some point been knocked off by a collision in the asteroid belt.
The spectrum of 246 Asporina reveals the strong presence of the mineral Olivine, a relatively rarity in the asteroid belt.
Also few if any bodies larger than Ceres (planetary embryos) could have remained in the asteroid belt at the end of that era.
P-type asteroid, asteroids found in the outer asteroid belt and beyond