Continuing my series on asteroids named after lgbt people we
reach those asteroids discovered from 1995 to 1999. As before I’ve quoted from
the original citations and added extra information were necessary. The numbers which precede each name are those officially assigned to them.
(11098) Ginsberg Discovered 2 Apr. 1995. Name published
9 May 2001. “Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), American lyric poet and teacher, was
born in Paterson, New Jersey, and studied at Columbia College, New York City.
He became a central figure among the Beats… with the publication of his long
poem ‘Howl’ in October 1955.”
(12413) Johnnyweir Discovered
26 Sept. 1995. Name published 30 Mar. 2010. “Johnny G. Weir (b.1984) is
an American athlete, figure-skating champion and Olympian, talented in many
spheres of artistic endeavour. He is known for his unique skating style,
outspokenness and love for Russian culture. The name was suggested by his
Russian fan-site.”
(10204) Turing Discovered 1 Aug. 1997. Name
published 4 May 1999. “Named in memory of Alan Turing (1912—1954), English
mathematician and logician, a pioneer in the study of computability. In a
fundamental paper published in 1936, he introduced the concept of an abstract
computing machine and showed how such a machine can be programmed to simulate
the behaviour of any other computing device. This concept, now referred to as a
“universal Turing machine”, was introduced years before the advent of
programmable computers, and it was used to demonstrate the existence of
non-computable numbers and undecidable mathematical propositions.”
(17744) Jodiefoster Discovered 18 Jan. 1998. Name
published 21 Sept. 2002. “Jodie Foster (b.1962) is an accomplished actress and
film director. For most astronomers she will always be Eleanor ‘Ellie’ Arroway
in Robert Zemeckis' movie ‘Contact’, based on the novel by the same name
written by the late Carl Sagan.”
(11385) Beauvoir Discovered
20 Sept. 1998. Name published 23 May 2000. “Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was
a French writer of great courage and integrity, who made a point of equal
vocation for man and woman. In her treatise ‘Le Deuxième Sexe’ (1949) she
pleaded passionately for the abolition of the myth of “eternal feminine”. She
was the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.”
(12923) Zephyr Discovered
11 Apr. 1999. Name published 28 Sept. 2004. “The word zephyr derives from the
name of the ancient Greek god of the west wind, Zephyros.” Zephyros and Apollo
were rivals in love of the prince Hyakinthos (Hyacinth).
(40463) Frankkameny Discovered
15 Sept. 1999. Name published 3 July 2012. “Frank L. Kameny (1925–2011) trained
as a variable star astronomer in the 1950s, but joined the Civil Rights
struggle. His contributions included removing homosexuality from being termed a
mental disorder in 1973 and shepherding passage of the District of Columbia
marriage equality law in 2009.”
(25619) Martonspohn Discovered 3 Jan. 2000. Name
published 28 Apr. 2010. “Márton Spohn (b.1989) was awarded second place in the
2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his cellular and
molecular biology project. He attends the Fazekas Mihaly Secondary Grammar
School, Budapest, Hungary.”
(37117) Narcissus Discovered
1 Nov. 2000. Name published 9 Apr. 2009. “In Greek mythology Narcissus was a
hero from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty.
In the various stories, he became obsessed with his own reflection in a pool
and, for one reason or another, died as a result.”
ASTEROID
ALLIES
Asteroids
that are not named after lgbt people but have lgbt links.
(58345) Moomintroll Discovered
7 Feb. 1995. Name published 17 May 2011. “Moomintroll is the central character
of the classic 1946 novel ‘Comet in Moominland’ … by Finnish author Tove
Jansson. Moomintroll and his friends discover that a comet is on a
collision orbit with the Earth and the story details their adventures to avoid
the threatened catastrophe.” Tove (1914-2001) was a well-known out lesbian
writer and artist in Finland.
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