1. Asteroids can be named after regular folks but there are so many restrictions it rarely happens. 2. He named asteroids after his children and their spouses. 3. I have an asteroid named after me. 4. That George Washington, Herbert Hoover, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant and John Quincy Adams had asteroids named after them. 5. Czech astronomers named an asteroid Dominik. 6. In general, asteroids are named by their discoverers and Witt chose the name of the Greek god of love. 7. Most asteroids are named after mythological characters, so the name San Jose is a bit of an anomaly. |