Geoff Gaherty (1941-2016) was an amateur astronomer who wrote about observing and won the Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 2008. Geoff earned a B.Sc. from McGill University in mathematics and physics in 1964, an M.A. from the University of Toronto in anthropology in 1966 and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto also in anthropology in 1970. An obituary for Geoff is here. Name suggested by Robert and Peter Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Michael Daly (b. 1965) is a professor of planetary science at York University and is the lead scientist for the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter. Prior to this, he was the lead engineer for the development of Phoenix MET, Canada’s first instruments to operate on the surface of Mars.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Ref: MPC 101211

Arthur B. McDonald (b. 1943) is a Canadian physicist who received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of neutrino oscillations, showing that the neutrino has mass.

Orbit type: Main Belt 
MPC 100610

Edward Gustav Pleva (1912–2008) was a geography educator who taught for 39 years at Western University and was editor of The Canadian Oxford School Atlas. Name suggested by R. and P. Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt 
MPC 100606

Richard Armstrong (1937–1991) studied radiogenic isotope geochemistry, geology of the American Cordillera, geochronology, and Earth’s geochemical evolution.
Name suggested by R. and P. Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt 
MPC 100606

William David Anstruther Gardner (b. 1974) is an amateur astronomer in Ingersoll, Ontario, active in the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, London Centre. Name suggested by R. and P. Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt 
MPC 100606

John Beverly "Bev" Oke (1928–2004) did his PhD at Princeton University and had an outstanding career in spectroscopy and instrument design for large telescopes. Name suggested by R. and P. Jedicke.

Orbit type: Main Belt 
MPC 100606