Sedna is the Inuit goddess of the sea and the mother of all sea creatures. She rewards the people of the land with food from the sea. Without her blessing, hunts fail and the people starve. She is thus one of the most important figures in Inuit legend.

Named in honor of Robert Burnham, senior editor of the magazine "Astronomy".  Over many years he has been partly responsible for its evolution into the astronomical publication with the world’s largest readership.  In 1983, Burnham’s "The Star Book" appeared with a series of clearly designed star charts to guide beginners on their way to an understanding of the night sky.  Robert Burnham grew up in Toronto in the 1970s as a member of the RASC Toronto Centre, following in the footsteps of Terence Dickinson and Richard Berry.

Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition (1910-12) to discover the South Pole in December 1911 and he was the first expedition leader to (undisputedly) reach the North Pole in 1926. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903-06). He disappeared in June 1928 while taking part in a rescue mission in the Barents Sea.

Named for James Cook (1728-1779), British circumnavigator and one of the first scientific navigators.  He observed the solar eclipse of 1766 Aug. 5 from Newfoundland and in 1769 measured the transit of Venus from Tahiti. In 1761 he assisted the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, in tests of John Harrison’s fourth marine chronometer as a means of determining longitude at sea.  Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by B. Hetherington.

Named in honor of  Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), world-renowned Czech businessman.

His son, Tomáš Jan Baťa, moved to Canada in 1939 to develop the Bata Shoe Company of Canada, including a shoe factory and engineering plant, centered in a town that still bears his name, Batawa, Ontario. This object was dedicated for the elder Baťa six months after the Communist government fell in Czechoslovakia, when Tomáš J. Baťa made a triumphant return to his hometown in December 1989 at the invitation of president-elect Václav Havel.

David W. Hogg (b. 1970) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for his work on galaxy evolution and statistical inference. Dr. Hogg went to high school in Toronto, Canada. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he did some research in Solar System astrophysics at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is not related to the Sawyer-Hogg family.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79106

Richard Godwin (b. 1955), a board member of the Space Frontier Foundation, served as executive director of The Watch, a support organization for NEO detection. His brother Robert Godwin (b. 1958) is a space expert and space-history researcher. Together they founded Apogee Books, a space book company, and they write extensively on space.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 61265

Randall Rosenfeld (b. 1959) is the national archivist of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He has created a first-class archive that provides an insight on the development of Canadian astronomy in the last century, and has brought old but valuable observing records to light.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79108