Named in honour of the Finnish-Canadian astronomer Kimmo Albin Innanen, P.Eng (Aeronautics, Toronto); MSc (Applied Mathematics, Waterloo); PhD (Astronomy, Toronto); Honourary Doctorate, University of Turku, Finland; Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto; Dean Emeritus, York University, Toronto. Kim was born to Finnish parents, Albin and Fanny Innanen at Kirkland Lake, Ontario, on 1937-03-12. At an early age, his family moved to Toronto to ensure that the boys had access to a good education, of which they both took full advantage.

Named in honour of Gerhard Herzberg (b. 1904, d. 1999), Canadian Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1971 and acknowledged world leader in the study of molecular spectra. Herzberg's specialty has been free radicals, both in the laboratory and in interstellar space. He has identified numerous features in the spectra of comets, planets and interstellar material. In 1975 the National Research Council of Canada's astronomy and spectroscopy units were reorganized as the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

Named for the native North Americans who originally settled in the subarctic region that is now Northwestern Canada and central Alaska. The Athabascan hunter-gatherers comprise a diverse group whose influence spread, about a thousand years ago, as far as the southwestern United States. They are the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache peoples.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 18644

Named in honour of the brothers Karl F. Joutsen and Anton F. Johnson, who during 1901-1905 made a fortune in their mine, Dominion Creek 21, in the Klondike gold rush. Among their benefactions to the University of Turku were the means to construct its library in 1954.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 18450

Named in honour of John L. Climenhaga, first head of physics at the University of Victoria, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Known for his work on the C12/C13 abundance ratio in carbon stars and for studies of line blanketing and microturbulence in late-type stars, he has also long had an interest in cometary spectra. On his retirement in 1982 the University's Observatory was named in his honour, and among the Observatory's activities is the only Canadian program of astrometric observations of comets and minor planets.

Named in honour of Alastair G. W. Cameron (b. 1925 in Winnipeg, d.2005 in Tucson), astrophysicist and cosmogonist and currently associate director for theoretical astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Known to his colleagues as "Big Al", Cameron has, in his long and distinguished career, been a prolific producer of cosmogonical theories, never hesitating to revise or replace them when confronted with new data. He has consistently emphasized that the origin of planetary systems must be understood in the context of star formation.

Named in honour of John Stanley Plaskett (b. 1865 in Hickson, Ontario, d. 1941), director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria from its founding in 1917 to 1935; and of his son, Harry Hemley Plaskett (b. 1893, d. 1980), Savilian professor of astronomy at the University of Oxford and director of the Oxford Observatory from 1932 to 1960. Known for his work on the radial velocities of O- and B-type stars that provided observational confirmation of the theory of galactic rotation, J. S.

Named in honour of Peter MacKenzie Millman (b. 1906, d. 1990), former head of Upper Atmosphere Research and, after his formal retirement, a guest scientist at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics of the National Research Council of Canada. Well known for his research on meteors and for his interest in meteorites, comets and planets, he has served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada and of the Meteoritical Society, as well as president of Commission 22 and chairman of the Working Group on Planetary System Nomenclature of the IAU.

Discovered by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld. Named in honour of Anne B. Underhill, a well-known astrophysicist and an expert in the field of the structure of early-type stars.

Dr. Underhill was nominated as an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on 1996-03-23.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

JRASC

This minor planet, the first to be found at a Canadian Observatory, is named in honour of University of Toronto, during whose sesquicentennial celebration it was discovered, to acknowledge the central role played by the university in the development of astronomy in Canada. This planet was detected at the David Dunlap Observatory on plates taken by Sidney van den Bergh at the Tautenberg Observatory, East Germany.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 4645