Yanga (Yan) Roland Fernández (b. 1971-06-10 in Mississauga, Ontario) grew up in New York City, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., and went to high school in Ft. Myers, Florida. After undergraduate studies at Caltech, Yan received his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1999. As a student in 1994, he helped maintain one of the first email lists used by astronomers to communicate news about a fast-breaking event, the impact of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter.

Named in honour of Russell M. Robb (b. 1952-), astronomer at the University of Victoria, who played the leading role in automating the university's 0.5-m telescope and equipping it with a CCD camera. The telescope has been used extensively in the university's observational programs, including astrometric work on comets and minor planets.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Reference: MPC 38201

Named in honour of Mary Gwendolen Ellery Read Aikman (b. 1903, d. 1994), an inspiring educator and mother of the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid

Reference: MPC 41938

Amy Rae Milne (b.1982), a vibrant, energetic, young Canadian woman who has dedicated herself to creating happiness for others, has led her life with spirit. A love of science and its relationship to understanding and preserving our environment has brought her national recognition.

Reference: MPC 46010

Discovered by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld at Palomar.

Named in honour of the first Canadian satellite. Alouette-1 was launched on 1962-09-29. It was engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere, especially the ionosphere. During its six-year lifespan it returned the first useful data on the ionosphere.

Reference: MPC 41571

Named in honour of Hubert Reeves, a professional astronomer at the French CNRS, who has become known worldwide for his popularization of astronomy through his many books and lectures on radio and television.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 36128

Named in honour of Paul Boltwood (b. 1943-11-04 in Vancouver, British Columbia), a Canadian specialist in computer systems and outstanding amateur astronomer. Boltwood earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, won the Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1995, and won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2000. He monitored the peculiar object OJ 287 for some two years, and has done large amounts of photometry of other blazars.

Designations: 1997 AD7, 1929 TC, 1971 HD, 1980 XL1, 1980 YU, 1991 NM9

Osao Shigehisa (b. 1936) has actively observed variable stars since 1952. An enthusiastic recorder of the activities of Japanese amateur astronomers, he played an important role in compiling a History of Amateur Astronomy in Japan in 1987, as well as a sequel in 1994. He has been a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 62353

Discovered by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at Nachi-Katsuura.
Named in honour of Anomalocaris, a large carnivorous arthropod, which was one of the many uniquely shaped multicellular creatures that appeared during the Cambrian explosion. The fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The name was suggested by I. Makino.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 36128

Named in memory of Roderick Oliver Redman (b. 1905, d. 1975), professor of astronomy and longtime director of the University of Cambridge Observatories, and in honour of Russell Ormond Redman (b. 1951), a radio astronomer on the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. The senior Redman established a lifelong association with the DAO when he obtained the observational material for his doctoral thesis there; he became renowned for his superlative observational techniques and designs for astronomical instrumentation.