Asteroids named after people called Nicolas
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(7346) Boulanger
Nicolas Boulanger (1722-1759), a geologist and one of the Encyclopedists, believed that the irrational behavior of the human species, together with all the heritage of religious rites and much of the political of his own and other ages, were engendered in cataclysmic experiences.Discovered 20 February 1993 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
(10303) Freret
The famous French historian Nicolas Fréret (1688-1749), well known for his atheistic treatise Lettre de Thrasybule à Leucippe (1720), was imprisoned in the Bastille for alleging---correctly---that the Franks were evolved from German tribes.Discovered 2 September 1989 by E. W. Elst, Haute Provence
(12289) Carnot
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796–1832) was a French physicist known for his caloric investigations. In 1824 he published Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu, which contained in essence the second law of thermodynamics.Discovered 8 April 1991 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(12742) Delisle
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) was a French astronomer who went to Russia, where he founded the observatory of St. Petersburg. His brother, Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), reformed French cartography by introducing a method for fixing positions by astronomical observation.Discovered 26 July 1992 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
(12999) Torun
Toruń, Poland, is the birthplace of Nicolas Copernicus. In 1997, the gothic Old Town became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university, which bears Copernicus' name, houses the largest observatory in Poland. The name was suggested by T. Michałowski.Discovered 30 August 1981 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
(13583) Bosret
Nicolas Bosret (1799-1876) was a blind composer and organist at the Cathedral St. Loup in Namur. In 1851 he composed Li Bia Bouquèt, which became the official hymn of the city.Discovered 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(14054) Dusek
Jiří Dušek (b. 1971) is an astronomer at the Nicolas Copernicus Observatory and Planetarium in Brno. He is one of the founders of the Czech Internet astronomical newspaper IAN and is well known for his long-term interest in the Úpice youth astronomy camps and other educational projects.Discovered 12 January 1996 by Tichy, M., Moravec, Z., Klet
(14411) Clerambault
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749), a composer of music for organ and harpsichord, was organist at several places in Paris. The uncontested master of the French cantata, he is particularly well known for his sonatas for violin and basso continuo.Discovered 6 September 1991 by E. W. Elst, Haute Provence
(18638) Nouet
Nicolas Nouet, an astronomer at the Observatoire de Paris, traveled to St. Domingue to map the island. Later he mapped the Rhine region and traveled with Napoleon Bonaparte to Egypt, where he created a map of that country.Discovered 2 March 1998 by ODAS, Caussols
(20605) Rambaux
Nicolas Rambaux (b. 1976) is a French dynamicist working on the internal structure, the rotation and tidal evolution of many solar system objects: the Moon, the Martian satellites Phobos and Deimos, main-belt asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects (Pluto, Haumea, Quaoar), among others. Nicolas is also part of a working group for the ESA mission Hera.Discovered 8 September 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(25747) Nicerasmus
Nicolas Erasmus (b. 1985) is an instrument scientist at the South African Astronomical Observatory (Cape Town, South Africa). His early research was in experimental laser physics, and he transitioned into working on photometric observations of asteroids and astronomical instrumentation.Discovered 7 January 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(26969) Biver
Nicolas Biver (b. 1969) is a French astronomer. His research specialty is the observation and modeling of cometary lines at radio wavelengths. This minor planet is named on the occasion of the IWCA-III conference in Paris in 2004.Discovered 20 September 1997 by Tichy, M., Ticha, J., Klet
(43843) Cleynaerts
Nicolas Cleynaerts (Clenardus, 1495-1542) was a Flemish humanist who promoted tolerance between the nations and a grammarian who wrote manuals to study Greek and Hebrew. Desiring to bring Islam and Christianity closer together, he got into conflict with the Spanish and Portuguese authorities.Discovered 12 July 1993 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(170162) Nicolashayek
Nicolas Hayek (1928-2010) was very interested in astronomy and technology and was a member of the Société jurassienne d´astronomie.Discovered 23 March 2003 by M. Ory, Vicques
(303546) Bourbaki
Nicolas Bourbaki is a collective pseudonym under which a group of mathematicians wrote several books on modern advanced mathematics.Discovered 16 March 2005 by Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Sulpice
(354659) Boileau
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) was a French poet and critic. He wrote L'Art poétique which lay down the form of future French verse.Discovered 30 May 2005 by Saint-Sulpice, Saint-Sulpice
(381725) Bobrinsky
Nicolas Bobrinsky (b. 1958) is a French spaceflight engineer who served as first program manager of ESA’s Space Situational Awareness Programme in 2009. He laid the foundation for planetary defense efforts, which have since expanded to include new survey capabilities, an impact assessment team, and the Hera planetary defense mission.Discovered 13 September 2009 by ESA OGS, ESA OGS