Asteroids named after people called Rock
👶 Rock as a baby name🐶 Rock as a dog name
(5460) Tsenaat'a'i
This name, ‘Flying Rock’ or ‘Rock Which Flies’ in the Navajo language, signifies the motion of the minor planet through space and gives recognition to the contribution of the Navajo culture and language to northern Arizona. Name suggested by Derekson Bert, eighth-grade student at Rocky Ridge School in Dinnebito, Arizona, winner of a contest to name this object in conjunction with the 1996 Flagstaff Festival of Science.Discovered 12 January 1983 by B. A. Skiff, Anderson Mesa
(145709) Rocknowar
“Rock No War” is an international association of volunteers based in Formigine in 1998 with the aim of bringing aid and of intervening in crisis situations involving children worldwide, without any distinction of race, religion or political allegiance. This will be symbolically the minor planet of solidarity.Discovered 28 September 1981 by E. Colombini, Siding Spring