Our asteroids
Asteroid names are proposed by their discoverers after determining the precise orbit of the object (this prevents the objects getting “lost” after prolonged lack of follow-up observations). A proposed name must include a short justification. Proposed names are evaluated by Small Bodies Nomenclature Committee (CSBN), part of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). New asteroid names are officially in force after their publication in the Minor Planet Circular. Below are the names of asteroids associated with Poznań and the employees of our Observatory.
Names contain the following fields:
Number Name (temporary designation)
date and place of the discovery, the discoverer
1572 Posnania (1949 SC)
Discovered 1949 Sep. 22 by Dobrzycki, J. and Kwiek, A.
Discovered at Poznan Observatory and named after the city where it was discovered.
7747 Michałowski (1987 SO)
Discovered 1987 Sept. 19 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.
Named in honor of Tadeusz Michałowski (b. 1954), Polish astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Michałowski developed a formalism for computing the pole orientation, shape and sidereal rotation period of a minor planet, incorporating both the magnitude and timing information contained in lightcurve observations, in a simultaneous least-squares solution. This method, or methods similar to it, are now widely used standard analysis tools, and they have greatly improved the quality of such determinations. Name suggested by H. Rickman, citation prepared by A. W. Harris.
7789 Kwiatkowski (1994 XE6)
Discovered 1994 Dec. 2 by E. Bowell at Palomar.
Named in honor of Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Polish astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Kwiatkowski specializes in detailed photometric observations of minor planets and the computation of shape and pole orientations from lightcurves. Name suggested by H. Rickman, citation provided by A. W. Harris.
10470 Bartczak (1981 EW18)
Discovered 1981 Mar. 2 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Przemysław Bartczak (b. 1974) is a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland who studies asteroid lightcurve inversion techniques that yield both convex and non-convex shape and spin solutions.
10471 Marciniak (1981 EH20)
Discovered 1981 Mar. 2 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Anna Marciniak (b. 1979) is a researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland studying the spin and shape properties of long-period main-belt asteroids.
10472 Santana-Ros (1981 EO20)
Discovered 1981 Mar. 2 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Toni Santana-Ros (b. 1984) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland where he performs photometric measurements of small bodies in support of the Gaia mission.
16406 Oszkiewicz (1985 PH)
Discovered 1985 Aug. 14 by E. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.
Dagmara Oszkiewicz (b. 1982) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her minor-planet research includes analyzing photometric phase curves, spectroscopic observations, and developing statistical orbital inversion methods.
21776 Kryszczynska (1999 RE221)
Discovered 1999 Sept. 5 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Agnieszka Kryszczynska (b. 1965) is a planetary scientist at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań. Using photometry, she has studied the physical properties of minor planets. She discovered the binary nature of (809) Lundia and maintains a database of the pole coordinates and shapes of minor planets.
24441 Jopek (2000 FM29)
Discovered 2000 Mar. 27 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Tadeusz J. Jopek (b. 1951) is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He has developed cluster analysis methods to identify meteoroid streams, and how they are associated with near-Earth asteroids.
25052 Rudawska (1998 QG54)
Discovered 1998 Aug. 27 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Regina Rudawska (b. 1979, graduate of the Astronomical Observatory at University, Poznań) is a postdoctoral fellow at Comenius University in Bratislava. Her contributions include developing new tools for finding similarities among meteoroid orbits and identifying new meteoroid streams and their associated parent bodies.
30234 Dudziński (2000 GD167)
Discovered 2000 Apr. 04 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Grzegorz Dudziński (b. 1989) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Astronomical Observatory of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. He is studying the physical properties of asteroids and contributing to the development of new asteroid shape modeling methods.
30254 Kamiński (2000 HZ25)
Discovered 2000 Apr. 24 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Krzysztof Kamiński (b. 1980) is a Polish researcher at the Astronomical Observatory Institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University. He developed the Global Astrophysical Telescope System, anetwork of robotic telescopes that observes asteroids, satellites, and space debris.
30569 Dybczyński (2001 OG94)
Discovered 2001 Jul. 27 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Piotr Andrzej Dybczyński (b. 1957) is a Polish professor at the Astronomical Observatory Institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University. His scientific interests concern various aspects of cometary dynamics, the Oort-cloud, and mechanisms for delivery of dynamically new comets into the inner Solar System.
32261 Podlewskagaca (2000 OS58)
Discovery: 2000 Jul. 29 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Edyta Podlewska-Gaca (b. 1981) is a Polish researcher at the Astronomical Observatory Instituteof the Adam Mickiewicz University. Her scientific interests concern asteroid observations andmodelling, as well as utilisation of asteroid data from the Kepler and Gaia missions.
45492 Sławomirbreiter (2000 AD241)
Discovered 2000 Jan. 07 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Sławomir Breiter (b. 1963) is a professor at the Poznań Astronomical Observatory in Poland. His work focuses on celestial mechanics, including contributions to the development of analytical and semi-analytical theories of the asteroidal YORP effect and the study of orbital dynamics
63440 Rożek (2001 MD30)
Discovered 2001 Jun. 30 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
Agata Rożek (b. 1986, graduate of the Astronomical Observatory at University, Poznań) is a Research Associate at the University of Kent (UK) and performs optical and radar observations of near-Earth asteroids to determine their shapes and spin states and to search for evidence of non-gravitational forces acting upon them.
72447 Polińska (2001 DP)
Discovered 2001 Feb. 16 by P. Pravec and L. Sarounova at Ondrejov.
Magdalena Polińska (b. 1981) is an assistant professor researcher at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. She specializes in photometric observations of minor solar system bodies. Her current research interests also include stellar spectroscopy and abundance analysis.
82937 Lesicki (2001 QW113)
Discovered 2001 Aug. 26 by P. Pravec, P. Kušnirák at Ondřejov.
Andrzej Lesicki (b. 1950) is a cellular biologist working at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. From his position as Rector of the university, he has actively supported asteroid research at the university’s observatory and helped to develop a computer cluster that is used for modeling asteroids from their lightcurves.
96765 Poznańuni (1999 RS34)
Discovered 1999 Sep. 10 by P. Pravec, P. Kušnirák at Ondřejov
Named for the Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) in Poznań, Poland, for the 100-year anniversary of founding of the University. Nowadays it is one of the three top universities in Poland, with about 40 thousand students each year. The teaching and research at UAM includes astronomy, with a strong emphasis on asteroid studies.
97786 Oauam (2000 NU2)
Discovered 2000 Jul. 05 by P. Pravec, P. Kušnirák at Ondřejov
Named for the Astronomical Observatory of Adam Mickiewicz University (OA UAM) in Poznań, Poland. The observatory was active in asteroid and comet observations starting in the 1930s. In the 1990s the focus shifted to physical studies of asteroids. Currently OA UAM is the main center for studies of small Solar System bodies in Poland.
440794 Wytrzyszczak (2006 OO14)
Discovered 2006 Jul 28 by Y. Ivashchenko at Andrushivka
Iwona Wytrzyszczak (b. 1953) is a Polish astronomer who worked at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She is the author of numerous works in the field of celestial mechanics, fundamental astronomy and satellite geodesy
2023-06-22, AK