Named for James Cook (1728-1779), British circumnavigator and one of the first scientific navigators.  He observed the solar eclipse of 1766 Aug. 5 from Newfoundland and in 1769 measured the transit of Venus from Tahiti. In 1761 he assisted the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne, in tests of John Harrison’s fourth marine chronometer as a means of determining longitude at sea.  Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by B. Hetherington.

Named in honor of  Tomáš Baťa (1876-1932), world-renowned Czech businessman.

His son, Tomáš Jan Baťa, moved to Canada in 1939 to develop the Bata Shoe Company of Canada, including a shoe factory and engineering plant, centered in a town that still bears his name, Batawa, Ontario. This object was dedicated for the elder Baťa six months after the Communist government fell in Czechoslovakia, when Tomáš J. Baťa made a triumphant return to his hometown in December 1989 at the invitation of president-elect Václav Havel.

David W. Hogg (b. 1970) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for his work on galaxy evolution and statistical inference. Dr. Hogg went to high school in Toronto, Canada. While pursuing his undergraduate degree, he did some research in Solar System astrophysics at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is not related to the Sawyer-Hogg family.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79106

Richard Godwin (b. 1955), a board member of the Space Frontier Foundation, served as executive director of The Watch, a support organization for NEO detection. His brother Robert Godwin (b. 1958) is a space expert and space-history researcher. Together they founded Apogee Books, a space book company, and they write extensively on space.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 61265

Randall Rosenfeld (b. 1959) is the national archivist of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. He has created a first-class archive that provides an insight on the development of Canadian astronomy in the last century, and has brought old but valuable observing records to light.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79108

Patrick Hall (b. 1968) is a Canadian-American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for recognizing and studying the wide variety of unusual broad-absorption-line quasars found by the SDSS.

Orbit type: Main Belt

Reference: MPC 79106

Named in honor of John Munger, Veikko Kanto and Richard Berry, the authors of The CCD Cookbook. By providing detailed instructions and software, they have made it possible for the amateur astronomer to construct and operate an efficient, low-cost CCD camera. The final imaging and astrometry of this minor planet was carried out with such a camera made by the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 32348

Named in honor of Richard Berry, since 1979 editor-in-chief of ’Astronomy’. He has actively promoted amateur astronomy by means of books on beginning astronomy and telescope making as well as editorship of the technical journal ’Telescope Making’. He was also a pioneer in increasing awareness of light pollution by mapping its extent in southern Ontario in the 1970s. Citation prepared by D. H. Levy and S. J. Edberg at the request of the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 16246