Named in honour of Roy Dancey and Bruce D. Dancey, father and son, who successively headed the optical shop at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria from 1965 until 1986. Under their hands and direction, the primary and secondary mirrors for the 3.6-m Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope were figured and polished. They also produced new primary mirrors for the 1.8-m and 1.2-m telescopes at Victoria, as well as a host of smaller telescope optics, spectrograph optics and associated test optics.

Named in honour of Scott D. Tremaine (b. 1950). Tremaine has made seminal contributions to solar-system and galactic dynamics. He is co-author with James Binney of the leading monograph on galactic dynamics. Since 1985 Tremaine has been director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretic Astrophysics in Toronto, and the success of that organization owes much to his vision and leadership. Citation provided by P.M. Goldreich following a suggestion by the discoverer and A.W. Harris.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Named in honour of Matthew J. Holman (b. 1967- ), astronomer in the planetary sciences division at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is particularly known for his long-term investigations on the stability of the outer solar system by means of the sympletic integrator he co-developed, and he has studied the stability of planets around other stars. Recently, he has also become an active observer of centaurs and trans-neptunian objects.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 34619

Named in honour of Paul D. Feldman, professor of physics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, for his numerous contributions in ultraviolet spectroscopy, particularly of the Earth's atmosphere, Venus, the outer planets and comets. His design and supervision of a number of spacecraft instruments have led to many advances in our understanding of physical processes in the solar system. The minor planet also honours Paul A.

Named in honour of the Finnish-Canadian astronomer Kimmo Albin Innanen, P.Eng (Aeronautics, Toronto); MSc (Applied Mathematics, Waterloo); PhD (Astronomy, Toronto); Honourary Doctorate, University of Turku, Finland; Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto; Dean Emeritus, York University, Toronto. Kim was born to Finnish parents, Albin and Fanny Innanen at Kirkland Lake, Ontario, on 1937-03-12. At an early age, his family moved to Toronto to ensure that the boys had access to a good education, of which they both took full advantage.

Named in honour of Gerhard Herzberg (b. 1904, d. 1999), Canadian Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1971 and acknowledged world leader in the study of molecular spectra. Herzberg's specialty has been free radicals, both in the laboratory and in interstellar space. He has identified numerous features in the spectra of comets, planets and interstellar material. In 1975 the National Research Council of Canada's astronomy and spectroscopy units were reorganized as the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

Named for the native North Americans who originally settled in the subarctic region that is now Northwestern Canada and central Alaska. The Athabascan hunter-gatherers comprise a diverse group whose influence spread, about a thousand years ago, as far as the southwestern United States. They are the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache peoples.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 18644

Named in honour of the brothers Karl F. Joutsen and Anton F. Johnson, who during 1901-1905 made a fortune in their mine, Dominion Creek 21, in the Klondike gold rush. Among their benefactions to the University of Turku were the means to construct its library in 1954.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 18450

Named in honour of John L. Climenhaga, first head of physics at the University of Victoria, on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Known for his work on the C12/C13 abundance ratio in carbon stars and for studies of line blanketing and microturbulence in late-type stars, he has also long had an interest in cometary spectra. On his retirement in 1982 the University's Observatory was named in his honour, and among the Observatory's activities is the only Canadian program of astrometric observations of comets and minor planets.

Named in honour of Alastair G. W. Cameron (b. 1925 in Winnipeg, d.2005 in Tucson), astrophysicist and cosmogonist and currently associate director for theoretical astrophysics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Known to his colleagues as "Big Al", Cameron has, in his long and distinguished career, been a prolific producer of cosmogonical theories, never hesitating to revise or replace them when confronted with new data. He has consistently emphasized that the origin of planetary systems must be understood in the context of star formation.