Named in honour of Paul Boltwood (b. 1943-11-04 in Vancouver, British Columbia), a Canadian specialist in computer systems and outstanding amateur astronomer. Boltwood earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of British Columbia, won the Chant Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada in 1995, and won the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 2000. He monitored the peculiar object OJ 287 for some two years, and has done large amounts of photometry of other blazars.

Designations: 1997 AD7, 1929 TC, 1971 HD, 1980 XL1, 1980 YU, 1991 NM9

Osao Shigehisa (b. 1936) has actively observed variable stars since 1952. An enthusiastic recorder of the activities of Japanese amateur astronomers, he played an important role in compiling a History of Amateur Astronomy in Japan in 1987, as well as a sequel in 1994. He has been a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 62353

Discovered by Y. Shimizu and T. Urata at Nachi-Katsuura.
Named in honour of Anomalocaris, a large carnivorous arthropod, which was one of the many uniquely shaped multicellular creatures that appeared during the Cambrian explosion. The fossil was first discovered in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The name was suggested by I. Makino.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 36128

Named in memory of Roderick Oliver Redman (b. 1905, d. 1975), professor of astronomy and longtime director of the University of Cambridge Observatories, and in honour of Russell Ormond Redman (b. 1951), a radio astronomer on the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. The senior Redman established a lifelong association with the DAO when he obtained the observational material for his doctoral thesis there; he became renowned for his superlative observational techniques and designs for astronomical instrumentation.

Named in honour of Hendrika Cornelia Marshall Aikman (née Grootendorst), beloved wife of the discoverer.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 31027

Named in honour of Brett Gladman (b.1966-04-19 in Wetaskawin, Alberta), a Canadian astronomer and dynamicist who studied at the University of Alberta, Queen's University (with Martin Duncan, Cornell University. Gladman has made important contributions to modeling the dynamical evolution of near-earth objects and the transport of meteorites, including those from the moon and Mars. Gladman has also carried out observational surveys of transneptunian objects and in 1997 was codiscoverer of the two irregular satellites of Uranus.

Named in honour of Giovanni Caboto or John Cabot (1449/50-1498/99), who made the first recorded landfall in North America since the Norse voyages. Genoese by birth and Venetian by citizenship, Cabot moved to England in 1484, apparently motivated by his idea of reaching Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic. In 1497 he and his crew of 18 sailed from Bristol in a tiny vessel, the "Matthew", arriving off Newfoundland on June 24, after which he explored the coast southward to Nova Scotia.

Named in honour of one of Canada's oldest and most highly regarded universities, located in Montréal. McGill was founded in 1821 and enjoys a first-rate reputation. Once home to humourist Stephen Leacock and physicist Ernest Rutherford, the university has done pioneering research both on the earth in medicine and in space through its department of earth and planetary sciences. Name proposed and official citation prepared by David H. Levy.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 42356

Saint Mary's University, Halifax, N.S., is Atlantic Canada's primary centre for instruction, public relations and research in astronomy and astrophysics. The university, founded in 1802, is the site of the Burke-Gaffney Observatory, used for the detection of supernova 1995F, the first such discovery of an all-Canadian nature.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Reference: MPC 46101

Named in honour of the city of Montréal, Canada. Host for the IAU General Assembly in 1979, Montréal has combined the best of English and French cultures since its founding in 1642. The city has a rich astronomical tradition, as can be seen in several outdoor works of art that emphasize the city's connection to the stars.
Name proposed and citation prepared by David H. Levy.

Orbit type: Main Belt Asteroid 

Ref: MPC 42356