Famous People With Asteroids Named After Them
History
This deck is a list of people who are famous enough to have an asteroid named after them. I scraped the data from the Wikipedia page for 'List of minor planets named after people': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets_named_after_people
I have excluded any people that don't have their own Wikipedia page, or where I couldn't find a profile image. The lists includes a lot of famous scientists, historical figures, musicians, actors, and many others. However, you probably won't want to memorize every single person on this list. Get ready to use the '!' keyboard shortcut to suspend any notes if you don't care about certain people.
GitHub repo: https://github.com/ndbroadbent/asteroid_people
Sample Data
| Name | Jean Valjean |
| URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Valjean |
| Asteroid Number | 24601 |
| Asteroid Name | 24601 Valjean |
| Asteroid URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24601_Valjean |
| Categories | Fictional characters, Characters in classic fiction |
| First Paragraph | Jean Valjean (French: ) is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables. The story depicts the character's 19-year-long struggle to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister's children during a time of economic depression and various attempts to escape from prison. Valjean is also known in the novel as Monsieur Madeleine, Ultime Fauchelevent, Monsieur Leblanc, and Urbain Fabre. |
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| Tags | AP::Characters_in_classic_fiction AP::Fictional_characters |
| Name | Johann Jakob Balmer |
| URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Jakob_Balmer |
| Asteroid Number | 12755 |
| Asteroid Name | 12755 Balmer |
| Asteroid URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12755_Balmer |
| Categories | Science, Physicists |
| First Paragraph | Johann Jakob Balmer (1 May 1825 – 12 March 1898) was a Swiss mathematician best known for his work in physics, the Balmer series of Hydrogen atom. |
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| Tags | AP::Physicists AP::Science |
| Name | Curzio Malaparte |
| URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzio_Malaparte |
| Asteroid Number | 3479 |
| Asteroid Name | 3479 Malaparte |
| Asteroid URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3479_Malaparte |
| Categories | The arts, Literature, Novelists |
| First Paragraph | Curzio Malaparte (Italian pronunciation: ; 9 June 1898 – 19 July 1957), born Curt Erich Suckert, was an Italian writer, film-maker, war correspondent and diplomat. Malaparte is best known outside Italy due to his works Kaputt (1944) and La pelle (1949). The former is a semi-fictionalised account of the Eastern Front during the Second World War and the latter is an account focusing on morality in the immediate post-war period of Naples (it was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum). |
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| Tags | AP::Literature AP::Novelists AP::The_arts |