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The 20th century

1,560 inventions and discoveries

Invention or discovery	Date	Inventor or discoverer	Type
7562 Kagiroino-Oka	November 30, 1986	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
3565 Ojima	December 22, 1986	Takeshi Urata	asteroid
21000 L'Encyclopédie	January 26, 1987	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
5106 Mortensen	February 19, 1987	Poul Jensen	asteroid
3852 Glennford	February 24, 1987	Henri Debehogne	asteroid
3843 OISCA	February 28, 1987	Yoshiaki Oshima	asteroid
5170 Sissons	March 3, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
5952 Davemonet	March 4, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
4766 Malin	March 28, 1987	Eleanor F. Helin	asteroid
4767 Sutoku	April 4, 1987	Takeshi Urata	asteroid
3954 Mendelssohn	April 24, 1987	Freimut Börngen	asteroid
4943 Lac d'Orient	July 27, 1987	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
9162 Kwiila	July 29, 1987	Jean Mueller	near-Earth asteroid
5108 Lübeck	August 21, 1987	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
30775 Lattu	August 24, 1987	Eleanor F. Helin	asteroid
4555 Josefapérez	August 24, 1987	Stephen Singer-Brewster	asteroid
13011 Loeillet	August 26, 1987	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
4861 Nemirovskij	August 27, 1987	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
5808 Babelʹ	August 27, 1987	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
5902 Talima	August 27, 1987	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
5809 Kulibin	September 4, 1987	Lyudmila Zhuravlyova	asteroid
9838 Falz-Fein	September 4, 1987	Lyudmila Zhuravlyova	asteroid
10054 Solomin	September 17, 1987	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
5001 EMP	September 19, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
5112 Kusaji	September 23, 1987	Hiroshi Kaneda	asteroid
13927 Grundy	September 26, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3736 Rokoske	September 26, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3991 Basilevsky	September 26, 1987	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
4862 Loke	September 30, 1987	Poul Jensen	asteroid
4789 Sprattia	October 20, 1987	David D. Balam	asteroid
5507 Niijima	October 21, 1987	Kenzo Suzuki	asteroid
4669 Høder	October 27, 1987	Poul Jensen	asteroid
5172 Yoshiyuki	October 28, 1987	Hiroshi Kaneda	asteroid
4863 Yasutani	November 13, 1987	Hiroshi Kaneda	asteroid
8080 Intel	November 17, 1987	Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie	asteroid
14835 Holdridge	November 26, 1987	Eugene Merle Shoemaker	asteroid
4632 Udagawa	December 17, 1987	Takuo Kojima	asteroid
4670 Yoshinogawa	December 19, 1987	Tsutomu Seki	asteroid
3797 Ching-Sung Yu	December 22, 1987	Oak Ridge Observatory	asteroid
Campus board	1988	Wolfgang Güllich	rock and sport climbing equipment
3786 Yamada	January 10, 1988	Takuo Kojima	asteroid
3865 Lindbloom	January 13, 1988	Henri Debehogne	asteroid
4634 Shibuya	January 16, 1988	Osamu Muramatsu	asteroid
5028 Halaesus	January 23, 1988	Carolyn S. Shoemaker	asteroid
5725 Nördlingen	January 23, 1988	Eugene Merle Shoemaker	asteroid
5060 Yoneta	January 24, 1988	Hiroshi Kaneda	asteroid
4704 Sheena	January 28, 1988	Robert H. McNaught	asteroid
5470 Kurtlindstrom	January 28, 1988	Robert H. McNaught	asteroid
4576 Yanotoyohiko	February 10, 1988	Takuo Kojima	asteroid
11848 Paullouka	February 11, 1988	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
4825 Ventura	February 11, 1988	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
12688 Baekeland	February 13, 1988	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
4705 Secchi	February 13, 1988	San Vittore Observatory	asteroid
10735 Seine	February 15, 1988	Eric Walter Elst	asteroid
5116 Korsør	March 13, 1988	Poul Jensen	asteroid
3867 Shiretoko	April 16, 1988	Masayuki Yanai	asteroid
5174 Okugi	April 16, 1988	Masayuki Yanai	asteroid
4899 Candace	May 9, 1988	Eugene Merle Shoemaker	asteroid
4826 Wilhelms	May 11, 1988	Carolyn S. Shoemaker	asteroid
5325 Silver	May 12, 1988	Carolyn S. Shoemaker	asteroid