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The 20th century

1,560 inventions and discoveries

Invention or discovery	Date	Inventor or discoverer	Type
5389 Choikaiyau	October 29, 1981	Purple Mountain Observatory	asteroid
3973 Ogilvie	October 30, 1981	Laurence G. Taff	asteroid
3929 Carmelmaria	November 16, 1981	Peter Jekabsons	asteroid
3791 Marci	November 17, 1981	Antonín Mrkos	asteroid
3387 Greenberg	November 20, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
7631 Vokrouhlický	November 20, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3454 Lieske	November 24, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3853 Haas	November 24, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3944 Halliday	November 24, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
5390 Huichiming	December 19, 1981	Purple Mountain Observatory	asteroid
10034 Birlan	December 30, 1981	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3131 Mason-Dixon	January 24, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3209 Buchwald	January 24, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
5551 Glikson	January 24, 1982	Eugene Merle Shoemaker	asteroid
7739 Čech	February 14, 1982	Ladislav Brožek	asteroid
3871 Reiz	February 18, 1982	Richard Martin West	asteroid
3571 Milanštefánik	March 15, 1982	Antonín Mrkos	asteroid
8329 Speckman	March 22, 1982	Henri Debehogne	asteroid
4624 Stefani	March 23, 1982	Carolyn S. Shoemaker	asteroid
3974 Verveer	March 28, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
2675 Tolkien	April 14, 1982	Martin Watt	asteroid
4733 ORO	April 19, 1982	Oak Ridge Observatory	asteroid
3692 Rickman	April 25, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
4525 Johnbauer	May 15, 1982	—	asteroid
3945 Gerasimenko	August 14, 1982	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
10285 Renémichelsen	August 17, 1982	Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist	asteroid
4762 Dobrynya	September 16, 1982	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
5315 Balʹmont	September 16, 1982	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
9154 Kolʹtsovo	September 16, 1982	Lyudmila Chernykh	asteroid
11015 Romanenko	September 17, 1982	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
8141 Nikolaev	September 20, 1982	Nikolai Chernykh	asteroid
5715 Kramer	September 22, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3511 Tsvetaeva	October 14, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
5716 Pickard	October 17, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
4889 Praetorius	October 19, 1982	Freimut Börngen	asteroid
7632 Stanislav	October 20, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
3668 Ilfpetrov	October 21, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
3669 Vertinskij	October 21, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
7633 Volodymyr	October 21, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
4992 Kálmán	October 25, 1982	Lyudmila Zhuravlyova	asteroid
3878 Jyoumon	November 14, 1982	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
4855 Tenpyou	November 14, 1982	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
4890 Shikanosima	November 14, 1982	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
7634 Shizutani-Kou	November 14, 1982	Hiroki Kosai	asteroid
3537 Jürgen	November 15, 1982	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
4661 Yebes	November 17, 1982	Miguel de Pascual Martínez	asteroid
3345 Tarkovskij	December 23, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
3675 Kemstach	December 23, 1982	Lyudmila Karachkina	asteroid
Milano style Doria	1983	Yasuhiko Shōgaki	food
3684 Berry	January 9, 1983	Brian A. Skiff	asteroid
4735 Gary	January 9, 1983	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
5942 Denzilrobert	January 10, 1983	—	asteroid
3614 Tumilty	January 12, 1983	Norman G. Thomas	asteroid
3819 Robinson	January 12, 1983	Brian A. Skiff	asteroid
4783 Wasson	January 12, 1983	Carolyn S. Shoemaker	asteroid
5460 Tsénaatʼaʼí	January 12, 1983	Brian A. Skiff	asteroid
3117 Niépce	February 11, 1983	Norman G. Thomas	asteroid
4967 Glia	February 11, 1983	Norman G. Thomas	asteroid
7512 Monicalazzarin	February 15, 1983	Edward L. G. Bowell	asteroid
3743 Pauljaniczek	March 10, 1983	Ewan Barr	asteroid