| Invention or discovery | Inventor or discoverer | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Media system dependency theory | Melvin Defleur | sociological theory |
| Orthoebolavirus zairense | Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum | taxon |
| Aten asteroid | Eleanor F. Helin | asteroid family |
| 16356 Univbalttech | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 2849 Shklovskij | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 2922 Dikanʹka | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 4683 Veratar | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 5245 Maslyakov | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 7910 Aleksola | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 5016 Migirenko | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 5707 Shevchenko | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 3493 Stepanov | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 3856 Lutskij | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 5989 Sorin | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 3517 Tatianicheva | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 3966 Cherednichenko | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 4777 Aksenov | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |
| 2745 San Martín | Félix Aguilar Observatory | asteroid |
| 4726 Federer | Harvard College Observatory | asteroid |
| 3159 Prokofʹev | Tamara Smirnova | asteroid |
| 4851 Vodopʹyanova | Tamara Smirnova | asteroid |
| 3967 Shekhtelia | Lyudmila Chernykh | asteroid |
| 16358 Plesetsk | Nikolai Chernykh | asteroid |