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Different sources give different names of several asteroids[edit]

Asteroid 7214 1973 SM1, some sources give the name as Anticlus, while others give as Antielus.
Asteroid 8932 1997 AR4, some sources give the name as Nagatomo, while others give as Nagamoto.
Asteroid 11264 1979 UC4, some sources give the name as Claudiomaccone, while others give as Claudimaccone.
Asteroid 14428 1991 VM12, some sources give the name as Laziridis, while others give as Lazaridis.
Asteroid 20495 1999 PW4, some sources give the name as Rimanska Sobota, while others give as Rimavska Sobota.

Which ones are the correct names? -- Yaohua2000 04:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I did some additional research on asteroid 8932. JPL Horizons and [1] gives a name of Nagatomo, but [2] gives Nagamoto. I don't speak Japanese, but I can read some according to my Chinese knowledge. After some research on Google, I found the corresponding Japanese name of Nagatomo or Nagamoto is 長友信人[3], the asteroid was discoverred by 小林隆男. I googled the keyword "長友信人" "Nagatomo" and get 31 results, while "長友信人" "Nagamoto" get only 3 results. So I think the correct translation might be Nagatomo. -- Yaohua2000 05:33, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Once a while an asteroid may be renamed. The MPC link is always up to date.--Jyril 10:18, 3 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Did these ever get resolved, after 14 years? I mean, the best way is to probably figure out who or what they were named for, and see if there's a consensus spelling for its/their name. Some of them are probably transcription errors between different alphabets and the like, mis-readings of unclear text, or just plain typos... 146.199.60.87 (talk) 21:13, 12 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am unaware if they were resolved yet, but I assume the name differences could be mis translation or typo. I think the best course of action would be to put both names, such as: "Anticlus, also known as Antielus"

Let me know if that works, or if we can find an alternate solution --Caez (any pronouns c:) (talk) 16:02, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have just looked, no names are listed on this page, so this conversation is either out of date, irrelevant, or both. --Caez (any pronouns c:) (talk) 16:03, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

How was this made[edit]

How'd you guys get this done? a bot? wow!--Urthogie 21:31, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Several large Excel spreadsheets, with clever formulae. Mostly my work. Urhixidur 02:01, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How do the formalae work? Sagittarian Milky Way 03:36, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I routinely write scripts for stuff like this but I've never tried it for wiki. sed,awk, perl, etc can generate a lot of things but the real question is if you can automate the process, why is this list even needed? Doesn't NASA have a similar DB somewhere? It does seem a DB rather than an encyclopedia table, even for an electronic encyclopedia, makes more sense. Did this come up for deletion ever? Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 02:21, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Binary digits are cheap and it doesn't hurt anyone. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:33, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

So many pages[edit]

Do we really need an article for every asteroid. Surely 950_Ahrensa or 976 Benjamina are not notable. I think very few of these are notable. Couldn't they just be combined into one large page for every thousand asteroids?--God Ω War 04:19, 21 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

agreed

U0000 is null (talk) 21:20, 12 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It would be nice if someone would make a bot to merge these more easily.--God Ω War 23:20, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

List of Integers Too? : I guess the best comparison I came up with

for this page would be a "List of Positive Integers" and each page could show where it ranks in the set of intergers, important physical quantities that contain the integer, references from popular literature that mention the integer etc. Then, move on to a list of floating point numbers, including all rationals and transcendentals. Surely there must be a NASA or other DB that is essentially redundant with much of this? Nerdseeksblonde (talk) 20:18, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If someone cares enough to write an article that's good enough for me. WP:WIKIISN'TPAPER. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 19:34, 4 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]