A los asteroides ya designados

(5088) Tancredi
(5996) Julioangel
(6252) Montevideo
(9478) Caldeyro

se suman ahora tres nuevas (julio 2005) designaciones de la Union Astronomica Internacional:



(17179) Codina = 1999 TC224
     Discovered 1999 Oct. 4 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object
Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
     Sayd Jose Codina Landaberry (b. 1926) directed the Observatorio
Nacional in Rio de Janeiro from 1991 to 1999. Codina is well known in the
field of astrophysical observation and instrumentation. Born in Uruguay,
since the 1970s he has helped train generations of new astronomers.


(17897) Gallardo = 1999 FV8
     Discovered 1999 Mar. 19 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object
Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
     Tabare Gallardo (b. 1962) is a dynamicist at the astronomy department
of the University of the Republic, Montevideo. He works on the dynamics of
minor bodies, transneptunian objects and extrasolar planets.


(17919) Licandro = 1999 GC8
     Discovered 1999 Apr. 9 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object
Search at the Anderson Mesa Station.
     Javier Licandro (b. 1966), a Uruguayan astronomer at the Isaac Newton
Telescope at La Palma, works on the physical properties of minor bodies and
transneptunian objects.