List of minor planets named after rivers

This is a list of minor planets named after rivers, organized by continent.

Africa

• 1032 Pafuri (Pafuri Triangle, South Africa)
• 1264 Letaba (Letaba River, South Africa)
• 1305 Pongola (Pongola River, South Africa)
• 1323 Tugela (Tugela River, South Africa)
• 1490 Limpopo (Limpopo River, South Africa)
• 35295 Omo (Omo River, aka Omo-Bottego, Ethiopia)

Asia

• 732 Tjilaki (Cilaki River, West Java, Indonesia)
• 1089 Tama (Tama River in Tokyo)
• 1090 Sumida (Sumida River in Tokyo)
• 1266 Tone (Tone River; in the Kantō region of Japan)
• 4941 Yahagi (Yahagi River, Aichi, Japan)
• 6247 Amanogawa (Amanogawa River on Hokkaidō, Japan)
• 10143 Kamogawa (Kamo-gawa or Kamo River in Kyoto Prefecture)
• 12757 Yangtze (Yangtze River)
• 13096 Tigris (Tigris, Turkey, Syria, Iraq)
• 15804 Yenisei (Yenisei, Siberia, Russia)
• 16563 Ob (river in central Asia)
• 21182 Teshiogawa (Teshio River on Hokkaidō, Japan)
• 24701 Elyu-Ene (Evenk name of the Lena River, Siberia)
• 79152 Abukumagawa (Abukuma River (Abukuma-gawa), Japan)
• 100936 Mekong (in China and Indochina)
• 110297 Yellowriver (Yellow River)
• 32858 Kitakamigawa (Kitakamigawa River, Japan)
• 190057 Nakagawa (Nakagawa River, Tokushima prefecture, Japan)

Europe

• 364 Isara (Isère River)
• 1149 Volga (Volga River)
• 1223 Neckar (Neckar River in Germany)
• 1302 Werra (Werra River in Germany)
• 1381 Danubia (River Danube)
• 1488 Aura (Aura river)
• 1508 Kemi (Finnish town and river)
• 1929 Kollaa (Kollaa River, Russia)
• 2081 Sázava (Sázava River)
• 2123 Vltava (Vltava River)
• 2321 Lužnice (Lužnice River)
• 2390 Nežárka (Nežárka River)
• 3016 Meuse (Meuse River, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands)
• 4405 Otava (Otava River)
• 4698 Jizera (Jizera River)
• 4702 Berounka (Berounka River)
• 4801 Ohře (Ohře River)
• 6501 Isonzo (Isonzo/Soča River, Italy/Slovenia)
• 6522 Aci (Jaci River near Acireale, Italy)
• 7174 Semois (Semois)
• 7669 Malše (Malše River)
• 9578 Klyazma (Klyazma River)
• 10038 Tanaro (Tanaro River, the longest river of Piedmont, Italy)
• 10735 Seine (Seine River, France)
• 11194 Mirna (Mirna River, Croatia)
• 11302 Rubicon (Rubicon River, Italy, famously crossed by Julius Caesar)
• 11400 Raša (Raša River, Croatia)
• 11875 Rhône (Rhône, Swiss/French river)
• 13031 Durance (Durance River, France)
• 13032 Tarn (Tarn (river), France)
• 13033 Gardon (Gardon River, Gard, France)
• 13121 Tisza (Tisza River)
• 13122 Drava (Drava River)
• 16481 Thames (Thames River)
• 16689 Vistula (Latin name of Vistula River)
• 21290 Vydra (Vydra River)
• 40092 Memel (the other name of Neman River)
• 151430 Nemunas (Nemunas River, the largest river in Lithuania)
• 216451 Irsha (Irsha River, Ukraine)
• 237845 Neris (Neris River, Belarus)
• 251001 Sluch (Sluch River, Ukraine)
• 363582 Folpotat (Folpotat, a small river in an isolated Jura valley, Switzerland).

North America

• 1345 Potomac (Potomac River)

South and Central America

• 1042 Amazone (Amazon River)
• 1779 Paraná (Paraná River, a river in south Central South America)

See also

• List of minor planets
• List of minor planets named after people
• List of minor planets named after places
• List of named minor planets (numerical) and (alphabetical)
• Meanings of minor planet names

References

• Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "JPL Small-Body Database Browser" http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi (retrieved 6 April 2012).