1853 and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in 1854. || |-id=962 | 10962 Sonnenborgh || 9530 P-L || Sonnenborgh Observatory in Utrecht, founded in 1853 by Buys Ballot, specializes in the study of the sun. || |-id=963 | 10963 van der Brugge || 2088 T-1 || Aad H. van der Brugge, a Dutch amateur astronomer and member of the Royal Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy || |-id=964 | 10964 Degraaff || 3216 T-1 || Willem de Graaff (1923–2004), was a Dutch astronomical researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University. || |-id=965 | 10965 van Leverink || 3297 T-1 || Simon van Leverink (born 1947), member of the Working Group on Meteors of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological and Astronomical Society. || |-id=966 | 10966 van der Hucht || 3308 T-1 || Karel A. van der Hucht (born 1946), a Dutch astronomer who was appointed Assistant General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union in 2003 || |-id=967 | 10967 Billallen || 4349 T-1 || William H. Allen (born 1939), a New Zealand amateur astronomer and electrical engineer. || |-id=968 | 10968 Sterken || 4393 T-1 || Christiaan Sterken (born 1946), a Belgian astronomer, Research Director of the Belgian Fund For Scientific Research, and co-founder of the Journal of Astronomical Data || |-id=969 | 10969 Perryman || 4827 T-1 || Michael Perryman (born 1954), British project scientist and scientific leader of the HIPPARCOS and GAIA astrometry missions of the European Space Agency || |-id=970 | 10970 de Zeeuw || 1079 T-2 || Tim de Zeeuw (born 1956), a Dutch astronomer at Leiden Observatory and Director General of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) since 2007. He is the husband of Ewine van Dishoeck (see (10971)) || |-id=971 | 10971 van Dishoeck || 1179 T-2 || Ewine van Dishoeck (born 1955), a Dutch astronomer at Leiden Observatory || |-id=972 | 10972 Merbold || 1188 T-2 || Ulf Merbold (born 1941), a German astronaut and Spacelab module specialists of the U.S. Space Shuttle || |-id=973 | 10973 Thomasreiter || 1210 T-2 || Thomas Reiter (born 1958), a German astronaut who stayed on both the Russian Mir Space Station and the ISS || |-id=974 | 10974 Carolalbert || 2225 T-2 || Carol Handahl and Albert O. Grender, aunt and uncle of D. W. E. Green, who made the identifications involving this object. || |-id=975 | 10975 Schelderode || 2246 T-2 || Schelderode is an agrarian village founded