Matter who discovered this minor planet || |-id=986 | 26986 Čáslavská || || Věra Čáslavská (born 1942), Czech gymnast and Olympic gold medalist, world's best sportswoman of 1968 || |-id=990 | 26990 Culbertson || || Frank Lee Culbertson Jr. (born 1949), former NASA astronaut, recorded the NASA program "Amateur Radio on the ISS" for the first time in Japan on 2001 Nov. 23 in Iruma City. || |-id=993 | 26993 Littlewood || || John Edensor Littlewood (1885–1977), English mathematician whose work included Diophantine approximations, number theory, the Riemann zeta function, inequalities and Fourier series. || |-id=998 | 26998 Iriso || || Iriso, the name of an area in Sayama-city, Saitama, Japan || |} References 026001-027000