competition for high-school seniors, for his engineering project. || |-id=938 | 27938 Guislain || || Joseph Guislain (1797–1860), one of the first students at the University of Ghent, was appointed head of the psychiatric hospitals in Ghent in 1820. He is remembered for proposing a law that formed the basis of psychiatric treatment in Belgium for more than a century || |-id=947 | 27947 Emilemathieu || || Émile Léonard Mathieu, French mathematician || |-id=949 | 27949 Jonasz || || Michel Jonasz, French poet and singer || |-id=952 | 27952 Atapuerca || || Atapuerca, small Spanish mountain chain in the province of Burgos, a UNESCO World Heritage site because of the human fossil deposits discovered there || |-id=955 | 27955 Yasumasa || || Yasumasa Watanabe (born 1946), a member of the Yamagata Astronomical Society in 1986. || |-id=958 | 27958 Giussano || || Giussano, an Italian town in the heart of Brianza, is famous for its furniture design companies. Among the town's historical monuments and villas is the Villa Sartirana, recently renovated. Home to the local library, this villa hosts in its decorated halls cultural events, including some aimed at astronomical popularization || |-id=959 | 27959 Fagioli || || Giancarlo Fagioli, Italian cartographer and amateur astronomer † || |-id=960 | 27960 Dobiáš || || Václav Dobiáš (1909–1978), Czech composer, organizer of musical life and pedagogue, educated a number of composers, including the discoverer's father. His cycle of songs Praho jediná ("Prague, the Only One") is a beautiful apotheosis of the Czech city || |-id=961 | 27961 Kostelecký || || Jan Kostelecký (born 1946) is a professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague. He deals with geodetic astronomy, space geodesy and geodynamics. He also served as the supervisor of both the master's and doctoral theses of the discoverer. || |-id=963 | 27963 Hartkopf || || US astronomer William I. Hartkopf (born 1951), president of IAU Commission 26 (Double and Multiple Stars) from 2003 to 2006, made important contributions to double-star orbit determinations and speckle interferometric observations. In 2009 he was awarded the Simon Newcomb award of the U.S. Naval Observatory. || |-id=966 | 27966 Changguang || || Changguang stands for the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. || |-id=967 | 27967 Beppebianchi || 1997 TE || Giuseppe Bianchi (1791–1866) founded the astronomical observatory at Modena in 1827