2984 Chaucer

2984 Chaucer is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell in 1981. It is named after Geoffrey Chaucer, the medieval English poet.

Minor planets navigator
  • 2983 Poltava
  • 2984 Chaucer
  • 2985 Shakespeare
Small Solar System bodies
Minor planets
  • Designation
  • Groups
  • Moons
  • Meanings of names
  • Pronunciation of names
Asteroids
  • Aten asteroid
  • Families
  • Jupiter Trojans
  • Main-belt
  • Near-Earth
  • Spectral types
Distant minor planets
  • Centaurs
  • Damocloids
  • Neptune trojans
  • Trans-Neptunian objects
    • Detached
    • Kuiper belt
    • Oort cloud
    • Scattered disc
Comets
  • Extinct
  • Great
  • Lost
  • Main-belt
  • Non-periodic
  • Periodic
  • Sungrazing
Meteoroids
  • Bolide
  • Dust
  • Fireball
  • Meteor
  • Meteorite
  • Tektite
Lists / categories
  • Asteroid groups and families
  • Asteroid moons
  • Binary asteroids
  • Minor planets

Famous quotes containing the word chaucer:

    Ful weel she soong the service dyvyne,
    Entuned in hir nose ful semely,
    And Frenssh she spak ful faire and fetisly,
    After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
    For Frenssh of Parys was to hire unknowe.
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)