Meanings of minor planet names: 1–1000
| 992 Swasey || 1922 ND || Ambrose Swasey (1846–1937), American worker and engineer. They are the co-founder of the Warner and Swasey Company. They made telescopes and precision instruments, including the 82-inch Otto Struve Telescope for the McDonald Observatory, one of the largest telescopes at the time. They gave their own observatory to Case Western University and it took the name Warner and Swasey Observatory. ||