Proper names from the field of sport to denote astronomical objects (based on the English language)

This paper examines proper names from the field of sports to denote astronomical objects using the ma-terial of the English language. The author gives definitions to such concepts as proper name, astronomical object and astronomical name. The relevance of this work lies in the insufficient study of proper names of athletes to denote astro-nomical concepts, which creates a language barrier in the communication process. The purpose of the work is to select proper names from the field of sports to denote astronomical objects from lexicographic sources and conduct their ety-mological analysis. The work uses the method of continuous sampling from lexicographic sources of the English lan-guage, the method of etymological analysis and the method of statistical data processing. The article considers stars and asteroids. Celestial objects can be named after people, but there are only two classes of objects that can be named after people. The names of the discoverers are assigned to comets and asteroids. In the “Asteroids” subgroup, 25 units were identified, in the “Stars” subgroup – 4 units. The most numerous in the subgroups are names from the field of hockey, football and aviation sports. As a result of the analysis, it can be concluded that names from the field of sports with proper names to denote astronomical objects in the English language contain information about the authors who are connected with the designated phenomena, concepts and elements of physical culture and sports and relate to general cultural vocabulary, i.e. used in two or more languages.