Asteroid 5655, Barney, was discovered on September 29, 1973 by C.J. Van Houten, Ingrid Van Houten-Groeneveld, and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 4 years, 53 days.
Barney was named for American astronomer Ida Barney (1886-1982), who worked at the Yale Observatory from 1924 to 1959.
Ida Barney
The cartoon character Barney, a purple dinosaur, is popular with young children but annoying to many adults.
Astrologically, Barney seems to signify cloying, annoying, having a love-hate relationship with something.
Jerry Springer has Barney parallel Juno.
Barry Manilow has Barney conjunct Elatus, square Damocles and opposite Mercury.
Tori Spelling has Barney sextile Sun.
Ted Kennedy has Barney in the second house, conjunct Vesta, sextile Don Quixote and quincunx Jupiter.
Rowan Atkinson had Barney semisquare Venus, square Sun and quincunx Pandora.
Shannen Doherty has Barney in the eleventh house, semisquare Nessus, square Mercury, trine Neptune and Dioretsa, and sesquiquadrate Venus.
George Steinbrenner has Barney square Mercury and Jupiter, sesquiquadrate Lilith, quincunx/semisextile the Nodes, and opposite Hylonome.
Sanjaya Malakar has Barney trine Mars, parallel Pallas and contraparallel the Sun.
The glyph for Barney is mine.