This is a partial list of meanings of minor-planet names. Also see list of named minor planets (alphabetical) for a condensed version without naming citations.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.[4][5]

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]

144001–144100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144096 Wiesendangen2004 BV58Wiesendangen, Switzerland, home of the discoverer Markus Griesser and his familyJPL · 144096

144101–144200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

144201–144300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144296 Steviewonder2004 DFStevie Wonder (born 1950) is the stage name of Stevland Hardaway Morris. He is a blind American songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He has recorded more than 30 U.S. top ten hits and received 25 Grammy Awards.JPL · 144296

144301–144400

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144303 Mirellabreschi2004 DD7Mirella Breschi (born 1940), wife of the Italian amateur astronomer Giancarlo Fagioli who co-discovered this minor planetJPL · 144303
144333 Marcinkiewicz2004 DT25Ekhard Marcinkiewicz (born 1928), Austrian amateur solar astronomer (Src)JPL · 144333
144362 Swantner2004 DG45William H. Swantner (born 1943), an American optical engineer, instrumental for the construction of the imaging system used at the Jornada Observatory in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where this minor planet was discovered.IAU · 144362
144386 Emmabirath2004 DB71Emma M. Birath (born 1974) is a data analyst at Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Colorado. She built instrument software sequences for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.JPL · 144386

144401–144500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144496 Reingard2004 EZ66Reingard Apitzsch (born 1947), wife of the German discoverer Rolf ApitzschJPL · 144496

144501–144600

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144552 Jackiesue2004 FS4Jackie Sue Holmes (born 1959), wife of American amateur astronomer Robert Holmes who discovered this minor planet. She is active in the business component of the Astronomical Research Institute (H21) in Illinois.JPL · 144552

144601–144700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144633 Georgecarroll2004 FH80George Carroll (1902–1983), American builder of precision instruments, heliostats, and telescopes. This minor planet was discovered using one of his telescopes at the Stony Ridge Observatory, California.JPL · 144633
144692 Katemary2004 GCKatelyn Anne Marie Young (born 1999), granddaughter of the American astronomer James Whitney Young who discovered this minor planetJPL · 144692

144701–144800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144716 Scotttucker2004 GW28Scott Robert Tucker (born 1978) is a Tucson-based, self-trained optical designer and fabricator of telescopes and astronomical instruments. He is also an experienced astrophotographer and astronomy communicator.JPL · 144716
144752 Plungė2004 HKThe Lithuanian town of Plungė, native town of Elena Petreikytė-Černienė, a former teacher of astronomy and wife of astronomer Kazimieras Černis who co-discovered this minor planetJPL · 144752
144769 Zachariassen2004 HO20Rayan Zachariassen (born 1963), a Canadian computer scientistJPL · 144769

144801–144900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

144901–145000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
144907 Whitehorne2004 YS3Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian second vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (Src)JPL · 144907

References

  1. ↑ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  6. ↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
  7. ↑ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ↑ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.
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