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]

263001–263100

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

263101–263200

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

263201–263300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
263251 Pandabear2008 AA119The giant panda or "panda bear", an endangered species native in south central ChinaJPL · 263251
263255 Jultayu2008 BN14Jultayu, a 1940-meter mountain in Asturias, northern SpainJPL · 263255

263301–263400

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

263401–263500

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

263501–263600

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
263516 Alexescu2008 EW144Matei Alexescu (1929–1993), a Romanian astronomer, director of the Urseanu Observatory in Bucharest and founder of the Planetarium in BacăuJPL · 263516

263601–263700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
263613 Enol2008 GM1Lake Enol, a mountain lake in the Picos de Europa of northern SpainJPL · 263613

263701–263800

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

263801–263900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
263844 Johnfarrell2009 BV7John Farrell (born 1935), an American physicist and an observer of comets and variable stars. He is a member of the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network board of directors and Science Advisory Group.JPL · 263844

263901–264000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
263906 Yuanfengfang2009 FS44Yuan Fengfang (born 1986), founder of the Guangzhou Stargazers AssociationJPL · 263906
263932 Speyer2009 HY44Speyer, one of Germany's oldest cities, founded by the ancient RomansJPL · 263932
263940 Malyshkina2009 HN58Marina Evgen'evna Malyshkina (born 1978), wife of Russian discoverer Timur Valer'evič KrjačkoJPL · 263940

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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