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]

518001–518100

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

518101–518200

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

518201–518300

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

518301–518400

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

518401–518500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
518458 Roblambert2005 GL204Robert Andrew Lambert (1955–2019), a former president of the Las Vegas Astronomical Society and astronomy professor at College of Southern Nevada.JPL · 518458

518501–518600

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518523 Bryanshumaker2006 SVBryan Shumaker (born 1949) is a urologist who helped design a dye-sensing device to treat cancer. As an accomplished and enthusiastic amateur astronomer, he has taken a leading role in the development of outreach programs in northern Michigan, particularly at the Headlands International Dark Sky Park there.JPL · 518523

518601–518700

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

518701–518800

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

518801–518900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
518886 Wheelock2010 EK157Sherry Wheelock (b. 1948) is a senior software developer at IPAC at the California Institute of Technology. During her 43-year career she has developed software for astronomical image processing and instrumental calibration and has contributed to NASA missions including IRAS, 2MASS, Spitzer, WISE and NEOWISE.IAU · 518886

518901–519000

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

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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