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. 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]
562001–562100
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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562008 Samtackeff | 2015 XW62 | Samantha “Sam" Tackeff (born 1986) is a North American entrepreneur and food connoisseur. | IAU · 562008 |
562101–562200
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562201–562300
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562301–562400
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562401–562500
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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562446 Pilinszky | 2015 YR23 | János Pilinszky (1921–1981), a Hungarian poet, best known for his poems about the horrors of a prisoner of war and the life under a communist dictatorship. | IAU · 562446 |
562501–562600
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562601–562700
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562701–562800
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562801–562900
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
562901–563000
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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562936 Bródyimre | 2016 BG2 | Description available (see ref). Please summarize in your own words. | IAU · 562936 |
562964 Hudin | 2016 BM22 | Lucian Hudin (b. 1975) is a Romanian amateur astronomer and computer programmer who owns a small roll-off observatory in Cluj-Napoca. A very active member of the EURONEAR project using the Isaac Newton Telescope, he was involved in data reduction of near Earth asteroids, discovering seven such bodies and other minor planets. | IAU · 562964 |
562971 Johannhagen | 2016 BG24 | Description available (see ref). Please summarize in your own words. | IAU · 562971 |
562979 Barabásmiklós | 2016 BB29 | Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) was a painter, graphic artist, photographer, and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the most outstanding masters of Hungarian Biedermeier painting, and one of the earliest Hungarian photographers. | IAU · 562979 |
References
- ↑ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ↑ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ↑ "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.