Meanings of minor planet names: 147001–148000
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]
147001–147100
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 |
147101–147200
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 |
147201–147300
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 |
147301–147400
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147397 Bobhazel | 2003 FO7 | Robert Sealy (1927–2002) and Hazel Sealy (born 1930), American founders of the Seaside Amateur Astronomers of Seaside, Oregon, and friends of the discoverer, James Whitney Young | JPL · 147397 |
147401–147500
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147421 Gárdonyi | 2003 GG | Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922), Hungarian writer and journalist | JPL · 147421 |
147501–147600
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147595 Gojkomitić | 2004 GE20 | Gojko Mitić (born 1940), Serbian actor, director and stuntman. He starred as a Native American in several German Western movies and at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. | JPL · 147595 |
147601–147700
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147693 Piccioni | 2005 CQ77 | Giuseppe Piccioni (born 1965), Italian astronomer and expert on infrared imaging sensors | JPL · 147693 |
147701–147800
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147736 Raxavinic | 2005 NC1 | Airline pilot trainee Rapha, experimental physicist Xavier and software engineer Vince, are the sons of the discoverer and his wife Nicole "Nicnac" Bosmans, a secretary at Brussels University | JPL · 147736 |
147766 Elisatoffoli | 2005 QB39 | Elisa Toffoli (born 1977), an Italian singer-songwriter. | JPL · 147766 |
147801–147900
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 |
147901–148000
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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147918 Chiayi | 2006 UU214 | Chiayi County in southwestern Taiwan, location of the Lulin Observatory where this minor planet was discovered | JPL · 147918 |
147971 Nametoko | 1994 WF | Nametoko Ravine is a narrow canyon in the Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park, Japan, located in the south of Ehime Prefecture | JPL · 147971 |
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.