Meanings of minor planet names: 132001–133000
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]
Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name
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. |
|---|---|---|
| 132001–132100 | ||
| 132005 Scottmcgregor | 2002 CN99 | Scott A. McGregor (b. 1956), Broadcom CEO and Founding Chair of the Broadcom Foundation, championed the Broadcom MASTERS, a program of Society for Science and the Public, that inspires young people in middle schools throughout the world to meet the Grand Challenges as our future scientists and innovators. JPL |
| 132401–132500 | ||
| 132445 Gaertner | 2002 GD178 | Christian Gaertner, German craftsman, merchant, amateur astronomer, and astronomy populariser JPL |
| 132501–132600 | ||
| 132524 APL | 2002 JF56 | The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), developers of numerous space missions, including NEAR Shoemaker and many others JPL |
| 132601–132700 | ||
| 132661 Carlbaeker | 2002 LO60 | Carl Wilhelm Baeker, 19th century German watchmaker and amateur astronomer, discoverer and co-discoverer of six comets JPL |
| 132701–132800 | ||
| 132718 Kemény | 2002 ON27 | John George Kemeny (Kemény János György), 20th-century Hungarian-born American mathematician, co-developer of the BASIC programming language JPL |
| 132719 Lambey | 2002 PF | Bernard Lambey, French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Société astronomique de Montpellier (Astronomical Society of Montpellier) JPL |
| 132792 Scottsmith | 2002 PB152 | P. Scott Smith, American physics teacher, primarily responsible for inspiring the discoverer to become an astronomer JPL |
| 132798 Kürti | 2002 PU167 | Stefan Kürti, Slovakian amateur astronomer and minor planet discoverer JPL |
| 132801–132900 | ||
| 132820 Miskotte | 2002 QX65 | Koen Miskotte, Dutch confectioner and amateur astronomer, active within the Dutch Meteor Society JPL |
| 132824 Galamb | 2002 QE79 | József Galamb, Hungarian-born U.S. mechanical engineer JPL |
| 132825 Shizu-Mao | 2002 QT85 | Ye Mao (Shiqing), 13th-14th-century Chinese chief executive of Zibei County (now Wenchang City), Shizu ("earliest ancestor") of the discoverer JPL |
| 132874 Latinovits | 2002 RV118 | Zoltán Latinovits, 20th-century Hungarian actor (the minor planet was discovered on his 71st birth anniversary) JPL |
| 132901–133000 | ||
| 132904 Notkin | 2002 RB237 | Geoffrey Notkin, co-host of the popular Science Channel series Meteorite Men JPL |
- ^ a b "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ a b "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ a b "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ a b Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ a b "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ a b "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.