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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]

163001–163100

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

163101–163200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
163119 Timmckay 2002 AO208 Tim McKay, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163153 Takuyaonishi 2002 CO116 Takuya Onishi, Boeing 767 co-pilot for a Japanese airline JPL

163201–163300

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

163301–163400

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

163401–163500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
163470 Kenwallis 2002 RQ181 Ken Wallis (1916–2013), a British aviator and engineer. JPL

163501–163600

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

163601–163700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
163623 Miknaitis 2002 TR346 Gajus Miknaitis, American astrophysicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163624 Moorthy 2002 TD366 Bhasker Moorthy, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163625 Munn 2002 TU367 Jeff Munn, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163626 Glatfelter 2002 UV Pam Glatfelter, American Operational Site Manager for the NASA Table Mountain Facility JPL
163639 Tomnash 2002 UN51 Thomas Nash, American physicist and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163640 Newberg 2002 UB59 Heidi Jo Newberg, American astronomer who wrote Sloan Digital Sky Survey software JPL
163641 Nichol 2002 UC68 Robert Nichol, British observational cosmologist and long-term contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163693 Atira 2003 CP20 Atira, the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the evening star JPL

163701–163800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
163800 Richardnorton 2003 QS69 Richard Norton, author of many popular books and articles about meteorites JPL

163801–163900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
163819 Teleki 2003 RN8 Sámuel Teleki, 19th-20th-century Hungarian explorer, first to reach the snow-line on Mount Kilimanjaro, first to set foot on Mount Kenya, first European to see Lake Turkana (which he named Lake Rudolf) JPL

163901–164000

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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