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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]

189001–189100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189004 Capys 3184 T-3 Capys was the son of Assaracus and the father of the Anchises JPL
189011 Ogmios 1997 NJ6 Ogmios, Celtic patron god of scholars and the personification of eloquence and persuasiveness JPL

189101–189200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189188 Floraliën 2003 FL6 The Gentse Floraliën (Floralies of Ghent) is a world-famous flower exhibition held in Ghent (Belgium) every five years JPL

189201–189300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189202 Calar Alto 2003 SM15 Calar Alto Observatory, in the Sierra de los Filabres in Andalusia, southern Spain JPL
189261 Hiroo 2004 XO62 Hiroo Itagaki was the discoverer's brother JPL
189264 Gerardjeong 2005 GY108 Gerard K. Jeong, humanitarian, healer, and spine surgeon at Tucson Orthopedic Institute JPL

189301–189400

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189310 Polydamas 2006 AJ82 Polydamas was a Trojan commander whose battle strategy was more cautious than that of his friend Hektor JPL
189347 Qian 2008 BQ15 Qian Zhongshu, Chinese literary scholar and writer JPL
189396 Sielewicz 2008 JB6 Henryk Sielewicz, Lithuanian amateur astronomers JPL
189398 Soemmerring 2008 JG20 Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring, German anthropologist, anatomist, paleontologist and inventor JPL

189401–189500

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

189501–189600

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

189601–189700

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

189701–189800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189795 McGehee 2002 ER159 Peregrine McGehee (b. 1960), an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.[MPC 85412]

189801–189900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189848 Eivissa 2003 FF2 Eivissa (Ibiza in Spanish) is the westernmost of the Balearic islands JPL

189901–190000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
189930 Jeanneherbert 2003 SR200 Jeanne Herbert (born 1958), a grants management specialist for the Bisbee (Arizona) Unified School District JPL
189944 Leblanc 2003 TX Thierry Leblanc (b. 1967), the group supervisor of the Atmospheric Lidar Group, and Principal Investigator of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, and temperature lidar measurements at JPL's Table Mountain Facility. JPL
189948 Richswanson 2003 UM4 Rich Swanson (born 1964) is an intelligence specialist for a contractor to the Department of Defense at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona JPL

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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