Meanings of minor planet names: 199001–200000
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. |
|---|---|---|
| 199601–199700 | ||
| 199677 Terzani | 2006 HH6 | Tiziano Terzani, Italian writer and journalist JPL |
| 199687 Erősszsolt | 2006 HA18 | Zsolt Erőss (1968–2013), the most successful Hungarian high-altitude mountaineer. JPL |
| 199688 Kisspéter | 2006 HK18 | Péter Kiss (1986–2003), the first Hungarian mountaineer, who scaled all 82 four-thousanders in the Alps. JPL |
| 199701–199800 | ||
| 199763 Davidgregory | 2006 JJ77 | David Arthur Gregory, physician in St. Thomas, Ontario JPL |
| 199901–200000 | ||
| 199900 Brunoganz | 2007 GA1 | Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor of theater and cinema JPL |
| 199947 Qaidam | 2007 HR7 | Qaidam, meaning salt marshes in Mongolian, located in the north of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, is one of the China’s four big basins and the main region of Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. JPL |
| 199950 Sierpc | 2007 HK16 | Sierpc, one of the oldest towns in the Mazovie Region of Poland JPL |
| 199953 Mingnaiben | 2007 HK28 | Ming Naiben (b. 1935), a professor at Nanjing University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. [MPC 84382] |
| 199986 Chervone | 2007 JD21 | Located 10 km from Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, Chervone was noted at the beginning of the twentieth century for the production of airplanes 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.