Meanings of minor planet names: 227001–228000
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. |
|---|---|---|
| 227001–227100 | ||
| 227065 Romandia | 2005 GQ9 | Romandia is the Latin name of the French-speaking part of Switzerland. JPL |
| 227101–227200 | ||
| 227151 Desargues | 2005 PT16 | Girard Desargues, French mathematician and engineer. JPL |
| 227201–227300 | ||
| 227218 Rényi | 2005 RU3 | Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), a Hungarian mathematician. JPL |
| 227301–227400 | ||
| 227326 Narodychi | 2005 TB152 | Narodychi settlement, located in northern Ukraine, has been known since 1545. During the emergency at the Chernobyl atomic power plant in 1986 the city was seriously affected and recommended for evacuation. However, life in the city goes on. JPL |
| 227601–227700 | ||
| 227641 Nothomb | 2006 BD99 | Amélie Nothomb (born 1967), a Belgian writer. JPL |
| 227701–227800 | ||
| 227767 Enkibilal | 2006 US62 | Born in Belgrade, the graphic novelist and film director Enki Bilal (born 1951) moved with his family to Paris in 1960. He published his first story in Pilote magazine in 1972 and his first album in 1975. He received the Grand Prix at the 14th Angoulême festival in 1987. JPL |
| 227770 Wischnewski | 2006 US289 | Erik Wischnewski (born 1952) has been a lecturer at adult education centers and planetaria since 1972 and is an author of several astronomical textbooks. His work contributes to the German-language astronomical education. JPL |
| 227901–228000 | ||
| 227930 Athos | 2007 GG6 | Olivier d´Athos de la Fère (1595–1661) is a fictional character, a Musketeer of the Guard in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas. JPL |
| 227962 Aramis | 2007 HQ14 | René d´Aramis de Vannes (né René d´Herblay) is a fictional character in Dumas' The Three Musketeers and its sequels. Aramis and the other two musketeers Athos and Porthos are friends of the novel's protagonist, d´Artagnan. The fictional Aramis is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henri d´Aramitz. 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.