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Meanings of minor-planet names: 59001–60000

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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]

59001–59100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59001 Senftenberg 1998 SZ35 Senftenberg (now Žamberk), eastern Bohemia, where two comets were discovered by Theodor Brorsen in 1851, and the birthplace of Czech theologian and natural scientist Prokop Diviš, astronomer August Seydler and surgeon Eduard Albert † ‡
59087 Maccacaro 1998 VT33 Tommaso Maccacaro, Italian astrophysicist and x-ray astronomer JPL

59101–59200

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

59201–59300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59232 Sfiligoi 1999 CA1 Vincenzo Sfiligoi, a public accountant in the Italian province of Gorizia until 1990 JPL
59239 Alhazen 1999 CR2 Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, medieval Arab astronomer, mathematician, doctor, philosopher and physicist † ‡

59301–59400

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59369 Chanco 1999 EB5 Chanco is a toponym used by the Flemish scientist-author Godefridi Wendelini (1580–1667), who named the Belgian city of Genk as Chanco in the Leges Salicae Illustratae.[MPC 86715]
59388 Monod 1999 FU19 Jacques Lucien Monod, French molecular biologist and Nobelist JPL
59390 Habermas 1999 FR21 Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher, political scientist and sociologist, member of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research JPL

59401–59500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59417 Giocasilli 1999 GD1 Giovanni Casilli, Italian astronomer-technician JPL
59419 Prešov 1999 GE2 Prešov, eastern Slovakia †
59425 Xuyangsheng 1999 GJ5 Xu Yangsheng (b. 1958) is a leading expert in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, He is an Academician of the IAA and a Fellow of the IEEE. Xu was appointed the first President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.JPL

59501–59600

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

59601–59700

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

59701–59800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59793 Clapiès 1999 OD Jean de Clapiès (also written Clapiez), French mathematician, engineer, hydrographer, and astronomer JPL
59800 Astropis 1999 PV4 Astropis, Czech astronomy magazine †

59801–59900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
59804 Dickjoyce 1999 RJ1 Richard "Dick" R. Joyce, American astronomer JPL
59828 Ossikar 1999 RU32 Ossikar, cartoon figure created by German caricaturist Manfred Sondermann, the father-in-law of the discoverer JPL
59830 Reynek 1999 RE33 Bohuslav Reynek, Bohemian (Czech) poet and graphic artist † ‡
59833 Danimatter 1999 RZ36 Daniel Matter, French amateur astronomer, friend of the discoverer † ‡

59901–60000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
60000 Miminko 1999 TZ3 Miminko, a Czech word that expresses the innocence of the very beginning of human life 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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