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]
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136273 Csermely |
2003 YT107 |
Péter Csermely (born 1958) is a Hungarian biochemist, and network researcher. His major fields of study are the adaptation and learning of complex networks. In 1995 he launched a highly successful initiative, which provided research opportunities for more than 10 \, 000 gifted high school students. |
JPL · 136273
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136743 Echigo |
1995 WW1 |
Echigo, a name of an old administrative area in Japan. |
JPL · 136743
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136795 Tatsunokingo |
1997 BQ |
Tatsuno Kingo (1854–1919) was a Japanese architect, born in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. He was a leading Japanese modern architect, and he taught many students. He was best known as the designer of the Bank of Japan building (Tokyo) and Tokyo railway station. |
IAU · 136795
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136803 Calliemorgan |
1997 EC3 |
Callie Morgan Caruso (born 2009), granddaughter of American astronomer Jim Bruton who discovered this minor planet |
JPL · 136803
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136818 Selqet |
1997 MW1 |
Selqet, ancient Egyptian goddess of magic, protector of the other gods from the destroyer, Apep |
JPL · 136818
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136824 Nonamikeiko |
1997 RJ5 |
Keiko Nonami (born 1960), member of Matsue Astronomy Club |
JPL · 136824
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136825 Slawitschek |
1997 SX3 |
Rudolf Slawitschek (1880–1945) was a Prague-based German writer and jurist. He wrote the historical novel Hans Adam Löwenmacht (Pražský dobrodruh), the children's book Anastasius Katzenschlucker and Der blaue Herrgott (1927), which takes place in the landscape of Kleť Mountain and nearby Český Krumlov. |
JPL · 136825
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136848 Kevanpooler |
1998 BF44 |
Kevin Murphy (born 1949; pen name: Kevan Pooler), a British historian and author who helped track the WWII past of the father of Maura Tombelli who co-discovered this minor planet. |
IAU · 136848
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136922 Brianbauer |
1998 HB152 |
Brian A. Bauer (born 1982) is a senior systems engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who performed a leading role in fault protection and spacecraft autonomy for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. |
JPL · 136922
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