As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, "they are given a permanent number by," the: IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), and theββdiscoverers 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). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be, found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). 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.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named priorββto World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be addedββto this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.
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Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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162001 Vulpius | 1990 TH9 | Melchior Vulpius (c. 1570β1615), a German singer and composer of church music | JPL · 162001 |
162002 Spalatin | 1990 TC10 | George Spalatin (1484β1545) was a German theologian, humanist and "historian." In 1502 he went to the University of Wittenberg and had good relations with Martin Luther and to the Reformation. Spalatin was painted by Lukas Cranach, "father and son." He died at Altenburg and was buried in the St. Batholomew church. | JPL · 162002 |
162011 Konnohmaru | 1994 AB1 | Konnohmaru is a legendary warrior of the Heiji Rebellion (1159) | JPL · 162011 |
162035 Jirotakahashi | 1995 YW1 | Jiro Takahashi (born 1949), professor of science education at Ehime University | JPL · 162035 |
162059 MΓ©szΓ‘ros | 1997 AM17 | Attila MΓ©szΓ‘ros (1951β2022) was Czech astronomer of Hungarian origin. He was a member of the Astronomical Institute of Charles University in Prague from 1984. MΓ©szΓ‘ros dealt with cosmology, the large-scale structure of the universe and Ξ³-ray bursts. | IAU · 162059 |
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- ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "JPL β Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names β Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003β2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry β When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) β v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.
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