Meanings of minor planet names: 138001–139000

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]

138001–138100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
138016 Kerribeisser 2000 CQ111 Kerri B. Beisser (born 1974) is a project manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and served as the Education and Public Outreach Lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. JPL · 138016

138101–138200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
138200 Anderswall 2000 EW137 Anders Wall (b. 1931), a Swedish businessman and philanthropist. IAU · 138200

138201–138300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
138221 Baldry 2000 EC207 Ivan Baldry (born 1971), British astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey who works on the color bimodality of galaxies JPL · 138221

138301–138400

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

138401–138500

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138445 Westenburger 2000 JF2 Carl-Heinz Westenburger (1924–2008), German painter, printmaker and conservationist JPL · 138445

138501–138600

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

138601–138700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
138626 Tanguybertrand 2000 QM248 Tanguy Bertrand (b. 1989), a French planetary astronomer. IAU · 138626

138701–138800

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

138801–138900

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

138901–139000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
138979 Černice 2001 CM32 The small Czech village of Černice, located in the South Bohemian Region above the Vltava river JPL · 138979

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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