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.
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]
Verkhivnya, a small Ukrainian village, where French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote La Marâtre, Les Paysans and part of La Comédie humaine at the estate of his wife, countess Evelina Hańska
Tenagra, mythical island mentioned ("Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra") in the Darmok episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation, and the namesake of the discovering Tenagra II Observatory
Tibor Vámos (born 1926) is an electrical engineer, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the father of data communication in Hungary. He was the winner of the 2005 annual science communication award of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists.
Diana E. Wheeler (born 1950) made fundamental contributions to understanding the physiological basis of caste determination in social insects. Her research blazed the trail for uncovering the relationship between environmental factors and physiology and the evolution of eusociality which is at the core for gene-environment interactions.
Lucie Maquet (born 1985), French astronomer who researches cometary non-gravitational forces at IMCCE in Paris, and observer at the Pic du Midi Observatory