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]
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
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There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591426 Adalawson | 2013 RP21 | Ada Lawson (1870β1961), grandmother of the discoverer of the minor planet Norman Falla. Born in a small village in mid-Victorian England, she trained as a cook and housekeeper and passed her skills to her family. | IAU · 591426 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591592 Carlanderson | 2013 YX44 | Carl David Anderson (1905β1991), an American physicist. | IAU · 591592 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591763 Orishut' | 2014 ES12 | Orishut', a Russian village along the Yushut basin near the city of Yoshkar-Ola. It was named as part of the village's 200th anniversary. | IAU · 591763 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591861 Sergeyyazev | 2014 GE18 | Sergey Yazev (b.1958), a third-generation Siberian astronomer, professor at Irkutsk State University | IAU · 591861 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591964 Jakucs | 2014 JA49 | LΓ‘szlΓ³ Jakucs (1926β2001) was a Hungarian geologist and speleologist, who discovered the BΓ©ke Cave in the Aggtelek Karst. Jakucs organized, and led for 28 years, the Department of Natural Geography at the Szeged University. He also made a number of educational nature films. | IAU · 591964 |
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]
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591426 Adalawson | 2013 RP21 | Ada Lawson (1870β1961), grandmother of the discoverer of the minor planet Norman Falla. Born in a small village in mid-Victorian England, she trained as a cook and housekeeper and passed her skills to her family. | IAU · 591426 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591592 Carlanderson | 2013 YX44 | Carl David Anderson (1905β1991), an American physicist. | IAU · 591592 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591763 Orishut' | 2014 ES12 | Orishut', a Russian village along the Yushut basin near the city of Yoshkar-Ola. It was named as part of the village's 200th anniversary. | IAU · 591763 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591861 Sergeyyazev | 2014 GE18 | Sergey Yazev (b.1958), a third-generation Siberian astronomer, professor at Irkutsk State University | IAU · 591861 |
Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
---|---|---|---|
591964 Jakucs | 2014 JA49 | LΓ‘szlΓ³ Jakucs (1926β2001) was a Hungarian geologist and speleologist, who discovered the BΓ©ke Cave in the Aggtelek Karst. Jakucs organized, and led for 28 years, the Department of Natural Geography at the Szeged University. He also made a number of educational nature films. | IAU · 591964 |