Meanings of minor planet names: 157001–158000 (original) (raw)

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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]

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
157015 Walterstraube 2003 QL47 Johann Walter Straube (born 1937), a founding father of astronomy in Namibia. JPL · 157015
157020 Fertőszentmiklós 2003 QV68 Fertőszentmiklós is a small city in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary, and the birthplace of the second discoverer JPL · 157020
157064 Sedona 2003 SQ216 Sedona is a city located in northern Arizona, known mainly for scenic beauty of its red sandstone formations at the south end of the Oak Creek Canyon. JPL · 157064
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157141 Sopron 2004 PO1 The city of Sopron in Hungary, birthplace of astronomer Tamás Szalai who co-discovered this minor planet JPL · 157141
157194 Saddlemyer 2004 QR16 Leslie K. Saddlemyer (born 1959), Canadian systems engineer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, project manager for the Gemini Planetary Imager JPL · 157194
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157258 Leach 2004 RL165 Sidney Leach (born 1951) and Gloria Leach (born 1958) have spread their enthusiasm for astronomy around young people for years in schools and public events JPL · 157258
157271 Gurtovenko 2004 RK222 Ernest Andriyovych Gurtovenko (1928–1994), a Ukrainian astronomer and founder of the Kyiv school of the solar spectrography JPL · 157271
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157301 Loreena 2004 SE20 Loreena McKennitt (born 1957), Canadian singer, composer and instrumentalist JPL · 157301
157332 Lynette 2004 TL20 Donna Lynette Wells (born 1965), wife of the American astronomer Don J. Wells who discovered this minor planet JPL · 157332
157396 Vansevicius 2004 TM216 Vladas Vansevicius (born 1958) is a professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University and an expert in extragalactic astronomy, astrochemistry, galactic structure and multicolor photometry of stars and star clusters. He is an author of more than 120 scientific papers and many popular science articles. JPL · 157396
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157421 Carolpercy 2004 TX299 Carol Percy (born 1964), Canadian professor of English JPL · 157421
157456 Pivatte 2004 WT2 "Pivatte" is the name of the house of the discoverer Michel Ory, located in Delémont, Switzerland, from where he made his first discovery using a remote telescope at Tenagra Observatory in the United States JPL · 157456
157473 Emuno 2005 QH "Em Uno", Spanish spelling of "M1", a group of Spanish amateur astronomers JPL · 157473
157491 Rüdigerkollar 2005 RD22 Rüdiger Kollar (1925–2005), German astronomer and founder of the discovering Radebeul Public Observatory (German: Sternwarte "Adolph Diesterweg" Radebeul) JPL · 157491
157494 Durham 2005 RK28 Steve Durham (born 1951) and his wife Marge (born 1948) have worked tirelessly to promote astronomy to people living in the Adirondack Mountains JPL · 157494
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157533 Stellamarie 2005 TL49 Stella Marie Ries (born 2008), the niece of the discoverer Wolfgang Ries JPL · 157533
157534 Siauliai 2005 TZ49 Šiauliai, a city in Lithuania JPL · 157534
157541 Wachter 2005 UN8 Manfred Wachter (1938–2000) was a German telescope maker. He founded his company in 1963 in Stuttgart-Uhlbach and later moved to Bodelshausen. He was well known for his folded refractors with apertures of 100 mm to 230 mm, using lenses made by Dieter Lichtenknecker. JPL · 157541
157599 Verdery 2005 VK93 Roy Verdery III (b. 1947), an American physician and scientist IAU · 157599
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157640 Baumeler 2005 XS80 Martin Baumeler (born 1936), Swiss artisan who helped with the Observatoire Robert-A. Naef, the discovery site JPL · 157640
157693 Amandamarty 2006 AB Amanda Nicole Zawada (born 1987) and Martin Peter Mackinlay (born 1988) are geologists in Brisbane, Australia. JPL · 157693
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157721 Kölcsey 2006 BS26 Ferenc Kölcsey (1790–1838), a Hungarian poet, politician and language reformer. IAU · 157721
157747 Mandryka 2006 CS9 Nikita Mandryka (1940–2021), Tunisian-French cartoonist, creator of the Concombre masqué JPL · 157747
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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
  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.