Meanings of minor planet names: 429001–430000

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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.

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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. PD-icon.svg 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]

429001–429100

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429031 Hannavonhoerner 2009 CJ4 Hanna von Hoerner (1942–2014) was a German astrophysicist and space entrepreneur. After studying physics at Heidelberg University she founded a company involved in the development of space instrumentation, primarily for solar system missions, such as Rosetta's COSIMA mass spectrometer JPL  · 429031
429032 Sebvonhoerner 2009 CN4 Sebastian von Hoerner (1919–2003) was a German astrophysicist and radio astronomer. After graduation and habilitation at Heidelberg he moved to the Green Bank radio observatory, contributing to the optimisation of radio telescope designs. He became one of the pioneers of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence JPL  · 429032
429033 Günterwendt 2009 CF5 Günter Wendt (1924–2010) was a German aeronautical engineer. After World War II he moved to the US and joined the crewed spaceflight program. He was pad leader during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Skylab missions and was the person who closed the spacecraft hatch and bade farewell to launching astronauts JPL  · 429033
429084 Dietrichrex 2009 RN27Dietrich Rex (1934–2016), a German physicist, university professor and head of the Spaceflight and Reactor Technology Institute of the Brunswick University of Technology. JPL  · 429084

429101–429200

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429120 Mikhaillavrov 2009 SW267Mikhail Ivanovich Lavrov (1927–2002) was an astrophysicist and a professor at Kazan University. He was a brilliant teacher of practical astrophysics, researcher on eclipsing binary stars, and one of the pioneers of computer analysis and modeling of light curves in the 1970s. JPL  · 429120
429136 Corsali 2009 TJ8 Andrea Corsali (1487–?) was an Italian explorer who traveled to Asia and the south seas aboard a Portuguese merchant vessel. He identified, located, illustrated and named the constellation now known as the Southern Cross. IAU  · 429136

429201–429300

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429301–429400

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429401–429500

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429501–429600

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429601–429700

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429701–429800

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429801–429900

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429901–430000

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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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