Meanings of minor planet names: 234001–235000

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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]

234001–234100

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234026 Unioneastrofili 1998 SJ35The Italian Amateur Astronomers Union (Italian: Unione Astrofili Italiani; UAI). It was founded in 1967, and counts over 1000 members and releases the peer-reviewed magazine Astronomia. The UAI has many research sections and undertakes scientific popularization and didactics, with the co-operation of the Ministry of Education and Universities. JPL  · 234026

234101–234200

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234201–234300

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234292 Wolfganghansch 2000 YL8Wolfgang Hansch (born 1954), a German geologist, editor and lecturer, who is the founder and managing director of the science center experimenta gGmbH in Heilbronn, Germany. IAU  · 234292
234294 Pappsándor 2000 YD32Sándor Papp (born 1949) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer, who has made more than 100,000 visual brightness estimation of variable stars. JPL  · 234294

234301–234400

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234401–234500

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234501–234600

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234601–234700

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234701–234800

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234750 Amymainzer 2002 NX69 Amy Mainzer (born 1974) is an American astronomer and member of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team. She was the principal investigator of a project to enhance WISE's ability to find new minor planets. The name was suggested by H. Bill. JPL  · 234750
234761 Rainerkracht 2002 OU32 Rainer Kracht (born 1948), is a German amateur astronomer who discovered more than two hundred comets on images taken by the SOHO spacecraft. The Kracht group comets are named after him. Kracht is also a discoverer of minor planets. The name was suggested by H. Bill. JPL  · 234761

234801–234900

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234901–235000

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234923 Bonnell 2002 TR382Jerry T. Bonnell (b. 1954), an American astrophysicist. IAU  · 234923

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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