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]
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547345 Kennethchambers | 2010 LA153 | Kenneth C. Chambers (b. 1956), an American astronomer. | IAU · 547345 |
547398 Turánpál | 2010 RX40 | Pál Turán (1910–1976) was a Hungarian mathematician who achieved significant results in the field of number theory, graph theory and classical analysis. His best-known result is Turán's theorem in graph theory. | IAU · 547398 |
547400 Szakcsilakatos | 2010 RD44 | Béla Szakcsi Lakatos (1943–2022), an Hungarian jazz pianist, keyboardist, arranger and composer | IAU · 547400 |
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547508 Perehorts | 2010 SF13 | Pere Horts Font (1956–2024), a Catalan scientific disseminator of astronomy. | IAU · 547508 |
547599 Virághalmy | 2010 TM163 | Géza Virághalmy (1932–2019) was a Hungarian physicist and astronomer. He was the long-time technical chief at the Konkoly Observatory and introduced CCD astronomy at the Piszkéstető Station. | IAU · 547599 |
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547612 Károligáspár | 2010 TA193 | Gáspár Károli (1529–1592), a Hungarian Calvinist pastor, author of the first complete Hungarian translation of the Bible. | IAU · 547612 |
547664 Ozdín | 2010 UR29 | Daniel Ozdín (b. 1972), a Slovak mineralogist. | IAU · 547664 |
547666 Morgon | 2010 UK30 | Villié-Morgon, is a small French village in the Rhône department, known for its appellations of the Beaujolais vineyard. | IAU · 547666 |
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547705 Paálgyörgy | 2010 UG115 | György Páal (1934–1992), a Hungarian physicist and cosmologist. He made significant contributions to theories on formation of galaxy clusters, the origin of the primordial universe, and the expansion of the universe. | IAU · 547705 |
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