Meanings of minor planet names: 187001–188000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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.

Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

187001–187100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

187101–187200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
187123 Schorderet 2005 QO84 Jean-Marcel Schorderet, retired director and producer at the Swiss public television JPL
187125 Marxgyörgy 2005 QD87 György Marx (1927-2002), a Hungarian physicist and astrophysicist. JPL

187201–187300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
187276 Meistas 2005 TM48 Edmundas Meistas, Lithuanian astronomer JPL
187283 Jeffhopkins 2005 TC66 Jeffrey Hopkins, leading amateur photometrist JPL

187301–187400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

187401–187500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

187501–187600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
187514 Tainan 2006 TM94 Tainan is located in southern Taiwan and is the oldest and the fifth-largest city on the island JPL

187601–187700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
187638 Greenewalt 2007 CH26 Crawford Greenewalt, witness of Fermi's first atomic chain reaction in 1942 JPL
187679 Folinsbee 2008 DC5 Robert E. Folinsbee, 20th-century Canadian geologist at the University of Alberta JPL
187680 Stelck 2008 DE5 Charles R. Stelck, Canadian paleontologist, stratigrapher and teacher JPL
187700 Zagreb 2008 EG8 Zagreb, the capital and the largest city of Croatia. JPL

187701–187800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
187707 Nandaxianlin 2008 EQ35 Nandaxianlin is the new campus of Nanjing University JPL
187709 Fengduan 2008 EW36 Feng Duan, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences JPL

187801–187900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

187901–188000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
186,001–187,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 187,001–188,000
Succeeded by
188,001–189,000
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