Meanings of minor planet names: 62001–63000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

62001–62100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
62071 Voegtli 2000 RH77 Christian Voegtli (Vögtli), Swiss physicist

62101–62200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
62190 Augusthorch 2000 SS44 August Horch, 19th-20th-century German engineer and automobile pioneer JPL

62201–62300

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

62301–62400

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

62401–62500

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

62501–62600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
62503 Tomcave 2000 SL233 Thomas Roland Cave III, American amateur astronomer

62601–62700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
62666 Rainawessen 2000 TA Raina Wessen (born 1994) has been the Key Club Treasurer and Associated Student Body Treasurer at Marshall Fundamental High School. She has held positions in her community for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Huntington Memorial Hospital and the Pasadena Humane Society. JPL

62701–62800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
62794 Scheirich 2000 UV30 Petr Scheirich (b. 1979), an astronomer at the Ondřejov Observatory. JPL

62801–62900

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

62901–63000

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
61,001–62,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 62,001–63,000
Succeeded by
63,001–64,000
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