Meanings of minor-planet names: 214001–215000

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.

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. Public Domain 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]

214001–214100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214081 Balavoine 2004 HL31 Daniel Balavoine (1952–1986), French singer and songwriter. JPL · 214081

214101–214200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214136 Alinghi 2005 AQ27 Alinghi, the name of several Swiss yachts, operated by the Société Nautique de Genève. The crew won several races including the America's Cup in 2003. JPL · 214136
214180 Mabaglioni 2005 CO77 Maurizio Baglioni (born 1947) graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He works in engineering and management. His main interests are in celestial mechanics and archeoastronomy, where he focused on astronomical studies of the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians and Mayans. JPL · 214180

214201–214300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214290 Leeannmarshall 2005 GT206 LeeAnn Marshall (b. 1956), an American senior administrative coordinator at the Southwest Research Institute. IAU · 214290

214301–214400

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214378 Kleinmann 2005 LW23 Georges Kleinmann (born 1930), retired journalist and producer for Swiss public television who covered the Apollo space missions. JPL · 214378

214401–214500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214432 Belprahon 2005 QA57 Belprahon, a Swiss village located in the Bernese Jura, the French-speaking part of the canton of Bern. IAU · 214432
214474 Long Island 2005 TB14 Long Island, the 190-km-long, fish-shaped island that extends east from New York City. The island is composed of multiple terminal moraines deposited during the most recent glacial period. IAU · 214474
214475 Chrisbayus 2005 TS14 Chris Bayus (born 1957), American amateur astronomer and an accomplished astrophotographer. JPL · 214475
214476 Stephencolbert 2005 TO15 Stephen Colbert (born 1964), American political satirist, writer, comedian, actor and television host. JPL · 214476
214485 Dupouy 2005 UV7 Philippe Dupouy (born 1952), founder of the Observatoire de Dax in 1978. JPL · 214485
214487 Baranivka 2005 UP12 The Ukrainian town of Baranivka, known for one of the oldest plants for the production of porcelain JPL · 214487

214501–214600

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214558 Korányi 2006 QB1 Frigyes Korányi (1827–1913), Hungarian internist, university professor, and one of the early leading figures in Hungarian medicine. JPL · 214558

214601–214700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

214701–214800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214715 Silvanofuso 2006 TF7 Silvano Fuso (born 1959), Italian teacher and a science writer, who worked in the field of molecular spectroscopy JPL · 214715
214772 UNICEF 2006 UO64 The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a United Nations' program headquartered in New York City that provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. JPL · 214772

214801–214900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214819 Gianotti 2006 VK2 Fabiola Gianotti (born 1960), the coordinator of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider. JPL · 214819
214820 Faustocoppi 2006 VC14 Fausto Coppi (1919–1960), an Italian cyclist and the dominant international cyclist of the years before and after the Second World War. JPL · 214820
214863 Seiradakis 2006 YB55 John H. Seiradakis (born 1948) is a Greek radio astronomer, emeritus professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and former Director of the Observatory of Thessaloniki. He has contributed significantly to our knowledge of pulsars, archaeoastronomy, and of the Antikythera Mechanism, the earliest known astronomical computer. IAU · 214863
214883 Yuanxikun 2007 RL232 Yuan Xikun (born 1944), a Chinese sculptor and painter. JPL · 214883

214901–215000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
214911 Viehböck 2007 TM184 Franz Viehböck (born 1960), electrical engineer and first Austrian astronaut JPL · 214911
214928 Carrara 2007 VM8 Carrara is a town and municipality in the province of Massa-Carrara, Tuscany. It is the world's most important center for the extraction and processing of Carrara marble, a very precious white marble that is extracted from the nearby Apuane Alps. JPL · 214928
214953 Giugavazzi 2007 WN55 Giuseppe Gavazzi (born 1936), an Italian painter and sculptor JPL · 214953

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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List of minor planets: 214,001–215,000 		Succeeded by