Meanings of minor planet names: 186001–187000

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]

186001–186100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
186007 Guilleminet 2001 QS100 Pierre-François de Guilleminet (1691–1755), a French astronomer and mathematician with the Montpellier Royal Society of Sciences and designer of the Babote Observatory. JPL · 186007

186101–186200

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186142 Gillespie 2001 TO245 Bruce Gillespie (born 1950), is an American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). He was the Apache Point Observatory Operations Site Manager and the SDSS-III and -IV Program Manager JPL · 186142

186201–186300

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

186301–186400

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

186401–186500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
186411 Margaretsimon 2002 PF152 Margaret Simon (born 1967), a strategic communications manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who served as the External Events Coordinator for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. JPL · 186411

186501–186600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186601–186700

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

186701–186800

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

186801–186900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
186832 Mosser 2004 FD76 Mosser Roger (1936–1990), a French self-taught optician JPL · 186832
186835 Normanspinrad 2004 FE92 Norman Spinrad (born 1940), American science-fiction writer JPL · 186835

186901–187000

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

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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