Meanings of minor planet names: 108001–109000

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 span of numbers 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. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
108001–108100
108072 Odifreddi 2001 FN168 Piergiorgio Odifreddi (b. 1950), an Italian mathematician and logician.
108101–108200
108113 Maza 2001 GK1 José María Maza (b. 1948) has discovered 100 supernovae in 30 years of searching.From 1990 to 1996 he participated in the Calán-Tololo project calibrating type Ia supernovae for cosmological applications.
108140 Alir 2001 HO Alphonse and Irène Hernandez, parents of one of the discoverers
108201–108300
108201 Di Blasi 2001 HJ22 Giuseppe Di Blasi, Italian cousin of Dario Di Maria, one of the discoverers
108205 Baccipaolo 2001 HF23 Paolo Bacci, member of the Gruppo Astrofili Montagna Pistoiese
108301–108400
108382 Karencilevitz 2001 KM21 Karen Cilevitz, South African-born Canadian amateur astronomer, member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
108720 Kamikuroiwa 2001 OT23 Kamikuroiwa Iwakage Iseki, located in the town of Kuma Kogen, is the oldest grotto in Japan
108953 Pieraerts 2001 PM29 Godfried Thomas Pieraerts, Father at the Norbertine Abbey of Park Louvain (Belgium) and lived since 1964 in the Abbey of Grimbergen
Preceded by
107,001–108,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 108,001–109,000
Succeeded by
109,001–110,000
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