Meanings of minor planet names: 111001–112000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
111401–111500
111468 Alba Regia 2001 YD5 Alba Regia, "White Region", the Roman name of the Hungarian town of Székesfehérvár, birthplace of the second discoverer
111501–111600
111558 Barrett 2002 AZ Michael Barrett, American amateur astronomer and eclipse chaser
111561 Giovanniallevi 2002 AH3 Giovanni Allevi (b. 1969) is an Italian piano soloist and composer of contemporary music.
111570 Ágasvár 2002 AG11 Ágasvár, a 635 m peak in the Mátra Mountains, and its Ágasvár hostel, a mountain station of Hungarian amateur astronomers
111594 Ráktanya 2002 AX66 Ráktanya, a famed hostel in the Bakony Mountains in Hungary
111601–111700
111660 Jimgray 2002 AP205 Jim Gray, American computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1998
111661 Mamiegeorge 2002 BP Mamie George, with her husband Albert George, created the George Foundation in 1945 to promote the future of Fort Bend County, Texas
111696 Helenorman 2002 CU14 Helen Belton Orman, American professor and artist
111801–111900
111818 Deforest 2002 DT Craig DeForest, American solar astronomer
111901–112000
111913 Davidgans 2002 GD David Gans, Jewish chronicler, mathematician, geographer and astronomer
Preceded by
110,001–111,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 111,001–112,000
Succeeded by
112,001–113,000
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