Meanings of minor planet names: 112001–113000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
112201–112300
112233 Kammerer 2002 KC15 Andreas Kammerer, German physicist and amateur astronomer
112301–112400
112328 Klinkerfues 2002 MU4 Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, 19th-century German astronomer and meteorologist
112601–112700
112656 Gines 2002 PM86 Gines Lopez (1933–2008), a good friend and collaborator of the discoverer.
112701–112800
112797 Grantjudy 2002 PH165 Grant R. J. and Judy L. Harding, siblings-in-law of the discoverer
112798 Kelindsey 2002 PR165 Lindsey Annemarie and Kelsey Leanne Harding, nieces of the discoverer
112801–112900
112900 Tonyhoffman 2002 QS50 Tony Hoffman, American poet, writer, editor, director of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, discoverer of several sungrazing comets and the NEO 2005 JB22
Preceded by
111,001–112,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 112,001–113,000
Succeeded by
113,001–114,000
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