Meanings of minor planet names: 118001–119000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
118101–118200
118102 Rinjani 2254 T-3 Rinjani, the 3726-m active volcano situated in Indonesia on the island of Lombok.
118172 Vorgebirge 1989 GU6 The Vorgebirge foothills, west of the Rhine, extending from Bonn to Cologne
118173 Barmen 1991 GZ10 Barmen, Germany (now incorporated into Wuppertal), whence the 1934 Synod issued the Barmen Declaration defining Protestant opposition to the National-Socialist ideology
118178 Rinckart 1992 SJ26 Martin Rinckart, 16th-century German author, composer, and theologian, who wrote the ecumenical hymn Nun danket alle Gott ("Now thank we all our God")
118194 Sabinagarroni 1994 SG Sabina Garroni, Italian amateur astronomer
118201–118300
118214 Agnesediboemia 1996 AG1 Agnese di Boemia (1211–1282), princess Anezka of the Premyslid family
118230 Sado 1996 WY2 Sado island, in the Sea of Japan, the place where Noh drama (one of the "World's Intangible Cultural Treasures") was born
118401–118500
118401 LINEAR 1999 RE70 Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR); this object was later reclassified as comet 176P/LINEAR (LINEAR 52)
118901–119000
118945 Rikhill 2000 WS68 Richard E. "Rik" Hill, American amateur astronomer "turned Pro", discoverer of several comets
Preceded by
117,001–118,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 118,001–119,000
Succeeded by
119,001–120,000
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