Meanings of minor planet names: 123001–124000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
123101–123200
123120 Peternewman 2000 SQ372 Peter R. Newman, British astronomer
123201–123300
123290 Manoa 2000 UH100 Manoa valley, on the island of Oahu, where the University of Hawai'i was founded in 1907 (the provisional designation's subscript stands for the university's centennial celebration of 2007)
123601–123700
123647 Tomáško 2000 YG66 Tomáš Kušnirák (b. 2002), the only child of the discoverers.
123801–123900
123818 Helenzier 2001 BC75 Helen Zier, American amateur astronomer, birder and volunteer in several scientific research programs
123852 Jánboďa 2001 CM37 Ján Boda, Slovak geophysicist and senior lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava
123860 Davederrick 2001 DX David Derrick, American educator, who built a private planetarium, space museum and observatory
Preceded by
122,001–123,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 123,001–124,000
Succeeded by
124,001–125,000
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