Meanings of minor planet names: 125001–126000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
125001–125100
125071 Lugosi 2001 TX242 Béla Lugosi, early 20th-century Hungarian actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the Broadway stage production (1927) and subsequent film (1931) of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story
125076 Michelmayor 2001 UD6 Michel Mayor (b. 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University.
125401–125500
125473 Keisaku 2001 WP14 Keisaku Ninomiya, a medical doctor who studied Western medicine and pharmaceutics under the German doctor P. F. von Siebold in Nagasaki
125476 Frangarcia 2001 WE16 Francisco Garcia, Spain amateur astronomer
125501–125600
125592 Buthiers 2001 XO33 Observatoire de Buthiers, the discovery site
125701–125800
125718 Jemasalomon 2001 XH105 Jean-Marc Salomon, French amateur astronomer; the 0.6-m telescope with which this minor planet was discovered is also named in his honour
Preceded by
124,001–125,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 125,001–126,000
Succeeded by
126,001–127,000
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