Meanings of minor planet names: 126001–127000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
126101–126200
126160 Fabienkuntz 2002 AF Fabien Kuntz (b. 1983), a French meteorite hunter and popular science writer from Besançon.
126201–126300
126245 Kandókálmán 2002 AY66 Kálmán Kandó, 19th-20th-century Hungarian engineer, one of the creators of the electric railway (the discovery occurred on his 133rd birth anniversary)
126301–126400
126315 Bláthy 2002 AH130 Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian electrical engineer
126401–126500
126444 Wylie 2002 CF16 Wylie Erwin Reeves, 20th-century American historian and high-school teacher
126445 Prestonreeves 2002 CH16 W. Preston Reeves, American chemistry professor emeritus at Texas Lutheran University
126501–126600
126578 Suhhosoo 2002 CK116 Master Ho Soo Suh, 18th-century Korean scientist
126701–126800
126748 Mariegerbet 2002 DP Marie Gerbet (b. 1989), a French meteorite hunter.
126749 Johnjones 2002 DQ1 John Jones, American astronomy popularizer, president of the Chicago Astronomical Society and general chairman of Astrofest
Preceded by
125,001–126,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 126,001–127,000
Succeeded by
127,001–128,000
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