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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
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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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