Meanings of minor planet names: 127001–128000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
127001–127100
127005 Pratchett 2002 GY1 Terry Pratchett, popular English author
127101–127200
127196 Hanaceplechová 2002 HH Hana Ceplechová, served as a secretary in the Interplanetary Matter Department of the Ondrejov Observatory for three decades
127515 Nitta 2002 TY306 Atsuko Nitta, Japanese-American astronomer
127516 Oravetz 2002 TT307 Daniel Oravetz, American astronomer
127517 Kaikepan 2002 TJ371 Kaike Pan, Chinese-American astronomer
127545 Crisman 2002 XZ91 James Crisman, president of the Astronomy Club of Sun City West (Arizona) in 1986 and for 13 years
127601–127700
127689 Doncapone 2003 EE17 Don Giuseppe Capone, rector of the diocesan Seminar of Alatri since 1956
127801–127900
127870 Vigo 2003 FE123 Vigo, Galicia, Spain, the first discoverer's birthplace
Preceded by
126,001–127,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 127,001–128,000
Succeeded by
128,001–129,000
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