Meanings of minor planet names: 135001–136000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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135001–135100 | |||
135069 Gagnereau | 2001 PV28 | Éric Gagnereau, French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Société astronomique de Montpellier (Astronomical Society of Montpellier) and of the Observatoire des Pises † | |
135201–135300 | |||
135268 Haigneré | 2001 SX115 | Claudie and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, French astronauts (Claudie was born in Le Creusot, the discovery site) † | |
135501–135600 | |||
135561 Tautvaisiene | 2002 FK5 | Gražina Tautvaišienė, Lithuanian astronomer, director of the Teorinės fizikos ir astronomijos institutas (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy) in Vilnius since 2003 † | |
135701–135800 | |||
135799 Ráczmiklós | 2002 RZ111 | Miklós Rácz (b. 1947), a Hungarian physicist, the head of the technical department of the Konkoly Observatory between 2000 and 2011. † | |
135901–136000 | |||
135978 Agüeros | 2002 TD304 | Marcel Agüeros, French-Puerto Rican astronomer † | |
135979 Allam | 2002 TZ368 | Sahar Allam, Egyptian astronomer † | |
135980 Scottanderson | 2002 TG369 | Scott F. Anderson, American astronomer † | |
Preceded by 134,001–135,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 135,001–136,000 |
Succeeded by 136,001–137,000 |
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