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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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