Meanings of minor planet names: 144001–145000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
144001–144100
144096 Wiesendangen 2004 BV58 Wiesendangen, Switzerland, home of the discoverer and his family
144201–144300
144296 Steviewonder 2004 DF Stevie Wonder (b. 1950) is the stage name of Stevland Hardaway Morris. He is a blind American songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist. He has recorded more than 30 U.S. top ten hits and received 25 Grammy Awards.
144301–144400
144303 Mirellabreschi 2004 DD7 Mirella Breschi, Italian wife of the second discoverer
144333 Marcinkiewicz 2004 DT25 Ekhard Marcinkiewicz, Austrian amateur solar astronomer
144401–144500
144496 Reingard 2004 EZ66 Reingard Apitzsch, German wife of the discoverer
144501–144600
144552 Jackiesue 2004 FS4 Jackie Sue, wife of Robert Holmes and is active in the business component of the Astronomical Research Institute
144601–144700
144633 Georgecarroll 2004 FH80 George Carroll, 20th-century American builder of precision instruments, heliostats, and telescopes
144692 Katemary 2004 GC Katelyn Anne Marie Young, granddaughter of the discoverer
144701–144800
144752 Plunge 2004 HK Plunge, Lithuania, native town of Elena Petreikytė-Černienė, former teacher of astronomy and wife of the first discoverer
144769 Zachariassen 2004 HO20 Rayan Zachariassen (b. 1963), a Canadian computer scientist.
144901–145000
144907 Whitehorne 2004 YS3 Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian second vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC)
Preceded by
143,001–144,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 144,001–145,000
Succeeded by
145,001–146,000
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