Meanings of minor planet names: 148001–149000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
148001–148100
148081 Sunjiadong 1999 AW23 Sun Jiadong, aerospace-technologist-academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
148301–148400
148384 Dalcanton 2000 SV373 Julianne Dalcanton, American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
148601–148700
148604 Shobbrook 2001 RO63 John Shobbrook is a friend and loyal supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observatory
148701–148800
148707 Dodelson 2001 SC353 Scott Dodelson, American physicist and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
148780 Altjira 2001 UQ18 Altjira, central god of the Dreamtime according to the mythology of the Arrernte of central Australia, who created the Earth and then retired to the sky
Preceded by
147,001–148,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 148,001–149,000
Succeeded by
149,001–150,000
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