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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 |
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 26, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.