Meanings of minor planet names: 155001–156000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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155001–155100 | |||
155083 Banneker | 2005 SE134 | Benjamin Banneker, freeborn African-American farmer, clockmaker, writer and scientist † | |
155101–155200 | |||
155116 Verkhivnya | 2005 TJ49 | Verkhivnya, Ukraine, where is the estate of countess Evelina Hańska, wife to the 18th-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac, who wrote La Marâtre, Les Paysans and part of La Comédie humaine here † | |
155138 Pucinskas | 2005 TM169 | Aloyzas Pucinskas, associate professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University † | |
155142 Tenagra | 2005 UD4 | Tenagra, mythical island mentioned ("Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra") in the Darmok episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation, and the namesake of the discovery site † | |
155201–155300 | |||
155290 Anniegrauer | 2005 XJ40 | Patricia Ann ("Annie") Purnell Grauer, American photographer, cook, homemaker, writer and a student of the night sky † | |
155401–155500 | |||
155438 Velásquez | 1998 DV | Diego Velásquez, the most famous Spanish painter † | |
155901–156000 | |||
155948 Maquet | 2001 QA73 | Lucie Maquet, studies cometary non-gravitational forces at IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris † | |
Preceded by 154,001–155,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 155,001–156,000 |
Succeeded by 156,001–157,000 |
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