Meanings of minor planet names: 156001–157000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
156501–156600
156542 Hogg 2002 CM314 David W. Hogg, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
156801–156900
156879 Eloïs 2003 EQ1 Eloïs Hernandez, son of Anne Véronique and Michel Hernandez, the latter being one of the discoverers
156880 Bernardtregon 2003 ES1 Bernard Tregon, French amateur astronomer
156901–157000
156939 Odegard 2003 FB120 John D. Odegard, an aviation visionary who started the flight-training program at the University of North Dakota in 1968
156990 Claerbout 2003 KX18 Jon Claerbout, prolific contributor to the theory and art of exploration seismology
Preceded by
155,001–156,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 156,001–157,000
Succeeded by
157,001–158,000
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