Meanings of minor planet names: 186001–187000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
186001–186100
186007 Guilleminet 2001 QS100 Guilleminet Pierre Francois (1691-1755), an astronomer and mathematician of the Montpellier Royal Society of Sciences. He designed the Babote Observatory.
186801–186900
186832 Mosser 2004 FD76 Mosser Roger, famous French self-taught optician
186835 Normanspinrad 2004 FE92 Norman Spinrad, American science-fiction writer
Preceded by
185,001–186,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 186,001–187,000
Succeeded by
187,001–188,000
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