Meanings of minor planet names: 195001–196000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
195501–195600
195600 Scheithauer 2002 JH148 Christian Friedrich Scheithauer (1771–1846), a teacher and amateur astronomer in Chemnitz, Germany
195601–195700
195657 Zhuangqining 2002 NN60 Zhuangqining (b. 1945), a teacher and the first Secretary-General of the Ningbo Astronomy Amateur Association of China.
195701–195800
195777 Sheepman 2002 PP154 Sheepman, the shabby but oracular creature is featured in two of Haruki Murakami's novels, A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance. The Sheepman appears as an unshaven man dressed in sheepskin who instructs the protagonist to "dance so it all keeps spinning."
195801–195900
195900 Rogersudbury 2002 RS41 Roger Sudbury (born 1938) provided leadership and expertise in the national security community since joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory in 1969. As a key senior leader at the Laboratory, he assisted in initiating the LINEAR Ceres Connection program.
195901–196000
195998 Skipwilson 2002 RO235 Ivan "Skip" Wilson, pioneer of systematic meteorite recovery
196000 Izzard 2002 RY237 Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comic and dramatic actor
Preceded by
194,001–195,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 195,001–196,000
Succeeded by
196,001–197,000
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