Meanings of minor planet names: 201001–202000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
201301–201400
201308 Hansgrade 2002 TK69 Hans Grade, 19th-20th-century German aviation pioneer, founder of the first German flight school.
201372 Sheldon 2002 TY349 Erin Sheldon (b. 1974), an American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
201401–201500
201497 Marcelroche 2003 JT17 Marcel Roche, physician, scientist and scientific leader.
201701–201800
201751 Steinhardt 2003 UZ314 Charles Steinhardt (b. 1981), an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
201777 Deronda 2003 WE98 Deronda Mayes, assistant astronomer at Table Mountain Observatory.
Preceded by
200,001–201,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 201,001–202,000
Succeeded by
202,001–203,000
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