Meanings of minor planet names: 203001–204000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
203601–203700
203602 Danjoyce 2002 ED Daniel P. Joyce, precision mirror maker and astronomy enthusiast
203701–203800
203773 Magyarics 2002 RL267 Rudolf Magyarics (born 1960), friend of the discover
203801–203900
203823 Zdanavicius 2002 TL303 Kazimieras Zdanavicius, leading researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in Vilnius
Preceded by
202,001–203,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 203,001–204,000
Succeeded by
204,001–205,000
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