Meanings of minor planet names: 214001–215000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
214001–214100
214081 Balavoine 2004 HL31 Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter.
214101–214200
214136 Alinghi 2005 AQ27 "Alinghi" is the name of the Swiss yacht, operated by the Société nautique de Genève that won the America's Cup.
214180 Mabaglioni 2005 CO77 Maurizio Baglioni (born 1947) graduated in electrical engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". He works in engineering and management. His main interests are in celestial mechanics and archeoastronomy, where he focused on astronomical studies of the ancient Assyrians, Babylonians and Mayans.
214301–214400
214378 Kleinmann 2005 LW23 Georges Kleinmann, retired journalist and producer for Swiss public television who covered the Apollo space missions.
214401–214500
214475 Chrisbayus 2005 TS14 Chris Bayus, American amateur astronomer and an accomplished astrophotographer.
214476 Stephencolbert 2005 TO15 Stephen Colbert, American political satirist, writer, comedian, actor and television host.
214485 Dupouy 2005 UV7 Philippe Dupouy, founder of the Observatoire de Dax in 1978.
214487 Baranivka 2005 UP12 The town of Baranivka is known for one of the oldest plants for the production of porcelain in Ukraine.
214701–214800
214715 Silvanofuso 2006 TF7 Silvano Fuso, teacher and a science writer, who worked in the field of molecular spectroscopy.
214801–214900
214819 Gianotti 2006 VK2 Fabiola Gianotti (b. 1960), the coordinator of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
214883 Yuanxikun 2007 RL232 Yuan Xikun (b. 1944), a Chinese sculptor and painter.
214801–215000
214911 Viehboeck 2007 TM184 Franz Viehboeck, first Austrian astronaut.
214953 Giugavazzi 2007 WN55 Giuseppe Gavazzi (b. 1936), a painter and sculptor.
Preceded by
213,001–214,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 214,001–215,000
Succeeded by
215,001–216,000
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