Meanings of minor planet names: 228001–229000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 228001–228100 | |||
| 228029 MANIAC | 2008 GN | MANIAC was an early computer, based on the von Neumann architecture. † | |
| 228101–228200 | |||
| 228110 Eudorus | 2008 TC9 | Eudorus, one of the captains of Achilles' fierce Myrmidon troops. † | |
| 228133 Ripoll | 2009 QM22 | Andrés Ripoll (born 1933) was involved in the Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz and Skylab space programs. He was the founder and manager of the Villafranca del Castillo tracking station (Spain) and the European Astronaut Centre (Germany). He has received awards for his extensive professional and research activities. † | |
| 228135 Sodnik | 2009 RE4 | Zoran Sodnik (born 1957), manager of the European Space Agency's Optical Ground Station. † | |
| 228136 Billary | 2009 RF4 | William Griffith (born 1956) and Hillary U. Galkin (born 1956), avid amateur astronomers from southern California. † | |
| 228165 Mezentsev | 2009 SJ170 | Andrey Georgievich Mezentsev (born 1949), a Russian astronomer, solar physics expert, coronal holes researcher, lecturer in Petrozavodsk State University and astronomy popularizer. † | |
| 228180 Puertollano | 2009 TE5 | Puertollano, an industrial city in the province of Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. † | |
| 228801–228900 | |||
| 228883 Cliffsimak | 2003 PT4 | Clifford Donald Simak (1904–1988), an American science-fiction writer. † | |
| 228893 Gerevich | 2003 RL8 | Aladár Gerevich (1910–1991), a fencer from Hungary, who is regarded as the greatest Olympic swordsman ever. † | |
| Preceded by 227,001–228,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 228,001–229,000 |
Succeeded by 229,001–230,000 |
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