Meanings of minor planet names: 233001–234000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
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233201–233300 | |||
233292 Brianschmidt | 2006 BV | Brian Schmidt (b. 1967), an American physicist † | |
233301–233400 | |||
233383 Assisneto | 2006 EP | Vicente Ferreira de Assis Neto (1936–2004), a Brazilian amateur astronomer. † | |
233401–233500 | |||
233472 Moorcroft | 2006 KB143 | Donald Ross Moorcroft (b. 1935), a Canadian physicist. † | |
233501–233600 | |||
233522 Moye | 2007 HB4 | Marcel Moye (1873-1939), a founding member of the Flammarion Astronomical Society of Montpellier, which administered the Babote observatory from 1902 to 1922. † | |
233547 Luxun | 2007 JR27 | Lu Xun (or Lu Hsün), the pen name of Zhou Shuren (1881–1936), one of the major Chinese writers of the twentieth century. † | |
233559 Pizzetti | 2007 PJ | Gianpaulo Pizzetti, Italian amateur astronomer. † | |
233601–233700 | |||
233653 Rether | 2008 QR | Romanian-born Hagen Rether (born 1969), a well-known cabaret artist in Germany. † | |
233661 Alytus | 2008 QZ32 | Alytus, a city in southern Lithuania. † | |
233701–233800 | |||
233707 Alfons | 2008 SA83 | Emmanuel Peterfalvi (b. 1967), known as "Alfons", is a French-German cabaret artist. † | |
233801–233900 | |||
233880 Urbanpriol | 2008 WF93 | Urban Priol (b. 1961), a German cabaret artist. † | |
233893 Honthyhanna | 2008 YW5 | Hanna Honthy (1893–1978), a Hungarian opera singer and actress. † | |
233901–234000 | |||
233943 Falera | 2008 YW5 | Falera, a municipality in the district of Surselva in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. † | |
233967 Vierkant | 2010 BN4 | Gisela Vierkant (born 1919), mother of the discoverer. † | |
Preceded by 232,001–233,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 233,001–234,000 |
Succeeded by 234,001–235,000 |
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