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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
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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