Meanings of minor planet names: 268001–269000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
268101–268200
268115 Williamalbrecht 2004 TK9 William B. Albrecht (1917–2009), an active amateur astronomer.
268201–268300
268242 Pebble 2005 JW1 Pebble Johnson (born 1971), an innovative teacher of middle-school science and technology in Forsyth County, Georgia.
268601–268700
268669 Bunun 2006 FA The Bunun tribe is a native tribe of Taiwan.
Preceded by
267,001–268,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 268,001–269,000
Succeeded by
269,001–270,000
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