Meanings of minor planet names: 289001–290000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
289001–289100
289020 Ukmerge 2004 TG115 Ukmerge, a city with 22 000 inhabitants in Vilnius County, Lithuania, located 78 km north-west of Vilnius.
289021 Juzeliunas 2004 TM115 Gediminas Juzeliunas (b. 1958), a Lithuanian physicist.
289085 Andreweil 2004 TC244 André Weil (1906–1998), a French mathematician.
289301–289400
289314 Chisholm 2005 AS23 Eric Chisholm (b. 1975), an engineering physicist.
289501–289600
289586 Shackleton 2005 FZ4 Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922), an Anglo-Irish explorer.
289587 Chantdugros 2005 FB5 Le Chant du Gros, an open air music festival founded by Gilles Pierre in 1991 and held in Le Noirmont, Switzerland.
289601–289700
289608 Wanli 2005 GB22 Wanli, the professional name of Japanese painter Mari Furukawa (b. 1973).
289901–290000
289992 Onfray 2005 PF6 Michel Onfray (b. 1959), a French philosopher.
Preceded by
288,001–289,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 289,001–290,000
Succeeded by
290,001–291,000
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