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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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