Meanings of minor planet names: 290001–291000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
290001–290100
290001 Uebersax 2005 PP16 Robert Uebersax (b. 1963), a Swiss amateur astronomer.
290101–290200
290127 Linakostenko 2005 QC149 Lina Kostenko (b. 1930), a Ukrainian poetess
Preceded by
289,001–290,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 290,001–291,000
Succeeded by
291,001–292,000
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