Meanings of minor planet names: 365001–366000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
365101–365200
365130 Birnfeld 2009 DU28 Birnfeld, a small village located in the Hassberge Nature Park in northern Bavaria, Germany.
365131 Hassberge 2009 DQ29 Hassberge, the name of a small and beautiful Nature Park located northwest of Bamberg, Germany.
365159 Garching 2009 DU111 Garching, a German city north of Munich.
365701–365800
365739 Peterbecker 2010 WS12 Peter Becker (1672-1753), a professor of mathematics at the University of Rostock, Germany.
365756 ISON 2010 WZ71 The International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) is an international collaboration of optical observatories. The main scientific tasks of the ISON network are the study of the populations of space debris and minor solar-system, and observation of the optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts.
365761 Popovici 2010 XQ4 Calin Popovici (1910-1977), a Romanian astronomer.
365786 Florencelosse 2010 YJ Florence Losse (b. 1963), a French teacher.
Preceded by
364,001–365,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 365,001–366,000
Succeeded by
366,001–367,000


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