Meanings of minor planet names: 368001–369000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
368501–368600
368588 Lazrek 2004 RP24 Mohamed Lazrek (b. 1958), a researcher in Cadi Ayyad University’s department of physics in Marrakech.
368601–368700
368617 Sebastianotero 2004 TM10 Sebastian Otero (b. 1973), an active amateur astronomer in Argentina.
368701–368800
368719 Asparuh 2005 UT12 Asparuh (640-701), the founder of the Bulgarian country.
Preceded by
367,001–368,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 368,001–369,000
Succeeded by
369,001–370,000


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