Meanings of minor planet names: 369001–370000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
369001–369100
369088 Marcus 2008 GG44 Ella Marcus (1909-1982) was a Romanian astronomer who studied at Bucharest University and the Sorbonne.
369401–369500
369423 Quintegr’al 2009 WV195 Established in 2012 by five students of the Paris Conservatoire National Sup´erieur de Musique, Quintegr’al is a brass quintet consisting of Guillaume Fattet (trumpet), Fabien Verwaerde (trumpet), Guillaume Merlin (French horn), Nicolas Cunin (trombone) and Florian Schuegraf (tuba).
Preceded by
368,001–369,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 369,001–370,000
Succeeded by
370,001–371,000


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