Meanings of minor planet names: 375001–376000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
375001–375100
375043 Zengweizhou 2007 JV22 Zeng Wei-Zhou (1988–2015), a Chinese amateur astronomer.
375801–375900
375832 Yurijmedvedev 2009 UH92 Yurij Dmitrievich Medvedev (b. 1955), the head of the Solar System Small Bodies Laboratory of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Preceded by
374,001–375,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 375,001–376,000
Succeeded by
376,001–377,000


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