Meanings of minor planet names: 141001–142000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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 number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.[4][5]

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]

141001–141100 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141101–141200 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
141128 Ghyoot 2001 XR88 Herman Ghyoot (born 1941), founder and first president of the Public Observatory Beisbroek (Volkssterrenwacht vzw Beisbroek; Observatoire de Beisbroek) in Bruges, Belgium (also see 121313 Tamsin). IAU · 141128

141201–141300 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141301–141400 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141401–141500 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
141414 Bochanski 2002 AK205 John Bochanski (born 1980), an American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, is known for his research on the luminosity function of low-mass stars and the structure of the Milky Way. JPL · 141414
141496 Bartkevicius 2002 ED13 Antanas Bartkevičius (born 1940), Lithuanian astronomer and professor in astronomy at the Vilnius Pedagogical University JPL · 141496

141501–141600 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141601–141700 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141701–141800 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141801–141900 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

141901–142000 edit

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
141995 Rossbeyer 2002 PU154 Ross A. Beyer (born 1975) is an American research scientist at Ames Research Center, who was a member of the geology science team for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. JPL · 141995

References edit

  1. ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  6. ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
  7. ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.


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List of minor planets: 141,001–142,000
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