Meanings of minor planet names: 187001–188000
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. 
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]
187001–187100
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
187101–187200
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187123 Schorderet | 2005 QO84 | Jean-Marcel Schorderet (born 1935), retired director and producer at the Schweizer Fernsehen of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation | JPL · 187123 |
| 187125 Marxgyörgy | 2005 QD87 | György Marx (1927–2002), a Hungarian physicist and astrophysicist. | JPL · 187125 |
187201–187300
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187276 Meistas | 2005 TM48 | Edmundas Meistas (born 1936), a Lithuanian astronomer and writer of popular science articles. Expert in stellar photometry, his research includes the structure of galaxies, interstellar extinction, and asteroseismology of white dwarfs. | JPL · 187276 |
| 187283 Jeffhopkins | 2005 TC66 | Jeffrey Hopkins (born 1940), leading amateur photometrist | JPL · 187283 |
187301–187400
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
187401–187500
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187410 Anitabrockie | 2005 VT60 | Anita Brockie (b. 1959), the memory care director and a nurse at a senior living facility in Tucson, Arizona. | IAU · 187410 |
| 187447 Johnmester | 2005 WD117 | John Clark Mester (born 1961), an American physicist and former Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Arizona, who was involved in the development and launch of the Gravity Probe B, a satellite-based experiment to test two unverified predictions of general relativity. | IAU · 187447 |
187501–187600
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187514 Tainan | 2006 TM94 | Tainan is located in southern Taiwan and is the oldest and the fifth-largest city on the island | JPL · 187514 |
| 187531 Omorichugakkou | 2006 UM63 | Omorichugakkou is the name of the junior high school in Suzaka-shi, Nagano prefecture, Japan. Students discovered this minor planet during one of the commemoration events for the 60th anniversary of the school's founding. | JPL · 187531 |
187601–187700
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187636 Chungyuan | 2007 CF13 | The Chung Yuan Christian University (CYCU, formerly Chung Yuan Christian College of Science and Engineering) was established in October 1955 and upgraded to the status of a full university in August 1980. After five decades, CYCU has more than 120,000 alumni. | JPL · 187636 |
| 187638 Greenewalt | 2007 CH26 | Crawford Greenewalt (1902–1993), an American chemical engineer who witnessed Fermi's first atomic chain reaction in 1942 | JPL · 187638 |
| 187669 Obastromca | 2008 CK5 | The Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca was founded in 1991. More than 100 numbered minor planets have been discovered there, including the Atira-class (367943) Duende. | IAU · 187669 |
| 187679 Folinsbee | 2008 DC5 | Robert E. Folinsbee (1917–2008), a Canadian geologist at the University of Alberta | JPL · 187679 |
| 187680 Stelck | 2008 DE5 | Charles R. Stelck (1917–2016), Canadian paleontologist, stratigrapher and teacher | JPL · 187680 |
| 187700 Zagreb | 2008 EG8 | The city of Zagreb, capital and the largest city of Croatia | JPL · 187700 |
187701–187800
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187707 Nandaxianlin | 2008 EQ35 | Nandaxianlin is the new campus of Nanjing University | JPL · 187707 |
| 187709 Fengduan | 2008 EW36 | Feng Duan (1923–), Chinese physicist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | JPL · 187709 |
187801–187900
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
187901–188000
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 187981 Soluri | 2001 QL307 | Michael R. Soluri (born 1946), a documentary photographer who worked as the official project photographer for the New Horizons mission to Pluto | JPL · 187981 |
References
[edit]- ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "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.