Meanings of asteroid names (118001-119000)
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As asteroid 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. The list below concerns those asteroids 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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.
Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 118101-118200 | ||
| 118172 Vorgebirge | 1989 GU6 | The Vorgebirge foothills, west of the Rhine, extending from Bonn to Cologne † |
| 118173 Barmen | 1991 GZ10 | Barmen, Germany (now incorporated into Wuppertal), whence the 1934 Synod issued the Barmen Declaration defining protestant opposition to the National-Socialist ideology † |
| 118178 Rinckart | 1992 SJ26 | Martin Rinckart, 16th-century German author, composer, and theologian, who wrote the ecumenical hymn Nun danket alle Gott ("Now thank we all our God") † |
| 118401-118500 | ||
| 118401 LINEAR | 1999 RE70 | Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR); this object was later reclassified as comet 176P/LINEAR (LINEAR 52) † |
| 118901-119000 | ||
| 118945 Rikhill | 2000 WS68 | Richard E. "Rik" Hill, American amateur astronomer "turned Pro", discoverer of several comets † |
| Preceded by 117001–118000 |
Meanings of asteroid names List of asteroids (118001-119000) |
Succeeded by 119001–120000 |
