Meanings of asteroid names (133001-134000)

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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
133201-133300
133293 Andrushivka 2003 SA33 Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, the discovery site (and its first discovery)
133401-133500
133404 Morogues 2003 SS170 Morogues, France, famous for its white wine "appellation Menetou-Salon", and also for being the apex of one of the triangles used by Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre in 1795 for the calculation of the meridian
133501-133600
133552 Itting-Enke 2003 UJ4 Sonja Itting-Enke, Namibian founder of the Cuno Hoffmeister Memorial Observatory and astronomical educator
Preceded by
132001–133000
Meanings of asteroid names
List of asteroids (133001-134000)
Succeeded by
134001–135000