Meanings of asteroid names (157001-158000)

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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Contents: 157001... 157101... 157201... 157301... 157401... 157501... 157601... 157701... 157801... 157901...

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
157001-157100
157101-157200
157194 Saddlemyer	2004 QR16	Leslie K. Saddlemyer, Canadian systems engineer at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, National Research Council of Canada, project manager for the Gemini Planetary Imager †
157201-157300
157301-157400
157332 Lynette	2004 TL20	Donna Lynette Wells, American wife of the discoverer †
157401-157500
157421 Carolpercy	2004 TX299	Carol Percy, Canadian professor of English †
157473 Emuno	2005 QH	"Em Uno", Spanish spelling of M1, a group of Spanish amateur astronomers †
157491 Rüdigerkollar	2005 RD22	Rüdiger Kollar, 20th-century German astronomer, founder and later director of the Sternwarte "Adolph Diesterweg" Radebeul (Radebeul Public Observatory), the discovery site †
157501-157600
157601-157700
157640 Baumeler	2005 XS80	Martin Baumeler, Swiss artisan who helped with the Observatoire Robert-A. Naef, the discovery site †
157701-157800
157747 Mandryka	2006 CS9	Nikita Mandryka, Tunisian-French cartoonist, creator of the Concombre masqué †
157801-157900
157901-158000

Preceded by 156001–157000

Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (157001-158000)

Succeeded by 158001–159000