Meanings of asteroid names (46001-47000)
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 46001... 46101... 46201... 46301... 46401... 46501... 46601... 46701... 46801... 46901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 46001-46100 | ||
| 46053 Davidpatterson | 2001 DB77 | David Patterson, American amateur astronomer, founding member of the Huachuca Astronomy Club † ‡ |
| 46095 Frédérickoby | 2001 ER25 | Frédéric-Édouard Koby, Swiss ophthalmologist and paleontologist, specialist on the cave bear † |
| 46201-46300 | ||
| 46280 Hollar | 2001 KD18 | Václav Hollar, 17th-century Czech painter and graphic artist † |
| 46301-46400 | ||
| 46392 Bertola | 2002 AO6 | Francesco Bertola, Italian author, professor of astrophysics and director of the astronomy department at Padua University † |
| 46401-46500 | ||
| 46441 Mikepenston | 2002 LE30 | Michael Penston, British astronomer † |
| 46442 Keithtritton | 2002 LK35 | Keith P. Tritton, British astronomer; the discoverers recently found his lost short-period comet D/1978 C1, now known as 157P/Tritton † |
| 46501-46600 | ||
| 46514 Lasswitz | 1977 JA | Kurd Lasswitz, German philosopher and poet † |
| 46563 Oken | 1991 RY3 | Lorenz Oken, German professor of medicine and Romantic natural philosopher, founder of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte (Society of German Naturalists and Physicians) † |
| 46568 Stevenlee | 1991 SL | Steven Lee, Australian astronomer, discoverer of comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) † |
| 46601-46700 | ||
| 46610 Bésixdouze | 1993 TQ1 | The number 46610 translates to the hexadecimal B612 (the French "bé-six-douze" stands for "b-six-twelve"), the designation of the fictitious minor planet on which Saint-Exupéry's Petit Prince lived † |
| 46643 Yanase | 1995 KM | Takashi Yanase, Japanese cartoonist † |
| 46644 Lagia | 1995 OF | Livia "Lagia" Giacomini, Italian scientific journalist and astrophysicist † |
| 46692 Taormina | 1997 CW1 | Taormina, Sicily † |
| 46701-46800 | ||
| 46702 Linapucci | 1997 DX | Lina Pucci, mother of the first discoverer † |
| 46719 Plantade | 1997 PJ | François de Plantade, French cartographer and astronomer, founder of the Société royale des sciences de Montpellier (Royal Society of Sciences of Montpellier) † |
| 46720 Pierostroppa | 1997 PO4 | Piero Stroppa, Italian physics teacher and astronomy populariser, who worked for the magazine Nuovo Orione † |
| 46731 Prieurblanc | 1997 TB18 | Pierre Prieur-Blanc, one of the three people involved in the construction of the Observatoire de Paris' coronagraphic station on Pic de Château-Renard at Saint-Véran in the Hautes-Alpes † |
| 46737 Anpanman | 1997 VO | Anpanman, Takashi Yanase's cartoon hero, whose head is a bun filled with sweet bean jam † |
| 46793 Phinney | 1998 JP | Jeffrey L. Phinney, American astronomer † |
| Preceded by 45001–46000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (46001-47000) |
Succeeded by 47001–48000 |
