Meanings of asteroid names (68001-69000)
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 68001... 68101... 68201... 68301... 68401... 68501... 68601... 68701... 68801... 68901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 68101-68200 | ||
| 68109 Naomipasachoff | 2000 YH135 | Naomi Pasachoff, American scientific biographer and amateur astronomer † |
| 68144 Mizser | 2001 AW38 | Attila Mizser, one of the leaders of Hungarian amateur astronomy, editor-in-chief of Meteor † |
| 68201-68300 | ||
| 68218 Nealgalt | 2001 CO31 | Neal Galt, American amateur astronomer and newspaper columnist † |
| 68301-68400 | ||
| 68325 Begues | 2001 HO16 | Observatorio de Begues (a.k.a. "Observatori Astronòmic de Begues" in Catalan), an amateur observatory operated by Pepe Manteca in Barcelona (Catalonia), Spain † |
| 68401-68500 | ||
| 68410 Nichols | 2001 QB154 | Nichelle Nichols, American author and actress, best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek series † ‡ |
| 68448 Sidneywolff | 2001 SW4 | Sidney C. Wolff, American director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (1984-1987) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (1987-2001), president of the American Astronomical Society (1992-1994) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1985-1986), and a founding editor of the Astronomy Education Review † |
| 68701-68800 | ||
| 68718 Safi | 2002 DQ | Safi, Morocco, birthplace of the discoverer's wife † |
| 68719 Jangyeongsil | 2002 DW | Jang Yeongsil, fifteenth century Korean scientist (after whom the JangYeongSil Award, an annual Korean new technology product award, is also named) † |
| 68730 Straizys | 2002 EA13 | Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer † |
| 68779 Schöninger | 2002 FA3 | Schöninger (a.k.a. Šenýgl), 17th-19th-century German name of Kleť mountain, meaning "a place with a beautiful view" † |
| 68801-68900 | ||
| 68853 Vaimaca | 2002 HA9 | Vaimaca, one of the four "last charrás", native Uruguayans sold by the state to be exhibited in France in 1833; he had been a chief and served as a soldier in the army of the Uruguayan national hero José Artigas † |
| 68901-69000 | ||
| 68947 Brunofunk | 2002 PW156 | Bruno Funk, German amateur astronomer and founder and president of the Sternfreunde Donzdorf, an organisation of amateur astronomers in Donzdorf, and founder of the amateur observatory there, the Messelberg-Sternwarte (Messelberg Observatory) † ‡ + |
| 68948 Mikeoates | 2002 PX157 | Michael Oates, British amateur astronomer † |
| Preceded by 67001–68000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (68001-69000) |
Succeeded by 69001–70000 |
