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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.
Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
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| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
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| 110,001–111,000 edit | ||
| 110288 Libai | 2001 SL262 | Li Bai, 8th-century Chinese poet, member of the group of scholars known as the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu (see 110289) † |
| 110289 Dufu | 2001 SM262 | Du Fu, 8th-century Chinese poet, one of the greatest along with Li Bai (see 110288) † |
| 110393 Rammstein | 2001 TC8 | Rammstein, the (East) German hard rock-metal group, named in turn after the city of Ramstein-Miesenbach where the 1988 air show disaster occurred † ‡ |
| 111,001–112,000 edit | ||
| 111468 Alba Regia | 2001 YD5 | Alba Regia, "White Region", the Roman name of the Hungarian town of Székesfehérvár, birthplace of the second discoverer † |
| 111558 Barrett | 2002 AZ | Michael Barrett, American amateur astronomer and eclipse chaser † |
| 111570 Ágasvár | 2002 AG11 | Ágasvár, a 635 m peak in the Mátra Mountains, and its Ágasvár hostel, a mountain station of Hungarian amateur astronomers † |
| 111696 Helenorman | 2002 CU14 | Helen Belton Orman, American professor and artist † |
| 111818 Deforest | 2002 DT | Craig DeForest, American solar astronomer † |
| 112,001–113,000 edit | ||
| 112233 Kammerer | 2002 KC15 | Andreas Kammerer, German physicist and amateur astronomer † |
| 112328 Klinkerfues | 2002 MU4 | Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues, 19th-century German astronomer and meteorologist † |
| 112797 Grantjudy | 2002 PH165 | Grant R. J. and Judy L. Harding, siblings-in-law of the discoverer † ‡ |
| 112798 Kelindsey | 2002 PR165 | Lindsey Annemarie and Kelsey Leanne Harding, nieces of the discoverer †‡ |
| 112900 Tonyhoffman | 2002 QS50 | Tony Hoffman, American poet, writer, editor, director of the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York, discoverer of several sungrazing comets and the NEO 2005 JB22 † |
| 113,001–114,000 edit | ||
| 113355 Gessler | 2002 RW240 | Nick Gessler, American co-director of UCLA's Human Complex Systems Program, and prolific meteorite discoverer † |
| 113390 Helvetia | 2002 SU19 | Latin name for Switzerland, where the asteroid was discovered; Helvetia is also an allegorical figure, symbol for the nation † |
| 113415 Rauracia | 2002 SN28 | Rauracia, a group of Celts who settled in the Jura area of Switzerland around 400 B.C. and the name of the official anthem of the Swiss canton of Jura (this is the first unusual object—a Hilda minor planet—discovered at the Jurassien-Vicques Observatory) † |
| 113949 Bahcall | 2002 TV313 | John Norris Bahcall, 20th-century American astrophysicist † |
| 114,001–115,000 edit | ||
| 114094 Irvpatterson | 2002 VX39 | W. Irwin Patterson, American biology professor emeritus at Texas Lutheran University † |
| 114096 Haroldbier | 2002 VA40 | Harold D. Bier, chemistry professor emeritus at Texas Lutheran University † |
| 114156 Eamonlittle | 2002 VH68 | Eamon Little, Irish astronomer, friend and colleague of the discoverers † |
| 114239 Bermarmi | 2002 WN | Bernard and Mary, parents of the discoverer, and his brother Michael † |
| 114649 Jeanneacker | 2003 EN52 | Jeanne Christophe, née Acker, the discoverer's mother † |
| 114703 North Dakota | 2003 FA120 | North Dakota † |
| 114828 Ricoromita | 2003 OL20 | Enrico Romita, Italian researcher † |
| 114829 Chierchia | 2003 OC21 | Luigi Chierchia, Italian professor of mathematical analysis, and recipient of the 1995 prize of the Institut Henri Poincaré † |
| 114990 Szeidl | 2003 QV69 | Béla Szeidl, Hungarian astronomer, director of the Konkoly Obszervatórium (Konkoly Observatory, 1974–1996) and president of IAU Commission 27 (Variable Stars, 1985–1988) † |
| 114991 Balázs | 2003 QY69 | Lajos G. Balázs, Hungarian astronomer, director of the Konkoly Obszervatórium (Konkoly Observatory, since 1996), co-discoverer of supernova 1969B † |
| 115,001–116,000 edit | ||
| 115058 Tassantal | 2003 RH8 | Antal Tass, Hungarian astronomer, and director of Konkoly Obszervatórium (Konkoly Observatory) in 1916–1936 † |
| 115312 Whither | 2003 SP215 | Whitney and Heather Young, granddaughters of the discoverer † |
| 115326 Wehinger | 2003 SC221 | Peter A. Wehinger, American astronomer, and development officer for the Giant Magellan Telescope † |
| 115331 Shrylmiles | 2003 SL224 | Shryl Miles, American campaigner against light pollution † |
| 115449 Robson | 2003 TG10 | Monty Robson, American founder and current director of the John J. McCarthy Observatory † |
| 115477 Brantanica | 2003 UK8 | Brandon and Brittany Danielson and Monica Rahn, grandchildren of the discoverer † |
| 115561 Frankherbert | 2003 UF80 | Frank Herbert, 20th-century American writer, best remembered for Dune † |
| 115801 Punahou | 2003 UW236 | Punahou School, Honolulu, Hawaii † |
| 115891 Scottmichael | 2003 VW2 | Scott and Michael Young, grandsons of the discoverer † |
| 115950 Kocherpeter | 2003 WT33 | Peter Kocher, Swiss amateur astronomer † |
| 116,001–117,000 edit | ||
| 116166 Andrémaeder | 2003 XJ | André Maeder, Swiss astronomer, former director of the Observatoire de Genève/Observatorium von Genf (Geneva Observatory) † |
| 116939 Jonstewart | 2004 GG39 | Jon Stewart, American comedian, satirist, actor, author and producer † |
| 117,001–118,000 edit | ||
| 117032 Davidlane | 2004 JN20 | David Lane, Canadian amateur astronomer, supernova hunter, and author of The Earth Centered Universe (a planetarium and telescope-control program) † |
| 117086 Lóczy | 2004 LZ23 | Lajos Lóczy, 19th-20th-century Hungarian geologist, first western geologist to describe the structure, geomorphology and stratigraphy of the mountain chains bordering the Tibetan Plateau † |
| 117156 Altschwendt | 2004 QV7 | Sternwarte Seng, Altschwendt, Austria, discovery site † |
| 117240 Zhytomyr | 2004 SX19 | Zhytomyr, Ukraine, the oblast in which Andrushivka, the discovery site, is found, and the birthplace of Sergej Korolev, Russian rocket engineer † |
| 117329 Spencer | 2004 XJ6 | Henry Spencer, Canadian computer scientist and small-satellite engineer † |
| 117381 Lindaweiland | 2004 YU | Linda Weiland, American zoning administrator of Cochise County, Arizona, and foe of light pollution † |
| 117413 Ramonycajal | 2005 AE13 | Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish physician and Nobel laureate † |
| 117430 Achosyx | 2005 AQ26 | "H"-"O"-"6" in French: the IAU observatory code (H06) of the discovery site, the Rent-A-Scope Observatory (Remote Astronomy Society Observatory), Mayhill, New Mexico † |
| 117435 Severochoa | 2005 AJ29 | Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born American biochemist and winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine † |
| 117439 Rosner | 2005 AR36 | Arnie and Nancy Rosner, American photographers † |
| 117506 Wildberg | 2005 CO25 | Wildberg, Germany, host city of Observatorium Wildberg † |
| 117539 Celletti | 2005 DJ1 | Alessandra Celletti, Italian astronomer † |
| 117572 Hutsebaut | 2005 EX33 | Robert Hutsebaut, Belgian amateur astronomer † |
| 117715 Carlkirby | 2005 GK1 | Carl Kirby, American amateur astronomer † |
| 117736 Sherrod | 2005 GQ22 | Clay Sherrod, American archaeologist, biomedical researcher, founder and director of the Arkansas Sky Observatories † |
| 117993 Zambujal | 1064 T-2 | Zambujal, Portugal, chalcolithic archaeological site † |
| 118,001–119,000 edit | ||
| 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") † |
| 118230 Sado | 1996 WY2 | Sado island, in the Sea of Japan, the place where Noh drama (one of the "World's Intangible Cultural Treasures") was born † |
| 118401 LINEAR | 1999 RE70 | Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR); this object was later reclassified as comet 176P/LINEAR (LINEAR 52) † |
| 118945 Rikhill | 2000 WS68 | Richard E. "Rik" Hill, American amateur astronomer "turned Pro", discoverer of several comets † |
| 119,001–120,000 edit | ||
| There are as yet no named minor planets in this span of numbers. | ||
| Preceded by 100,001–110,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 110,001–111,000 |
Succeeded by 120,001–130,000 |