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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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| 130,001–131,000 edit | ||
| There are as yet no named minor planets in this span of numbers. | ||
| 131,001–132,000 edit | ||
| 131186 Pauluckas | 2001 DS | Paul Luckas, Australian amateur astronomer, supernova and minor planet hunter † |
| 131245 Bakich | 2001 FF1 | Michael E. Bakich, American historian of astronomy, author, and senior editor of Astronomy † |
| 131762 Csonka | 2002 AD11 | János Csonka, 19th-20th-century Hungarian engineer, inventor of the first Hungarian gas engine and co-inventor of the carburetor with Donát Bánki (this minor planet was discovered on the 150th anniversary of his birth) † |
| 131763 Donátbánki | 2002 AJ11 | Donát Bánki, 19th-20th-century Hungarian mechanical engineer, co-inventor, with János Csonka, of the carburetor in 1893 † |
| 132,001–133,000 edit | ||
| 132445 Gaertner | 2002 GD178 | Christian Gaertner, German craftsman, merchant, amateur astronomer, and astronomy populariser † |
| 132524 APL | 2002 JF56 | The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), developers of numerous space missions, including NEAR Shoemaker and many others † |
| 132661 Carlbaeker | 2002 LO60 | Carl Wilhelm Baeker, 19th century German watchmaker and amateur astronomer, discoverer and co-discoverer of six comets † |
| 132718 Kemény | 2002 ON27 | John George Kemeny (Kemény János György), 20th-century Hungarian-born American mathematician, co-developer of the BASIC programming language † |
| 132719 Lambey | 2002 PF | Bernard Lambey, French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Société astronomique de Montpellier (Astronomical Society of Montpellier) † |
| 132792 Scottsmith | 2002 PB152 | P. Scott Smith, American physics teacher, primarily responsible for inspiring the discoverer to become an astronomer † |
| 132798 Kürti | 2002 PU167 | Stefan Kürti, Slovakian amateur astronomer and minor planet discoverer † |
| 132820 Miskotte | 2002 QX65 | Koen Miskotte, Dutch confectioner and amateur astronomer, active within the Dutch Meteor Society † |
| 132825 Shizu-Mao | 2002 QT85 | Ye Mao (Shiqing), 13th-14th-century Chinese chief executive of Zibei County (now Wenchang City), Shizu ("earliest ancestor") of the discoverer † |
| 132874 Latinovits | 2002 RV118 | Zoltán Latinovits, 20th-century Hungarian actor (the minor planet was discovered on his 71st birth anniversary) † |
| 133,001–134,000 edit | ||
| 133250 Rubik | 2003 RK8 | Ernő Rubik, Hungarian architect and professor, internationally renowned for designing mechanical puzzles and games † |
| 133280 Bryleen | 2003 SM17 | Bryan and Eileen, son and daughter of the discoverer † |
| 133293 Andrushivka | 2003 SA33 | Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory, Zhytomyr, Ukraine, the discovery site (and its first discovery) † |
| 133296 Federicotosi | 2003 SE36 | Federico Tosi, Italian astronomer and space scientist † |
| 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 † |
| 133527 Fredearly | 2003 TZ | Frederick and Pearl Young, paternal grandparents of the discoverer † |
| 133528 Ceragioli | 2003 TC2 | Roger Ceragioli, American optician and telescope maker (formerly scholar of classical studies specializing in ancient Greek ethno-astronomy) † |
| 133552 Itting-Enke | 2003 UJ4 | Sonja Itting-Enke, Namibian founder of the Cuno Hoffmeister Memorial Observatory and astronomical educator † |
| 133753 Teresamullen | 2003 WU25 | Teresa Mullen, American member of the Huachuca Astronomy Club of Sierra Vista, Arizona, and wife of vice-president Keith Mullen (see 159827 Keithmullen) † |
| 134,001–135,000 edit | ||
| 134124 Subirachs | 2005 AM | Josep Maria Subirachs, Catalan sculptor and painter † |
| 134160 Pluis | 2005 BE3 | Pluis, nickname of Aina Vandenabeele, the discoverer's niece, who died of leukemia at six months of age (this minor planet is a tribute to all children with cancer) † |
| 134244 De Young | 2006 AA4 | Mike De Young, American teacher, who runs the Rehoboth Christian School observatory and is the local liaison for the Calvin-Rehoboth Robotic Observatory † |
| 134329 Cycnos | 2377 T-3 | Cycnos, ally of Priam, son of Poseidon by a nymph, strangled by Achilles † |
| 134340 Pluto[1][2] | — | Pluto, Roman god of the Underworld, similar to the Greek Hades (see also (134340) Pluto I Charon, (134340) Pluto II Nix, and (134340) Pluto III Hydra) |
| 134348 Klemperer | 1992 UX9 | Victor Klemperer, German son of a rabbi, who kept a diary of life under the Nazi tyranny, starting in 1933 † |
| 135,001–136,000 edit | ||
| 135069 Gagnereau | 2001 PV28 | Éric Gagnereau, French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Société astronomique de Montpellier (Astronomical Society of Montpellier) and of the Observatoire des Pises † |
| 135268 Haigneré | 2001 SX115 | Claudie and Jean-Pierre Haigneré, French astronauts (Claudie was born in Le Creusot, the discovery site) † |
| 135561 Tautvaisiene | 2002 FK5 | Gražina Tautvaišienė, Lithuanian astronomer, director of the Teorinės fizikos ir astronomijos institutas (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy) in Vilnius since 2003 † |
| 136,001–137,000 edit | ||
| 136108 Haumea | 2003 EL61 | Haumea, Hawaiian goddess of childbirth and fertility, a personification of stone, and two of her daughters, Hiʻiaka and Namaka † ‡ |
| 136199 Eris | 2003 UB313 | Eris, goddess of discord, † ‡ + and her daughter Dysnomia (Greek Δυσνομία, "lawlessness") ((136199) Eris I Dysnomia) ∙ |
| 136472 Makemake | 2005 FY9 | Makemake, creator deity of the people of Rapa Nui (Easter Island; the discovery team previously used the codename "Easterbunny" for this object) † ‡ |
| 136557 Neleus | 5214 T-2 | Neleus, husband to Chloris and father of the Greek Nestor, banished with his other children to Messina and later killed by Heracles † |
| 136818 Selqet | 1997 MW1 | Selqet, ancient Egyptian goddess of magic, protector of the other gods from the destroyer, Apep † |
| 137,001–138,000 edit | ||
| There are as yet no named minor planets in this span of numbers. | ||
| 138,001–139,000 edit | ||
| There are as yet no named minor planets in this span of numbers. | ||
| 139,001–140,000 edit | ||
| 139028 Haynald | 2001 DL89 | Lajos Haynald, 19th-century Hungarian cardinal and Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács, botanist, patron of the sciences, who had the astronomical observatory (Haynald Obszervatórium) built in Kalocsa † |
| Preceded by 120,001–130,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 130,001–131,000 |
Succeeded by 140,001–150,000 |