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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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35001–35100 | ||
35056 Cullers | 1984 ST | Kent Cullers, American physicist † |
35062 Sakuranosyou | 1988 EP | Sakuranosyou, the Musashino Sakurano Elementary School, in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the school's founding † |
35101–35200 | ||
35165 Québec | 1993 QF1 | Quebec City, Québec, Canada † |
35197 Longmire | 1994 LH | Matthew J. Longmire, American(?) electrical engineer and pioneer of the astronomical CCD revolution † |
35201–35300 | ||
35222 Delbarrio | 1994 XD6 | Bianca Del Barrio, wife of Francesco Gallotti, a member of the Osservatorio di Montelupo (Montelupo Observatory) † |
35229 Benckert | 1995 FY20 | Johann Peter Benckert, 18th-century German sculptor † |
35233 Krčín | 1995 KJ | Jakub Krčín of Jelčany, 16th-century Czech hydraulic engineer, designer of ponds such as Rožmberk, Bohemia † |
35237 Matzner | 1995 QP | Antonín Matzner, Czech musicologist † |
35286 Takaoakihiro | 1996 TP9 | Akihiro Takao, Japanese amateur astronomer, member of the Matsue Astronomy Club † |
35301–35400 | ||
35313 Hangtianyuan | 1997 AC6 | Zhongguo Hangtianyuan Zhongxin (Astronaut Center of China), in Beijing Space City † |
35316 Monella | 1997 AW13 | Rinaldo Monella, Italian amateur astronomer † |
35334 Yarkovsky | 1997 FO1 | Ivan Osipovich Yarkovsky, 19th-century Russian engineer who put forward the idea of what is now called the Yarkovsky effect † |
35352 Texas | 1997 PD2 | Texas, United States † |
35356 Vondrák | 1997 SL3 | Jan Vondrák, Czech astronomer, president of IAU Division I, 2007 winner of the Nušl Prize of the Česká astronomická společnost (ČAS, Czech Astronomical Society) † |
35358 Lorifini | 1997 SL17 | Lorella Fini, daughter-in-law of the first discoverer † |
35364 Donaldpray | 1997 UT | Donald P. Pray, American amateur astronomer † |
35365 Cooney | 1997 UU | Walter R. Cooney Jr., American amateur astronomer † |
35370 Daisakyu | 1997 UF21 | Tottori-Dai-Sakyu ("Tottori Sand Dunes"), Japan's greatest sand dune, near Tottori City which merged with Saji Village, where the Saji Observatory is located, in 2004 † |
35401–35500 | ||
35403 Latimer | 1997 YW4 | Truett Latimer, American IMAX film producer and former president of the Houston Museum of Natural Science † |
35441 Kyoko | 1998 BH33 | Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer and Olympic gold medallist † |
35446 Stáňa | 1998 CK1 | Stáňa (Stanislava) Setváková, Czech staff member of the Prague Planetarium † |
35461 Mazzucato | 1998 DM23 | Michele T. Mazzucato, Italian amateur astronomer and author † |
35601–35700 | ||
35618 Tartu | 1998 ???? | Tartu, Estonia |
35701–35800 | ||
35703 Lafiascaia | 1999 FP10 | "La fiascaia", the woman who makes the straw coverings often present on Italian wine bottles, such as for chianti † |
35725 Tramuntana | 1999 FQ59 | Tramuntana, the principal mountain chain of Mallorca, Spain; it is also the name of the north wind † |
35901–36000 | ||
35977 Lexington | 1999 NA | Lexington, Massachusetts, "Birthplace of American Liberty" † |
35978 Arlington | 1999 NC | Arlington, Massachusetts, site of the heaviest fighting during the first day of the American Revolutionary War † |
Preceded by 34,001–35,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 35,001–36,000 |
Succeeded by 36,001–37,000 |