Meanings of minor planet names: 39001–40000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

Contents:
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
39301–39400
39335 Caccin 2002 AR12 Bruno Caccin, Italian astronomer
39336 Mariacapria 2002 AA13 Maria Teresa Capria, Italian astronomer
39382 Opportunity 2696 P-L Opportunity, Mars Exploration Rover B
39401–39500
39405 Mosigkau 1063 T-1 Mosigkau castle, near Dessau, Germany, a relic of the Rococo period, built between 1752 and 1757 as a summer residence for Princess Anna Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Dessau
39415 Janeausten 4231 T-1 Jane Austen, English novelist
39427 Charlottebrontë 3360 T-2 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet, best known for Jane Eyre
39428 Emilybrontë 4169 T-2 Emily Brontë, English novelist, who wrote only one novel, Wuthering Heights
39429 Annebrontë 4223 T-2 Anne Brontë, English novelist, the third, last and least well known of the Brontë sisters
39463 Phyleus 1973 SZ Phyleus, son of King Augeas of Elis, and father of Meges, who led the contingent from Dulichium to the Trojan War
39464 Pöppelmann 1973 UO5 Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, 17th-century German architect
39501–39600
39540 Borchert 1991 GF11 Wolfgang Borchert, German poet and writer
39549 Casals 1992 DP13 Pablo Casals, Spanish (Catalan)-American cellist, composer and conductor
39557 Gielgud 1992 JG John Gielgud, British actor
39558 Kishine 1992 KC Junichiro Kishine, Japanese theoretical physicist and amateur astronomer
39571 Pückler 1992 SN24 Herman Graf von Pückler, German landscaper and writer
39601–39700
39635 Kusatao 1994 YL Kusatao Nakamura, Chinese-born Japanese Haiku poet
39645 Davelharris 1995 QC10 David Lowell Harris, 20th-century American astronomer, member of the "pre-LINEAR" observing team at Socorro during 1995–1996
39677 Anagaribaldi 1996 EG Ana Maria de Jesus Ribeiro da Silva di Garibaldi (Anita Garibaldi), Brazilian-born heroine of the Italian resurgence and wife of Giuseppe Garibaldi
39678 Ammannito 1996 LQ1 Eleonora Ammannito, Italian astronomer and space scientist
39699 Ernestocorte 1996 TF8 Ernesto Corte, American entrepreneur, founder of Gamma-Metrics, pioneer in the application of radiation physics to elemental analysis of materials
39701–39800
39741 Komm 1997 AT6 Rudolf Walter Komm, American helioseismologist
39748 Guccini 1997 BJ3 Francesco Guccini, Italian folk composer and singer
39791 Jameshesser 1997 PH4 James E. Hesser, Canadian astronomer
39799 Hadano 1997 UO1 Hadano, Kanagawa, Japan, where the Hadano Astronomical Observatory is located
39801–39900
39809 Fukuchan 1997 WB30 Fukuchan, cartoon character created by Ryuichi Yokoyama
39849 Giampieri 1998 CF2 Giuliano Giampieri, friend of the first discoverer
39890 Bobstephens 1998 FA3 Robert Stephens, American amateur astronomer
39901–40000
39930 Kalauch 1998 FR74 Klaus-Dieter Kalauch, German amateur astronomer and teacher of astronomy, inspiration for the discoverer
39971 József 1998 GN10 Attila József, Hungarian poet
Preceded by
38,001–39,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 39,001–40,000
Succeeded by
40,001–41,000