Meanings of minor planet names: 101001–102000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 101301–101400 | |||
| 101331 Sjöström | 1998 SA164 | Victor Sjöström (1879–1960), the father of Swedish film and one of the masters of world cinema, was a screen actor and film director. † | |
| 101701–101800 | |||
| 101721 Emanuelfritsch | 1999 EF3 | Emanuel Fritsch, railway engineer and regional representative of the Czech Tourist Club † | |
| 101722 Pursell | 1999 EX4 | Wallace Pursell (b. 1929), a co-founder of the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society and a lifelong amateur astronomer. † | |
| 101901–102000 | |||
| 101902 Gisellaluccone | 1999 RN | Gisella Luccone, friend of the discoverer † | |
| 101955 Bennu | 1999 RQ36 | Bennu, an Egyptian mythological figure associated with Osiris, Atum and Ra † | |
| 101960 Molau | 1999 RR38 | Sirko Molau (born 1971) is a software programmer who developed software for the real-time detection of meteors on a video stream † | |
| Preceded by 100,001–101,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 101,001–102,000 |
Succeeded by 102,001–103,000 |