Meanings of minor planet names: 144001–145000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 144001–144100 | |||
| 144096 Wiesendangen | 2004 BV58 | Wiesendangen, Switzerland, home of the discoverer and his family † | |
| 144301–144400 | |||
| 144303 Mirellabreschi | 2004 DD7 | Mirella Breschi, Italian wife of the second discoverer † | |
| 144333 Marcinkiewicz | 2004 DT25 | Ekhard Marcinkiewicz, Austrian amateur solar astronomer † | |
| 144401–144500 | |||
| 144496 Reingard | 2004 EZ66 | Reingard Apitzsch, German wife of the discoverer † | |
| 144501–144600 | |||
| 144552 Jackiesue | 2004 FS4 | Jackie Sue, wife of Robert Holmes and is active in the business component of the Astronomical Research Institute † | |
| 144601–144700 | |||
| 144633 Georgecarroll | 2004 FH80 | George Carroll, 20th-century American builder of precision instruments, heliostats, and telescopes † | |
| 144692 Katemary | 2004 GC | Katelyn Anne Marie Young, granddaughter of the discoverer † | |
| 144701–144800 | |||
| 144752 Plunge | 2004 HK | Plunge, Lithuania, native town of Elena Petreikytė-Černienė, former teacher of astronomy and wife of the first discoverer † ‡ | |
| 144769 Zachariassen | 2004 HO20 | Rayan Zachariassen (b. 1963), a Canadian computer scientist. † | |
| 144901–145000 | |||
| 144907 Whitehorne | 2004 YS3 | Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian second vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) † | |
| Preceded by 143,001–144,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 144,001–145,000 |
Succeeded by 145,001–146,000 |