Meanings of minor planet names: 66001–67000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 |
|---|---|---|
| 66201–66300 | ||
| 66207 Carpi | 1999 CB1 | Carpi, Italy † |
| 66401–66500 | ||
| 66458 Romaplanetario | 1999 QV1 | Planetario di Roma, the planetarium in Rome (a new one opened in 2004, replacing the older one which closed in 1984), where the discoverer also works † |
| 66479 Healy | 1999 RQ33 | David H. Healy, American astrophotographer and asteroid discoverer, an original contributor to Burnham's Celestial handbook † ‡ |
| 66601–66700 | ||
| 66652 Borasisi | 1999 RZ253 | Along with its moon, (66652) Borasisi I Pabu, the mythical personifications of the Sun (Borasisi) and Moon (Pabu) in the fictional cosmogony of "Bokononism" described in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle † |
| 66661 Wallin | 1999 TK2 | John F. Wallin, American astrophysicist and educator † |
| 66667 Kambič | 1999 TZ11 | Bojan Kambič, Slovenian founder and editor of the astronomical magazine Spika † |
| 66671 Sfasu | 1999 TJ17 | Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, East Texas † |
| 66801–66900 | ||
| 66843 Pulido | 1999 VG | Alfonso Pulido, Spanish astronomical computer programmer, developer of the Elbrus telescope control freeware † |
| 66846 Franklederer | 1999 VP2 | Louis Franklin Lederer (1935–2009) was a director of Instrumentation Specialties Co. in Lincoln, Nebraska † |
| 66901–67000 | ||
| 66934 Kálalová | 1999 WF1 | Vlasta Kálalová-Di Lotti, Czech physician and entomologist, founder and director of the Mustausaf Czechoslovak hospital in Baghdad, Iraq † ‡ |
| 66939 Franscini | 1999 WQ8 | Stefano Franscini, 19th century Swiss politician † |
| Preceded by 65,001–66,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 66,001–67,000 |
Succeeded by 67,001–68,000 |