Meanings of minor planet names: 108001–109000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
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108001–108100 | |||
108072 Odifreddi | 2001 FN168 | Piergiorgio Odifreddi (b. 1950), an Italian mathematician and logician. † | |
108101–108200 | |||
108113 Maza | 2001 GK1 | José María Maza (b. 1948) has discovered 100 supernovae in 30 years of searching.From 1990 to 1996 he participated in the Calán-Tololo project calibrating type Ia supernovae for cosmological applications. † | |
108140 Alir | 2001 HO | Alphonse and Irène Hernandez, parents of one of the discoverers † | |
108201–108300 | |||
108201 Di Blasi | 2001 HJ22 | Giuseppe Di Blasi, Italian cousin of Dario Di Maria, one of the discoverers † | |
108205 Baccipaolo | 2001 HF23 | Paolo Bacci, member of the Gruppo Astrofili Montagna Pistoiese † | |
108301–108400 | |||
108382 Karencilevitz | 2001 KM21 | Karen Cilevitz, South African-born Canadian amateur astronomer, member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada † | |
108720 Kamikuroiwa | 2001 OT23 | Kamikuroiwa Iwakage Iseki, located in the town of Kuma Kogen, is the oldest grotto in Japan † | |
108953 Pieraerts | 2001 PM29 | Godfried Thomas Pieraerts, Father at the Norbertine Abbey of Park Louvain (Belgium) and lived since 1964 in the Abbey of Grimbergen † | |
Preceded by 107,001–108,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 108,001–109,000 |
Succeeded by 109,001–110,000 |
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