Meanings of minor planet names: 121001–122000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
121001–121100
121016 Christopharnold 1999 BW3 Christoph Arnold, German amateur astronomer
121019 Minodamato 1999 BO7 Mino Damato, the first to present astronomy and astrophysics on Italian television
121022 Galliano 1999 BR13 Richard Galliano (b. 1950), a French accordionist.
121089 Vyšší Brod 1999 FH21 The monastery of Vyšší Brod (Hohenfurth), founded by the Rozmberks near this market town in 1259
121101–121200
121103 Ericneilsen 1999 FX73 Eric Neilsen, American astronomer
121201–121300
121232 Zerin 1999 RK35 ZERIN (Zentrum für Rieskrater- und Impaktforschung Nördlingen, "Center for Ries Crater and Impact Studies Nördlingen"), a scientific institute for impact research and, in particular, documentation of the Nördlinger Ries Crater
121301–121400
121313 Tamsin 1999 RF214 Frank Tamsin, Belgian amateur astronomer, editor of the Belgian astronomical magazine Heelal since 1998 and secretary general of the Vereniging Voor Sterrenkunde (VVS, Flemish Amateur Astronomers Association) and the Volkssterrenwacht vzw Beisbroek/Observatoire de Beisbroek (Public Observatory Beisbroek) in Bruges
121801–121900
121817 Szatmáry 2000 AP246 Károly Szatmáry, Hungarian astronomer
121865 Dauvergne 2000 CT80 Jean Luc Dauvergne, French scientific journalist
Preceded by
120,001–121,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 121,001–122,000
Succeeded by
122,001–123,000
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