Meanings of minor planet names: 138001–139000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
138201–138300
138221 Baldry 2000 EC207 Ivan Baldry, British astronomer
138401–138500
138445 Westenburger 2000 JF2 Carl-Heinz Westenburger, German painter, printmaker and conservationist
138901–139000
138979 Černice 2001 CM32 Černice is a small pleasant old South Bohemian village situated above the Vltava river
Preceded by
137,001–138,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 138,001–139,000
Succeeded by
139,001–140,000
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