Meanings of minor planet names: 162001–163000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
162001–162100
162001 Vulpius 1990 TH9 Melchior Vulpius, 16th-17th-century German hymn composer and teacher
162011 Konnohmaru 1994 AB1 Konnohmaru is a legendary warrior of the Heiji Rebellion (1159)
162035 Jirotakahashi 1995 YW1 Jiro Takahashi, professor of science education at Ehime University
162101–162200
162158 Merrillhess 1999 CZ9 Merrill Hess (b. 1955), an amateur astronomer and has been President and Vice-President of the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society many times.
162166 Mantsch 1999 FW82 Paul Mantsch, American particle and astro-particle physicist and one of the builders of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
162173 Ryugu 1999 JU3 Ryugu, the undersea palace of the Dragon God. In a Japanese legend, a fisherman was rewarded with a visit to Ryugu and brought back a box with a secret. The spaceprobe Hayabusa 2 will visit this asteroid and bring back a capsule containing surface samples.
162401–162500
162466 Margon 2000 JA90 Bruce Margon, American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
162701–162800
162755 Spacesora 2000 WA68 "Space Sora", the non-profit organization who has contributed to the popularization of science, especially astronomy, among children in Ehime prefecture, Japan, since 2008
162901–163000
162937 Prêtre 2001 PQ9 Heart surgeon René Prêtre (born 1957), voted Swiss of the Year in 2009, treats children in both Switzerland and Mozambique
Preceded by
161,001–162,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 162,001–163,000
Succeeded by
163,001–164,000
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