Meanings of minor planet names: 204001–205000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
204301–204400
204370 Ferdinandvaněk 2004 TH70 Ferdinand Vanek, Czech playwritter, essayist and dissident, fictitious character in the play Audience as well as an alter ego of its author, Václav Havel
204701–204800
204786 Wehlau 2006 KU131 William Henry Wehlau, an American-born Canadian astronomer.
204710 Gaoxing 2006 GE Gao Xing (b. 1974), founder of the Xingming Observatory of Ürümqi.
204801–204900
204831 Levski 2007 PQ28 Vasil Levski, national hero of Bulgaria and styled the Apostle of Freedom.
204836 Xiexiaosi 2007 QS1 Xie Xiaosi (1905–2008), known as the Guardian of World Cultural Heritage, was a famous Chinese garden landscape artist and painter.
204839 Suzhouyuanlin 2007 QK13 Suzhou Yuanlin, Suzhou Chinese-style gardens, are typical ancient gardens with traditional Chinese architectures and cultures.
204842 Fengchia 2007 RN19 Feng Chia University, located in central Taiwan, is a prestigious university characterized by educational excellence and breakthrough research.
204852 Frankfurt 2007 RH133 Frankfurt, the largest city in the German State of Hessen
204873 FAIR 2007 SW1 The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), an international science center for studying the building blocks of matter and the evolution of the universe
Preceded by
203,001–204,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 204,001–205,000
Succeeded by
205,001–206,000
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