Meanings of minor planet names: 168001–169000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

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 number-range 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citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

168001–168100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

168101–168200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
168126 Chengbruce 2006 GK Bruce C. H. Cheng (born 1936), Taiwanese ecological entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of Delta Electronics, Inc. JPL · 168126

168201–168300

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
168261 Puglia 2006 PW3 Puglia, a region situated at the south-eastern tip of the Italian peninsula JPL · 168261

168301–168400

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
168321 Josephschmidt 1991 RJ3 Joseph Schmidt, an operatic tenor who performed in the world's top concert halls JPL · 168321
168358 Casca 1996 DF2 This minor planet is named in honor of the Canadian Astronomical Society, or Société Canadienne d´Astronomie JPL · 168358

168401–168500

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

168501–168600

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

168601–168700

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
168638 Waltersiegmund 2000 CH149 Walter Siegmund (born 1950) is an American engineer, the Project Engineer for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and a designer of the telescope and its optical fiber positioning system JPL · 168638
168698 Robpickman 2000 GX140 Robert D. Pickman, now retired, worked as an engineer for IBM and also for NASA developing ground-based systems to support the space shuttle JPL · 168698

168701–168800

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

168801–168900

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

168901–169000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
168948 Silvestri 2000 YX143 Nicole Silvestri (born 1973) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known for establishing a chromospheric activity-age relation for M dwarf stars and work on SDSS close binary systems JPL · 168948

References

  1. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
167,001–168,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 168,001–169,000 		Succeeded by
169,001–170,000
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.