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. The official naming citations have been published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars and in Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.[1][2][3] Meanings marked with †
or *
are from legacy sources may contain errors.
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47001–47100
Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
Ref · Catalog |
47002 Harlingten | 1998 UQ2 | Caisey Harlingten, Chilean amateur astronomer | JPL · 47002 |
47005 Chengmaolan | 1998 UP8 | Maolan Cheng, Chinese first director of the Beijing Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences | JPL · 47005 |
47038 Majoni | 1998 WQ2 | Vittore Majoni (1936–2002), Italian electrical engineer, secondary education teacher, and amateur astronomer, charter member of the "Associazione Astronomica Cortina" (Italian: Astronomy Association of Cortina d'Ampezzo), and director of the Helmut Ullrich Astronomical Observatory (Col Drusciè Observatory) | JPL · 47038 |
47044 Mcpainter | 1998 WS7 | John D. McClusky, 20th-century American painter, founder of the Fredericksburg Art Guild (Fredericksburg, Texas, is near the discovery site) | JPL · 47044 |
47045 Seandaniel | 1998 WK9 | Sean Daniel Cooney (born 2002) is the son of the discoverer Walter R. Cooney Jr. and enjoys star parties with his family | JPL · 47045 |
47077 Yuji | 1998 YC1 | Yuji Nakamura, Japanese amateur astronomer and chemical engineer, discoverer of comet C/1990 E1 and re-discoverer of comet 122P/de Vico | JPL · 47077 |
47086 Shinseiko | 1999 AO3 | Shinseiko, Kanagawa prefecture, youngest natural lake of Japan, formed as a result of the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923 | JPL · 47086 |
47101–47200
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
Ref · Catalog |
47144 Faulkes | 1999 PY | Martin C. "Dill" Faulkes, British cosmologist and software tycoon, founder of the Dill Faulkes Educational Trust and the Faulkes Telescope Project † | MPC · 47144 |
47162 Chicomendez | 1999 TH6 | Chico Mendez, Brazilian seringueiro who fought against environmental pollution of the Amazon forest, recipient of the 1987 Global 500 prize from the United Nations Environment Programme | JPL · 47162 |
47164 Ticino | 1999 TX13 | Ticino, a canton of Switzerland, where the Gnosca Observatory (the discovery site) is located | JPL · 47164 |
47171 Lempo | 1999 TC36 | Lempo is the ancient Finnish devil who, with the help of his two demon cohorts, Hiisi and Paha, brought down the hero Väinämöinen. Within the trans-Neptunian triple system, the satellite (47171) Lempo I was discovered on 2001 Dec. 8 by C. A. Trujillo and M. E. Brown using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and is named Paha. The primary was identified as a binary by S. D. Benecchi et al. through re-analysis of the HST data originally obtained by Trujillo and Brown. Lempo refers to the larger component of the central binary and Hiisi to the smaller component. | JPL · 47171 |
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