Meanings of minor planet names: 108001–109000

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.

108001–108100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
108072 Odifreddi2001 FN168Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 1950), an Italian mathematician and logician.JPL · 108072

108101–108200

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108113 Maza2001 GK1José Maza Sancho (born 1948) has discovered 100 supernovae in 30 years of searching.From 1990 to 1996 he participated in the Calán-Tololo project calibrating type Ia supernovae for cosmological applications.JPL · 108113
108140 Alir2001 HOAlphonse and Irène Hernandez, parents of one of the discoverersJPL · 108140

108201–108300

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108201 Di Blasi2001 HJ22Giuseppe Di Blasi, Italian cousin of Dario Di Maria, one of the discoverersJPL · 108201
108205 Baccipaolo2001 HF23Paolo Bacci, member of the Gruppo Astrofili Montagna PistoieseJPL · 108205

108301–108400

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108382 Karencilevitz2001 KM21Karen Cilevitz, South African-born Canadian amateur astronomer, member of the Royal Astronomical Society of CanadaJPL · 108382

108401–108500

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108496 Sullenberger2001 KD64Chesley Sullenberger (born 1951), a former US Airways airline captain, is celebrated for successfully landing his disabled airliner on the Hudson River off Manhattan without loss of life on 15 January 2009.JPL · 108496

108501–108600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

108601–108700

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

108701–108800

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108720 Kamikuroiwa2001 OT23Kamikuroiwa Iwakage Iseki, located in the town of Kuma Kogen, is the oldest grotto in JapanJPL · 108720

108801–108900

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

108901–109000

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108953 Pieraerts2001 PM29Godfried Thomas Pieraerts, Father at the Norbertine Abbey of Park Louvain (Belgium) and lived since 1964 in the Abbey of GrimbergenJPL · 108953

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
107,001–108,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 108,001–109,000
Succeeded by
109,001–110,000
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