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.
- 121,000s
- 122,000s
- 123,000s
- 124,000s
- 125,000s
- 126,000s
- 127,000s
- 128,000s
- 129,000s
- 130,000s
- 131,000s
- 126,001…
- 126,101…
- 126,201…
- 126,301…
- 126,401…
- 126,501…
- 126,601…
- 126,701…
- 126,801…
- 126,901…
126001–126100
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126801–126900
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126888 Tspitzer | 2002 EO100 | Thomas J. Spitzer (born 1957) was the Electrical Power Systems Engineer on more than a dozen Goddard missions, including the highly successful Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that re-mapped the moon, as well as the NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. | JPL · 126888 |
126901–127000
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126901 Craigstevens | 2002 EE110 | Craig L. Stevens (born 1978) is the Project Verification Systems Engineer for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Prior to serving in this role, he participated in the development of flight systems for several NASA missions including JWST, MESSENGER, GPM, New Horizons, LRO, LADEE and Landsat 8. | JPL · 126901 |
126905 Junetveekrem | 2002 EF112 | June Tveekrem (born 1960) contributed to the NASA OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission as an optical engineer. As an expert in optical modeling and analysis, she performed stray light analyses for OVIRS and sun glint analyses for the overall OSIRIS-REx mission. | JPL · 126905 |
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