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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- 164,000s
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- 168,001…
- 168,101…
- 168,201…
- 168,301…
- 168,401…
- 168,501…
- 168,601…
- 168,701…
- 168,801…
- 168,901…
168001–168100
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168501–168600
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168531 Joshuakammer | 1999 VF12 | Joshua A. Kammer (born 1986) is a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, who served as a postdoctoral science team member for the atmospheric investigation for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | JPL · 168531 |
168601–168700
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168635 Davidkaufmann | 2000 CU109 | David E. Kaufmann (born 1964), a principal analyst at the Southwest Research Institute, served as a PEPSSI Instrument Sequencer for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | JPL · 168635 |
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
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Named minor planet |
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168767 Kochte | 2000 QZ244 | Mark C. Kochte (born 1962) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, served as a mission operations analyst in support of the SWAP instrument command sequences for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | JPL · 168767 |
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