Meanings of minor planet names: 186001–187000

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.

186001–186100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
186007 Guilleminet2001 QS100Pierre-François de Guilleminet (1691–1755), an astronomer and mathematician of the Montpellier Royal Society of Sciences. He designed the Babote Observatory.JPL · 186007

186101–186200

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186142 Gillespie2001 TO245Bruce Gillespie (born 1950), is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. He was the Apache Point Observatory Operations Site Manager and the SDSS-III and -IV Program ManagerJPL · 186142

186201–186300

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186301–186400

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186401–186500

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186411 Margaretsimon2002 PF152Margaret Simon (born 1967), a strategic communications manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who served as the External Events Coordinator for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.JPL · 186411

186501–186600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186601–186700

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186701–186800

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

186801–186900

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186832 Mosser2004 FD76Mosser Roger (1936–1990), a French self-taught opticianJPL · 186832
186835 Normanspinrad2004 FE92Norman Spinrad, American science-fiction writerJPL · 186835

186901–187000

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

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
185,001–186,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 186,001–187,000
Succeeded by
187,001–188,000
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