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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237001–237100
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237101–237200
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237164 Keelung | 2008 UP128 | Keelung City is located at the northernmost tip of Taiwan. This port city is bordered by mountains on three sides and faces out towards the sea. Keelung enjoys an excellent natural harbor with deep water. | JPL · 237164 |
237187 Zhonglihe | 2008 UA212 | Zhong Li-he (1915–1960), a Taiwanese writer. | JPL · 237187 |
237201–237300
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237265 Golobokov | 2008 WQ96 | Gennady G. Golobokov (1935–1978), a talented fiction-artist, bed-ridden for 26 years following a spinal injury. | JPL · 237265 |
237276 Nakama | 2008 XD2 | Nakama is a Japanese word meaning a group of persons who spontaneously come together and work for common purposes in education, community services, and other fields of work. | JPL · 237276 |
237277 Nevaruth | 2008 XR2 | Neva Ruth Daniel (1910–2000), a loving mother of three, was a gifted teacher of English and literature at Colorado Mountain College and a teacher of the Progoff System of Intensive Journal Writing. | JPL · 237277 |