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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40001–40100
Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
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40007 Vieuxtemps | 1998 HV102 | Henri Vieuxtemps (1820–1881), a Belgian composer and violist | JPL · 40007 |
40023 ANPCEN | 1998 HU148 | The ANPCEN (National Association for the Protection of the Sky and Nightly Environments in France) was established in March 1999. Presently 581 communities have joined the association. Recently Strasbourg, a city of 300 \, 000 inhabitants, has signed the association's charter. | JPL · 40023 |
40092 Memel | 1998 ME47 | Memel River, whose Couronian-Latvian name means silent | JPL · 40092 |
40401–40500
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
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40409 Taichikato | 1999 RS2 | Taichi Kato, Japanese astronomer | JPL · 40409 |
40410 Příhoda | 1999 RJ3 | Pavel Příhoda, Czech author and astronomy popularizer, editor-in-chief of The Czech Astronomical Yearbook | JPL · 40410 |
40436 Sylviecoyaud | 1999 RQ32 | Sylvie Coyaud, French-Italian scientific reporter and amateur astronomer | JPL · 40436 |
40440 Dobrovský | 1999 RU34 | Josef Dobrovský, 18th–19th century Czech linguist, who codified the rules of the written Czech language | JPL · 40440 |
40441 Jungmann | 1999 RW34 | Josef Jungmann, 18th–19th century Czech poet, publicist and literary historian, author of the Czech-German Dictionary | JPL · 40441 |
40444 Palacký | 1999 RV35 | František Palacký, 19th-century Czech historian and politician | JPL · 40444 |
40447 Lorenzoni | 1999 RC37 | Giuseppe Lorenzoni (1843–1914), an Italian astronomer and scientist | JPL · 40447 |
40457 Williamkuhn | 1999 RG43 | William Kuhn, American amateur astronomer, designer of the Orange County Astronomers 57 cm Kuhn telescope at Anza, California † | MPC · 40457 |
40459 Rektorys | 1999 RK43 | Karel Rektorys, Czech mathematician and professor at the Czech Technical University in Prague | JPL · 40459 |
40463 Frankkameny | 1999 RE44 | Frank Kameny, American astronomer in the 1950s | JPL · 40463 |
40901–41000
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
Ref · Catalog |
40917 Pauljorden | 1999 TW156 | Paul Jorden (born 1951) has a unique career that has included leadership positions in the scientific community (Royal Greenwich Observatory) and industry (e2v technologies). His teams have developed state-of-the-art imaging sensors and applied them to ground-based and space astronomy over a period of more than three decades. | JPL · 40917 |
40919 Johntonry | 1999 TF162 | John Tonry (born 1953), of the University of Hawaii, has worked at the cutting edge of science and technology in astronomy. He developed the orthogonal transfer CCD concept, and a new method for extragalactic distance determinations, and was on the team that made the Nobel Prize winning discovery of dark energy. | JPL · 40919 |
40981 Stephenholland | 1999 TL284 | Stephen Holland (born 1956), of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a pioneer in the development of silicon detectors for medical imaging, x-ray photon sciences, astronomy, and high-energy physics. | JPL · 40981 |
40994 Tekaridake | 1999 UZ2 | Tekaridake, a mountain in the northern part of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan | JPL · 40994 |
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