Meanings of minor planet names: 67001–68000

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.

67001–67100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
67070 Rinaldi2000 AZ2Alvaro Rinaldi, topographer at the Military Geographic Institute of Florence for 40 yearsJPL · 67070
67085 Oppenheimer2000 AG42J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist, also known as the "father of the atomic bomb"JPL · 67085

67101–67200

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

67201–67300

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67235 Fairbank2000 EJ15William Martin Fairbank, American physicistJPL · 67235

67301–67400

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67308 Öveges2000 HDJózsef Öveges (1895–1979), Hungarian physics teacher and radio and television personalityJPL · 67308

67401–67500

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

67501–67600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

67601–67700

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

67701–67800

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67712 Kimotsuki2000 UGKimotsuki Town is the location of JAXA’s Uchinoura Space Center.JPL · 67712

67801–67900

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67853 Iwamura2000 WO9Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Tampa Bay Devil RaysJPL · 67853

67901–68000

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67979 Michelory2000 XS10Michel Ory, Swiss physicist, teacher, and amateur astronomerJPL · 67979

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
66,001–67,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 67,001–68,000		 Succeeded by
68,001–69,000
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