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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92001–92100
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92097 Aidai | 1999 XX37 | Ehime University, whose nickname is Aidai, is one of the 87 national universities in Japan. It was established in 1949 with the consolidation of four schools. Since the foundation of the Research Center for Space and Cosmic Evolution in 2007, Aidai has promoted the study of astronomy and cosmology | JPL · 92097 |
92201–92300
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
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92209 Pingtang | 1999 YS17 | Pingtang county, situated in southwestern China in Qiannan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, has rich tourism resources, especially the world's best-preserved karst landform, providing a unique site for constructing FAST (the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope) | JPL · 92209 |
92213 Kalina | 2000 AQ6 | Antonín Kalina (1902–1990) was a Czech citizen who was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1939 to 1945. As a member of the Communist Underground he saved some 900 children and youths from dangers of daily life in the camp. In 2012 he was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. | JPL · 92213 |
92279 Bindiluca | 2000 DG | Luca Bindi (born 1971) holds the Chair of Mineralogy and Crystallography at the University of Florence, Italy. He has received many national and international scientific awards, including the President of the Republic Prize 2015 of the Lincei Academy. He is renowned for the discovery of quasicrystals in nature. | JPL · 92279 |
92297 Monrad | 2000 EL156 | Ingrid "Twink" Monrad (born 1945) is a meteorite hunter in Tucson, Arizona. With Jim Kriegh and John Blennert, she is one of the co-discoverers of the Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field | JPL · 92297 |
92300 Hagelin | 2000 ET198 | Jerry Hagelin (born 1938) is well known throughout the state of Arizona for his selfless work with children as the state director of Child Evangelism Fellowship and as pastor of Desert Gardens Cumberland Presbyterian Church. | JPL · 92300 |
92301–92400
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Provisional |
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92389 Gretskij | 2000 JZ3 | Andrej M. Gretskij (born 1945) is an associate professor at Kharkiv Karazin National University. He has been a pioneer in the study of the brightness-phase curve of Saturn's rings and is author of many astronomical textbooks. His lectures have had a big impact among students of astronomy in Ukraine | JPL · 92389 |
92501–92600
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Provisional |
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92525 Delucchi | 2000 OV2 | Fausto Delucchi, Swiss amateur astronomer | JPL · 92525 |
92578 Benecchi | 2000 OC62 | Robert J. Benecchi (born 1966), husband of the discoverer, is a hardware design engineer who has contributed to the development of numerous wireless communication and medical device technologies | JPL · 92578 |
92585 Fumagalli | 2000 PP8 | Francesco Fumagalli, Italian telescope maker and amateur astronomer | JPL · 92585 |
92801–92900
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
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92891 Bless | 2000 QK236 | Robert C. Bless, American astronomer, and Ph.D. advisor to the discoverer | JPL · 92891 |
92893 Michaelperson | 2000 QE247 | Michael J. Person (born 1970) is currently a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in occultation studies of small bodies in the outer solar system, especially Neptune I (Triton), (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto I (Charon) | JPL · 92893 |
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