As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]
Stephen Schwartz (born 1980) is a postdoctoral research associate at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (Tucson, AZ). He specializes in orbital dynamics, planetary astronomy, planetary surfaces, small bodies, and space situational awareness.
Xiao-duan Zou (born 1983) is a Chinese research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute (Tucson, Arizona). She studies physical properties of the surfaces of the Moon, asteroids and cometary nuclei. She also worked for the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (Chang'e 1 to Chang'e 5).
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Doug Bock (born 1956) is well known in amateur astronomy in the midwest U.S., having received numerous awards and served as an officer in several clubs, including vice-chairman of the Great Lakes Region of the Astronomical League from 1980 to 1982. He is an avid observer and imager from his Boon Hill Observatory in Michigan.
Robin Bock (born 1957) is a Michigan amateur astronomer who served as treasurer of the Warren Astronomical Society from 1979 to 1980 and then as Vice Chairperson and Secretary of the Great Lakes Region of the Astronomical League.
Rodrigo Leiva (born 1980) is a postdoctoral associate at Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, CO). His studies include Pluto, trans-Neptunian objects, centaurs, and studying small-body rings through stellar occultations.
Rafael Sfair (born 1984) is a professor at Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho, Brazil. He has experience in numerical simulation and image analysis for Dynamical Astronomy, focusing on ring interaction and stability with different dissipative forces.
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Stazione osservativa di Asiago Cima Ekar (Cima Ekar Observing Station), a.k.a. Osservatorio Astronomico di Monte Ekar, the largest astronomical facility of Italy
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Aizu Gakuho is a senior and junior high school in Aizuwakamatsu city in Fukushima prefecture, Japan, founded in 1924. Gakuho means wisdom and a phoenix flying in space.
Dumlupınar, the Turkish submarine which, while crossing the Dardanelles on 1953 April 4, collided with the Swedish freighter Naboland and sank, killing all 81 men aboard
Saint Pyotr (Svyatitel Pyotr; died 1326) was an outstanding statesman and orthodox religious hierarch, talented icon painter and writer. In 1308–1326 he was the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Russia and in 1325 he moved the Metropolitan See from Vladimir to Moscow. He founded the Vysokopetrovsky Monastery in 1315.
Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850–1918), a German physicist, inventor of the "Braun tube", the forerunner of the television tube, co-winner of the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics for wireless telegraphy
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Yoshimi Takahashi (1925–2005), Japanese amateur astronomer who contributed to the establishment of the Nanyo Astronomical Lovers Club and the Nanyo Citizen's Astronomical Observatory
Luca Invernizzi (born 1966), Italian author and amateur astronomer, founder of the Astronomy Club at Valtellina (Italian: Associazione Astrofili Valtellinesi and co-promoter of the Giuseppe Piazzi Observatory (C63)
