Meanings of minor planet names: 236001–237000
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.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.[4][5]
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. 
236001–236100
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
236101–236200
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236111 Wolfgangbüttner | 2005 RW4 | Wolfgang Büttner (1905–1998), a German educator and sidewalk astronomer in Dresden. | JPL · 236111 |
| 236129 Oysterbay | 2005 TJ17 | Oyster Bay is a protected harbor along Long Island Sound on the north shore of Long Island, New York, United States. The village of Oyster Bay was the hometown of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. | JPL · 236129 |
| 236170 Cholnoky | 2005 VP7 | Jenő Cholnoky (1870–1950), a Hungarian geographer and professor of geography at the University of Budapest. | JPL · 236170 |
236201–236300
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
236301–236400
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236305 Adamriess | 2006 BU | Adam Riess (born 1969), an American physicist and Nobel laureate | JPL · 236305 |
236401–236500
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236463 Bretécher | 2006 FF | Claire Bretécher (born 1940), a cartoonist who contributed to many comic-strip magazines, including Spirou, Tintin and Pilote. | JPL · 236463 |
| 236484 Luchijen | 2006 FQ35 | Lu Chi-Jen, an active amateur astronomer in Taiwan. | JPL · 236484 |
236501–236600
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
236601–236700
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236616 Gray | 2006 JR61 | David Frank Gray (born 1938), a stellar spectroscopist who has published and written on stellar rotation, magnetic fields, granulation, turbulence, oscillations and spots. He was president of IAU's commission 36, Theory of Stellar Atmospheres, and director of the Elginfield Observatory in Canada (HP, Src) | JPL · 236616 |
| 236683 Hujingyao | 2006 QE111 | Hu Jing-Yao (born 1937), a leading astronomer of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a pioneer optical astronomer in China. | JPL · 236683 |
236701–236800
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236728 Leandri | 2007 HP14 | Andree Fernandez (born 1939, née Leandri), a retired software engineer at Meudon Observatory. | JPL · 236728 |
| 236743 Zhejiangdaxue | 2007 JU34 | The Zhejiang University, one of China's oldest institutions of higher education. It was named on the occasion of its 115th anniversary. | JPL · 236743 |
| 236746 Chareslindos | 2007 LP | Chares of Lindos, an ancient Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes from the 3rd century BC. In 282 BCE he built the Colossus of Rhodes, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. | JPL · 236746 |
| 236784 Livorno | 2007 PU27 | Livorno, a port city on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy | JPL · 236784 |
| 236785 Hilendàrski | 2007 PN29 | Paisiy Hilendàrski (1722–1773) was the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history. | JPL · 236785 |
| 236788 Nanxinda | 2007 PM35 | Nanxinda is the Chinese abbreviation for the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. | IAU · 236788 |
| 236800 Broder | 2007 QU3 | Henryk Broder (born 1946) of Katowice, Poland, who studied German law and political economics at Cologne, Germany | JPL · 236800 |
236801–236900
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236810 Rutten | 2007 RH14 | Harrie G. J. Rutten (born 1950), a Dutch optician, and the author of Teleskop Optics, and numerous articles and speeches on popular astronomy that have been well received by the public. | JPL · 236810 |
| 236811 Natascharenate | 2007 RE16 | Natascha Renate Gierlinger (born 1997), daughter of German discoverer Richard Gierlinger | JPL · 236811 |
| 236845 Houxianglin | 2007 RZ118 | Hou Xianglin (1912–2008), an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was a pioneer of refining and petrochemical technology in China. He was also a petroleum strategist. | JPL · 236845 |
| 236851 Chenchikwan | 2007 RA139 | Chen Chi-kwan (1921–2007), a renowned Taiwanese artist and architect whose designs on the campus of National Central University are some of his masterpieces. | JPL · 236851 |
236901–237000
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236909 Jakoberwin | 2007 TX95 | Jakob Erwin Gierlinger (born 2002) is the son of the discoverer, Richard Gierlinger. He is an IT specialist and member of the observatory Gaisberg. At the observatory, he is responsible for software development. | JPL · 236909 |
| 236984 Astier | 2008 PP21 | Alexandre Astier (born 1974), a French humorist, actor, scriptwriter and film director | JPL · 236984 |
| 236987 Deustua | 2008 QX9 | Susana E. Deustua (born 1961), an astronomer at the U.S. Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland | JPL · 236987 |
| 236988 Robberto | 2008 QE12 | Massimo Robberto (born 1958), an astronomer at the U.S. Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland | JPL · 236988 |
References
[edit]- ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.