Meanings of minor planet names: 216001–217000

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.

This is a partial list of meanings of minor-planet names. Also see list of named minor planets (alphabetical) for a condensed version without naming citations.

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. Public Domain 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]

216001–216100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

216101–216200

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

216201–216300

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216241 Renzopiano2006 VF14Renzo Piano (born 1937), an Italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.JPL · 216241
216261 Mapihsia2006 WJ15Pi Hsia Ma (born 1951), the mother of co-discoverer Man-Ti ChangJPL · 216261
216295 Menorca2007 LX14Menorca is the most eastern and northern island of the Balearic Islands (Spain). It was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993 by UNESCO, and contains important megalithic monuments (navetas, talayots and taulas).JPL · 216295

216301–216400

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216319 Sanxia2007 TY286China Three Gorges University (Sānxiá Dàxué) is a university with prominent hydraulic and electrical disciplines, located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, P. R. China.IAU · 216319
216331 Panjunhua2007 VG125Pan Junhua (born 1930), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the founder of both optic test equipment and optics manufacturing technology, and a pioneer of aspherical optics application in China.JPL · 216331
216343 Wenchang2007 WJ56Wenchang Shi, historically known as Zibei County, a Chinese city in Hainan Dao.JPL · 216343
216345 Savigliano2007 XC11Savigliano, an important agricultural and industrial center in Piedmont.JPL · 216345
216390 Binnig2008 CK177Gerd Binnig (born 1947), German physicist and Nobel laureateJPL · 216390

216401–216500

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216428 Mauricio2008 YN8Mauricio Muler, the name of both a grandfather (1904–1987) and a son (born 1999) of co-discoverer Gustavo MulerJPL · 216428
216433 Milianleo2009 DM3Milian Leo Schwab (born 2004), son of German discoverer Erwin SchwabJPL · 216433
216439 Lyubertsy2009 EV3Lyubertsy, a major industrial and scenic center in the Moscow region.JPL · 216439
216446 Nanshida2009 FA45Nanshida, the Chinese abbreviation for the Nanjing Normal University, dates back to 1902 with the establishment of Sanjiang Normal College.IAU · 216446
216451 Irsha2009 HP12Irsha, a river in UkraineJPL · 216451
216462 Polyphontes5397 T-2Polyphontes, a Greek hero, son of Autophonos, was one of the leaders of an ambush against Tydeus near Thebes.JPL · 216462

216501–216600

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216591 Coetzee2002 OQ7John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), a South African author and academic, now living in Australia.JPL · 216591

216601–216700

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216624 Kaufer2002 XW37Andreas Kaufer (born 1968), a German astronomerJPL · 216624

216701–216800

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216757 Vasari2005 RT32Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian architect and art historian. He realized the palace of the Caravan in Pisa and the Florentine complex of the Uffizi.JPL · 216757
216780 Lilianne2006 QP57Lilianne Alice Osmonson (born 2018) is the great-granddaughter of astronomer James Whitney Young, who discovered this minor planet.JPL · 216780

216801–216900

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216888 Sankovich2008 VS3Anatoly Sankovich (born 1960), an amateur astronomer and telescope maker.JPL · 216888
216893 Navina2009 DP111Navina Lamminger (born 1978) is a German social scientist and author. She graduated in Tibetology at the University of Munich in 2013. She now works as a dramaturge for top cabaret artists.IAU · 216893
216897 Golubev2009 HJ58Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich (born 1940), on the astronomy faculty at Vitebsk State University, is a well-known astronomy popularizer and publicist in Belarus.JPL · 216897

216901–217000

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
216910 Vnukov2009 JM4Viktor Milentinovich Vnukov (born 1950), a pilot and engineerJPL · 216910

References
  1. "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. 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.
  6. Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
  7. "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. "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.
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