Meanings of minor planet names: 64001–65000

Meanings of minor planet names: 64001–65000

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 span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Contents: 64,001… 64,101… 64,201… 64,301… 64,401… 64,501… 64,601… 64,701… 64,801… 64,901…

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
64001–64100
64070 NEAT 2001 SS272 NEAT, the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking programme
64201–64300
64288 Lamchiuying 2001 UL10 Lam Chiu-ying, Chinese department head of Hong Kong Observatory, former chairman of the Hong Kong Bird Watch Society, and public educator about global warming
64289 Shihwingching 2001 UA11 Shih Wing-ching, Chinese columnist and active philanthropist
64501–64600
64553 Segorbe 2001 WR15 Segorbe, municipality of Castelló province, Spain, where the discovery occurred
64901–65000
64975 Gianrix 2002 AG12 Gianrico "Gianrix" Filacchione, Italian astronomer
Preceded by
63,001–64,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 64,001–65,000
Succeeded by
65,001–66,000

Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем написать курсовую

Look at other dictionaries:

  • List of minor planets — Objects in the Solar System By orbit By size By discovery date …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”