Meanings of minor planet names: 107001–108000

Meanings of minor planet names: 107001–108000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.


Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
107001–107100
107052 Aquincum 2001 AQ Aquincum, one of the northernmost Roman garrisons of the first through fourth centuries in central Europe, where now stands Óbuda, part of modern Budapest (this minor planet honours the Council of Óbuda for endorsing Hungarian amateur astronomy)
107074 Ansonsylva 2001 AJ19 Anson J. Sylva, American member of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) team
107201–107300
107223 Ripero 2001 BU50 José Ripero, Spanish amateur astronomer, co-founder of the M 1 observers group and president of the Centro Astronomico de Ávila, author of El Vigía del Cosmos
107601–107700
107638 Wendyfreedman 2001 EU13 Wendy Freedman, American astronomer, director of the Carnegie Institution's observatories, and project leader for Giant Magellan Telescope
Preceded by
106,001–107,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 107,001–108,000
Succeeded by
108,001–109,000

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