Meanings of minor planet names: 108001–109000

Meanings of minor planet names: 108001–109000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
108101–108200
108140 Alir 2001 HO Alphonse and Irène Hernandez, parents of one of the discoverers
108201–108300
108201 Di Blasi 2001 HJ22 Giuseppe Di Blasi, Italian cousin of Dario Di Maria, one of the discoverers
108301–108400
108382 Karencilevitz 2001 KM21 Karen Cilevitz, South African-born Canadian amateur astronomer, member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Preceded by
107,001–108,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 108,001–109,000
Succeeded by
109,001–110,000

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