Meanings of minor planet names: 118001–119000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 118,001… 118,101… 118,201… 118,301… 118,401… 118,501… 118,601… 118,701… 118,801… 118,901…

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
118001–118100
118101–118200
118172 Vorgebirge	1989 GU6	The Vorgebirge foothills, west of the Rhine, extending from Bonn to Cologne †
118173 Barmen	1991 GZ10	Barmen, Germany (now incorporated into Wuppertal), whence the 1934 Synod issued the Barmen Declaration defining Protestant opposition to the National-Socialist ideology †
118178 Rinckart	1992 SJ26	Martin Rinckart, 16th-century German author, composer, and theologian, who wrote the ecumenical hymn Nun danket alle Gott ("Now thank we all our God") †
118201–118300
118230 Sado	1996 WY2	Sado island, in the Sea of Japan, the place where Noh drama (one of the "World's Intangible Cultural Treasures") was born †
118301–118400
118401–118500
118401 LINEAR	1999 RE70	Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR); this object was later reclassified as comet 176P/LINEAR (LINEAR 52) †
118501–118600
118601–118700
118701–118800
118801–118900
118901–119000
118945 Rikhill	2000 WS68	Richard E. "Rik" Hill, American amateur astronomer "turned Pro", discoverer of several comets †

Preceded by 117,001–118,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 118,001–119,000

Succeeded by 119,001–120,000