- Meanings of minor planet names: 128001–129000
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 128,001… 128,101… 128,201… 128,301… 128,401… 128,501… 128,601… 128,701… 128,801… 128,901…
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name 128001–128100 128036 Rafaelnadal 2003 KM18 Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player † 128054 Eranyavneh 2003 MR9 Eran Yavneh, Israeli student, dead of cancer at age 27 † (and probably a friend of the discoverer) 128065 Bartbenjamin 2003 OK Bart Benjamin, American curator at the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois, later director of the Cernan Earth and Space Center at Triton College in west suburban Chicago, and member of the Peoria (Illinois) Astronomical Society † 128101–128200 128166 Carora 2003 QQ105 Carora, Venezuela † 128177 Griffioen 2003 RA11 Roger Griffioen, American former dean and physics department chair of Calvin College † ‡ 128201–128300 128297 Ashlevi 2003 XD11 Ashlie Philpott and Levi Lemley, grandchildren of the discoverer † 128501–128600 128523 Johnmuir 2004 PX42 John Muir, Scottish-American conservationist † 128586 Jeremias 2004 QW Jeremias Ries, godchild of the discoverer † 128601–128700 128627 Ottmarsheim 2004 RM8 Ottmarsheim, Alsace, France † 128801–128900 128895 Bright Spring 2004 TW Bright Spring, the title of an essay by Summer Vigil, a second-grade student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about the fictitious discovery of a new major planet † Preceded by
127,001–128,000Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 128,001–129,000Succeeded by
129,001–130,000Categories:
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