Meanings of minor planet names: 131001–132000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
131001–131100
131101–131200
131186 Pauluckas	2001 DS	Paul Luckas, Australian amateur astronomer, supernova and minor planet hunter †
131201–131300
131245 Bakich	2001 FF1	Michael E. Bakich, American historian of astronomy, author, and senior editor of Astronomy †
131301–131400
131401–131500
131501–131600
131601–131700
131701–131800
131762 Csonka	2002 AD11	János Csonka, 19th-20th-century Hungarian engineer, inventor of the first Hungarian gas engine and co-inventor of the carburetor with Donát Bánki (this minor planet was discovered on the 150th anniversary of his birth) †
131763 Donátbánki	2002 AJ11	Donát Bánki, 19th-20th-century Hungarian mechanical engineer, co-inventor, with János Csonka, of the carburetor in 1893 †
131801–131900
131901–132000

Preceded by 130,001–131,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 131,001–132,000

Succeeded by 132,001–133,000