Meanings of minor planet names: 132001–133000

Meanings of minor planet names: 132001133000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
132401132500
132445 Gaertner 2002 GD178 Christian Gaertner, German craftsman, merchant, amateur astronomer, and astronomy populariser
132501132600
132524 APL 2002 JF56 The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), developers of numerous space missions, including NEAR Shoemaker and many others
132601132700
132661 Carlbaeker 2002 LO60 Carl Wilhelm Baeker, 19th century German watchmaker and amateur astronomer, discoverer and co-discoverer of six comets
132701132800
132718 Kemény 2002 ON27 John George Kemeny (Kemény János György), 20th-century Hungarian-born American mathematician, co-developer of the BASIC programming language
132719 Lambey 2002 PF Bernard Lambey, French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Société astronomique de Montpellier (Astronomical Society of Montpellier)
132792 Scottsmith 2002 PB152 P. Scott Smith, American physics teacher, primarily responsible for inspiring the discoverer to become an astronomer
132798 Kürti 2002 PU167 Stefan Kürti, Slovakian amateur astronomer and minor planet discoverer
132801132900
132820 Miskotte 2002 QX65 Koen Miskotte, Dutch confectioner and amateur astronomer, active within the Dutch Meteor Society
132825 Shizu-Mao 2002 QT85 Ye Mao (Shiqing), 13th-14th-century Chinese chief executive of Zibei County (now Wenchang City), Shizu ("earliest ancestor") of the discoverer
132874 Latinovits 2002 RV118 Zoltán Latinovits, 20th-century Hungarian actor (the minor planet was discovered on his 71st birth anniversary)
Preceded by
131,001132,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 132,001133,000
Succeeded by
133,001134,000

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