Meanings of minor planet names: 144001–145000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 144,001… 144,101… 144,201… 144,301… 144,401… 144,501… 144,601… 144,701… 144,801… 144,901…

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
144001–144100
144096 Wiesendangen	2004 BV58	Wiesendangen, Switzerland, home of the discoverer and his family †
144101–144200
144201–144300
144301–144400
144303 Mirellabreschi	2004 DD7	Mirella Breschi, Italian wife of the second discoverer †
144333 Marcinkiewicz	2004 DT25	Ekhard Marcinkiewicz, Austrian amateur solar astronomer †
144401–144500
144496 Reingard	2004 EZ66	Reingard Apitzsch, German wife of the discoverer †
144501–144600
144601–144700
144633 Georgecarroll	2004 FH80	George Carroll, 20th-century American builder of precision instruments, heliostats, and telescopes †
144692 Katemary	2004 GC	Katelyn Anne Marie Young, granddaughter of the discoverer †
144701–144800
144752 Plunge	2004 HK	Plunge, Lithuania, native town of Elena Petreikytė-Černienė, former teacher of astronomy and wife of the first discoverer † ‡
144801–144900
144901–145000
144907 Whitehorne	2004 YS3	Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian second vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) †

Preceded by 143,001–144,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 144,001–145,000

Succeeded by 145,001–146,000