Meanings of minor planet names: 196001–197000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
196001–196100
196000 Izzard	2002 RY237	Eddie Izzard, British stand-up comedian and dramatic actor †
196101–196200
196201–196300
196301–196400
196401–196500
196501–196600
196601–196700
196640 Mulhacén	2003 SO15	Mulhacén, the highest mountain of the Iberian Peninsula †
196701–196800
196801–196900
196807 Beshore	2003 SB221	Ed Beshore, American operations manager and lead software engineer for the Near-Earth Object search programs at the Catalina, Siding Spring and Mt. Lemmon surveys †
196901–197000
196938 Delgordon	2003 UO20	Del Gordon, American software/systems engineer for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles at Northrop Grumman Corporation and an officer of the Huachuca Astronomy Club †

Preceded by 195,001–196,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 196,001–197,000

Succeeded by 197,001–198,000