Meanings of minor planet names: 49001–50000

Meanings of minor planet names: 4900150000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 49,001 49,101 49,201 49,301 49,401 49,501 49,601 49,701 49,801 49,901

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
4900149100
49036 Pelion 1998 QM107 Pelion, mountain in Thessaly where the Centaurs were said to live
4910149200
49109 Agnesraab 1998 SO2 Agnes Raab, Austrian amateur astronomer, member of the Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft (Linzer A. G.)
4920149300
49272 Bryce Canyon 1998 UT16 Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah, home of some of the darkest night skies in the continental U.S.
4930149400
49350 Katheynix 1998 WQ8 Kathey Nix, American amateur astronomer, founding member of the Society of Low-Energy Observers (SLO)
4940149500
49440 Kenzotange 1998 YP5 Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect
49448 Macocha 1998 YJ12 Macocha chasm, part of the cave system created by the lost river Punkva in the Moravian Karst, Czech Republic
49481 Gisellarubini 1999 BJ12 Gisella Rubini, girlfriend of the discoverer
4950149600
49501 Basso 1999 CN10 Antonella Basso, friend of the discoverer
4960149700
49700 Mather 1999 VN1 John C. Mather, American cosmologist and Nobelist, senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope
4970149800
49702 Koikeda 1999 VC2 Chuzo Koikeda and his wife Yoko Koikeda, both Japanese amateur astronomers
49777 Cappi 1999 XS Margaret Capitola Sonntag Comba, the discoverer's second wife
4990150000
49987 Bonata 2000 AB5 Diego Bonata, Italian aerospace engineer, light pollution fighter, president of the CieloBuio Associazione
50000 Quaoar 2002 LM60 Quaoar, a creation deity in Tongva mythology
Preceded by
48,00149,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 49,00150,000
Succeeded by
50,00151,000

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