Meanings of minor planet names: 69001–70000

Meanings of minor planet names: 69001–70000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 69,001… 69,101… 69,201… 69,301… 69,401… 69,501… 69,601… 69,701… 69,801… 69,901…

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
69201–69300
69230 Hermes 1937 UB Hermes, Greek messenger of the gods
69264 Nebra 1988 PE4 Nebra or the Nebra skydisk
69275 Wiesenthal 1989 WD4 Simon Wiesenthal, Austro-Hungarian Nazi war criminal hunter
69286 von Liebig 1990 TN9 Justus von Liebig, German chemist
69288 Berlioz 1990 TW11 Louis Hector Berlioz, French Romantic composer
69301–69400
69311 Russ 1992 QC Russell Mark Steel, the discoverer's only brother
69312 Rogerbacon 1992 SH17 Roger Bacon, English philosopher
69401–69500
69434 de Gerlache 1996 HC21 Adrien de Gerlache, 19th-20th-century Belgian naval officer and Antarctic explorer
69801–69900
69870 Fizeau 1998 SM64 Hyppolite Fizeau, 19th-century French physicist
69901–70000
69961 Millosevich 1998 VS33 Elia Millosevich, Italian astronomer
69971 Tanzi 1998 WD2 Pepe Tanzi, Italian lighting industrial designer
69977 Saurodonati 1998 WL9 Sauro Donati, Italian amateur astronomer
Preceded by
68,001–69,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 69,001–70,000
Succeeded by
70,001–71,000

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