- Meanings of minor planet names: 140,001–150,000
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 140,000... 141,000... 142,000... 143,000... 144,000... 145,000... 146,000... 147,000... 148,000... 149,000...
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name 140,001–141,000 edit 140628 Klaipeda 2001 UM14 Klaipeda, third largest city in Lithuania † 141,001–142,000 edit 141496 Bartkevicius 2002 ED13 Antanas Bartkevičius, Lithuanian astronomer † 142,001–143,000 edit 142014 Neirinck 2002 PA168 Pierre Neirinck, French-British head of the Satellite Orbits Group at Appleton Laboratory in the UK during the 1970s † 142084 Jamesdaniel 2002 QU47 James and Daniel Sealy, sons of Robert and Hazel Sealy, friends of the discoverer (see 147397 Bobhazel) † 142106 Nengshun 2002 QZ83 Ye Nengshun, a great-grandfather of the discoverer † 142368 Majden 2002 RH233 Edward ("Ed") Majden, Canadian amateur astronomer, recorder of meteor spectra, co-discoverer of two near-earth asteroids, associate member of the Meteorites and Impacts Advisory Committee, and winner of the 2006 Chant Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada † 142408 Trebur 2002 SU27 Trebur, Germany, home of the Michael Adrian Observatorium, the discovery site † 142562 Graetz 2002 TL69 Paul Graetz, German Army officer, the first person to cross southern Africa by automobile (1907–1909) † 143,001–144,000 edit 143622 Robertbloch 2003 HG Robert Bloch, 20th-century Swiss art, literature and music benefactor, founder of the "Fondation Anne et Robert Bloch" † 143641 Sapello 2003 NK5 Sapello, New Mexico † 144,001–145,000 edit 144096 Wiesendangen 2004 BV58 Wiesendangen, Switzerland, home of the discoverer and his family † 144303 Mirellabreschi 2004 DD7 Mirella Breschi, Italian wife of the second discoverer † 144333 Marcinkiewicz 2004 DT25 Ekhard Marcinkiewicz, Austrian amateur solar astronomer † 144496 Reingard 2004 EZ66 Reingard Apitzsch, German wife of the discoverer † 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 † 144752 Plunge 2004 HK Plunge, Lithuania, native town of Elena Petreikytė-Černienė, former teacher of astronomy and wife of the first discoverer † ‡ 144907 Whitehorne 2004 YS3 Mary Lou Whitehorne, Canadian second vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) † 145,001–146,000 edit 145475 Rehoboth 2005 TP52 Rehoboth Christian School, New Mexico, whose campus is the site of the Calvin-Rehoboth Robotic Observatory (the discovery site) † 145523 Lulin 2006 EM67 Lulin mountain, Taiwan, where the discovery site (the National Central University Lu-Lin Observatory) is located † 145534 Jhongda 2006 GJ Jhongda, in Mandarin Chinese an abbreviation for "Central University", which built and operates the discovery site (the National Central University Lu-Lin Observatory) † 145545 Wensayling 2006 KA39 Sayling Wen, 20th-century Chinese educator and promoter for social work † 145546 Suiqizhong 2006 KU67 Guangzhou (Sui) No. 7 (qi) Middle (zhong) School, where the first discoverer studied in 2003–2006 † 145558 Raiatea 2006 OR Raiatea, French Polynesia, the first of the Polynesian islands to be inhabited † 145562 Zurbriggen 2006 OY6 Bernard Zurbriggen, Swiss emeritus professor of natural science, director of the Observatoire Robert-A. Naef, the discovery site † 145768 Petiška 1997 PT2 Eduard Petiška, 20th-century Czech poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and translator † 145820 Valeromeo 1998 TL7 Valentina Romeo, Italian singer and friend of the discoverer † 146,001–147,000 edit 146268 Jennipolakis 2001 DQ Jennifer Polakis, American amateur astronomer, eclipse chaser and popularizer of astronomy † 147,001–148,000 edit 147397 Bobhazel 2003 FO7 Robert and Hazel Sealy, American founders of the Seaside Amateur Astronomers of Seaside, Oregon, and friends of the discoverer † 147693 Piccioni 2005 CQ77 Giuseppe Piccioni, Italian astronomer † 147918 Chiayi 2006 UU214 Chiayi county, Taiwan, where Lulin Observatory is located † 148,001–149,000 edit 148780 Altjira 2001 UQ18 Altjira, central god of the Dreamtime according to the mythology of the Arrernte of central Australia, who created the Earth and then retired to the sky † 149,001–150,000 edit 149244 Kriegh 2002 RZ240 James D. Kriegh, American civil engineering professor and meteorite hunter † 149528 Simónrodríguez 2003 FD129 Simón Rodríguez, 18th-19th-century Venezuelan pedagogue and philosopher, teacher and mentor of Simón Bolivar, The Liberator † 149728 Klostermann 2004 KR1 Karel Klostermann, 19th-20th-century Czech-German writer, author of novels and short stories † 149884 Radebeul 2005 RD9 Radebeul, Saxony, Germany, home to the Sternwarte "Adolph Diesterweg" Radebeul (Radebeul "Adolph Diesterweg" Public Observatory), where this minor planet was discovered † Preceded by
130,001–140,000Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 140,001–141,000Succeeded by
150,001–160,000Categories:
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