Meanings of minor planet names: 243001–244000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

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 number-range 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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

243001–243100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243002 Lemmy 2006 TG119 Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister (1945-2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter whose music helped set the foundations for the heavy metal genre.JPL
243073 Freistetter 2007 HT3 Florian Freistetter (born 1977), an astronomer and science writer. JPL
243094 Dirlewanger 2007 RU8 Wolfgang Dirlewanger (b. 1953), leader of dental clinic in Nagold, Germany. JPL
243096 Klauswerner 2007 RX15 Klaus Werner (born 1957), Professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen. JPL
243097 Batavia 2007 RF16 The fort of Batavia (Castro Batava) was a Roman frontier fort (1st to 5th century AD) in the area of Passau in Bavaria, Germany. JPL

243101–243200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243109 Hansludwig 2007 RT132 Hans-Ludwig Neumann (1938–1991), a German amateur astronomer and president of the Physikalischer Verein at Frankfurt am Main from 1976 to 1991. JPL

243201–243300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243204 Kubanchoria 2007 UA5 Named on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Kuban Cossacs Chorus, founded on 1811 October 14. JPL
243262 Korkosz 2007 YV47 Frank and John Korkosz, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, were pioneers in the development of mid-sized, high-quality planetariums. JPL
243285 Fauvaud 2008 CJ181 Stéphane Fauvaud (born 1968), an active French amateur astronomer. JPL

243301–243400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243320 Jackuipers 2008 SG12 Jack Kuipers (born 1921), author of a text on quaternions, taught mathematics at Calvin College for 20 years after a 17-year engineering career in the aerospace industry. JPL
243381 Alessio 2008 YM4 Alessio Muler (born 2002), second son of the first discoverer. JPL

243401–243500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243440 Colonia 2009 FD2 Colonia (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) is the Roman name for Köln, Germany's fourth-largest city, founded in the year 38 BC by the Romans. JPL
243458 Bubulina 2009 QQ38 Bubulina was the nickname of Marina Denisa Botofan (2008–2010), who lived in Constanta, Romania, and died in Pavia, Italy, of lymphoblastic leukemia. JPL
243491 Mühlviertel 2009 UH19 Muehlviertel, the northernmost of the four districts (together with Hausruckviertel, Traunviertel and Innviertel) of Upper Austria. JPL

243501–243600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243516 Marklarsen 2009 FD2 As the senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, Mark Larson (born 1962) has been responsible for the camera aboard the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. His work has been seminal to the success of the mission. JPL
243526 Russwalker 2010 DY28 Russ Walker (b. 1931), an astronomer specializing in infrared observations of small bodies. JPL
243529 Petereisenhardt 2010 DO50 Peter Eisenhardt (b. 1957) is the Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission and was a member of the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera science team. JPL
243536 Mannheim 2010 EQ111 Mannheim, a German city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. JPL
243546 Fengchuanliu 2010 JH61 Fengchuan Liu (b. 1965), an expert in cryogenic physics who served as the project manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE projects and who has worked on a number of other NASA low temperature physics experiments. JPL

243601–243700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
243637 Frosinone 1999 TZ10 Named Frusna in ancient Volscan and Frusino by the Romans, Frosinone is a provincial administrative seat and the discoverer’s birthplace. JPL

243701–243800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

243801–243900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

243901–244000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
242,001–243,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 243,001–244,000
Succeeded by
244,001–245,000
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