Meanings of minor planet names: 251001–252000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

251001–251100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
251001 Sluch 2006 OM14 Sluch, a river that flows through Ukraine in the basin of the Dniper. JPL
251018 Liubirena 2006 QC31 Liubov Grinishyn (born 1955) and Irene Malinovska (born 1967) are poets and lyric story writers. JPL

251101–251200

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

251201–251300

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

251301–251400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
251325 Leopoldjosefine 2007 CX26 Leopold Gierlinger (b. 1935) and Josefine Gierlinger (b. 1935), the parents of the discoverer. JPL

251401–251500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
251449 Olexakorol' 2008 CK117 Oleksiy Kostyantynovych Korol' (1913–1977) worked in the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and was a member of IAU Commission No. 9. He obtained observations of celestial bodies to help solve problems in fundamental astrometry. JPL

251501–251600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
251595 Rudolfböttger 2009 HA36 Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), a German chemist and physicist at the Physikalischer Verein of Frankfurt am Main. JPL

251601–251700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
251621 Lüthen 2009 RR2 Hartwig Lüthen (born 1960), associate professor of plant physiology at the University of Hamburg. JPL
251625 Timconrow 2010 DD21 Tim Conrow (b. 1958), a senior engineer at the California Institute of Technology’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. JPL
251627 Joyceearl 2010 JV16 Joyce (1920-2003) and Earl (1914-1979) Bonar were the grandparents of Amy Mainzer, the PI of the NEOWISE project to study minor planets. JPL

251701–251800

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

251801–251900

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

251901–252000

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
250,001–251,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 251,001–252,000
Succeeded by
252,001–253,000
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