Meanings of minor planet names: 273001–274000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

273001–273100

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

273101–273200

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

273201–273300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
273230 de Bruyn 2006 JU72 John Roy de Bruyn (b. 1958) is a Canadian physicist working on experimental condensed-matter physics, with emphasis on soft materials, the physics of biological systems, and the dynamics of systems driven out of equilibrium. JPL
273262 Cottam 2006 KJ142 Michael Gordon Cottam (b. 1945), an English-Canadian physicist. JPL
273273 Piwowarski 2006 OR9 Marcin Piwowarski (1984–2007), a computer consultant, specializing in flight simulators. JPL

273301–273400

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

273401–273500

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

273501–273600

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

273601–273700

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

273701–273800

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

273801–273900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
273836 Hoijyusek 2007 GZ27 Hoi Jyu Sek (Haizhushi), "the Rock of the Pearl in Sea", was a large rock in the Pearl River that had been treated as an icon of Guangzhou (Canton) for many centuries. JPL

273901–274000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
273987 Greggwade 2007 LQ30 GreggWade (b. 1971), a Canadian astrophysicist. JPL

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
272,001–273,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 273,001–274,000
Succeeded by
274,001–275,000
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