Meanings of minor planet names: 92001–93000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

92001–92100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92097 Aidai 1999 XX37 92097 Aidai Discovered 1999 Dec. 3 by A. Nakamura at Kuma Kogen. Ehime University, whose nickname is Aidai, is one of the 87 national universities in Japan. It was established in 1949 with the consolidation of four schools. Since the foundation of the Research Center for Space and Cosmic Evolution in 2007, Aidai has promoted the study of astronomy and cosmology.JPL

92101–92200

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

92201–92300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92209 Pingtang 1999 YS17 92209 Pingtang Discovered 1999 Dec. 26 by the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong. Pingtang county, situated in southwestern China in Qiannan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, has rich tourism resources, especially the world's best-preserved karst landform, providing a unique site for constructing FAST (the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope).JPL
92297 Monrad 2000 EL156 92297 Monrad Discovered 2000 Mar. 10 by the Catalina Sky Survey. Ingrid "Twink" Monrad (b. 1945) is a meteorite hunter in Tucson, Arizona. With Jim Kriegh and John Blennert, she is one of the co-discoverers of the Gold Basin Meteorite Strewn Field.JPL

92301–92400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92389 Gretskij 2000 JZ3 92389 Gretskij Discovered 2000 May 3 by P. Pravec and P. Kušnirák at Ondřejov. Andrej M. Gretskij (b. 1945) is an associate professor at Kharkiv Karazin National University. He has been a pioneer in the study of the brightness-phase curve of Saturn's rings and is author of many astronomical textbooks. His lectures have had a big impact among students of astronomy in Ukraine.JPL

92401–92500

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

92501–92600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92525 Delucchi 2000 OV2 Fausto Delucchi, Swiss amateur astronomer JPL
92578 Benecchi 2000 OC62 92578 Benecchi Discovered 2000 July 30 by S. D. Kern at Cerro Tololo. Robert J. Benecchi (b. 1966), husband of the discoverer, is a hardware design engineer who has contributed to the development of numerous wireless communication and medical device technologies.JPL
92585 Fumagalli 2000 PP8 Francesco Fumagalli, Italian telescope maker and amateur astronomer JPL

92601–92700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92614 Kazutami 2000 QY Kazutami Namikoshi (b. 1938), a friend of the discoverer. JPL
92685 Cordellorenz 2000 QD71 Francis Merritt Cordell and Philip Jack Lorenz, American astronomers after whom the Cordell-Lorenz Observatory is named JPL

92701–92800

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

92801–92900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
92891 Bless 2000 QK236 Robert C. Bless, American astronomer, and Ph.D. advisor to the discoverer JPL
92893 Michaelperson 2000 QE247 92893 Michaelperson Discovered 2000 Aug. 27 by S. D. Kern at Cerro Tololo. Michael J. Person (b. 1970) is currently a planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specializes in occultation studies of small bodies in the outer solar system, especially Neptune I (Triton), (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto I (Charon).JPL

92901–93000

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
91,001–92,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 92,001–93,000
Succeeded by
93,001–94,000
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