Meanings of minor planet names: 216001–217000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

216001–216100

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

216101–216200

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

216201–216300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216241 Renzopiano 2006 VF14 Renzo Piano (b. 1937), an Italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. JPL
216261 Mapihsia 2006 WJ15 Pi Hsia Ma (born 1951), the mother of the first discoverer. JPL

216301–216400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216343 Wenchang 2007 WJ56 Wenchang Shi, historically known as Zibei County, a Chinese city in Hainan Dao. JPL
216345 Savigliano 2007 XC11 Savigliano, an important agricultural and industrial center in Piedmont. JPL
216390 Binnig 2008 CK177 Gerd Binnig, German physicist. JPL

216401–216500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216428 Mauricio 2008 YN8 Mauricio Muler, the name of both a grandfather (1904–1987) and a son (born 1999) of the first discoverer. JPL
216433 Milianleo 2009 DM3 Milian Leo Schwab (born 2004), first-born son of the discoverer. JPL
216439 Lyubertsy 2009 EV3 Lyubertsy, a major industrial and scenic center in the Moscow region. JPL
216451 Irsha 2009 HP12 Irsha river, in city of Malyn, Ukraine. JPL
216462 Polyphontes 5397 T-2 Polyphontes, a Greek hero, son of Autophonos, was one of the leaders of an ambush against Tydeus near Thebes. JPL

216501–216600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216591 Coetzee 2002 OQ7 John Maxwell Coetzee (born 1940), a South African author and academic, now living in Australia. JPL

216601–216700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216624 Kaufer 2002 XW37 Andreas Kaufer, German astronomer. JPL

216701–216800

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

216801–216900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216888 Sankovich 2008 VS3 Anatoly Sankovich (born 1960), an amateur astronomer and telescope maker. JPL
216897 Golubev 2009 HJ58 Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich (born 1940), on the astronomy faculty at Vitebsk State University, is a well-known astronomy popularizer and publicist in Belarus. JPL

216901–217000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
216910 Vnukov 2009 JM4 Viktor Milentinovich Vnukov (born 1950), a pilot and engineer. 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
215,001–216,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 216,001–217,000 		Succeeded by
217,001–218,000
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