Meanings of minor planet names: 163001–164000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

163001–163100

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

163101–163200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
163119 Timmckay 2002 AO208 Tim McKay, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163153 Takuyaonishi 2002 CO116 Takuya Onishi, Boeing 767 co-pilot for a Japanese airline JPL

163201–163300

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

163301–163400

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

163401–163500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
163470 Kenwallis 2002 RQ181 Ken Wallis (1916–2013), a British aviator and engineer. JPL

163501–163600

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

163601–163700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
163623 Miknaitis 2002 TR346 Gajus Miknaitis, American astrophysicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163624 Moorthy 2002 TD366 Bhasker Moorthy, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163625 Munn 2002 TU367 Jeff Munn, American astronomer and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163626 Glatfelter 2002 UV Pam Glatfelter, American Operational Site Manager for the NASA Table Mountain Facility JPL
163639 Tomnash 2002 UN51 Thomas Nash, American physicist and contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163640 Newberg 2002 UB59 Heidi Jo Newberg, American astronomer who wrote Sloan Digital Sky Survey software JPL
163641 Nichol 2002 UC68 Robert Nichol, British observational cosmologist and long-term contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL
163693 Atira 2003 CP20 Atira, the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the evening star JPL

163701–163800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
163800 Richardnorton 2003 QS69 Richard Norton, author of many popular books and articles about meteorites JPL

163801–163900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
163819 Teleki 2003 RN8 Sámuel Teleki, 19th-20th-century Hungarian explorer, first to reach the snow-line on Mount Kilimanjaro, first to set foot on Mount Kenya, first European to see Lake Turkana (which he named Lake Rudolf) JPL

163901–164000

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
162,001–163,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 163,001–164,000
Succeeded by
164,001–165,000
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