Meanings of minor planet names: 168001–169000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

168001–168100

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

168101–168200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
168126 Chengbruce 2006 GK Bruce C. H. Cheng, Taiwanese ecological entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of Delta Electronics, Inc. JPL

168201–168300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
168261 Puglia 2006 PW3 Puglia, a region situated at the south-eastern tip of the Italian peninsula JPL

168301–168400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
168321 Josephschmidt 1991 RJ3 Joseph Schmidt, an operatic tenor who performed in the world's top concert halls JPL
168358 Casca 1996 DF2 This minor planet is named in honor of the Canadian Astronomical Society, or Société Canadienne d´Astronomie JPL

168401–168500

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

168501–168600

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

168601–168700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
168638 Waltersiegmund 2000 CH149 168638 Waltersiegmund Discovered 2000 Feb. 12 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point. Walter Siegmund (b. 1950) is an American engineer, the Project Engineer for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and a designer of the telescope and its optical fiber positioning system.JPL
168698 Robpickman 2000 GX140 Robert D. Pickman, now retired, worked as an engineer for IBM and also for NASA developing ground-based systems to support the space shuttle JPL

168701–168800

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

168801–168900

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

168901–169000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
168948 Silvestri 2000 YX143 168948 Silvestri Discovered 2000 Dec. 23 by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point. Nicole Silvestri (b. 1973) is an American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known for establishing a chromospheric activity-age relation for M dwarf stars and work on SDSS close binary systems.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
167,001–168,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 168,001–169,000
Succeeded by
169,001–170,000
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