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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.
- 168,001…
- 168,101…
- 168,201…
- 168,301…
- 168,401…
- 168,501…
- 168,601…
- 168,701…
- 168,801…
- 168,901…
- 163,000s
- 164,000s
- 165,000s
- 166,000s
- 167,000s
- 168,000s
- 169,000s
- 170,000s
- 171,000s
- 172,000s
- 173,000s
168001–168100
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
There are no named minor planets in this number range |
168101–168200
168201–168300
168301–168400
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 |
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