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As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.[4][5]
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]
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594012 Bulavina | 2016 EQ87 | Daria Arturovna Bulavina (born 1988), a Russian photographer and member of the Union of Artists of Russia. | IAU · 594012 |
594032 Reyhersamuel | 2016 EF201 | Samuel Reyher (1635–1714), a German mathematician and astronomer at University of Kiel, where he was first to introduce astronomy as a scientific discipline. | IAU · 594032 |
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594782 Kacperwierzchoś | 2017 YV15 | Kacper Wierzchoś (born 1988), a Polish astronomer with the Catalina Sky Survey, who is a discoverer of minor planets and comets including the co-discovery of Earth's temporary satellite, 2020 CD3 (Src, WP-pt). | IAU · 594782 |
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594913 ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim | 2020 AV2 | ꞌAylóꞌchaxnim means "Venus Girl" in the language of the Luiseño people who are indigenous to the coastal area of southern California where the discovering Palomar Observatory is located. The name alludes to the fact that the orbit of this asteroid is entirely contained within that of the planet Venus. | IAU · 594913 |
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