Meanings of minor planet names: 299001–300000
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]
299001–299100
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299020 Chennaoui | 2005 AR3 | Hasnaa Chennaoui-Aoudjehane (born 1964), a Moroccan geochemist at Hassan II University in Casablanca. She is a member of the Nomenclature Committee of Meteorites, and former council member, of the Meteoritical Society. She classified and named nine observed falls in Morocco, including Tissint, the fifth Martian meteorite fall (Src). | JPL · 299020 |
299101–299200
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299134 Moggicecchi | 2005 EB224 | Vanni Moggi Cecchi (born 1965), an Italian mineralogist and meteoriticist, who was the Curator of the Museum of Planetary Sciences in Prato, Tuscany | JPL · 299134 |
299201–299300
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
299301–299400
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299362 Marthacole | 2005 TK27 | Martha Cole (born 1945) was a professional photographer based in San Diego, California, in the 1980s and 1990s. | JPL · 299362 |
299401–299500
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
299501–299600
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299518 Metchev | 2006 CX63 | Stanimir A. Metchev (b. 1976), a Bulgarian-Canadian Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. | IAU · 299518 |
299601–299700
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
299701–299800
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299755 Ericmontellese | 2006 RB106 | Eric Montellese (born 1981), an American software and computer engineer | JPL · 299755 |
| 299756 Kerryaileen | 2006 RO109 | Kerry Aileen Masiero (born 1984), sister of American astronomer Joseph Masiero who discovered this minor planet | JPL · 299756 |
| 299777 Tanyastreeter | 2006 SN63 | Tanya Streeter (born 1973), a British-Caymanian-American champion freediver. She held the freediving record with a depth of 525 feet (160 meters). | IAU · 299777 |
| 299785 Alexeymolchanov | 2006 SC77 | Alexey Molchanov (b. 1987), a Russian freediver. | IAU · 299785 |
| 299792 Celeritas | 2006 SY93 | The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is equal to 299,792,458 meters per second. The word "celeritas" means "speed" in Latin. | IAU · 299792 |
299801–299900
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 299897 Skipitis | 2006 SE369 | Raimundas Skipitis (b. 1959), a Lithuanian amateur astronomers. | IAU · 299897 |
299901–300000
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| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
References
[edit]- ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.