Meanings of minor-planet names: 135001–136000

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). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). 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.

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Template:USGovernment New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

135001–135100

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=041 | 135041 Lorenzofranco || Template:Mp || Lorenzo Franco (b. 1954), an Italian amateur astronomer. || Template:WGSBNB · Template:LoMP |-id=069 | 135069 Gagnereau || Template:Mp || Éric Gagnereau (born 1955), French animator and popularizer of astronomy, co-founder of the Astronomical Society of Montpellier and of the Pises Observatory || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

135101–135200

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}

135201–135300

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=268 | 135268 Haigneré || Template:Mp || Claudie Haigneré (born 1957) and Jean-Pierre Haigneré (born 1948), French astronauts. Claudie was born in Le Creusot, location of the Le Creusot Observatory Template:Obscode where this minor planet was discovered. || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

135301–135400

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}

135401–135500

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135501–135600

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=561 | 135561 Tautvaisiene || Template:Mp || Gražina Tautvaišienė (born 1958), Lithuanian astronomer, director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy in Vilnius since 2003 || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

135601–135700

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}

135701–135800

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=799 | 135799 Ráczmiklós || Template:Mp || Miklós Rácz (born 1947), a Hungarian physicist, the head of the technical department of the Konkoly Observatory between 2000 and 2011. || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

135801–135900

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}

135901–136000

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=978 | 135978 Agüeros || Template:Mp || Marcel Agüeros (born 1973), French-Puerto Rican astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=979 | 135979 Allam || Template:Mp || Sahar Allam (born 1964), Egyptian astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=980 | 135980 Scottanderson || Template:Mp || Scott F. Anderson (born 1955), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=991 | 135991 Danarmstrong || Template:Mp || Daniel Armstrong (born 1944) received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1967. In the early 1980s, before CCD sensors were available to amateurs, Armstrong began a nearly decade-long visual observation program directed at minor planet paths and occultation events. || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

References

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