Meanings of minor-planet names: 147001–148000

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.

147001–147100

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147101–147200

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147201–147300

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147301–147400

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=397 | 147397 Bobhazel || Template:Mp || Robert Sealy (1927–2002) and Hazel Sealy (1930-2020), American founders of the Seaside Amateur Astronomers of Seaside, Oregon, and friends of the discoverer, James Whitney Young || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

147401–147500

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=421 | 147421 Gárdonyi || 2003 GG || Géza Gárdonyi (1863–1922), Hungarian writer and journalist || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

147501–147600

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=595 | 147595 Gojkomitić || Template:Mp || Gojko Mitić (born 1940), Serbian actor, director and stuntman. He starred as a Native American in several German Western movies and at the Karl May Festival in Bad Segeberg. || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

147601–147700

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=693 | 147693 Piccioni || Template:Mp || Giuseppe Piccioni (born 1965), Italian astronomer and expert on infrared imaging sensors || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

147701–147800

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=736 | 147736 Raxavinic || Template:Mp || Airline pilot trainee Rapha, experimental physicist Xavier and software engineer Vince, are the sons of the discoverer and his wife Nicole "Nicnac" Bosmans, a secretary at Brussels University || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=766 | 147766 Elisatoffoli || Template:Mp || Elisa Toffoli (born 1977), an Italian singer-songwriter. || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

147801–147900

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147901–148000

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=918 | 147918 Chiayi || Template:Mp || Chiayi County in southwestern Taiwan, location of the Lulin Observatory where this minor planet was discovered || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=971 | 147971 Nametoko || 1994 WF || Nametoko Ravine is a narrow canyon in the Ashizuri-Uwakai National Park, Japan, located in the south of Ehime Prefecture || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

References

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