Meanings of minor planet names: 243001–244000

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 published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars several times a year.^[1] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).^[2] 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.^[3]^[4] Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,^[5] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Meanings marked with * are from legacy sources may not be accurate. This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "SBDB".

243001–243100[edit]

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243002 Lemmy	2006 TG₁₁₉	Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister (1945–2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter whose music helped set the foundations for the heavy metal genre	JPL · 243002
243073 Freistetter	2007 HT₃	Florian Freistetter (born 1977), an astronomer and science writer.	JPL · 243073
243094 Dirlewanger	2007 RU₈	Wolfgang Dirlewanger (born 1953), leader of dental clinic in Nagold, Germany	JPL · 243094
243096 Klauswerner	2007 RX₁₅	Klaus Werner (born 1957), Professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen.	JPL · 243096
243097 Batavia	2007 RF₁₆	The fort of Batavia (Castro Batava) was a Roman frontier fort (1st to 5th century AD) in the area of Passau in Bavaria, Germany.	JPL · 243097

243101–243200[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243109 Hansludwig	2007 RT₁₃₂	Hans-Ludwig Neumann (1938–1991), a German amateur astronomer and president of the "Physikalischer Verein" at Frankfurt am Main from 1976 to 1991.	JPL · 243109

243201–243300[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243204 Kubanchoria	2007 UA₅	The Kuban Cossacs Chorus, founded on 1811. It was named on the occasion of its 200th anniversary.	JPL · 243204
243262 Korkosz	2007 YV₄₇	Frank and John Korkosz, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, were pioneers in the development of mid-sized, high-quality planetariums.	JPL · 243262
243285 Fauvaud	2008 CJ₁₈₁	Stéphane Fauvaud (born 1968), an active French amateur astronomer	JPL · 243285

243301–243400[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243320 Jackuipers	2008 SG₁₂	Jack Kuipers (born 1921), author of a text on quaternions, taught mathematics at Calvin College for 20 years after a 17-year engineering career in the aerospace industry. JPL	MPC · 243320
243381 Alessio	2008 YM₄	Alessio Muler (born 2002), second son of the first discoverer.	JPL · 243381

243401–243500[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243440 Colonia	2009 FD₂	Colonia (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) is the Roman name for Köln, Germany's fourth-largest city, founded in the year 38 BC by the Romans.	JPL · 243440
243458 Bubulina	2009 QQ₃₈	Marina Denisa Botofan (2008–2010), nicknamed "Bubulina", who lived in Constanta, Romania, and died in Pavia, Italy, of lymphoblastic leukemia.	JPL · 243458
243491 Mühlviertel	2009 UH₁₉	Muehlviertel, the northernmost of the four districts of Upper Austria.	JPL · 243491

243501–243600[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243516 Marklarsen	2009 FD₂	Mark Larson (born 1962), a senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, responsible for the camera aboard the WISE spacecraft.	JPL · 243516
243526 Russwalker	2010 DY₂₈	Russ Walker (born 1931), an astronomer specializing in infrared observations of small bodies.	JPL · 243526
243529 Petereisenhardt	2010 DO₅₀	Peter Eisenhardt (born 1957) is the project scientist for the WISE mission and a former member of the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera science team.	JPL · 243529
243536 Mannheim	2010 EQ₁₁₁	Mannheim, a German city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.	JPL · 243536
243546 Fengchuanliu	2010 JH₆₁	Fengchuan Liu (born 1965), an expert in cryogenic physics who served as the project manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE projects and who has worked on a number of other NASA low temperature physics experiments.	JPL · 243546
243591 Ignacostantino	1998 RG₃	Ignazio Costantino (born 1960) is a very enthusiastic Italian amateur astronomer. He is an electrionic engineer and a sailor.	JPL · 243591

243601–243700[edit]

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
243637 Frosinone	1999 TZ₁₀	Named Frusna in ancient Volscan and Frusino by the Romans, Frosinone is a provincial administrative seat and the discoverer's birthplace.	JPL · 243637

243701–243800[edit]

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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

243801–243900[edit]

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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

243901–244000[edit]

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

References[edit]

↑ "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. Search this book on
↑ 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. Search this book on
↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991. Search this book on

Preceded by 242,001–243,000	Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 243,001–244,000	Succeeded by 244,001–245,000

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[MPC-Circulars-Archive-1] "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

[JPL-Discovery-2] "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.

[DoMPN-3] Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016. Search this book on

[DoMPN-Addendum-4] 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. Search this book on

[Herget-5] Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991. Search this book on

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