Meanings of minor planet names: 315001–316000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See main page for an introduction.

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. 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. Meanings marked with * are from legacy sources may not be accurate.  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "SBDB".

315001–315100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
315012 Hutchings	2007 BD31	John Barrie Hutchings (born 1941), an astrophysicist who uses observations from the entire electromagnetic spectrum to probe intrinsically-luminous stars, X-ray binaries, neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes, as well as active galactic nuclei and quasars.	JPL · 315012
315046 Gianniferrari	2007 CG51	Gianni Ferrari (born 1938) is the founder of the Modena Amateur Astronomers Group. He has given many lectures and written several articles and computer programs and also two books about sundial calculations.	JPL · 315046
315088 Daniels	2007 DT84	Steven W. Daniels (born 1959), a Physics Professor and Department Chair at Eastern Illinois University.	JPL · 315088

315101–315200

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
315166 Pawelmaksym	2007 GA4	Pawel Maksym (1983–2013), an astronomy popularizer in Poland.	MPC · 315166
315174 Sellek	2007 HG5	Douglas J. Sellek (1945–1996), a middle-school science teacher and an advocate of the sciences	JPL · 315174
315186 Schade	2007 LD30	David Joseph Schade (born 1953), who has served as leader for the NRC-Canadian Astronomy Data Centre since 2001, which has contributed numerous innovations to data management for, inter alia, HST, CFHT, Gemini, JCMT and MOST observatories and to the Virtual Observatory.	JPL · 315186

315201–315300

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
315218 La Boetie	2007 RR133	Etienne de La Boetie (1530–1563) was a French writer and a founder of modern political philosophy.	JPL · 315218
315276 Yurigradovsky	2007 TK91	Yuri Grygorovych Gradovsky (born 1956), a history teacher by education, is a Ukrainian composer, and the founder and leader of the Drevlyany music band of the Zhytomyr Philharmonic.	JPL · 315276

315301–315400

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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

315401–315500

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
315493 Zimin	2008 AE2	Dmitry Borisovich Zimin (born 1933), a Russian scientist and inventor.	JPL · 315493

315501–315600

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
315577 Carmenchu	2008 CB70	Carmen Castillo Bartolomé (born 1959), a Spanish artist.	JPL · 315577

315601–315700

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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

315701–315800

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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

315801–315900

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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

315901–316000

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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

Preceded by 314,001–315,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 315,001–316,000

Succeeded by 316,001–317,000

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