Meanings of minor planet names: 68001–69000

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".

68001–68100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68021 Taiki	2000 YU17	Taiki Town, located in the eastern part of Hokkaido, is a beautiful town blessed with clear streams and a large park filled with wild flowers on its shore	JPL · 68021

68101–68200

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68109 Naomipasachoff	2000 YH135	Naomi Pasachoff (born 1947), American scientific biographer and amateur astronomer	JPL · 68109
68114 Deákferenc	2001 AC	Ferenc Deák (1803–1876), a Hungarian statesman, Minister of Justice and honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.	JPL · 68114
68144 Mizser	2001 AW38	Attila Mizser, one of the leaders of Hungarian amateur astronomy, editor-in-chief of Meteor	JPL · 68144

68201–68300

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68218 Nealgalt	2001 CO31	Neal Galt, American amateur astronomer and newspaper columnist †	MPC · 68218

68301–68400

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68325 Begues	2001 HO16	The Begues Observatory (Catalan: Observatori Astronòmic de Begues) is an amateur observatory operated by Pepe Manteca in Barcelona, Spain †	JPL · 68325

68401–68500

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68410 Nichols	2001 QB154	Nichelle Nichols, American author and actress, best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek series † ‡	MPC · 68410
68448 Sidneywolff	2001 SW4	Sidney C. Wolff, American director of Kitt Peak National Observatory (1984–1987) and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (1987–2001), president of the American Astronomical Society (1992–1994) and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1985–1986), and a founding editor of the Astronomy Education Review	JPL · 68448

68501–68600

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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

68601–68700

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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

68701–68800

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68718 Safi	2002 DQ	Safi, Morocco, birthplace of the discoverer's wife	JPL · 68718
68719 Jangyeongsil	2002 DW	Jang Yeongsil, fifteenth century Korean scientist (after whom the JangYeongSil Award, an annual Korean new technology product award, is also named)	JPL · 68719
68730 Straizys	2002 EA13	Vytautas Straižys, Lithuanian astronomer	JPL · 68730
68779 Schöninger	2002 FA3	Schöninger (a.k.a. Šenýgl), 17th–19th-century German name of Kleť mountain, meaning "a place with a beautiful view"	JPL · 68779

68801–68900

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68853 Vaimaca	2002 HA9	Vaimaca, one of the four "last charrás", native Uruguayans sold by the state to be exhibited in France in 1833; he had been a chief and served as a soldier in the army of the Uruguayan national hero José Artigas JPL	MPC · 68853

68901–69000

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
68947 Brunofunk	2002 PW156	Amateur astronomer Bruno Funk (born 1930) is the founder of Messelberg Observatory and president of the amateur association Sternfreunde Donzdorf in Donzdorf, Geramany † ‡	JPL · 68947
68948 Mikeoates	2002 PX157	Michael Oates (born 1957), British amateur astronomer, SOHO comet hunter †	JPL · 68948

References

Preceded by 67,001–68,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 68,001–69,000

Succeeded by 69,001–70,000

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