Meanings of minor planet names: 74001–75000

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".

74001–74100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
74024 Hrabě	1998 HR4	Václav Hrabě (1940–1965), Czech poet and writer.	JPL · 74024

74101–74200

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74201–74300

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74301–74400

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74370 Kolářjan	1998 XJ	Jan Kolár (born 1944) started his professional career in satellite remote sensing in 1975. Since the mid-90s he actively participated in the building of the Czech-ESA relations and significantly contributed to the creation of the Czech Space Office.	JPL · 74370
74400 Streaky	1998 XH97	Name chosen by Eve Canovan, from Lancaster, UK, as the winner of a national competition to write a story that included an "asteroid" or "asteroids", which was run by the Centre for Life in conjunction with The Times Eureka Science magazine to enthuse and engage children about space.	JPL · 74400

74401–74500

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74439 Brenden	1999 CT2	Craig Brenden (born 1946), a teacher of chemistry and an amateur astronomer.	JPL · 74439

74501–74600

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74503 Madola	1999 DN4	Christian Marois (born 1974), René Doyon (born 1963) and David Lafrenière (born 1978) developed instruments that allowed seeing an extrasolar planetary system. Doyon was director of the Mt. Mégantic Observatory; Marois and Lafrenière were postdoctoral fellows at the Herzberg Institute and the University of Toronto	JPL · 74503
74509 Gillett	1999 FG7	Frederick C. Gillett (1937–2001), American infrared astronomer	JPL · 74509

74601–74700

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74625 Tieproject	1999 RR34	NASA's Telescopes In Education (TIE) project †	MPC · 74625

74701–74800

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74764 Rudolfpešek	1999 RP213	Rudolf Pešek (1905–1989) founded the Czech school of aerodynamic engineering. An enthusiastic supporter and popularizer of spaceflight, he became an active member of the International Astronautical Federation and the International Academy of Astronautics. He invented the famous abbreviation CETI, now SETI	JPL · 74764

74801–74900

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74818 Iten	1999 TW10	Marco Iten (born 1950), a goldsmith and a skilled model train hobbyist, living in Gordola, Switzerland.	JPL · 74818
74824 Tarter	1999 TJ16	Jill C. Tarter, American radio-astronomer	JPL · 74824

74901–75000

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

References

Preceded by 73,001–74,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 74,001–75,000

Succeeded by 75,001–76,000

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