Meanings of minor planet names: 125001–126000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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.

Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

125001–125100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
125071 Lugosi 2001 TX242 Béla Lugosi, early 20th-century Hungarian actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the Broadway stage production (1927) and subsequent film (1931) of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story JPL
125076 Michelmayor 2001 UD6 Michel Mayor (b. 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University. JPL

125101–125200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

125201–125300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

125301–125400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

125401–125500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
125473 Keisaku 2001 WP14 Keisaku Ninomiya, a medical doctor who studied Western medicine and pharmaceutics under the German doctor P. F. von Siebold in Nagasaki JPL
125476 Frangarcia 2001 WE16 Francisco Garcia, Spain amateur astronomer JPL

125501–125600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
125592 Buthiers 2001 XO33 Observatoire de Buthiers, the discovery site JPL

125601–125700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

125701–125800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
125718 Jemasalomon 2001 XH105 Jean-Marc Salomon, French amateur astronomer; the 0.6-m telescope with which this minor planet was discovered is also named in his honour JPL

125801–125900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

125901–126000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. 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.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
124,001–125,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 125,001–126,000
Succeeded by
126,001–127,000
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