Meanings of minor planet names: 217001–218000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

217001–217100

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

217101–217200

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

217201–217300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
217257 Valemangano 2003 WU26 Valeria Mangano (born 1971), a planetary scientist at the Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario in Torino. JPL

217301–217400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
217366 Mayalin 2004 TW49 Maya Lin (b. 1959) designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (1980–1982) and the Civil Rights Memorial (1988–1989) in Montgomery, Alabama, along with many other monuments and works of art. For a time, she created artifiicial “asteroids” out of her daughters’ discarded toys. JPL
217398 Tihany 2005 GC22 Tihany, a historic village on the northern shore of Lake Balaton on the Tihany Peninsula. JPL

217401–217500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
217420 Olevsk 2005 QW148 Olevsk, an ancient city founded in the times of Kiev, Russia. JPL

217501–217600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
217576 Klausbirkner 2007 YX56 Klaus Birkner (b. 1959), a long-time amateur astronomer and co-founder of the AAEM Observatory near Velbert, Germany. JPL

217601–217700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
217603 Grove Creek 2008 JW20 Grove Creek Observatory, a professional research facility located at Trunkey Creek, New South Wales, Australia. JPL
217628 Lugh 1990 HA Lugh (or Lugus), the Celtic God of the sun and light. JPL

217701–217800

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

217801–217900

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

217901–218000

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
216,001–217,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 217,001–218,000
Succeeded by
218,001–219,000
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