Meanings of minor planet names: 240001–241000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

240001–240100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
240022 Demitra 2001 TR258 Pavol Demitra, Slovak ice-hockey player. JPL

240101–240200

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

240201–240300

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

240301–240400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
240381 Emilchyne 2003 SB317 Emilchyne, the disctict in Ukraine. JPL

240401–240500

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

240501–240600

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

240601–240700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
240697 Gemenc 2005 GC Gemenc, a forest and the only remaining tidal area of the Danube in Hungary. JPL

240701–240800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
240757 Farkasberci 2005 KS8 Bertalan "Berci" Farkas (born 1949), the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. JPL

240801–240900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
240871 MOSS 2006 DA The Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey or MOSS is an international amateur sky survey established in 2011. JPL

240901–241000

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
239,001–240,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 240,001–241,000 		Succeeded by
241,001–242,000
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