Meanings of minor planet names: 229001–230000

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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

229001–229100

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

229101–229200

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

229201–229300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
229255 Andrewelliott 2005 AJ Andrew John Elliott (1946–2010), a British observer who pioneered the use of low-light devices, precision timing and video methods in observing short-lived phenomena. JPL

229301–229400

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

229401–229500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
229425 Grosspointner 2005 TW50 Peter Grosspointner (b. 1960), a well-known Austrian amateur astronomer and treasurer of the Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut, one of Austria's largest astronomical societies. JPL
229440 Filimon 2005 UE6 Erwin Filimon (b. 1959), a well-known Austrian amateur astronomer and long-term Chairman of the Astronomischer Arbeitskreis Salzkammergut, one of Austria's largest astronomical societies. JPL

229501–229600

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

229601–229700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
229631 Cluny 2006 ER The city of Cluny is in the Saône-et-Loire department (Burgundy, France), 20 km north west of Mâcon. JPL

229701–229800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
229737 Porthos 2007 HO4 Porthos, baron du Vallon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds, is a fictional character in Dumas' novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. He and the other two musketeers Athos and Aramis are friends of the novel's protagonist, d´Artagnan. JPL
229777 ENIAC 2008 MX4 ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer, a Turing-complete, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. JPL
229781 Arthurmcdonald 2008 PS1 Arthur B. McDonald (b. 1943) is a Canadian physicist who received the 2015 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery of neutrino oscillations, showing that the neutrino has mass. JPL

229801–229900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
229836 Wladimarinello 2009 QR34 Wladimiro Marinello, Italian amateur astronomer. JPL
229864 Sichouzhilu 2009 TC26 Sichouzhilu (Silk Road) was an ancient network of trade and cultural transmission routes that connected Chang’an, China to the Mediterranean Sea. The Chang’an-Tianshan corridor was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2014. JPL
229900 Emmagreaves 2009 VO42 Emma Jane Greaves (born 1976), the eldest daughter of the discoverer. JPL

229901–230000

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
228,001–229,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 229,001–230,000 		Succeeded by
230,001–231,000
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