Meanings of minor planet names: 315001–316000
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 approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] 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.[4][5]
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. 
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]
315001–315100[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 315012 Hutchings | 2007 BD31 | John Barrie Hutchings (born 1941), an astrophysicist who uses observations from the entire electromagnetic spectrum to probe intrinsically luminous stars, X-ray binaries, neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes, as well as active galactic nuclei and quasars. | JPL · 315012 |
| 315046 Gianniferrari | 2007 CG51 | Gianni Ferrari (born 1938) is the founder of the Modena Amateur Astronomers Group. He has given many lectures and written several articles and computer programs and also two books about sundial calculations. | JPL · 315046 |
| 315088 Daniels | 2007 DT84 | Steven W. Daniels (born 1959), a Physics Professor and department chair at Eastern Illinois University. | JPL · 315088 |
315101–315200[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 315166 Pawelmaksym | 2007 GA4 | Pawel Maksym (1983–2013), an astronomy popularizer in Poland. | MPC · 315166 |
| 315174 Sellek | 2007 HG5 | Douglas J. Sellek (1945–1996), a middle-school science teacher and an advocate of the sciences | JPL · 315174 |
| 315186 Schade | 2007 LD30 | David Joseph Schade (born 1953), who has served as leader for the NRC-Canadian Astronomy Data Centre since 2001, which has contributed numerous innovations to data management for, inter alia, HST, CFHT, Gemini, JCMT and MOST observatories and to the Virtual Observatory. | JPL · 315186 |
315201–315300[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 315218 La Boétie | 2007 RR133 | Étienne de La Boétie (1530–1563) was a French writer and a founder of modern political philosophy. | JPL · 315218 |
| 315276 Yurigradovsky | 2007 TK91 | Yuri Grygorovych Gradovsky (born 1956), a history teacher by education, is a Ukrainian composer, and the founder and leader of the Drevlyany music band of the Zhytomyr Philharmonic. | JPL · 315276 |
315301–315400[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
315401–315500[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 315493 Zimin | 2008 AE2 | Dmitry Borisovich Zimin (born 1933), a Russian scientist and inventor. | JPL · 315493 |
315501–315600[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 315577 Carmenchu | 2008 CB70 | Carmen Castillo Bartolomé (born 1959), a Spanish artist. | JPL · 315577 |
| 315579 Vandersyppe | 2008 CH74 | Anne Vandersyppe (1958–2019) was a member of the Solar Physics and Space Weather department of the Royal Observatory of Belgium. | IAU · 315579 |
315601–315700[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
315701–315800[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
315801–315900[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
315901–316000[edit]
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
References[edit]
- ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
- ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.