This is a list of minor planets that have been named officially. They are named by the Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). The list is of pages that are not complete. Each page covers 1000 minor planets . All pages that exist are in § Index .
There are hundreds of thousands numbered minor planets . Very few are named, however. As of 28 February 2022[update] , there are 23,081 named minor planets . There are 600,000 numbered ones (also see List of minor planets § Main index as there are more very often) .[1] Most of the minor planets are named after people. Most of them were astronomers . Many of them are things from mythology or fiction . Many minor planets are also named after places. These can be things like cities , towns , villages , mountains , volcanoes , rivers, observatories , organizations , clubs and astronomical societies . Some are named after animals and plants. A few minor planets are named after other things such as supercomputers and some origins are unknown.
The first few thousand minor planets have all been named. The near-Earth asteroid (4596) 1981 QB is the lowest-numbered unnamed minor planet.[2] The first 3 pages in the table contain 1,000 named entries each. The first 13 and 33 pages contain at least 500 and 100 named entries each. The first range to contain no entries is 258001–259000. There are also many name conflicts with other astronomical objects . The name conflicts are usually with with planetary satellites.
After the discovering astronomer discovers a planet, they can ask for that planet to be named a specific way. New minor planet names are approved and published by IAU's WGSBN many times every year.[1] The WGSBN has a set of rules for naming minor planets.[3] These are from syntax restrictions to non-offensive meanings. Over the years the rules have changed many times. In the beginning, for example, most minor planets were named after female characters from Greek and Roman mythology .[3]
Index
This is a list of all partial lists on the meanings of minor planets (MoMP ). Each table has 100,000 minor planets. Each cell is a list of 1,000 numbered minor planets in order. Grayed out cells do not yet have any named minor planets . For an introduction, see § top .
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2,001
3,001
4,001
5,001
6,001
7,001
8,001
9,001
10,001
11,001
12,001
13,001
14,001
15,001
16,001
17,001
18,001
19,001
20,001
21,001
22,001
23,001
24,001
25,001
26,001
27,001
28,001
29,001
30,001
31,001
32,001
33,001
34,001
35,001
36,001
37,001
38,001
39,001
40,001
41,001
42,001
43,001
44,001
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61,001
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91,001
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208,001
209,001
210,001
211,001
212,001
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Meanings from 500,001 to 600,000
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501,001
502,001
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506,001
507,001
508,001
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510,001
511,001
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578,001
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580,001
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586,001
587,001
588,001
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590,001
591,001
592,001
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596,001
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598,001
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Meanings from 600,001 to 700,000
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601,001
602,001
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604,001
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609,001
610,001
611,001
612,001
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678,001
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680,001
681,001
682,001
683,001
684,001
685,001
686,001
687,001
688,001
689,001
690,001
691,001
692,001
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695,001
696,001
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699,001
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