Asminor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by theIAU'sMinor Planet Center (MPC), and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU'snaming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Based onPaul Herget'sThe 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 thepublic domain: SBDB New namings may only beadded 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]
Magdolna Hargittai and István Hargittai, Hungarian chemists and members of theHungarian Academy of Sciences, whose research is structural chemistry. In 2011, they received the annual science communication award of theClub of Hungarian Science Journalists.
Li Jieshou (born 1924), an academician of Chinese Engineering Academy, is the founder of surgical nutriology and therapies of refractory gastrointestinal disease in China.
The Buddhist Compassion ReliefTzu Chi Foundation, established in Taiwan in 1966, has grown to be an international humanitarian organization with over 10 million members in 47 countries
Apalindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, of which the permanent number of this minor planet is an example.
Dominik Brunner (1959–2009), Bavarian entrepreneur, killed in a fight which resulted from Brunner trying to protect a group of school children from attacks by teenagers
TheXinjiang University (Xinjiangdaxue) was founded in 1924 and is one of the national key comprehensive universities. It is listed as a comprehensive university for further development in the Great West Project of China.