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]
Menorca is the most eastern and northern island of the Balearic Islands (Spain). It was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993 by UNESCO, and contains important megalithic monuments (navetas, talayots and taulas).
China Three Gorges University (Sānxiá Dàxué) is a university with prominent hydraulic and electrical disciplines, located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, P. R. China.
Pan Junhua (born 1930), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the founder of both optic test equipment and optics manufacturing technology, and a pioneer of aspherical optics application in China.
Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian architect and art historian. He realized the palace of the Caravan in Pisa and the Florentine complex of the Uffizi.
Navina Lamminger (born 1978) is a German social scientist and author. She graduated in Tibetology at the University of Munich in 2013. She now works as a dramaturge for top cabaret artists.
Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich (born 1940), on the astronomy faculty atVitebsk State University, is a well-known astronomy popularizer and publicist inBelarus.