Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000

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). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). 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.

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, 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. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

1001–1100

1101–1200

1201–1300

1301–1400

1401–1500

1501–1600

1601–1700

1701–1800

1801–1900

1901–2000

References

1. List of minor planets: 1001–2000
2. Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000
3. Meanings of minor planet names: 9001–10000
4. Meanings of minor planet names: 29001–30000
5. List of minor planets named after people
6. Lists of planets
7. List of proper names of exoplanets
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