Meanings of minor-planet names: 236001–237000
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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]
236001–236100
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
236101–236200
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236111 Wolfgangbüttner | 2005 RW4 | Wolfgang Büttner (1905–1998), a German educator and sidewalk astronomer in Dresden. | JPL · 236111 |
| 236129 Oysterbay | 2005 TJ17 | Oyster Bay is a protected harbor along Long Island Sound on the north shore of Long Island, New York, United States. The village of Oyster Bay was the hometown of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and recipient of the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize. | JPL · 236129 |
| 236170 Cholnoky | 2005 VP7 | Jenő Cholnoky (1870–1950), a Hungarian geographer and professor of geography at the University of Budapest. | JPL · 236170 |
236201–236300
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236232 Joshalbers | 2005 XD112 | Joshua M. Albers (born 1986), American mission operations analyst and flight controller. | JPL · 236232 |
236301–236400
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236305 Adamriess | 2006 BU | Adam Riess (born 1969), an American physicist and Nobel laureate | JPL · 236305 |
| 236307 Berzsenyi | 2006 BF9 | Dániel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, and landowner. | IAU · 236307 |
236401–236500
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236463 Bretécher | 2006 FF | Claire Bretécher (born 1940), a cartoonist who contributed to many comic-strip magazines, including Spirou, Tintin and Pilote. | JPL · 236463 |
| 236484 Luchijen | 2006 FQ35 | Lu Chi-Jen, an active amateur astronomer in Taiwan. | JPL · 236484 |
236501–236600
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| There are no named minor planets in this number range | |||
236601–236700
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236616 Gray | 2006 JR61 | David Frank Gray (born 1938), a stellar spectroscopist who has published and written on stellar rotation, magnetic fields, granulation, turbulence, oscillations and spots. He was president of IAU's commission 36, Theory of Stellar Atmospheres, and director of the Elginfield Observatory in Canada (HP, Src) | JPL · 236616 |
| 236617 Loriglaze | 2006 JL63 | Lori S. Glaze (born 1964), American planetary scientist and NASA's director of planetary science during the flyby of Arrokoth by New Horizons. | JPL · 236617 |
| 236683 Hujingyao | 2006 QE111 | Hu Jing-Yao (born 1937), a leading astronomer of National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a pioneer optical astronomer in China. | JPL · 236683 |
236701–236800
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236728 Leandri | 2007 HP14 | Andree Fernandez (born 1939, née Leandri), a retired software engineer at Meudon Observatory. | JPL · 236728 |
| 236743 Zhejiangdaxue | 2007 JU34 | The Zhejiang University, one of China's oldest institutions of higher education. It was named on the occasion of its 115th anniversary. | JPL · 236743 |
| 236746 Chareslindos | 2007 LP | Chares of Lindos, an ancient Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes from the 3rd century BC. In 282 BCE he built the Colossus of Rhodes, an enormous bronze statue of the sun god Helios and one of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. | JPL · 236746 |
| 236784 Livorno | 2007 PU27 | Livorno, a port city on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy | JPL · 236784 |
| 236785 Hilendàrski | 2007 PN29 | Paisiy Hilendàrski (1722–1773) was the author of Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, the second modern Bulgarian history. | JPL · 236785 |
| 236788 Nanxinda | 2007 PM35 | Nanxinda is the Chinese abbreviation for the Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology. | IAU · 236788 |
| 236800 Broder | 2007 QU3 | Henryk Broder (born 1946) of Katowice, Poland, who studied German law and political economics at Cologne, Germany | JPL · 236800 |
236801–236900
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236810 Rutten | 2007 RH14 | Harrie G. J. Rutten (born 1950), a Dutch optician, and the author of Teleskop Optics, and numerous articles and speeches on popular astronomy that have been well received by the public. | JPL · 236810 |
| 236811 Natascharenate | 2007 RE16 | Natascha Renate Gierlinger (born 1997), daughter of German discoverer Richard Gierlinger | JPL · 236811 |
| 236845 Houxianglin | 2007 RZ118 | Hou Xianglin (1912–2008), an academician of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, was a pioneer of refining and petrochemical technology in China. He was also a petroleum strategist. | JPL · 236845 |
| 236851 Chenchikwan | 2007 RA139 | Chen Chi-kwan (1921–2007), a renowned Taiwanese artist and architect whose designs on the campus of National Central University are some of his masterpieces. | JPL · 236851 |
236901–237000
| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|
| 236909 Jakoberwin | 2007 TX95 | Jakob Erwin Gierlinger (born 2002) is the son of the discoverer, Richard Gierlinger. He is an IT specialist and member of the observatory Gaisberg. At the observatory, he is responsible for software development. | JPL · 236909 |
| 236984 Astier | 2008 PP21 | Alexandre Astier (born 1974), a French humorist, actor, scriptwriter and film director | JPL · 236984 |
| 236987 Deustua | 2008 QX9 | Susana E. Deustua (born 1961), an astronomer at the U.S. Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland | JPL · 236987 |
| 236988 Robberto | 2008 QE12 | Massimo Robberto (born 1958), an astronomer at the U.S. Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland | JPL · 236988 |