Astronomy:Meanings of minor planet names: 67001–68000
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 published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars several times a year.[1] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[2] 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.[3][4] Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[5] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. 
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "SBDB". New namings may only be added after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned by the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature.[6]
67001–67100
|-id=019 | 67019 Hlohovec || 1999 XF137 || Hlohovec is a town in southwestern Slovakia, known for its beautiful castle, large pharmaceutical factory, and its huge impact on Slovak public astronomical activities since 1954. This minor planet was named on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 founding of Hlohovec's Regional Public Observatory and Planetarium. || IAU · 67019 |-id=070 | 67070 Rinaldi || 2000 AZ2 || Alvaro Rinaldi (born 1926) has been a topographer at the Military Geographic Institute of Florence for 40 years. He is fond of astronomy and sundials. He erected the sundials at the Pistoia Mountains Astronomical Observatory at San Marcello. || JPL · 67070 |-id=085 | 67085 Oppenheimer || 2000 AG42 || J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) was an American theoretical physicist and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project. From 1947 to 1966 he directed the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton. also known as the "father of the atomic bomb" || JPL · 67085 |}
67101–67200
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
67201–67300
|-id=235 | 67235 Fairbank || 2000 EJ15 || William M. Fairbank (1917–1989), an American physicist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1948. He taught at Amherst College and Duke University before joining the Stanford faculty in 1959. His research interests included superconductivity, gravity waves, individual quarks and monopoles. || JPL · 67235 |}
67301–67400
|-id=308 | 67308 Öveges || 2000 HD || József Öveges (hu) (1895–1979) was a Hungarian teacher of physics who made physics popular to millions of people through his radio and television programs in Hungary. His lectures were unforgettable. || JPL · 67308 |}
67401–67500
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
67501–67600
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
67601–67700
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
67701–67800
|-id=712 | 67712 Kimotsuki || 2000 UG || Kimotsuki, a Japanese town, where JAXA's Uchinoura Space Center is located. Since 1962, approximately 400 rockets and 27 satellites, including Japan's first satellite "Ohsumi" and the asteroid probe "Hayabusa", have been launched from the center. || JPL · 67712 |}
67801–67900
|-id=853 | 67853 Iwamura || 2000 WO9 || Akinori Iwamura (born 1979), born in Ehime prefecture, was a baseball player for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows from 1998 to 2006. He got the Gold Gloves Award five times as the best defensive third baseman. Beginning in 2007, Iwamura will play in U.S. Major League baseball for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. || JPL · 67853 |}
67901–68000
|-id=979 | 67979 Michelory || 2000 XS10 || Michel Ory (born 1966), a Swiss physicist and teacher in the Jura Mountains, founded the Observatoire Astronomique Jurassien (185), near Vicques. The discoverer of minor planets has discovered 30 minor planets, including a Hilda object between 2000 and 2003. || JPL · 67979 |}
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References
- ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet CenterMinor Planet Circulars. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?asteroids#discovery. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ↑ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/Astrometry.html#name. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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