Meanings of minor planet names: 163001–164000

Meanings of minor planet names: 163001–164000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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 span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.


Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
163601–163700
163626 Glatfelter 2002 UV Pam Glatfelter, American Operational Site Manager for the NASA Table Mountain Facility
163693 Atira 2003 CP20 Atira, the Pawnee goddess of Earth and the evening star
163801–163900
163819 Teleki 2003 RN8 Sámuel Teleki, 19th-20th-century Hungarian explorer, first to reach the snow-line on Mount Kilimanjaro, first to set foot on Mount Kenya, first European to see Lake Turkana (which he named Lake Rudolf)
Preceded by
162,001–163,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 163,001–164,000
Succeeded by
164,001–165,000

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