# Meanings of minor planet names: 627001–628000

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.

## Index100K200K300K400K500K600K

* 622,000s
* 623,000s
* 624,000s
* 625,000s
* 626,000s
* 627,000s
* 628,000s
* 629,000s
* 630,000s
* 631,000s
* 632,000s
* 627,001…
* 627,101…
* 627,201…
* 627,301…
* 627,401…
* 627,501…
* 627,601…
* 627,701…
* 627,801…
* 627,901…

## 627001–627100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 627030 Ciobanu | 2008 EL$_{144}$ | Monica Zoe Ciobanu (b. 1934) is a retired astronomer who worked in the Time service of the Romanian Astronomical Institute. | IAU · 627030 |

## 627101–627200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627201–627300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627301–627400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627401–627500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627501–627600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 627520 Corbey | 2008 WH$_{154}$ | Raymond Corbey (b. 1954), a Dutch emeritus professor in the Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at Leiden University. | IAU · 627520 |

## 627601–627700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627701–627800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627801–627900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 627901–628000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 627939 Phyllisthornton | 2012 TG$_{71}$ | Phyllis Thornton (1927–2023), the sister-in-law of the discoverer | IAU · 627939 |
| 627981 Ponzoni | 2013 AW$_{79}$ | Sister Emilia (Anna) Ponzoni (1883–1950), born in Milan, entered the Sisters of the Child Mary in 1905 and made her religious vows in Milan in 1907. From 1910 to 1921, she was one of the four sisters who carried out the cataloging of 500,000 stars in the Vatican zone of the Carte du Ciel star atlas. | IAU · 627981 |