# Meanings of minor-planet names: 137001–138000

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.

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* 132,000s
* 133,000s
* 134,000s
* 135,000s
* 136,000s
* 137,000s
* 138,000s
* 139,000s
* 140,000s
* 141,000s
* 142,000s
* 137,001…
* 137,101…
* 137,201…
* 137,301…
* 137,401…
* 137,501…
* 137,601…
* 137,701…
* 137,801…
* 137,901…

## 137001–137100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 137039 Lisiguang | 1998 UX$_{31}$ | Li Siguang (1899–1971), founder of and pioneer in modern Chinese geology | JPL · 137039 |
| 137052 Tjelvar | 1998 VO$_{33}$ | Tjelvar, first inhabitant on Gotland | JPL · 137052 |
| 137066 Gellért-hegy | 1998 WR$_8$ | Gellért-hegy, a 235-meter high hill on the shore of the Danube in Budapest, Hungary | JPL · 137066 |
| 137082 Maurobachini | 1998 XE$_9$ | Mauro Bachini (born 1959), an amateur astronomer who works at the Astronomical Observatory of Tavolaia, Santa Maria a Monte. | JPL · 137082 |

## 137101–137200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 137165 Annis | 1999 FP$_{68}$ | Jim Annis (born 1961), American astronomer | JPL · 137165 |
| 137166 Netabahcall | 1999 FS$_{81}$ | Neta Bahcall (born 1942), Israeli-American cosmologist | JPL · 137166 |

## 137201–137300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 137217 Racah | 1999 NH$_{64}$ | Giulio Racah (1909–1965), founder of physics in Israel | JPL · 137217 |

## 137301–137400

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

## 137401–137500

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

## 137501–137600

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

## 137601–137700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 137632 Ramsauer | 1999 WG$_2$ | Alfred Ramsauer (born 1928) has been a member of the Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft since 1952. | JPL · 137632 |

## 137701–137800

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

## 137801–137900

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

## 137901–138000

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