# Meanings of minor-planet names: 155001–156000

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

* 150,000s
* 151,000s
* 152,000s
* 153,000s
* 154,000s
* 155,000s
* 156,000s
* 157,000s
* 158,000s
* 159,000s
* 160,000s
* 155,001…
* 155,101…
* 155,201…
* 155,301…
* 155,401…
* 155,501…
* 155,601…
* 155,701…
* 155,801…
* 155,901…

## 155001–155100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155083 Banneker | 2005 SE$_{134}$ | Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806), freeborn African-American farmer, clockmaker, writer and scientist | JPL · 155083 |

## 155101–155200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155116 Verkhivnya | 2005 TJ$_{49}$ | Verkhivnya, a small Ukrainian village, where French novelist Honoré de Balzac wrote La Marâtre, Les Paysans and part of La Comédie humaine at the estate of his wife, countess Evelina Hańska | JPL · 155116 |
| 155138 Pucinskas | 2005 TM$_{169}$ | Aloyzas Pucinskas (born 1933), associate professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Vilnius University | JPL · 155138 |
| 155142 Tenagra | 2005 UD$_4$ | Tenagra, mythical island mentioned ("Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra") in the Darmok episode of Star Trek - The Next Generation, and the namesake of the discovering Tenagra II Observatory | JPL · 155142 |

## 155201–155300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155215 Vámostibor | 2005 VU$_2$ | Tibor Vámos (born 1926) is an electrical engineer, full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and the father of data communication in Hungary. He was the winner of the 2005 annual science communication award of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists. | JPL · 155215 |
| 155217 Radnóti | 2005 VH$_5$ | Miklós Radnóti (1909–1944), born Miklós Glatter, one of the greatest Hungarian poets of the 20th century. | IAU · 155217 |
| 155270 Dianawheeler | 2005 WH$_{113}$ | Diana E. Wheeler (born 1950) made fundamental contributions to understanding the physiological basis of caste determination in social insects. Her research blazed the trail for uncovering the relationship between environmental factors and physiology and the evolution of eusociality which is at the core for gene-environment interactions. | JPL · 155270 |
| 155290 Anniegrauer | 2005 XJ$_{40}$ | Patricia Ann ("Annie") Purnell Grauer (born 1942), American photographer, cook, homemaker, writer and a student of the night sky | JPL · 155290 |

## 155301–155400

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

## 155401–155500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155438 Velásquez | 1998 DV | Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), Spanish painter of the Spanish Golden Age | JPL · 155438 |

## 155501–155600

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

## 155601–155700

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

## 155701–155800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155784 Ercol | 2000 SH$_{345}$ | Carl Jack Ercol (born 1959) is a systems engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory. He served as the Thermal Subsystem Lead for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. | JPL · 155784 |

## 155801–155900

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

## 155901–156000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 155948 Maquet | 2001 QA$_{73}$ | Lucie Maquet (born 1985), French astronomer who researches cometary non-gravitational forces at IMCCE in Paris, and observer at the Pic du Midi Observatory | JPL · 155948 |