# Meanings of minor-planet names: 243001–244000

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

* 238,000s
* 239,000s
* 240,000s
* 241,000s
* 242,000s
* 243,000s
* 244,000s
* 245,000s
* 246,000s
* 247,000s
* 248,000s
* 243,001…
* 243,101…
* 243,201…
* 243,301…
* 243,401…
* 243,501…
* 243,601…
* 243,701…
* 243,801…
* 243,901…

## 243001–243100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243002 Lemmy | 2006 TG$_{119}$ | Lemmy (1945–2015) was an English musician, singer and songwriter whose music helped set the foundations for the heavy metal genre | JPL · 243002 |
| 243073 Freistetter | 2007 HT$_3$ | Florian Freistetter [de] (born 1977), an astronomer and science writer. | JPL · 243073 |
| 243094 Dirlewanger | 2007 RU$_8$ | Wolfgang Dirlewanger (born 1953), leader of dental clinic in Nagold, Germany | JPL · 243094 |
| 243096 Klauswerner | 2007 RX$_{15}$ | Klaus Werner (born 1957), German astronomer and professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen | JPL · 243096 |
| 243097 Batavia | 2007 RF$_{16}$ | The fort of Batavia (Castro Batava) was a Roman frontier fort (1st to 5th century AD) in the area of Passau in Bavaria, Germany. | JPL · 243097 |

## 243101–243200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243109 Hansludwig | 2007 RT$_{132}$ | Hans-Ludwig Neumann [de] (1938–1991), a German physicist and amateur astronomer. From 1976 to 1991, he was the president of the Physical society (German: Physikalischer Verein [de]) based in Frankfurt am Main. | JPL · 243109 |

## 243201–243300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243204 Kubanchoria | 2007 UA$_5$ | The Kuban Cossack Choir, a folkloric Russian ensemble, was founded on 1811 and named on the occasion of its 200th anniversary on 12 October 2011 (M.P.C. 76677). | JPL · 243204 |
| 243262 Korkosz | 2007 YV$_{47}$ | Frank and John Korkosz, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, were pioneers in the development of mid-sized, high-quality planetariums. | JPL · 243262 |
| 243285 Fauvaud | 2008 CJ$_{181}$ | Stéphane Fauvaud (born 1968), an active French amateur astronomer | JPL · 243285 |

## 243301–243400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243320 Jackuipers | 2008 SG$_{12}$ | Jack Kuipers (1921–2016), an American aerospace engineer and mathematician. He taught mathematics at Calvin College for 20 years after a 17-year engineering career in the aerospace industry and is known for his book on quaternions: Quaternions and rotation Sequences: a Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace, and Virtual Reality ( Src). | JPL · 243320 |
| 243381 Alessio | 2008 YM$_4$ | Alessio Muler (born 2002), second son of Argentine-born Spanish amateur astronomer Gustavo Muler, who co-discovered this minor planet | JPL · 243381 |

## 243401–243500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243440 Colonia | 2009 FD$_2$ | Colonia (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) is the Roman name for Cologne, Germany's fourth-largest city, founded in the year 38 BC by the Romans. | JPL · 243440 |
| 243458 Bubulina | 2009 QQ$_{38}$ | Marina Denisa Botofan (2008–2010), nicknamed "Bubulina", who lived in Constanta, Romania, and died in Pavia, Italy, of lymphoblastic leukemia. | JPL · 243458 |
| 243491 Mühlviertel | 2009 UH$_{19}$ | Muehlviertel, the northernmost of the four districts of Upper Austria. | JPL · 243491 |

## 243501–243600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243516 Marklarsen | 2009 FD$_2$ | Mark Larson (born 1962), a senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, responsible for the camera aboard the WISE spacecraft | JPL · 243516 |
| 243526 Russwalker | 2010 DY$_{28}$ | Russ Walker (born 1931), an astronomer specializing in infrared observations of small Solar System bodies | JPL · 243526 |
| 243529 Petereisenhardt | 2010 DO$_{50}$ | Peter Eisenhardt (born 1957) is the project scientist for the WISE mission and a former member of the Spitzer Infrared Array Camera science team. | JPL · 243529 |
| 243536 Mannheim | 2010 EQ$_{111}$ | Mannheim, a German city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg | JPL · 243536 |
| 243546 Fengchuanliu | 2010 JH$_{61}$ | Fengchuan Liu (born 1965), an expert in cryogenic physics who served as the project manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE projects and who has worked on a number of other NASA low temperature physics experiments | JPL · 243546 |
| 243591 Ignacostantino | 1998 RG$_3$ | Ignazio Costantino (born 1960), an Italian amateur astronomer, electrionic engineer, and a sailor | JPL · 243591 |

## 243601–243700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 243637 Frosinone | 1999 TZ$_{10}$ | Named Frusna in ancient Volscan and Frusino by the Romans, Frosinone is a provincial administrative seat and the discoverer's birthplace. | JPL · 243637 |

## 243701–243800

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

## 243801–243900

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

## 243901–244000

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