# 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 (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

* 158,000s
* 159,000s
* 160,000s
* 161,000s
* 162,000s
* 163,000s
* 164,000s
* 165,000s
* 166,000s
* 167,000s
* 168,000s
* 163,001…
* 163,101…
* 163,201…
* 163,301…
* 163,401…
* 163,501…
* 163,601…
* 163,701…
* 163,801…
* 163,901…

## 163001–163100

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

## 163101–163200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163119 Timmckay | 2002 AO$_{208}$ | Tim McKay (born 1964), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163119 |
| 163153 Takuyaonishi | 2002 CO$_{116}$ | Takuya Onishi (born 1964), a Japanese astronaut selected by JAXA in 2009, who stayed at the ISS in 2016. He is a Boeing 767 co-pilot. | JPL · 163153 |

## 163201–163300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163244 Matthewhill | 2002 FU$_{18}$ | Matthew E. Hill (born 1971) is a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He served as a Co-Investigator for a High Energy Charged Particles Spectrometer aboard the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | JPL · 163244 |
| 163255 Adrianhill | 2002 GT$_{27}$ | Adrian Hill (born 1964) is a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and served as a Fault Protection and Autonomy Lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. | JPL · 163255 |

## 163301–163400

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

## 163401–163500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163470 Kenwallis | 2002 RQ$_{181}$ | Ken Wallis (1916–2013), a British aviator and engineer. | JPL · 163470 |

## 163501–163600

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

## 163601–163700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163623 Miknaitis | 2002 TR$_{346}$ | Gajus Miknaitis (born 1976), American astrophysicist with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163623 |
| 163624 Moorthy | 2002 TD$_{366}$ | Bhasker Moorthy (born 1978), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163624 |
| 163625 Munn | 2002 TU$_{367}$ | Jeff Munn (born 1961), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163625 |
| 163626 Glatfelter | 2002 UV | Pam Glatfelter (born 1955), American Operational Site Manager for the Table Mountain Observatory in California | JPL · 163626 |
| 163639 Tomnash | 2002 UN$_{51}$ | Thomas Nash (born 1943), American physicist with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163639 |
| 163640 Newberg | 2002 UB$_{59}$ | Heidi Jo Newberg (born 1965), American astronomer and software developer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163640 |
| 163641 Nichol | 2002 UC$_{68}$ | Robert Nichol (born 1966), British observational cosmologist with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 163641 |
| 163693 Atira | 2003 CP$_{20}$ | Atira, the Native American Pawnee goddess of Earth and the evening star | JPL · 163693 |

## 163701–163800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163800 Richardnorton | 2003 QS$_{69}$ | O. Richard Norton (1937–2009), author of many popular books and articles about meteorites † | JPL · 163800 |

## 163801–163900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 163819 Teleki | 2003 RN$_8$ | Sámuel Teleki (1845–1916), 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) | JPL · 163819 |

## 163901–164000

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