# Meanings of minor-planet names: 204001–205000

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

* 199,000s
* 200,000s
* 201,000s
* 202,000s
* 203,000s
* 204,000s
* 205,000s
* 206,000s
* 207,000s
* 208,000s
* 209,000s
* 204,001…
* 204,101…
* 204,201…
* 204,301…
* 204,401…
* 204,501…
* 204,601…
* 204,701…
* 204,801…
* 204,901…

## 204001–204100

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

## 204101–204200

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

## 204201–204300

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

## 204301–204400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 204370 Ferdinandvaněk | 2004 TH$_{70}$ | Ferdinand Vaněk, a fictitious character in the play Audience by Czech writer, philosopher and dissident Václav Havel | JPL · 204370 |

## 204401–204500

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

## 204501–204600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 204570 Veronicabray | 2005 EA$_{317}$ | Veronica J. Bray (b. 1981), a British-American planetary scientist. | IAU · 204570 |

## 204601–204700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 204602 Lawrencebrown | 2005 GC$_{205}$ | Lawrence E. Brown (b. 1963), a senior software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. | IAU · 204602 |
| 204632 Jamesburch | 2005 XY$_{114}$ | James L. Burch (b. 1942), an American space physicist. | IAU · 204632 |

## 204701–204800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 204702 Péquignat | 2006 FN$_9$ | Pierre Péquignat [fr] (1669–1740), one of the most popular heroes for people living in Jura Switzerland. | JPL · 204702 |
| 204710 Gaoxing | 2006 GE | Gao Xing (born 1974), a Chinese amateur astronomer and founder of the Xingming Observatory (C42) of Ürümqi. | JPL · 204710 |
| 204711 Luojialun | 2006 GN | Luo Jialun (1897–1969) was a Chinese educator, historian, thinker and diplomat. He was President of National Central University from 1932 to 1941. | JPL · 204711 |
| 204764 Lindaburke | 2006 JW$_{59}$ | Linda M. Burke (b. 1965), an American staff engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. | IAU · 204764 |
| 204786 Wehlau | 2006 KU$_{131}$ | William Henry Wehlau (1926–1995), an American-born Canadian astronomer | JPL · 204786 |

## 204801–204900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 204805 Šipöcz | 2006 TS$_9$ | Tibor Šipöcz (born 1950) is a Slovak physicist and senior lecturer, formerly at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava. | JPL · 204805 |
| 204816 Andreacamilleri | 2007 OZ | Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019), an Italian writer, screenwriter and director who received a number of honorary degrees from several Italian universities | JPL · 204816 |
| 204831 Levski | 2007 PQ$_{28}$ | Vasil Levski (1837–1873), national hero of Bulgaria and styled the Apostle of Freedom. | JPL · 204831 |
| 204836 Xiexiaosi | 2007 QS$_1$ | Xie Xiaosi (1905–2008), known as the Guardian of World Cultural Heritage, was a famous Chinese garden landscape artist and painter. | JPL · 204836 |
| 204839 Suzhouyuanlin | 2007 QK$_{13}$ | Suzhou Yuanlin, Suzhou Chinese-style gardens, are typical ancient gardens with traditional Chinese architectures and cultures. | JPL · 204839 |
| 204842 Fengchia | 2007 RN$_{19}$ | Feng Chia University, located in central Taiwan, is a university characterized by educational excellence and breakthrough research. | JPL · 204842 |
| 204852 Frankfurt | 2007 RH$_{133}$ | The German city of Frankfurt in Hesse | JPL · 204852 |
| 204873 FAIR | 2007 SW$_1$ | The Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR), an international science center for studying the building blocks of matter and the evolution of the universe | JPL · 204873 |
| 204896 Giorgiobocca | 2007 UQ$_1$ | Giorgio Bocca (1920–2011), an Italian essayist and journalist, also known for his participation in the World War II partisan movement. | JPL · 204896 |

## 204901–205000

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