# Meanings of minor-planet names: 131001–132000

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

* 126,000s
* 127,000s
* 128,000s
* 129,000s
* 130,000s
* 131,000s
* 132,000s
* 133,000s
* 134,000s
* 135,000s
* 136,000s
* 131,001…
* 131,101…
* 131,201…
* 131,301…
* 131,401…
* 131,501…
* 131,601…
* 131,701…
* 131,801…
* 131,901…

## 131001–131100

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

## 131101–131200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 131181 Žebrák | 2001 CT$_{41}$ | Žebrák is a historic town in Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, known for its medieval castles of Žebrák and Točník, a meteorite fall in 1824, and its creative astronomical observatory active in the field of public education. | IAU · 131181 |
| 131186 Pauluckas | 2001 DS | Paul Luckas (born 1962), Australian amateur astronomer, discoverer of minor planets and supernovae | JPL · 131186 |

## 131201–131300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 131245 Bakich | 2001 FF$_1$ | Michael E. Bakich (born 1953), American historian of astronomy, author, and senior editor of Astronomy | JPL · 131245 |

## 131301–131400

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

## 131401–131500

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

## 131501–131600

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

## 131601–131700

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

## 131701–131800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 131762 Csonka | 2002 AD$_{11}$ | János Csonka (1852–1939), Hungarian engineer, inventor of the first Hungarian gas engine and co-inventor of the carburetor with Donát Bánki (this minor planet was discovered on the 150th anniversary of his birth) | JPL · 131762 |
| 131763 Donátbánki | 2002 AJ$_{11}$ | Donát Bánki (1859–1922), Hungarian mechanical engineer, co-inventor, with János Csonka, of the carburetor in 1893 | JPL · 131763 |

## 131801–131900

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

## 131901–132000

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