# Meanings of minor-planet names: 224001–225000

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

* 219,000s
* 220,000s
* 221,000s
* 222,000s
* 223,000s
* 224,000s
* 225,000s
* 226,000s
* 227,000s
* 228,000s
* 229,000s
* 224,001…
* 224,101…
* 224,201…
* 224,301…
* 224,401…
* 224,501…
* 224,601…
* 224,701…
* 224,801…
* 224,901…

## 224001–224100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224027 Grégoire | 2005 LV$_{23}$ | Grégoire Boissenot (born 1979), better known as Grégoire, is a French composer, author and singer. | JPL · 224027 |
| 224067 Colemila | 2005 NO$_{29}$ | Cole Osmonson (born 2016) and Mila Rodriguez (born 2016) are great-grandchildren of the discoverer | JPL · 224067 |

## 224101–224200

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

## 224201–224300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224206 Pietchisson | 2005 SY | "Pietchisson", the name of an old isolated farmhouse in the Swiss Jura | JPL · 224206 |

## 224301–224400

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

## 224401–224500

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

## 224501–224600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224592 Carnac | 2005 YJ$_4$ | Carnac, Brittany, in north-western France. The site was already inhabited in prehistoric times, and is famous for its numerous Neolithic standing stones. | JPL · 224592 |

## 224601–224700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224617 Micromégas | 2005 YZ$_{70}$ | Micromégas, a short humoristic tale written by the French philosopher Voltaire in 1752. | JPL · 224617 |
| 224693 Morganfreeman | 2006 BO$_{26}$ | Morgan Freeman (born 1937), an American actor and director, nominated for Academy Awards five times, winning once for Million Dollar Baby (2004). | JPL · 224693 |

## 224701–224800

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

## 224801–224900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224831 Neeffisis | 2006 WV$_{129}$ | Christian Ernst Neeff [de] (1782–1849), a German physician, co-founder of the physics society "Physikalischer Verein" in 1824. | JPL · 224831 |
| 224888 Cochingchu | 2007 CC$_6$ | Coching Chu or Zhu Kezhen (1890–1974), a prominent Chinese meteorologist, geologist and educator | JPL · 224888 |

## 224901–225000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 224962 Michaelgrünewald | 2007 ER$_{26}$ | Michael Grünewald (born 1965), the son-in-law of German discoverer Rolf Apitzsch | JPL · 224962 |