# Meanings of minor-planet names: 207001–208000

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

* 202,000s
* 203,000s
* 204,000s
* 205,000s
* 206,000s
* 207,000s
* 208,000s
* 209,000s
* 210,000s
* 211,000s
* 212,000s
* 207,001…
* 207,101…
* 207,201…
* 207,301…
* 207,401…
* 207,501…
* 207,601…
* 207,701…
* 207,801…
* 207,901…

## 207001–207100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207013 Fischetti | 2004 TC$_{354}$ | Joel T. Fischetti (b. 1993), an American engineer at KinetX Aerospace. | IAU · 207013 |

## 207101–207200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207109 Stürmenchopf | 2005 AA$_{27}$ | The Stürmenchopf, a sugarloaf mountain located in the South of Laufon, Switzerland. | JPL · 207109 |

## 207201–207300

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

## 207301–207400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207319 Eugenemar | 2005 GZ$_{109}$ | Eugene Y. Mar (born 1956), humanitarian, healer, and physician at Tucson Orthopedic Institute | JPL · 207319 |
| 207321 Crawshaw | 2005 GL$_{110}$ | Steven A. Crawshaw (born 1950), director of the Introductory Physics and Astronomy Labs at the University of Arkansas, United States | JPL · 207321 |
| 207341 Isabelmartin | 2005 JD$_{22}$ | Isabel Lacruz Martin (born 1956), doctorate graduated from Experimental Psychology at Kent State University in 2005 | JPL · 207341 |
| 207385 Maxou | 2005 RU$_4$ | Max Aebischer (1914–2009), mayor of Fribourg, Switzerland, from 1960 to 1966, and director of the Education Department at the University of Fribourg. His nickname "Maxou" is a variation of "Max" in Alemannic German. | JPL · 207385 |
| 207394 Rickfitzgerald | 2005 XL$_{101}$ | Richard J. Fitzgerald (b. 1962), an American engineer. | IAU · 207394 |

## 207401–207500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207420 Jehin | 2006 DR$_{65}$ | Emmanuel Jehin (born 1973) is a Senior Research Associate at the Universite de Liège, Belgium. He is the principal investigator of the TRAPPIST telescopes and his research includes observations and characterization of comets, with a particular focus on production rate determination. | IAU · 207420 |
| 207481 Kékes | 2006 HC$_{31}$ | Kékes, the highest mountain peak in Hungary. | IAU · 207481 |

## 207501–207600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207504 Markusovszky | 2006 HK$_{152}$ | Lajos Markusovszky (1815–1893) was a physician, a military doctor, an organizers of modern Hungarian health education, and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of the Hungarian Medical Journal, and later an advisor to the Ministry for Religion and Education regarding university affairs. | JPL · 207504 |
| 207547 Charito | 2006 LO | Rosario Lacruz Martín ("Charito"; born 1961), astronomer at Monte del Pardo, Madrid | JPL · 207547 |
| 207563 Toscana | 2006 PC | The Italian region of Tuscany (Toscana), widely known for its landscapes, traditions, history and heritage | JPL · 207563 |
| 207585 Lubar | 2006 QA$_{24}$ | The ancient city of Bolokhov, capital of the Bolokhov principality in the times of Kievan Rus'. It is currently known as Lubar. | JPL · 207585 |

## 207601–207700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207603 Liuchaohan | 2006 QD$_{111}$ | Liu Chao-Han (born 1939), a Taiwanese physicist and educator who served as President of National Central University from 1990 to 2003. | JPL · 207603 |
| 207653 Anatolymokrenko | 2007 OS$_3$ | Anatoly Yuriyovych Mokrenko (1933–2020), a Ukrainian operatic baritone. | IAU · 207653 |
| 207655 Kerboguan | 2007 OE$_8$ | The National Museum of Natural Science (Kerboguan), a combined science center and natural history museum, is the first and the largest museum of natural science in Taiwan. It entertains more than three million visitors annually, and has become an important educational base for natural science since it opened in 1986. | JPL · 207655 |
| 207657 Mangiantini | 2007 PA | Giovanni Mangiantini (1947–2006), Italian amateur astronomer | JPL · 207657 |
| 207661 Hehuanshan | 2007 PR$_5$ | Mount Hehuan is a 3416-m mountain in Central Taiwan. The peak lies on the boundaries of Nantou and Hualien counties and is within the Taroko Gorge National Park. The Taiwan Star Party is held in the Hehuan Mountains every year. | JPL · 207661 |
| 207666 Habibula | 2007 PA$_{11}$ | Giles Habibula, one of the main characters of the space opera Legion of Space | JPL · 207666 |
| 207681 Caiqiao | 2007 QO | Cai Qiao (1897–1990), Chinese physiologist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | JPL · 207681 |
| 207687 Senckenberg | 2007 RZ$_{15}$ | Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), a German physician and naturalist in his native city of Frankfurt | JPL · 207687 |
| 207695 Olgakopyl | 2007 RO$_{39}$ | Olga Andrivna Kopyl (born 1950), director of Zhytomyr Museum of Astronautics and a historian of cosmonautics in Russia and Ukraine | JPL · 207695 |

## 207701–207800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207715 Muqinshuijiao | 2007 RC$_{119}$ | Muqinshuijiao (Water cellar for Mothers) is a charity project implemented by the China Women's Development Foundation. | JPL · 207715 |
| 207716 Wangxichan | 2007 RQ$_{119}$ | Wang Xichan (1628–1682) was a Chinese astronomer of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty, who developed a computational method to calculate accurately the times of transits of Venus and Mercury. He also published several astronomical works. | JPL · 207716 |
| 207717 Sa'a | 2007 RE$_{120}$ | Sanya City (local pronunciation Sa'a), founded in 110 B.C. as Ngaiziu. It is the southernmost city of China. | JPL · 207717 |
| 207723 Jiansanjiang | 2007 RC$_{148}$ | Jiansanjiang, located in the hinterland of Sanjiang Plain, is known as "China Green Rice City". Its Honghe farm is the first modernized farm in China. | JPL · 207723 |
| 207754 Stathiskafalis | 2007 ST$_4$ | Stathis Kafalis (born 1962) is a German engineer, amateur astronomer and telescope maker with Greek roots. He promotes astronomy via his mirror-grinding courses and he has helped many amateur astronomer to build their own telescope. | JPL · 207754 |
| 207763 Oberursel | 2007 TP$_{23}$ | The German town of Oberursel in Hesse | JPL · 207763 |

## 207801–207900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207809 Wuzuze | 2007 TC$_{247}$ | Wu Zuze (born 1935), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is the founder of hematopoietic stem cell research and a pioneer of Experimental Hematology in China. | JPL · 207809 |
| 207899 Grinmalia | 2008 UC$_3$ | Eugene Grinishyn (born 1956), a stonemason, and Sergiy Malinovskiy (born 1964), a farmer, are neighbors of the Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory in Ukraine | JPL · 207899 |

## 207901–208000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 207901 Tzecmaun | 2008 US$_{91}$ | The Tzec Maun Foundation, a foundation that provides free access to remote-controlled telescopes | JPL · 207901 |
| 207931 Weihai | 2008 YM$_9$ | The Chinese city of Weihai, a widely known harbor and tourist city, as well as the location of the Shandong University | JPL · 207931 |