# Meanings of minor-planet names: 216001–217000

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

* 211,000s
* 212,000s
* 213,000s
* 214,000s
* 215,000s
* 216,000s
* 217,000s
* 218,000s
* 219,000s
* 220,000s
* 221,000s
* 216,001…
* 216,101…
* 216,201…
* 216,301…
* 216,401…
* 216,501…
* 216,601…
* 216,701…
* 216,801…
* 216,901…

## 216001–216100

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

## 216101–216200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216164 Simonkrughoff | 2006 SM$_{377}$ | Karl Simon Krughoff (1976–2023), an American astronomer. | IAU · 216164 |
| 216194 Újvárosy | 2006 UA$_4$ | Antal Újvárosy (b. 1954), a Hungarian environmental specialist, teacher and amateur astronomer. | IAU · 216194 |

## 216201–216300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216241 Renzopiano | 2006 VF$_{14}$ | Renzo Piano (born 1937), an Italian architect and engineer, who won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998. | JPL · 216241 |
| 216261 Mapihsia | 2006 WJ$_{15}$ | Pi Hsia Ma (born 1951), the mother of co-discoverer Man-Ti Chang | JPL · 216261 |
| 216295 Menorca | 2007 LX$_{14}$ | Menorca is the most eastern and northern island of the Balearic Islands (Spain). It was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 1993 by UNESCO, and contains important megalithic monuments (navetas, talayots and taulas). | JPL · 216295 |

## 216301–216400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216319 Sanxia | 2007 TY$_{286}$ | China Three Gorges University (Sānxiá Dàxué) is a university with prominent hydraulic and electrical disciplines, located in Yichang City, Hubei Province, P. R. China. | IAU · 216319 |
| 216331 Panjunhua | 2007 VG$_{125}$ | Pan Junhua (born 1930), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, is the founder of both optic test equipment and optics manufacturing technology, and a pioneer of aspherical optics application in China. | JPL · 216331 |
| 216343 Wenchang | 2007 WJ$_{56}$ | Wenchang Shi, historically known as Zibei County, a Chinese city in Hainan Dao. | JPL · 216343 |
| 216345 Savigliano | 2007 XC$_{11}$ | Savigliano, an important agricultural and industrial center in Piedmont. | JPL · 216345 |
| 216368 Hypnomys | 2008 AS$_{101}$ | Hypnomys, an extinct genus of giant rodents that existed in the Balearic Islands until ca. 2000 BC | IAU · 216368 |
| 216390 Binnig | 2008 CK$_{177}$ | Gerd Binnig (born 1947), German physicist and Nobel laureate | JPL · 216390 |

## 216401–216500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216428 Mauricio | 2008 YN$_8$ | Mauricio Muler, the name of both a grandfather (1904–1987) and a son (born 1999) of co-discoverer Gustavo Muler | JPL · 216428 |
| 216433 Milianleo | 2009 DM$_3$ | Milian Leo Schwab (born 2004), son of German discoverer Erwin Schwab | JPL · 216433 |
| 216439 Lyubertsy | 2009 EV$_3$ | Lyubertsy, a major industrial and scenic center in the Moscow region. | JPL · 216439 |
| 216446 Nanshida | 2009 FA$_{45}$ | Nanshida, the Chinese abbreviation for the Nanjing Normal University, dates back to 1902 with the establishment of Sanjiang Normal College. | IAU · 216446 |
| 216451 Irsha | 2009 HP$_{12}$ | Irsha, a river in Ukraine | JPL · 216451 |
| 216462 Polyphontes | 5397 T-2 | Polyphontes, a Greek hero, son of Autophonos, was one of the leaders of an ambush against Tydeus near Thebes. | JPL · 216462 |

## 216501–216600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216591 Coetzee | 2002 OQ$_7$ | J. M. Coetzee (born 1940), a South African author and academic, now living in Australia. | JPL · 216591 |

## 216601–216700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216624 Kaufer | 2002 XW$_{37}$ | Andreas Kaufer (born 1968), a German astronomer | JPL · 216624 |

## 216701–216800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216752 Kirbyrunyon | 2005 PR$_{23}$ | Kirby D. Runyon (b. 1985), an American planetary scientist. | IAU · 216752 |
| 216757 Vasari | 2005 RT$_{32}$ | Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was an Italian architect and art historian. He realized the palace of the Caravan in Pisa and the Florentine complex of the Uffizi. | JPL · 216757 |
| 216780 Lilianne | 2006 QP$_{57}$ | Lilianne Alice Osmonson (born 2018) is the great-granddaughter of astronomer James Whitney Young, who discovered this minor planet. | JPL · 216780 |

## 216801–216900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216808 Tolmárgyula | 2006 TG$_{11}$ | Gyula Tolmár (1909–1987), a Hungarian astronomer and university lecturer. | IAU · 216808 |
| 216888 Sankovich | 2008 VS$_3$ | Anatoly Sankovich (born 1960), an amateur astronomer and telescope maker. | JPL · 216888 |
| 216893 Navina | 2009 DP$_{111}$ | Navina Lamminger (born 1978) is a German social scientist and author. She graduated in Tibetology at the University of Munich in 2013. She now works as a dramaturge for top cabaret artists. | IAU · 216893 |
| 216897 Golubev | 2009 HJ$_{58}$ | Golubev Vladimir Aleksandrovich (born 1940), on the astronomy faculty at Vitebsk State University, is a well-known astronomy popularizer and publicist in Belarus. | JPL · 216897 |

## 216901–217000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 216910 Vnukov | 2009 JM$_4$ | Viktor Milentinovich Vnukov (born 1950), a pilot and engineer | JPL · 216910 |