# Meanings of minor-planet names: 148001–149000

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

* 143,000s
* 144,000s
* 145,000s
* 146,000s
* 147,000s
* 148,000s
* 149,000s
* 150,000s
* 151,000s
* 152,000s
* 153,000s
* 148,001…
* 148,101…
* 148,201…
* 148,301…
* 148,401…
* 148,501…
* 148,601…
* 148,701…
* 148,801…
* 148,901…

## 148001–148100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 148081 Sunjiadong | 1999 AW$_{23}$ | Sun Jiadong (born 1929), aerospace-technologist-academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | JPL · 148081 |

## 148101–148200

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

## 148201–148300

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

## 148301–148400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 148342 Carverbierson | 2000 QJ$_{242}$ | Carver J. Bierson (b. 1987), an American planetary scientist. | IAU · 148342 |
| 148384 Dalcanton | 2000 SV$_{373}$ | Julianne Dalcanton (born 1968), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and discoverer of comet C/1999 F2 | JPL · 148384 |

## 148401–148500

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

## 148501–148600

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

## 148601–148700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 148604 Shobbrook | 2001 RO$_{63}$ | John Shobbrook (born 1948), American supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observatory in Indiana, where this minor planet was discovered | JPL · 148604 |

## 148701–148800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 148707 Dodelson | 2001 SC$_{353}$ | Scott Dodelson (born 1959), American physicist with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 148707 |
| 148780 Altjira | 2001 UQ$_{18}$ | Altjira, from Australian Aboriginal mythology. He is the central god of the Dreamtime who created the Earth and then retired to the sky. | JPL · 148780 |

## 148801–148900

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

## 148901–149000

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