# Meanings of minor-planet names: 227001–228000

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

* 222,000s
* 223,000s
* 224,000s
* 225,000s
* 226,000s
* 227,000s
* 228,000s
* 229,000s
* 230,000s
* 231,000s
* 232,000s
* 227,001…
* 227,101…
* 227,201…
* 227,301…
* 227,401…
* 227,501…
* 227,601…
* 227,701…
* 227,801…
* 227,901…

## 227001–227100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227033 Adamjmckay | 2005 AM$_{26}$ | Adam J. McKay (b. 1968), an American filmmaker and comedian. | IAU · 227033 |
| 227065 Romandia | 2005 GQ$_9$ | Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, by its Latin name "Romandia" | JPL · 227065 |

## 227101–227200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227147 Coggiajérôme | 2005 PW$_5$ | Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849–1919), a French astronomer. | IAU · 227147 |
| 227151 Desargues | 2005 PT$_{16}$ | Girard Desargues (1591–1661), French mathematician and engineer | JPL · 227151 |
| 227152 Zupi | 2005 PJ$_{20}$ | Giovanni Battista Zupi (1590–1650), an Italian astronomer, mathematician, and Jesuit priest, who, in 1639, was first to note Mercury's planetary phases, alike the phases of Venus and the Lunar phase. The crater Zupus on the Moon is also named after him. | IAU · 227152 |

## 227201–227300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227218 Rényi | 2005 RU$_3$ | Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970), a Hungarian mathematician. | JPL · 227218 |

## 227301–227400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227310 Scottkardel | 2005 TN$_{29}$ | W. Scott Kardel (born 1962), for his service as the managing director of the International Dark Sky Association and his efforts to combat light pollution and protect the nighttime environment. | JPL · 227310 |
| 227326 Narodychi | 2005 TB$_{152}$ | Narodychi, a settlement located in northern Ukraine. It has been known since 1545. During the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the urban-type settlement was seriously affected and recommended for evacuation. However, life in Narodychi goes on. | JPL · 227326 |

## 227401–227500

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

## 227501–227600

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

## 227601–227700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227641 Nothomb | 2006 BD$_{99}$ | Amélie Nothomb (born 1967), a Belgian writer. | JPL · 227641 |

## 227701–227800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227767 Enkibilal | 2006 US$_{62}$ | Enki Bilal (born 1951), a Serbian graphic novelist and film director. Born in Belgrade, he moved with his family to Paris in 1960, where he published his first story in Pilote magazine in 1972 and his first album in 1975. He received the Grand Prix at the 14th Angoulême festival in 1987. | JPL · 227767 |
| 227770 Wischnewski | 2006 US$_{289}$ | Erik Wischnewski (born 1952) has been a lecturer at adult education centers and planetaria since 1972 and is an author of several astronomical textbooks. His work contributes to the German-language astronomical education. | JPL · 227770 |

## 227801–227900

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

## 227901–228000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 227928 Ludoferrière | 2007 GT$_1$ | Ludovic Ferrière (b. 1982), a geologist known for his research on and discoveries of new meteorite impact craters on Earth. | IAU · 227928 |
| 227930 Athos | 2007 GG$_6$ | Athos, a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas | JPL · 227930 |
| 227962 Aramis | 2007 HQ$_{14}$ | Aramis, a fictional character in Dumas' The Three Musketeers and its sequels. The character is loosely based on the historical musketeer Henri d'Aramitz. (Also see 229737 Porthos.) | JPL · 227962 |
| 227997 NIGLAS | 2007 KU$_7$ | The Nanjing Institute of Geography & Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) was established in 1940. It is the only national institute devoted to lake-basin system research and has made enormous contributions to environmental remediation and regional development. | IAU · 227997 |