# Meanings of minor-planet names: 123001–124000

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

* 118,000s
* 119,000s
* 120,000s
* 121,000s
* 122,000s
* 123,000s
* 124,000s
* 125,000s
* 126,000s
* 127,000s
* 128,000s
* 123,001…
* 123,101…
* 123,201…
* 123,301…
* 123,401…
* 123,501…
* 123,601…
* 123,701…
* 123,801…
* 123,901…

## 123001–123100

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

## 123101–123200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 123120 Peternewman | 2000 SQ$_{372}$ | Peter R. Newman (born 1954), British astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 123120 |

## 123201–123300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 123290 Manoa | 2000 UH$_{100}$ | Manoa valley, on the island of Oahu, where the University of Hawaiʻi was founded in 1907 (the provisional designation's subscript stands for the university's centennial celebration of 2007) | JPL · 123290 |

## 123301–123400

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

## 123401–123500

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

## 123501–123600

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

## 123601–123700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 123647 Tomáško | 2000 YG$_{66}$ | Tomáš Kušnirák (born 2002), the only child of the Slovak discoverers Peter Kušnirák and Ulrika Babiaková | JPL · 123647 |

## 123701–123800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 123794 Deadwood | 2001 BE$_{42}$ | The rowdy mining camp of Deadwood, South Dakota, was founded in 1876 during the Black Hills Gold Rush, and was home to many colorful western characters including Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, and Seth Bullock. Name suggested by the Deadwood High School Class of 1961. | IAU · 123794 |

## 123801–123900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 123818 Helenzier | 2001 BC$_{75}$ | Helen Zier (born 1938), American amateur astronomer, birder and volunteer in several scientific research programs | JPL · 123818 |
| 123852 Jánboďa | 2001 CM$_{37}$ | Ján Boda (born 1956), Slovak geophysicist and senior lecturer at the Comenius University in Bratislava | JPL · 123852 |
| 123860 Davederrick | 2001 DX | David Derrick (born 1952), American educator, who built a private planetarium, space museum and observatory | JPL · 123860 |

## 123901–124000

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