# Meanings of minor-planet names: 218001–219000

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

* 213,000s
* 214,000s
* 215,000s
* 216,000s
* 217,000s
* 218,000s
* 219,000s
* 220,000s
* 221,000s
* 222,000s
* 223,000s
* 218,001…
* 218,101…
* 218,201…
* 218,301…
* 218,401…
* 218,501…
* 218,601…
* 218,701…
* 218,801…
* 218,901…

## 218001–218100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218069 Lisaturner | 2002 FN$_{19}$ | Lisa S. Turner (b. 1975) served as an Administrative Assistant for the New Horizons spacecraft flyby of the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth. She later served as a Program Manager Assistant for the mission. | IAU · 218069 |
| 218087 Kaniansky | 2002 GZ$_{184}$ | Stanislav Kaniansky (b. 1968), a Slovak astronomer and passionate astrophotographer. | IAU · 218087 |
| 218097 Maoxianxin | 2002 LO$_{61}$ | Xianxin Mao (born 1980) of Suzhou, Jiangsu, was a classmate of T. Chen, who located this object in images from NEAT, at Suzhou Pingjiang Experimental Primary School. | JPL · 218097 |

## 218101–218200

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

## 218201–218300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218268 Pierremariepelé | 2003 DF | Pierre-Marie Pelé (b. 1970), a French meteorite hunter. | IAU · 218268 |
| 218274 Albertferenc | 2003 FL$_7$ | Ferenc Albert (1811–1883), a Hungarian astronomer. | IAU · 218274 |

## 218301–218400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218400 Marquardt | 2004 QG$_7$ | Daniel Marquardt (born 1983), a writer and educator. | JPL · 218400 |

## 218401–218500

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

## 218501–218600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218570 Jonvandegriff | 2005 GO$_{204}$ | Jon D. Vandegriff (b. 1969), an American senior software engineer at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. | IAU · 218570 |

## 218601–218700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218636 Calabria | 2005 SN$_4$ | Calabria is a southern Italian region. The region is at the tip of the Italian peninsula and is predominantly hilly. Between the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, Calabria was a thriving Greek colony. | JPL · 218636 |
| 218679 Sagamorehill | 2005 TQ$_{13}$ | Sagamore Hill (also known as the "Summer White House", located in Cove Neck, New York) was the home of former US President Theodore Roosevelt. Now a National Historic Site, Sagamore Hill was the location of the first negotiations in 1905 to end the Russo-Japanese War. | JPL · 218679 |
| 218692 Leesnyder | 2005 TW$_{76}$ | LeRoy F. Snyder (born 1928) is an accomplished variable-star researcher, having published numerous papers in AAVSO and IAPPP journals. He was a cofounder of the IAPPP-Western Wing, now the Society for Astronomical Sciences, and has served as its president for many years. | JPL · 218692 |

## 218701–218800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218752 Tentlingen | 2007 EO$_9$ | The Swiss municipality of Tentlingen (French: Tinterin) in the canton of Fribourg, no far from the discovering Observatory Naef Épendes | JPL · 218752 |

## 218801–218900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218866 Alexantioch | 2006 XL$_4$ | Alexandros of Antioch was a Greek sculptor of the 1st century BCE, known today for the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos), which is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. | JPL · 218866 |
| 218900 Gabybuchholz | 2007 EO$_9$ | Gabriele Buchholz (née Schöpf, b. 1952), who provides medical care, from classical therapy to acupuncture, for the people of Nagold, in southern Germany. | JPL · 218900 |

## 218901–219000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 218901 Gerdbuchholz | 2007 EO$_9$ | Gerhard Buchholz (born 1950) provides medical care, from classical therapy to acupuncture, for the people of Nagold, in southern Germany. | JPL · 218901 |
| 218914 Tangauchin | 2007 KG$_9$ | Tang Aoqing (1915–2008), was a Chinese theoretical chemist, widely known as "The Father of Quantum Chemistry in China". He was an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences and a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. (Alternative spellings of his name include Au-Chin Tang and Tang Au-chin.) | JPL · 218914 |
| 218987 Heidenhain | 2008 HV$_2$ | Johannes Heidenhain (1898–1980), a German entrepreneur and amateur astronomer. | JPL · 218987 |
| 218998 Navi | 2008 JZ$_2$ | Navi Kocher (born 2009), grandchild of Swiss discoverer Peter Kocher | JPL · 218998 |