# Meanings of minor-planet names: 232001–233000

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

* 227,000s
* 228,000s
* 229,000s
* 230,000s
* 231,000s
* 232,000s
* 233,000s
* 234,000s
* 235,000s
* 236,000s
* 237,000s
* 232,001…
* 232,101…
* 232,201…
* 232,301…
* 232,401…
* 232,501…
* 232,601…
* 232,701…
* 232,801…
* 232,901…

## 232001–232100

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

## 232101–232200

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

## 232201–232300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232233 Taihu | 2002 LE$_{61}$ | Lake Taihu, the source lake of the Yangtze River Delta, is one of the five major freshwater lakes in China. | IAU · 232233 |

## 232301–232400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232306 Bekuška | 2002 RP$_{280}$ | Rebecca "Bekuška" Morvay (born 2005) is a daughter of Slovak amateur astronomer Eva Morvayová. | IAU · 232306 |

## 232401–232500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232409 Dubes | 2003 EU$_1$ | Alain Dubes (1935–2016), a French amateur astronomer | JPL · 232409 |

## 232501–232600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232553 Randypeterson | 2003 SX$_{218}$ | Randy Peterson (born 1948), a visual observer and longtime member of the American East Valley Astronomy Club of Phoenix, Arizona | JPL · 232553 |

## 232601–232700

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

## 232701–232800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232763 Eliewiesel | 2004 PC$_{27}$ | Elie Wiesel (1928–2016), a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, human rights activist and recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace | JPL · 232763 |

## 232801–232900

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

## 232901–233000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 232923 Adalovelace | 2005 AA$_{29}$ | Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of George Gordon Byron, was an English mathematician and writer known mainly for her work on Babbage's analytical engine. | JPL · 232923 |
| 232949 Muhina | 2005 EN$_8$ | The Museum of Natural History (Muhina) of Fribourg in Switzerland, founded in 1823, assures the conservation of its collections and offers unique information and research possibilities to researchers. | JPL · 232949 |