# Meanings of minor-planet names: 292001–293000

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

* 287,000s
* 288,000s
* 289,000s
* 290,000s
* 291,000s
* 292,000s
* 293,000s
* 294,000s
* 295,000s
* 296,000s
* 297,000s
* 292,001…
* 292,101…
* 292,201…
* 292,301…
* 292,401…
* 292,501…
* 292,601…
* 292,701…
* 292,801…
* 292,901…

## 292001–292100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 292051 Bohlender | 2006 RD$_3$ | David Bohlender (born 1959) a Canadian astrophysicist and member of the IAU, who uses high-resolution spectroscopy to research magnetars and chemically peculiar stars (such as Bp stars), emission-line stars, exoplanets, and the interstellar medium (Src, IAU) | JPL · 292051 |

## 292101–292200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 292159 Jongoldstein | 2006 RU$_{105}$ | Jon Goldstein (born 1981), an American research engineer and PhD student at George Mason University and BAE Systems, who is focused in computer simulations of social systems | JPL · 292159 |
| 292160 Davefask | 2006 RG$_{107}$ | David Fask (born 1982), an American psychologist from the University of Virginia whose research is focused on substance dependence and abuse. His PhD thesis explored the cognitive development of twins. | JPL · 292160 |

## 292201–292300

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

## 292301–292400

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

## 292401–292500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 292459 Antoniolasciac | 2006 SO$_{366}$ | Antonio Lasciac (1856–1946), an Italian–Slovene architect, engineer, poet and musician, who designed the Khedive Palace in Istanbul and the Tahra Palace in Cairo | JPL · 292459 |

## 292501–292600

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

## 292601–292700

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

## 292701–292800

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

## 292801–292900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 292856 Peeters | 2006 UE$_{341}$ | Els Peeters (b. 1973), a Belgian-Canadian astronomer. | IAU · 292856 |
| 292872 Anoushankar | 2006 VV$_{12}$ | Anoushka Shankar (born 1981), an Indian sitar musician and composer | JPL · 292872 |

## 292901–293000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 292991 Lyonne | 2006 WB$_1$ | Laurence Lyonne (born 1969) and Jean-Claude Lyonne (born 1965), both active and enthusiastic leaders of the French astronomy club "Le Curieux du Ciel" at Gueugnon, Burgundy, which they founded in 1999 | JPL · 292991 IAU |