# Meanings of minor planet names: 448001–449000

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

* 443,000s
* 444,000s
* 445,000s
* 446,000s
* 447,000s
* 448,000s
* 449,000s
* 450,000s
* 451,000s
* 452,000s
* 453,000s
* 448,001…
* 448,101…
* 448,201…
* 448,301…
* 448,401…
* 448,501…
* 448,601…
* 448,701…
* 448,801…
* 448,901…

## 448001–448100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 448051 Pepisensi | 2008 FW$_{61}$ | Josefa "Pepi" (born 1993) and Ascension "Sensi" (born 1994) are the respective daughters of Spanish astronomers Sensi Pastor and José Antonio Reyes, who discovered this minor planet. During their teenage years, they spent long nights waiting for the return of their parents from the La Murta Observatory (J76). | JPL · 448051 |

## 448101–448200

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

## 448201–448300

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

## 448301–448400

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

## 448401–448500

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

## 448501–448600

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

## 448601–448700

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

## 448701–448800

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

## 448801–448900

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

## 448901–449000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 448988 Changzhong | 2012 AS$_{14}$ | Changzhong (Changzhou Senior High School of Jiangsu Province) is located in the historic city of Changzhou, China. Founded in 1907, the school has educated students who have made contributions to the reform and development of Chinese society, including more than 20 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. | IAU · 448988 |