Meanings of minor planet names: 105001–106000

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As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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 span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.


Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
105201–105300
105211 Sanden 2000 OM52 Bernard (Bernie) Emerson Sanden (b. 1954), an American amateur astronomer.
105222 Oscarsaa 2000 OS69 Oscar Miguel Saa Martinez (1942-2013) managed telescope operations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory from 1982 to 2010.
105601–105700
105675 Kamiukena 2000 ST42 Kamiukena Koto-gakko, prefectural high school in Ehime prefecture, Japan


Preceded by Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 105,001–106,000
Succeeded by
106,001–107,000