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...
The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 4001 through 5000, inclusive. The primary data for this and other partial lists is based on JPL's "Small-Body Orbital Elements" and data available from the Minor...
William I. McLaughlin (1935-May 31, 2025) was an American space scientist. After being awarded his PhD in mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley in 1968 (with a thesis on celestial mechanics), he worked at Bellcomm, Inc. in...
Eleanor Francis "Glo" Helin (née Francis, 19 November 1932 – 25 January 2009) was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (Some sources give her...
This is a partial list of named minor planets, containing all those starting with the letter B, as of 19 October 2026. It is ordered in a case-insensitive, alphabetical manner and contains a total of 1,659 entries. Grey minor planets have no article...
This is a partial list of named minor planets in numerical order. It contains a total of 997 entries as of 20 March 2026. Minor planets for which no article exist are displayed in grey color and redirect to the list of minor planets (see List of...