Meanings of asteroid names (75001-76000)
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.
Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 75001-75100 | ||
| 75072 Timerskine | 1999 VU19 | Timothy Joseph Erskine, American needle safety technologist, amateur astronomer, musician, artist, philanthropist † |
| 75301-75400 | ||
| 75308 Shoin | 1999 XY37 | Shoin Yoshida, 19th-century Japanese political scientist, executed for his anti-shogunate ideology, and whose teachings played an important role in the success of the Meiji Restoration † |
| 75501-75600 | ||
| 75564 Audubon | 2000 AJ | John James Audubon, Franco-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter † |
| 75570 Jenőwigner | 2000 AP4 | Jenő Wigner, 20th-century Hungarian-American physicist and Nobelist (this minor planet was discovered on the fifth anniversary of his death) † |
| Preceded by 74001–75000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (75001-76000) |
Succeeded by 76001–77000 |
