Meanings of minor planet names: 28001–29000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

Contents: 28,001… 28,101… 28,201… 28,301… 28,401… 28,501… 28,601… 28,701… 28,801… 28,901…

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
28001–28100
28004 Terakawa	1997 XA	*
28019 Warchal	1998 AW8	Bohdan Warchal, Slovak violinist, conductor and educator, member of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor and soloist of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra †
28059 Kiliaan	1998 OZ7	Cornelis Kiliaan, 16th-century Flemish linguist †
28101–28200
28196 Szeged	1998 XY12	Szeged, Hungary †
28201–28300
28220 York	1998 YN12	York, UK †
28242 Mingantu	1999 AT22	*
28301–28400
28340 Yukihiro	1999 EG5	Yukihiro Adachi, Japanese member of the Matsue Astronomy Club and an observing partner of the discoverer †
28346 Kent	1999 FV19	Kent Hodgson, teacher and author †
28394 Mittag-Leffler	1999 RY36{{{2}}}	Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician*
28396 Eymann	1999 RY44	*
28401–28500
28492 Marik	2000 CM59	Miklós Marik, Hungarian astronomer †
28501–28600
28513 Guo	2000 CM126	*
28516 Möbius	2000 DQ3	August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer*
28601–28700
28614 Vejvoda	2000 FO8	Jaromír Vejvoda, Czech musician, bandmaster and composer †
28701–28800
28729 Moivre	2000 GF123	Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician*
28766 Monge	2000 HP14	Gaspard Monge, French mathematician*
28801–28900
28878 Segner	2000 KL41	Ján Andrej Segner (Johan Andreas von Segner), Carpatho-German mathematician, physicist, doctor †
28901–29000
28978 Ixion	2001 KX76	Greek mythological character, a king of Thessaly, mostly famous for his terrible punishment for kin-slaying*

Preceded by 27,001–28,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 28,001–29,000

Succeeded by 29,001–30,000