Meanings of minor planet names: 38001–39000
Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for Ref · Catalog
38018 Louisneefs 1998 LN 2 Louis Neefs ( 1937-1980 ) , a well-known Flemish singer JPL · 38018
38019 Jeanmariepelt 1998 LV 2 Jean-Marie Pelt ( 1933-2015 ) , French botanist at the Université de Metz , founder of the European Institute of Ecology French : Institut européen d'écologie , author of La Cannelle et le panda JPL · 38019
38020 Hannadam 1998 MP Hanna Smigiel ( born 1971 ) and her son , Adam ( born 1993 ) , are Polish friends of Luciano Tesi , who co-discoverered this minor planet JPL · 38020
38046 Krasnoyarsk 1998 SW 144 Krasnoyarsk , Siberia , Russia , where in 1772 the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas identified a 700-kg stony-iron meteorite , now known as a pallasite JPL · 38046
38070 Redwine 1999 GG 2 Kelley K. Redwine ( born 1974 ) , an American occupational therapist in Tucson , Arizona JPL · 38070
38083 Rhadamanthus 1999 HX 11 Rhadamanthus , mythological son of Zeus and Europa , one of the three judges of the dead in Elysium ( together with Aeacus and Minos ) JPL · 38083
38086 Beowulf 1999 JB Beowulf , hero of one of the oldest surviving texts from early Britain JPL · 38086
38001–38100