Meanings of minor planet names: 552001–553000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor-planet names. Also see list of named minor planets (alphabetical) for a condensed version without naming citations.

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 planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN).^[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.^[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).^[3] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.^[4][5]

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,^[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned.^[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.^[8]

552001–552100

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552101–552200

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552201–552300

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552301–552400

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552385 Rochechouart	2013 YU18	Rochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, about 40 km west of Limoges. It is well known for the presence of the Rochechouart-Chassenon astrobleme, an ancient 20-km diameter crater caused by an impact about 207 million years ago.	IAU · 552385

552401–552500

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552420 Flodubeyjames	2013 YG82	Description available (see ref). Please summarize in your own words.	IAU · 552420

552501–552600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

552601–552700

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552681 Sósvera	2010 JY210	Vera T. Sós (1930–2023) is a Hungarian mathematician, university professor and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include number theory, combinatorics and mathematical analysis. Her famous result is the Erdős-Rényi-Sós friendship theorem in graph theory.	IAU · 552681

552701–552800

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552708 Ödmangovender	2010 NU119	Description available (see ref). Please summarize in your own words.	IAU · 552708
552746 Annanobili	2010 RN154	Anna Maria Nobili (born 1949) is an Italian physicist at the University of Pisa. Her research includes the dynamics of the Solar System and space physics.	IAU · 552746

552801–552900

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552888 Felixrodriguez	2010 VA83	Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928–1980) was a Spanish naturalist and pioneer of environmental awareness in Spain, who made TV documentaries for RTVE such as the series El hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth).	IAU · 552888

552901–553000

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References

1. "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
2. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
3. "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
4. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
5. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
6. Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
7. "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
8. "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.

Preceded by 551,001–552,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 552,001–553,000

Succeeded by 553,001–554,000