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 number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. The official naming citations have been published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars and in Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.[1][2][3] Meanings marked with †
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55201–55300
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Named minor planet |
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This minor planet was named for... |
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55212 Yukitoayatsuji | 2001 RG46 | Yukito Ayatsuji is the pen name of Naoyuki Uchida (born 1960), a Japanese writer of horror and mystery. He is one of the founders of the Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan. He was one of the two winners of the 1992 Mystery Writers of Japan Award. His best-known works are The Decagon House Murders and Another. | JPL · 55212 |
55221 Nancynoblitt | 2001 RM63 | Nancy Noblitt, a friend and loyal supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observatory (the discovery site) | JPL · 55221 |
55222 Makotoshinkai | 2001 RP63 | Makoto Shinkai, born Makoto Niitsu (born 1973), is a Japanese author, manga artist, cinematographer, director and producer. His anime credits include Your Name, 5 Centimeters Per Second, The Garden of Words and Children Who Chase Lost Voices. | JPL · 55222 |
55223 Akiraifukube | 2001 RQ63 | Akira Ifukube (1914–2006) was a Japanese composer of film scores and classical music. He is best known for the music for the 1954 movie Gojira, also known in the West as Godzilla. | JPL · 55223 |
55276 Kenlarner | 2001 SK10 | Ken Larner, American exploration geophysicist † | MPC · 55276 |
55301–55400
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55319 Takanashi | 2001 SK73 | Yasuharu Takanashi (born 1963) is a composer of music for video games and anime. Some of the films he has produced scores for include Shiki, Ikki Tousen, Naruto Shippuden, Fairy Tail and Sailor Moon Crystal. | JPL · 55319 |
55320 Busler | 2001 SL73 | William J. Busler (born 1944) has had a long and distinguished career as a researcher and teacher in the field of biochemistry. He has also been a planetarium director and has had a lifelong love for teaching fellow amateur astronomers about the universe. | JPL · 55320 |
55331 Putzi | 2001 SY115 | Antonie ("Putzi") T. Schwartz, American mother, artist and holistic health practitioner | JPL · 55331 |
55381 Lautakwah | 2001 SX264 | Andy Lau (born 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer and film producer. Lau was entered into the Guinness World Records for the `Most Awards Won by a Cantopop Male Artist' with a total unprecedented 292 awards won by year 2000. In 1999, he was also awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World. | JPL · 55381 |
55382 Kootinlok | 2001 SS265 | Louis Koo (born 1970) is a Hong Kong actor and film producer. He started his career in television and won TVB's Best Actor award in both 1999 and 2001. Koo is one of the most popular and talented actors of the Hong Kong film industry. He is also a low-key donor who had helped build close to 100 schools in China. | JPL · 55382 |
55383 Cheungkwokwing | 2001 SX266 | Leslie Cheung (1956–2003) was a leading Hong Kong singer and actor, with charisma comparable to James Dean. Cheung won the 1991 Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. | JPL · 55383 |
55384 Muiyimfong | 2001 SQ267 | Anita Mui (1963–2003) was a Hong Kong singer and actress who made great contributions to the Cantopop music scene and received numerous awards and honors. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a Cantopop diva. | JPL · 55384 |
55701–55800
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Named minor planet |
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This minor planet was named for... |
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55701 Ukalegon | 1193 T-3 | Ucalegon, one of the Elders of Troy, whose house was set on fire by the Achaeans when they sacked the city | JPL · 55701 |
55702 Thymoitos | 1302 T-3 | Thymoetes (Thymoitos), son of Laomedon, one of the Elders of the city of Troy, and the first to urge that the Trojan Horse be brought into the city | JPL · 55702 |
55720 Daandehoop | 1972 RE | Daniël "Daan" de Hoop (born 1945), honorary member and chairman of the Dutch Association for Spaceflight (1995–2005) | JPL · 55720 |
55733 Lepsius | 1986 WS2 | Karl Richard Lepsius, German egyptologist | JPL · 55733 |
55735 Magdeburg | 1987 QV | Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany | JPL · 55735 |
55737 Coquimbo | 1988 CQ1 | The Chilean city of Coquimbo, the capital of the Elqui province, located on the Pan American Highway. The natural harbor in Coquimbo was taken over by Pedro de Valdivia in 1550, together with the gold and copper industry in the region. | JPL · 55737 |
55749 Eulenspiegel | 1991 AT2 | Till Eulenspiegel, 14th-century character of Middle Low German oral tradition | JPL · 55749 |
55753 Raman | 1991 RF5 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist | JPL · 55753 |
55755 Blythe | 1991 TB15 | Blythe Andra Lowe, Canadian geologist and the discoverer's wife † | MPC · 55755 |
55759 Erdmannsdorff | 1991 XJ1 | Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Erdmannsdorff, German architect | JPL · 55759 |
55772 Loder | 1992 YB5 | Justus Christian Loder, German anatomist | JPL · 55772 |
55801–55900
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55810 Fabiofazio | 1994 TC | Fabio Fazio, broadcaster at RAI, the Italian public service | JPL · 55810 |
55815 Melindakim | 1994 YU2 | Melinda Kim Dowling, née Steel, the discoverer's younger sister | JPL · 55815 |
55838 Hagongda | 1996 LN | The Harbin Institute of Technology, a key national university in China | JPL · 55838 |
55844 Bičák | 1996 RN2 | Jirí Bicák, Czech professor of theoretical physics at Charles University in Prague | JPL · 55844 |
55854 Stoppani | 1996 VS1 | In 1905 Eugenio Stoppani (1850–1917) erected a mountain refuge, now the site of the Sormano Observatory, in the place where his father Edoardo Stoppani (1818– 1892) died accidentally. Antonio Stoppani (1824–1891) (probably a distant relative) was a distinguished palaeontologist. | JPL · 55854 |
55873 Shiomidake | 1997 UP7 | Shiomidake mountain, in northern Shizuoka, Japan | JPL · 55873 |
55874 Brlka | 1997 UL9 | Petr Brlka, Czech amateur astronomer † | MPC · 55874 |
55875 Hirohatagaoka | 1997 VH | Hirohatagaoka, a hill on which is located Hadano High School, from which the discoverer graduated † | MPC · 55875 |
55892 Fuzhougezhi | 1997 XQ5 | Fuzhou Gezhi High School, China, founded in 1846 | JPL · 55892 |
55901–56000
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Named minor planet |
Provisional |
This minor planet was named for... |
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55901 Xuaoao | 1998 CL2 | Xu Aoao (born 1940) is a solar-physics astronomer and educator. As Vice President of Nanjing University and President of the Macau University of Science and Technology, he made significant contributions to promoting the education and research of the universities. | JPL · 55901 |
56000 Mesopotamia | 1998 SN144 | Mesopotamia, cradle of human civilization | JPL · 56000 |
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