Meanings of minor planet names: 243001–244000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
	243001–243100
243073 Freistetter	2007 HT3	Florian Freistetter (born 1977), an astronomer and science writer. †
243094 Dirlewanger	2007 RU8	Wolfgang Dirlewanger (b. 1953), leader of dental clinic in Nagold, Germany. †
243096 Klauswerner	2007 RX15	Klaus Werner (born 1957), Professor of astronomy at the University of Tübingen. †
243097 Batavia	2007 RF16	The fort of Batavia (Castro Batava) was a Roman frontier fort (1st to 5th century AD) in the area of Passau in Bavaria, Germany. †
	243101–243200
243109 Hansludwig	2007 RT132	Hans-Ludwig Neumann (1938–1991), a German amateur astronomer and president of the Physikalischer Verein at Frankfurt am Main from 1976 to 1991. †
	243201–243300
243204 Kubanchoria	2007 UA5	Named on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Kuban Cossacs Chorus, founded on 1811 October 14. †
243262 Korkosz	2007 YV47	Frank and John Korkosz, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, were pioneers in the development of mid-sized, high-quality planetariums. †
243285 Fauvaud	2008 CJ181	Stéphane Fauvaud (born 1968), an active French amateur astronomer. †
	243301–243400
243320 Jackuipers	2008 SG12	Jack Kuipers (born 1921), author of a text on quaternions, taught mathematics at Calvin College for 20 years after a 17-year engineering career in the aerospace industry. †
243381 Alessio	2008 YM4	Alessio Muler (born 2002), second son of the first discoverer. †
	243401–243500
243440 Colonia	2009 FD2	Colonia (Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium) is the Roman name for Köln, Germany's fourth-largest city, founded in the year 38 BC by the Romans. †
243458 Bubulina	2009 QQ38	Bubulina was the nickname of Marina Denisa Botofan (2008–2010), who lived in Constanta, Romania, and died in Pavia, Italy, of lymphoblastic leukemia. †
243491 Mühlviertel	2009 UH19	Muehlviertel, the northernmost of the four districts (together with Hausruckviertel, Traunviertel and Innviertel) of Upper Austria. †
	243501–243600
243516 Marklarsen	2009 FD2	As the senior scientist at the Space Dynamics Laboratory at Utah State University, Mark Larson (born 1962) has been responsible for the camera aboard the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft. His work has been seminal to the success of the mission. †
243526 Russwalker	2010 DY28	Russ Walker (b. 1931), an astronomer specializing in infrared observations of small bodies. †
243529 Petereisenhardt	2010 DO50	Peter Eisenhardt (b. 1957) is the Project Scientist for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission and was a member of the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Array Camera science team. †
243536 Mannheim	2010 EQ111	Mannheim, a German city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg. †
243546 Fengchuanliu	2010 JH61	Fengchuan Liu (b. 1965), an expert in cryogenic physics who served as the project manager for the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE projects and who has worked on a number of other NASA low temperature physics experiments. †
	243601–243700
243637 Frosinone	1999 TZ10	Named Frusna in ancient Volscan and Frusino by the Romans, Frosinone is a provincial administrative seat and the discoverer’s birthplace. †
	243701–243800
	243801–243900
	243901–244000