Meanings of minor planet names: 244001–245000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	244001–244100
	244101–244200
	244201–244300
	244301–244400
	244401–244500
	244501–244600
	244601–244700
	244701–244800
	244801–244900
	244901–245000
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. †