Meanings of minor planet names: 251001–252000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 251001–251100 | |||
| 251001 Sluch | 2006 OM14 | Sluch, a river that flows through Ukraine in the basin of the Dniper. † | |
| 251018 Liubirena | 2006 QC31 | Liubov Grinishyn (born 1955) and Irene Malinovska (born 1967) are poetesses and lyric story writers. † | |
| 251301–251400 | |||
| 251325 Leopoldjosefine | 2007 CX26 | Leopold Gierlinger (b. 1935) and Josefine Gierlinger (b. 1935), the parents of the discoverer. † | |
| 251401–251500 | |||
| 251449 Olexakorol' | 2008 CK117 | Oleksiy Kostyantynovych Korol' (1913–1977) worked in the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and was a member of IAU Commission No. 9. He obtained observations of celestial bodies to help solve problems in fundamental astrometry. † | |
| 251501–251600 | |||
| 251595 Rudolfböttger | 2009 HA36 | Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), a German chemist and physicist at the Physikalischer Verein of Frankfurt am Main. † | |
| 251601–251700 | |||
| 251621 Lüthen | 2009 RR2 | Hartwig Lüthen (born 1960), associate professor of plant physiology at the University of Hamburg. † | |
| 251625 Timconrow | 2010 DD21 | Tim Conrow (b. 1958), a senior engineer at the California Institute of Technology’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center. † | |
| 251627 Joyceearl | 2010 JV16 | Joyce (1920-2003) and Earl (1914-1979) Bonar were the grandparents of Amy Mainzer, the PI of the NEOWISE project to study minor planets. † | |
| Preceded by 250,001–251,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 251,001–252,000 |
Succeeded by 252,001–253,000 |
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