Meanings of minor planet names: 264001–265000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 264001–264100 | |||
| 264020 Stuttgart | 2009 QS1 | Stuttgart, the capital city of the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg. † | |
| 264033 Boris-Mikhail | 2009 QS33 | Boris I (832-907), also known as Boris-Mikhail, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in 852-889. † | |
| 264045 Heinerklinkrad | 2009 RC26 | Heiner Klinkrad (b. 1953), a German engineer, academic and former head of the European Space Agency's Space Debris Office. † | |
| 264061 Vitebsk | 2009 SY100 | Vitebsk, the fourth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Belarus. † | |
| 264077 Dluzhnevskaya | 2009 SH215 | Ol'ga Borisovna Dluzhnevskaya (born 1936), a scientist in the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. † | |
| 264101–264200 | |||
| 264131 Bornim | 2009 UQ4 | Bornim, a district of Potsdam, capital of the German state of Brandenburg. † | |
| 264150 Dolops | 2009 VT24 | Dolops, son of Klythios (Clytius), was killed by Hektor, son of Priam, in the Trojan War. † | |
| 264165 Poehler | 2010 AP120 | Amy Poehler (b. 1971), an actor, writer, and comedian who has been nominated for numerous awards for her work on Saturday Night Live and other television shows. † | |
| 264401–264500 | |||
| 264476 Aepic | 2001 HP | Aepic comes from “Amateurs Espace Pic”, a French association of amateur astronomers that popularizes astronomy at the Pic du Midi Observatory. † | |
| Preceded by 263,001–264,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 264,001–265,000 |
Succeeded by 265,001–266,000 |
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