Meanings of minor planet names: 284001–285000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	284001–284100
	284101–284200
	284201–284300
	284301–284400
	284401–284500
	284501–284600
	284601–284700
	284701–284800
	284801–284900
284891 Kona	2009 RT26	Kona, the name of a district of the Big Island of Hawai’i. †
	284901–285000
284945 Saint-Imier	2010 EM44	The city of Saint-Imier, founded by the hermit St. Imerius in 884. †
284984 Ikaunieks	2010 GC158	Janis Ikaunieks (1912-1969), Latvian astronomer. †
284996 Rosaparks	2010 LD58	African-American Rosa Parks (1913–2005) refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. Her action forced the city to end segregation of public buses and spurred efforts throughout the United States to end segregation. She is known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement. †