Meanings of minor planet names: 290001–291000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	290001–290100
290001 Uebersax	2005 PP16	Robert Uebersax (b. 1963), a Swiss amateur astronomer. †
	290101–290200
290127 Linakostenko	2005 QC149	Lina Kostenko (b. 1930), a Ukrainian poetess †
	290201–290300
	290301–290400
	290401–290500
	290001–290600
	290601–290700
	290701–290800
	290801–290900
	290901–291000