Meanings of minor planet names: 296001–297000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	296001–296100
	296101–296200
	296201–296300
	296301–296400
	296401–296500
	296501–296600
296525 Milanovskiy	2009 OU2	Aleksandr Evgen'evich Milanovskiy (1950-2004), a famous Russian geologist and meteorite searcher and investigator. †
296577 Arkhangelsk	2009 RV2	The city of Arkhangelsk was founded in 1584 on the banks of the Northern Dvina river, near the White sea, as the first seaport of Russia. †
	296601–296700
296638 Sergeibelov	2009 SD101	Belov Sergei Aleksandrovich (1944–2013) is one of the most renowned Soviet and European basketball players of the 20th century. †
	296701–296800
296753 Mustafamahmoud	2009 UP14	Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Husayn (1921–2009), commonly known as Mustafa Mahmoud, was an Egyptian scientist and a prolific author. †
	296801–296900
296819 Artesian	2009 WY6	The Artesian archaeological expedition was organized by Moscow State Pedagogical University and undertook researches, including archeoastronomy, on the territory of the Bosporan Kingdom. †
	296901–270000
296905 Korochantsev	2010 CJ36	Vladimir Alexeevich Korochantsev (b. 1934) is a Russian journalist, publicist and writer. †
296907 Alexander	2010 CA52	Claudia Alexander (1959-2015), an American planetary scientist who served as the project manager for the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the U.S. project scientist for the Rosetta mission. †
296950 Robertbauer	2010 EJ19	A. Robert Bauer, Sr., MD (1897-1984) successfully combined oxygen, heat, humidity and ease of nursing care in 1931 to create the first modern neonatal intensive care unit-grade incubator. Roughly one in eight infants are born prematurely, and many of them have benefited from Bauer's invention. †
296968 Ignatianum	2010 ES74	Ignatianum is the Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education in Krakow, Poland. †
296987 Piotrflin	2010 ET119	Piotr Flin (b. 1945), a Polish astronomer and a Professor at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce. †