Meanings of minor planet names: 53001–54000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 |
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53001–53100 | ||
53029 Wodetzky | 1998 WY6 | József Wodetzky, Hungarian astronomer and mathematician † |
53093 La Orotava | 1998 YO12 | La Orotava, Tenerife Island † |
53101–53200 | ||
53157 Akaishidake | 1999 CP | Akaishidake Mountain, Shizuoka, Japan † |
53159 Mysliveček | 1999 CN3 | Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer † ‡ |
53201–53300 | ||
53252 Sardegna | 1999 EY4 | Sardinia, in Italian † |
53256 Sinitiere | 1999 FD | Robert Sinitiere (b. 1950), an amateur astronomer and pharmacist. † |
53285 Mojmír | 1999 FM53 | Mojmír, 9th-century Moravian prince †‡ |
53301–53400 | ||
53311 Deucalion | 1999 HU11 | Deucalion, the Ancient Greek mythological Adam † |
53316 Michielford | 1999 JY3 | Michiel Ford, American amateur astronomer, recipient of a Milken National Educator Award † |
53401–53500 | ||
53468 Varros | 2000 AC2 | George Varros, amateur astronomer † |
53601–53700 | ||
53629 Andrewpotter | 2000 CJ112 | Andrew E. Potter (b. 1926) is a space scientist who discovered the sodium and potassium components of the atmospheres of both Mercury and the moon. † |
53901–54000 | ||
53910 Jánfischer | 2000 GF4 | Ján Fischer, Slovak theoretical physicist † |
Preceded by 52,001–53,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 53,001–54,000 |
Succeeded by 54,001–55,000 |
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