Meanings of minor planet names: 52001–53000
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.
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| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 52001–52100 | ||
| 52005 Maik | 2002 CL13 | Maik Meyer, German amateur astronomer † ‡ |
| 52008 Johnnaka | 2002 EP111 | John Yoshio Naka (1914–2004), the preeminent American bonsai master of the late 20th century. † |
| 52057 Clarkhowell | 2002 PS130 | Francis Clark Howell (1925–2007), generally known as "F. Clark Howell", was an American anthropologist. † |
| 52201–52300 | ||
| 52225 Panchenko | 1968 OF1 | Vladislav Yakovlevich Panchenko, an authority in laser information technologies, scientific instrumentation technologies, non-linear optics and medical physics. † |
| 52226 Saenredam | 1974 PA | Pieter Jansz Saenredam, Dutch Baroque-era painter and engraver † |
| 52228 Protos | 1977 RN | Greek word for "first", the discoverer's first minor planet detection † |
| 52231 Sitnik | 1978 RX1 | Grigorij Fedorovich Sitnik (1911–1996), professor of the Moscow State University. † |
| 52242 Michelemaoret | 1981 EX | Michele Maoret (b. 1971), a mathematics teacher and president of the association of scientific education ’Luigi Lagrange’, which is involved in the teaching of physics, mathematics and astronomy. † |
| 52246 Donaldjohanson | 1981 EQ5 | Donald Carl Johanson (b. 1943), an American paleoanthropologist. † |
| 52266 Van Flandern | 1986 AD | Tom Van Flandern, astronomer and lunar occultations analylist at the U.S. Naval Observatory in the 1970s [1] † |
| 52271 Lecorbusier | 1988 RP3 | Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect and city planner † |
| 52285 Kakurinji | 1990 OX2 | Kakurinji, built by Prince Shotoku in AD 589, is a historically significant Buddhist temple complex in Kakogawa city, Hyogo prefecture. † |
| 52291 Mott | 1990 TU1 | John R. Mott, American organizer of the modern ecumenical movement and Peace Prize Nobelist † |
| 52292 Kamdzhalov | 1990 TB2 | Yordan Kamdzhalov, Bulgarian conductor. † |
| 52293 Mommsen | 1990 TQ3 | Theodor Mommsen, German classical historian, epigraphist, and Nobelist † |
| 52294 Detlef | 1990 TJ4 | Detlef Ninnemann (b. 1944), a German patent attorney and electrical engineer. † |
| 52301–52400 | ||
| 52301 Qumran | 1991 RQ2 | Qumran, Palestine, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found † |
| 52308 Hanspeterröser | 1991 TE3 | Hans-Peter Röser (b. 1949), director of the Institute of Space Studies at the University of Stuttgart. † |
| 52309 Philnicolai | 1991 TQ7 | Philipp Nicolai, German Lutheran pastor and poet, author of the hymns Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Wake, awake! for night is flying) and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How brightly beams the morning star!) † |
| 52334 Oberammergau | 1992 FS3 | Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany, festival place of a famous Passion Play † |
| 52337 Compton | 1992 RS | Arthur Holly Compton, American physicist and Nobelist † |
| 52341 Ballmann | 1992 SB2 | Helga Ballmann (b. 1954), the personal assistant of the Director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Heidelberg. † |
| 52384 Elenapanko | 1993 HZ5 | Elena Alekseevna Panko (b. 1958), a Ukrainian astronomer at Nikolaev State University. † |
| 52401–52500 | ||
| 52421 Daihoji | 1994 LA | Daihōji, north of Kumakōgen, Japan, 44th destination of the Shikoku Pilgrimage † |
| 52422 LPL | 1994 LP | The University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory † |
| 52455 Masamika | 1995 AD1 | Masa-aki Takanashi and his wife Mika, Japanese amateur astronomers † |
| 52457 Enquist | 1995 AE4 | Anna Enquist (b. 1945), a Dutch author and poet, who studied psycho-analysis at Leiden and piano at the conservatory of Den Haag. † |
| 52480 Enzomora | 1995 UM5 | Gian Vincenzo Mora, Italian amateur astronomer † |
| 52500 Kanata | 1996 DC1 | KANATA, Japanese for "Far Away", name of the new 1.5-m telescope of Hiroshima University † |
| 52501–52600 | ||
| 52589 Montviloff | 1997 PY3 | Nicolas Montviloff, French co-founder of the Observatoire des Pises, and current president of the Société astronomique de Montpellier † |
| 52601–52700 | ||
| 52601 Iwayaji | 1997 SJ16 | Iwayaji, east of Kumakōgen, Japan, 45th destination of the Shikoku Pilgrimage † |
| 52604 Thomayer | 1997 TZ9 | Josef Thomayer, Czech professor of internal medicine at the Charles University of Prague † |
| 52649 Chrismith | 1997 YX11 | Christine Elizabeth Smith, American elementary school teacher † |
| 52665 Brianmay | 1998 BM30 | Brian May, British astrophysicist, chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, and lead guitarist and songwriter for the rock group Queen † |
| 52701–52800 | ||
| 52767 Ophelestes | 1998 MW41 | Ophelestes, a Trojan warrior, was killed by an arrow of Teucer, who was causing much havoc with his bow amongst the ranks of the Trojans. † |
| 52801–52900 | ||
| 52872 Okyrhoe | 1998 SG35 | Okyrhoe, mythological daughter of Chiron and Chariklo † |
| 52901–53000 | ||
| 52975 Cyllarus | 1998 TF35 | Cyllarus, mythological centaur † |
References
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| Preceded by | Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 52,001–53,000 |
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