Meanings of minor planet names: 55001–56000
This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.
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 number-range 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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.
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- 55,101…
- 55,201…
- 55,301…
- 55,401…
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- 55,601…
- 55,701…
- 55,801…
- 55,901…
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55001–55100
55101–55200
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
55108 Beamueller | 2001 QU142 | Beatrice E. A. Mueller, American astronomer JPL |
55112 Mariangela | 2001 QQ153 | Maria Angels Gassol i Avante, wife of the discoverer JPL |
55196 Marchini | 2001 RM16 | Alessandro Marchini, Italian computer scientist, astronomy popularizer, and director of the University of Siena's Osservatorio Astronomico di Torre Luciana (Astronomical Observatory of Torre Luciana) JPL |
55201–55300
55301–55400
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
55331 Putzi | 2001 SY115 | Antonie ("Putzi") T. Schwartz, American mother, artist and holistic health practitioner JPL |
55401–55500
55501–55600
55601–55700
55701–55800
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
55701 Ukalegon | 1193 T-3 | Ucalegon, one of the Elders of Troy, whose house was set on fire by the Achaeans when they sacked the city JPL |
55702 Thymoitos | 1302 T-3 | Thymoetes (Thymoitos), son of Laomedon, one of the Elders of the city of Troy, and the first to urge that the Trojan Horse be brought into the city JPL |
55720 Daandehoop | 1972 RE | Daniël "Daan" de Hoop (born 1945), honorary member and chairman of the Dutch Association for Spaceflight (1995–2005) JPL |
55733 Lepsius | 1986 WS2 | Karl Richard Lepsius, German egyptologist JPL |
55735 Magdeburg | 1987 QV | Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany JPL |
55749 Eulenspiegel | 1991 AT2 | Till Eulenspiegel, 14th-century character of Middle Low German oral tradition JPL |
55753 Raman | 1991 RF5 | Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist JPL |
55755 Blythe | 1991 TB15 | Blythe Andra Lowe, Canadian geologist and the discoverer's wife † |
55759 Erdmannsdorff | 1991 XJ1 | Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Erdmannsdorff, German architect JPL |
55772 Loder | 1992 YB5 | Justus Christian Loder, German anatomist JPL |
55801–55900
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
55810 Fabiofazio | 1994 TC | Fabio Fazio, broadcaster at RAI, the Italian public service JPL |
55815 Melindakim | 1994 YU2 | Melinda Kim Dowling, née Steel, the discoverer's younger sister JPL |
55838 Hagongda | 1996 LN | The Harbin Institute of Technology, a key national university in China JPL |
55844 Bičák | 1996 RN2 | Jirí Bicák, Czech professor of theoretical physics at Charles University in Prague JPL |
55854 Stoppani | 1996 VS1 | In 1905 Eugenio Stoppani (1850–1917) erected a mountain refuge, now the site of the Sormano Observatory, in the place where his father Edoardo Stoppani (1818– 1892) died accidentally. Antonio Stoppani (1824–1891) (probably a distant relative) was a distinguished palaeontologist. JPL |
55873 Shiomidake | 1997 UP7 | Shiomidake mountain, in northern Shizuoka, Japan JPL |
55874 Brlka | 1997 UL9 | Petr Brlka, Czech amateur astronomer † |
55875 Hirohatagaoka | 1997 VH | Hirohatagaoka, a hill on which is located Hadano High School, from which the discoverer graduated † |
55892 Fuzhougezhi | 1997 XQ5 | Fuzhou Gezhi High School, China, founded in 1846 JPL |
55901–56000
Number–Name | Prov. Designation | Source of Name |
55901 Xuaoao | 1998 CL2 | Xu Aoao (b. 1940) is a solar-physics astronomer and educator. As Vice President of Nanjing University and President of the Macau University of Science and Technology, he made significant contributions to promoting the education and research of the universities. JPL |
56000 Mesopotamia | 1998 SN144 | Mesopotamia, cradle of human civilization JPL |
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