Meanings of minor planet names: 50001–51000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

Contents: 50,001… 50,101… 50,201… 50,301… 50,401… 50,501… 50,601… 50,701… 50,801… 50,901…

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
50001–50100
50033 Perelman	2000 AF48	Grigorij (Grisha) Yakovlevich Perelman, Russian mathematician †
50101–50200
50201–50300
50240 Cortina	2000 BY3	Cortina d'Ampezzo, holiday resort in the Dolomites, Italy, host to the 1956 Winter Olympics, near which the Osservatorio Astronomico del Col Drusciè (Col Drusciè Astronomical Observatory) is located †
50301–50400
50401–50500
50412 Ewen	2000 DG1	Harry Ewen, Canadian amateur astronomer † ‡
50413 Petrginz	2000 DQ1	Petr Ginz, Czech-Jewish boy who edited Vedem, a secret magazine, in the Terezín ghetto during World War II † ‡
50501–50600
50601–50700
50701–50800
50801–50900
50901–51000

Preceded by 49,001–50,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 50,001–51,000

Succeeded by 51,001–52,000