- 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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.
Contents: 52,001… 52,101… 52,201… 52,301… 52,401… 52,501… 52,601… 52,701… 52,801… 52,901…
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name 52001–52100 52005 Maik 2002 CL13 Maik Meyer, German amateur astronomer † ‡ 52201–52300 52228 Protos 1977 RN Greek word for "first", the discoverer's first minor planet detection † 52271 Lecorbusier 1988 RP3 Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), Swiss-French architect and city planner † 52291 Mott 1990 TU1 John R. Mott, American organizer of the modern ecumenical movement and Peace Prize Nobelist † 52293 Mommsen 1990 TQ3 Theodor Mommsen, German classical historian, epigraphist, and Nobelist † 52301–52400 52301 Qumran 1991 RQ2 Qumran, Palestine, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found † 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 † 52401–52500 52421 Daihoji 1994 LA Daihōji, north of Kumakōgen, Japan, 44th destination of the Shikoku Pilgrimage † 52455 Masamika 1995 AD1 Masa-aki Takanashi and his wife Mika, Japanese amateur astronomers † 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 † 52801–52900 52872 Okyrhoe 1998 SG35 Okyrhoe, mythological daughter of Chiron and Chariklo † 52901–53000 52975 Cyllarus 1998 TF35 Cyllarus, mythological centaur † Preceded by
51,001–52,000Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 52,001–53,000Succeeded by
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