Meanings of minor planet names: 53001–54000

Meanings of minor planet names: 5300154000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 53,001 53,101 53,201 53,301 53,401 53,501 53,601 53,701 53,801 53,901

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
5300153100
53093 La Orotava 1998 YO12 La Orotava, Tenerife Island
5310153200
53157 Akaishidake 1999 CP Akaishidake Mountain, Shizuoka, Japan
53159 Mysliveček 1999 CN3 Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer
5320153300
53252 Sardegna 1999 EY4 Sardinia, in Italian
53285 Mojmír 1999 FM53 Mojmír, 9th-century Moravian prince
5330153400
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
5390154000
53910 Jánfischer 2000 GF4 Ján Fischer, Slovak theoretical physicist
Preceded by
52,00153,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 53,00154,000
Succeeded by
54,00155,000

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