Astronomy:Meanings of minor planet names: 545001–546000
As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars several times a year.[1] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[2] Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.[3][4] Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[5] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. 
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "SBDB". New namings may only be added after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned by the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature.[6]
545001–545100
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545101–545200
|-id=167 | 545167 Bonfini || 2011 BF42 || Antonio Bonfini (1427–1502) was an Italian humanist and the court historian for Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary. || IAU · 545167 |}
545201–545300
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545301–545400
|-id=394 | 545394 Rossetter || 2011 HH45 || David Rossetter (born 1956) is an American amateur astronomer . || IAU · 545394 |}
545401–545500
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
545501–545600
|-id=564 | 545564 Sabonis || 2011 QA50 || Arvydas Sabonis (born 1964) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and businessman. Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and bronze medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. || IAU · 545564 |-id=565 | 545565 Borysten || 2011 QZ50 || Mykola Khomychevsky (1897–1983), known by his pen-name Borys Ten, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, composer, translator, and a priest by education, whose best-known work includes the translation of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad into the Ukrainian language. || IAU · 545565 |}
545601–545700
|-id=619 | 545619 Lapuska || 2011 SR47 || Kazimirs Lapuska (1936–2013) was a Latvian astronomer and a pioneering observer of artificial satellites in Latvia. || IAU · 545619 |-id=651 | 545651 Lilyjames || 2011 SH119 || Template:MoMP description available || IAU · 545651 |}
545701–545800
|-id=784 | 545784 Kelemenjános || 2011 UA57 || János Kelemen (born 1951), a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, comets and flare stars as well as an observer of Gamma-ray burst afterglows. He has made several of his discoveries at the Piszkéstető Station. || IAU · 545784 |}
545801–545900
|-id=839 | 545839 Hernánletelier || 2011 UC172 || Hernán Rivera Letelier (born 1950), a Chilean writer and novelist whose books have been translated into several languages. || IAU · 545839 |}
545901–546000
|-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | There are no named minor planets in this number range |}
Template:MinorPlanetNameMeanings/See also
References
- ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet CenterMinor Planet Circulars. https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?asteroids#discovery. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-540-34361-5. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
- ↑ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. https://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/Astrometry.html#name. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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