Meanings of minor planet names: 55001–56000

Meanings of minor planet names: 55001–56000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 55,001… 55,101… 55,201… 55,301… 55,401… 55,501… 55,601… 55,701… 55,801… 55,901…

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
55001–55100
55082 Xlendi 2001 QJ110 Xlendi, Gozo, Malta
55101–55200
55108 Beamueller 2001 QU142 Beatrice E. A. Mueller, American astronomer
55112 Mariangela 2001 QQ153 Maria Angels Gassol i Avante, wife of the discoverer
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)
55201–55300
55221 Nancynoblitt 2001 RM63 Nancy Noblitt, a friend and loyal supporter of the Rose-Hulman Oakley Observatory (the discovery site)
55276 Kenlarner 2001 SK10 Ken Larner, American exploration geophysicist
55301–55400
55331 Putzi 2001 SY115 Antonie ("Putzi") T. Schwartz, American mother, artist and holistic health practitioner
55401–55500
55428 Cappellaro 2001 TN47 Enrico Cappellaro, Italian chief astronomer of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (National Institute for Astrophysics) and director of the Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova (Padua Astronomical Observatory)
55477 Soroban 2001 UC1 Soroban, the Japanese abacus
55501–55600
55543 Nemeghaire 2001 XN16 Jean Nemeghaire, Belgian assistant at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium, the discoverer's physics teacher
55555 DNA 2001 YR2 DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid
55561 Madenberg 2002 AF9 Janet A. Stevens, née Madenberg, American amateur astronomer
55576 Amycus 2002 GB10 The centaur Amycus, son of Ophion, who attended Pirithous' wedding, fought against the Lapiths, and was killed by Pelates of Pella
55601–55700
55676 Klythios 3034 T-1 Klythios (Clytius), one of the Elders of Troy (Iliad, Book III)
55678 Lampos 3291 T-1 Lampos or Lampus, son of Laomedon, one of the Elders of the city of Troy, father of Dolops
55701–55800
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
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
55733 Lepsius 1986 WS2 Karl Richard Lepsius, German egyptologist
55735 Magdeburg 1987 QV Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
55749 Eulenspiegel 1991 AT2 Till Eulenspiegel, 14th-century character of Middle Low German oral tradition
55753 Raman 1991 RF5 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist
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
55772 Loder 1992 YB5 Justus Christian Loder, German anatomist
55801–55900
55815 Melindakim 1994 YU2 Melinda Kim Dowling, née Steel, the discoverer's younger sister
55844 Bičák 1996 RN2 Jirí Bicák, Czech professor of theoretical physics at Charles University in Prague
55873 Shiomidake 1997 UP7 Shiomidake mountain, in northern Shizuoka, Japan
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
55901–56000
56000 Mesopotamia 1998 SN144 Mesopotamia, cradle of human civilization
Preceded by
54,001–55,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 55,001–56,000
Succeeded by
56,001–57,000

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