Meanings of minor planet names: 57001–58000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 57,001… 57,101… 57,201… 57,301… 57,401… 57,501… 57,601… 57,701… 57,801… 57,901…

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
57001–57100
57101–57200
57201–57300
57301–57400
57359 Robcrawford	2001 RC	Robert W. Crawford, American energy and environmental consultant, amateur astronomer and physicist †
57401–57500
57424 Caelumnoctu	2001 SP22	(19)57–4–24, 1957 April 24, is the date of the transmission of the first edition of the BBC television series The Sky at Night (Caelum noctu in Latin) †
57501–57600
57567 Crikey	2001 TS56	"Crikey!", signature phrase of Steve Irwin, 20th-century Australian television naturalist †
57601–57700
57658 Nilrem	2001 UJ1	Jean-Claude Merlin ("Merlin" backwards, because of pre-existing 2598 Merlin), French astronomer, founder-president of the Société astronomique de Bourgogne (Burgundy Astronomical Society) †
57701–57800
57801–57900
57879 Cesarechiosi	2002 AD1	Cesare Chiosi, Italian professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Padua †
57901–58000

Preceded by 56,001–57,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 57,001–58,000

Succeeded by 58,001–59,000