Meanings of minor planet names: 57001–58000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

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 number-range 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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

57001–57100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

57101–57200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
57140 Gaddi 2001 PG29 Riccardo Gaddi, amateur astronomer and popular expositor JPL

57201–57300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

57301–57400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
57359 Robcrawford 2001 RC Robert W. Crawford, American energy and environmental consultant, amateur astronomer and physicist JPL

57401–57500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
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) JPL
57471 Mariemarsina 2001 SZ115 Marie Marsina (born 1952) currently serves as the President of the National Art League in New York City and as Vice President of the Douglaston Civic Association. She is a graduate of Pace University's Lubin School of Business. JPL

57501–57600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
57567 Crikey 2001 TS56 "Crikey!", signature phrase of Steve Irwin, 20th-century Australian television naturalist JPL

57601–57700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
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

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

57801–57900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
57868 Pupin 2001 YD Mihajlo Pupin (1858-1935), a Serbian-American physicist and humanitarian. JPL
57879 Cesarechiosi 2002 AD1 Cesare Chiosi, Italian professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Padua JPL

57901–58000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
57901 Hitchens 2002 CH275 Christopher E. Hitchens (born 1949), an intellectual of broad interests who lists "disputation" among his hobbies, lectures copiously and writes for a number of periodicals as a pundit and critic JPL

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
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
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