Meanings of asteroid names (58001-59000)
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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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.
Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Contents: 58001... 58101... 58201... 58301... 58401... 58501... 58601... 58701... 58801... 58901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 58001-58100 | ||
| 58084 Hiketaon | 1197 T-3 | Hiketaon, one of the elders of Troy, counselors to Priam; the son of Laomedon, he suggested Helen be returned to Menelaus to avoid the Trojan war † |
| 58095 Oranienstein | 1973 SN | Oranienstein, a baroque castle on the Lahn river near Diez, Germany † |
| 58096 Oineus | 1973 SC2 | Oeneus, king of Calydonia, son of Porthaon, who sent Meleager out to find heroes to kill the Calydonian Boar; his grandson Diomedes avoided fighting Glaukos because of the friendship between Oeneus and Glaukos' grandfather Bellerophon † |
| 58097 Alimov | 1976 UQ1 | Alexandr Fyodorovich Alimov, Russian founder of the school of functional ecology and president of the Hydrobiological Society † |
| 58098 Quirrenbach | 1977 TC | Andreas Quirrenbach, German astronomer, director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory) since 2006 † |
| 58101-58200 | ||
| 58152 Natsöderblom | 1988 PF2 | Nathan Söderblom (Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom), Swedish archbishop, theologian and Peace Nobelist † |
| 58163 Minnesang | 1989 UJ7 | Minnesang, German sung poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries † |
| 58191 Dolomiten | 1991 YN1 | The Dolomites mountains (Dolomiten is the Swiss-German name) † |
| 58201-58300 | ||
| 58215 von Klitzing | 1992 SY1 | Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and Nobelist † |
| 58301-58400 | ||
| 58364 Feierberg | 1995 MF7 | Michael Feierberg, American astronomer, who was involved in the early work connecting C-class minor planets to carbonaceous chondrites † |
| 58365 Robmedrano | 1995 OQ | Technical Sergeant Rob Medrano, of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) observatory † |
| 58401-58500 | ||
| 58424 Jamesdunlop | 1996 DL1 | James Dunlop, Scottish-Australian astronomer † |
| 58466 Santoka | 1996 OB1 | Santoka Taneda, the Japanese "Wandering Haiku Poet" † |
| 58499 Stüber | 1996 VY | Eberhard Stüber, Austrian director of the natural science museum "Haus der Natur" in Salzburg † |
| 58501-58600 | ||
| 58534 Logos | 1997 CQ29 | Logos and Zoe ((58534) Logos I Zoe), a paired emanation of the deity in the Gnostic tradition, and part of its creation myth † |
| 58535 Pattillo | 1997 DP | Leonard Pattillo, American founding member and former officer of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club † |
| 58573 Serpieri | 1997 RD7 | Arrigo Serpieri, Italian agricultural economist † |
| 58578 Žídek | 1997 SP2 | Ivo Žídek, Czech opera singer † |
| 58579 Ehrenberg | 1997 SQ2 | Eleonora Gayerová z Ehrenberku (Eleonora Gayerová of Ehrenberg), Czech soprano opera singer, who lived in Vila Leonora at Ondřejov and was instrumental in the establishment of the Ondřejov Observatory † ‡ |
| 58601-58700 | ||
| 58607 Wenzel | 1997 UL | Wolfgang Wenzel, German astronomer † |
| 58608 Geroldrichter | 1997 UY | Gerold A. Richter, German astronomer † |
| 58672 Remigio | 1997 YT8 | Scarfi Remigio, Italian geologist, mathematics teacher, and amateur astronomer † |
| 58682 Alenašolcová | 1998 AA11 | Alena Šolcová, Czech mathematician and historian of mathematics and astronomy † |
| 58701-58800 | ||
| 58707 Kyoshi | 1998 CS | Kyoshi Takahama, Japanese Haiku poet and novelist † |
| 58709 Zenocolò | 1998 CT2 | Zeno Colò, 20th-century Italian skier and Olympic gold medalist (Oslo Winter Games, 1952) † |
| 58901-59000 | ||
| 59000 Beiguan | 1998 SW26 | Beijing Tianwenguan (Beijing Planetarium), on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary year (2007) † |
| Preceded by 57001–58000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (58001-59000) |
Succeeded by 59001–60000 |
