Meanings of asteroid names (50001-51000)
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As asteroid 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. The list below concerns those asteroids 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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 50001... 50101... 50201... 50301... 50401... 50501... 50601... 50701... 50801... 50901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 50001-50100 | ||
| 50033 Perelman | 2000 AF48 | Grigorij (Grisha) Yakovlevich Perelman, Russian mathematician † |
| 50201-50300 | ||
| 50240 Cortina | 2000 BY3 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, holiday resort in the Dolomites, Italy, host to the 1956 Winter Olympics, near which the Osservatorio Astronomico del Col Drusciè (Col Drusciè Astronomical Observatory) is located † |
| 50401-50500 | ||
| 50412 Ewen | 2000 DG1 | Harry Ewen, Canadian amateur astronomer † ‡ |
| 50413 Petrginz | 2000 DQ1 | Petr Ginz, Czech-Jewish boy who edited Vedem, a secret magazine, in the Terezín ghetto during World War II † ‡ |
| Preceded by 49001–50000 |
Meanings of asteroid names List of asteroids (50001-51000) |
Succeeded by 51001–52000 |
