# Meanings of minor planet names: 552001–553000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

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* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 552,000s
* 553,000s
* 554,000s
* 555,000s
* 556,000s
* 557,000s
* 552,001…
* 552,101…
* 552,201…
* 552,301…
* 552,401…
* 552,501…
* 552,601…
* 552,701…
* 552,801…
* 552,901…

## 552001–552100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 552101–552200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 552201–552300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 552301–552400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 552385 Rochechouart | 2013 YU$_{18}$ | Rochechouart is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, about 40 km west of Limoges. It is well known for the presence of the Rochechouart-Chassenon astrobleme, an ancient 20-km diameter crater caused by an impact about 207 million years ago. | IAU · 552385 |

## 552401–552500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 552420 Flodubeyjames | 2013 YG$_{82}$ | Florence Amy Jayne Dubey-James (born 2012), the granddaughter of the asteroid's discoverer. | IAU · 552420 |

## 552501–552600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 552601–552700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 552681 Sósvera | 2010 JY$_{210}$ | Vera T. Sós (1930–2023) is a Hungarian mathematician, university professor and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include number theory, combinatorics and mathematical analysis. Her famous result is the Erdős-Rényi-Sós friendship theorem in graph theory. | IAU · 552681 |

## 552701–552800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 552708 Ödmangovender | 2010 NU$_{119}$ | Carolina Ödman-Govender (1974–2022), a Swiss physicist. | IAU · 552708 |
| 552727 Hauszmann | 2010 RQ$_{11}$ | Alajos Hauszmann (1847–1926), a Hungarian architect, university professor and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. | IAU · 552727 |
| 552733 Grétsylászló | 2010 RY$_{43}$ | László Grétsy (1932–2024), a Hungarian linguist, university professor, television personality, and a prominent figure in language education. | IAU · 552733 |
| 552746 Annanobili | 2010 RN$_{154}$ | Anna Maria Nobili (born 1949) is an Italian physicist at the University of Pisa. Her research includes the dynamics of the Solar System and space physics. | IAU · 552746 |
| 552748 Garasdezső | 2010 RN$_{164}$ | Dezső Garas (1934–2011), a Hungarian actor and stage director. | IAU · 552748 |
| 552750 Valasek | 2010 RW$_{173}$ | Ferenc Valasek (1858–1917), a Hungarian master fisherman. | IAU · 552750 |

## 552801–552900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 552888 Felixrodriguez | 2010 VA$_{83}$ | Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (1928–1980) was a Spanish naturalist and pioneer of environmental awareness in Spain, who made TV documentaries for RTVE such as the series El hombre y la Tierra (Man and the Earth). | IAU · 552888 |

## 552901–553000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||