# Meanings of minor-planet names: 251001–252000

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.

## Index100K200K300K400K500K600K

* 246,000s
* 247,000s
* 248,000s
* 249,000s
* 250,000s
* 251,000s
* 252,000s
* 253,000s
* 254,000s
* 255,000s
* 256,000s
* 251,001…
* 251,101…
* 251,201…
* 251,301…
* 251,401…
* 251,501…
* 251,601…
* 251,701…
* 251,801…
* 251,901…

## 251001–251100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 251001 Sluch | 2006 OM$_{14}$ | Sluch, a river that flows through Ukraine in the basin of the Dniper. | JPL · 251001 |
| 251018 Liubirena | 2006 QC$_{31}$ | Liubov Grinishyn (born 1955) and Irene Malinovska (born 1967), Ukraine poets and lyric story writers, as well as amateur astronomers at the nearby Andrushivka Astronomical Observatory | JPL · 251018 |

## 251101–251200

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

## 251201–251300

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

## 251301–251400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 251325 Leopoldjosefine | 2007 CX$_{26}$ | Leopold Gierlinger (born 1935) and Josefine Gierlinger (born 1935), parents of German discoverer Richard Gierlinger | JPL · 251325 |

## 251401–251500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 251449 Olexakorolʹ | 2008 CK$_{117}$ | Oleksiy Kostyantynovych Korolʹ (1913–1977) worked in the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and was a member of IAU Commission No. 9. He obtained observations of celestial bodies to help solve problems in fundamental astrometry. | JPL · 251449 |
| 251485 Bois-d'Amont | 2008 ED$_7$ | Bois-d'Amont is a small municipality about 6 km from Fribourg, Switzerland. It is home to the Observatory of Épendes, whose main objective is the promotion of astronomy, in particular among young people. | IAU · 251485 |

## 251501–251600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 251595 Rudolfböttger | 2009 HA$_{36}$ | Rudolf Christian Böttger (1806–1881), a German chemist and physicist at the Physical Society (German: Physikalischer Verein [de]) of Frankfurt am Main | JPL · 251595 |

## 251601–251700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 251619 Ravenna | 2009 LS$_2$ | Ravenna, Italian city and former capital of the Western Roman Empire, known for well-preserved ancient architecture and mosaics | IAU · 251619 |
| 251621 Lüthen | 2009 RR$_2$ | Hartwig Lüthen (born 1960), associate professor of plant physiology at the University of Hamburg | JPL · 251621 |
| 251625 Timconrow | 2010 DD$_{21}$ | Tim Conrow (born 1958), a senior engineer at the California Institute of Technology's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center | JPL · 251625 |
| 251627 Joyceearl | 2010 JV$_{16}$ | Joyce (1920–2003) and Earl (1914–1979) Bonar, grandparents of American astronomer Amy Mainzer, the principal investigator of the space-based NEOWISE mission | JPL · 251627 |
| 251642 Leonardodicaprio | 2010 LC$_{97}$ | Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974), American actor and film producer. Recipient of numerous accolades and noted for his environmental activism. | IAU · 251642 |

## 251701–251800

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

## 251801–251900

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

## 251901–252000

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