# Meanings of minor-planet names: 262001–263000

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

* 257,000s
* 258,000s
* 259,000s
* 260,000s
* 261,000s
* 262,000s
* 263,000s
* 264,000s
* 265,000s
* 266,000s
* 267,000s
* 262,001…
* 262,101…
* 262,201…
* 262,301…
* 262,401…
* 262,501…
* 262,601…
* 262,701…
* 262,801…
* 262,901…

## 262001–262100

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

## 262101–262200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262106 Margaretryan | 2006 RU$_{108}$ | Margaret Ryan Masiero (born 1956), the mother of the American discoverer Joseph Masiero | JPL · 262106 |

## 262201–262300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262295 Jeffrich | 2006 SY$_{395}$ | Jeffrey Rich Jr (born 1983), an American astronomer | JPL · 262295 |

## 262301–262400

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

## 262401–262500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262418 Samofalov | 2006 UV$_{61}$ | Viacheslav Samofalov [uk] (born 1963), a composer and a soloist of the Ukrainian National Philharmonic | JPL · 262418 |
| 262419 Suzaka | 2006 UK$_{63}$ | Suzaka, a city of about 50 000 inhabitants located in northern Nagano prefecture. | JPL · 262419 |

## 262501–262600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262536 Nowikow | 2006 UJ$_{349}$ | Igor Nowikow, a physics teacher at Markham District High School in Markham, Canada | JPL · 262536 |

## 262601–262700

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

## 262701–262800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262705 Vosne-Romanée | 2006 XH$_4$ | Vosne-Romanée, a Burgundy village situated between Beaune and Dijon, France. The village has six Grand Cru vineyards, the most famous of which is Romanée-Conti. | JPL · 262705 |

## 262801–262900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262876 Davidlynch | 2007 BL$_{73}$ | David Lynch (born 1946), an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, musician, photographer and occasional actor | JPL · 262876 |

## 262901–263000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 262972 Petermansfield | 2007 ER$_9$ | Peter Mansfield (1933–2017), an English physicist and Nobel laureate | JPL · 262972 |