# Meanings of minor-planet names: 264001–265000

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

* 259,000s
* 260,000s
* 261,000s
* 262,000s
* 263,000s
* 264,000s
* 265,000s
* 266,000s
* 267,000s
* 268,000s
* 269,000s
* 264,001…
* 264,101…
* 264,201…
* 264,301…
* 264,401…
* 264,501…
* 264,601…
* 264,701…
* 264,801…
* 264,901…

## 264001–264100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 264020 Stuttgart | 2009 QS$_1$ | Stuttgart, the capital city of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. | JPL · 264020 |
| 264033 Boris-Mikhail | 2009 QS$_{33}$ | Boris I (832–907), also known as Boris-Mikhail, was the ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire in 852–889. | JPL · 264033 |
| 264045 Heinerklinkrad | 2009 RC$_{26}$ | Heiner Klinkrad (born 1953), a German engineer, academic and former head of the ESA's Space Debris Office (also see Space debris and ESA Space Debris Telescope) | JPL · 264045 |
| 264061 Vitebsk | 2009 SY$_{100}$ | Vitebsk, the fourth-largest and one of the oldest cities in Belarus. | JPL · 264061 |
| 264077 Dluzhnevskaya | 2009 SH$_{215}$ | Ol'ga Borisovna Dluzhnevskaya (born 1936), a scientist in the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences | JPL · 264077 |

## 264101–264200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 264119 Georgeorton | 2009 TT$_7$ | George Washington Orton (1873–1958) was a middle- and long-distance runner. In 1900, he became the first Canadian to win a medal at an Olympic Games. | IAU · 264119 |
| 264131 Bornim | 2009 UQ$_4$ | Bornim [de], a district of the city of Potsdam in Brandenburg, Germany | JPL · 264131 |
| 264150 Dolops | 2009 VT$_{24}$ | Dolops the Achaean, son of Clytius and killed by Hektor in the Trojan War | JPL · 264150 |
| 264165 Poehler | 2010 AP$_{120}$ | Amy Poehler (born 1971), an American actor, writer, and comedian who has been nominated for numerous awards for her work on Saturday Night Live and other television shows | JPL · 264165 |

## 264201–264300

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

## 264301–264400

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

## 264401–264500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 264474 Rogerclark | 2001 FH$_{212}$ | Roger Clark (born 1953) made fundamental discoveries about solid surfaces on bodies from Earth to Saturn. He applied imaging spectroscopy to map minerals on these bodies on numerous NASA missions and applied these methods to assess the 9/11 disaster and determine oil leakage from the Gulf spill. | JPL · 264474 |
| 264476 Aepic | 2001 HP | "Aepic" acronym of the French association of amateur astronomers "Amateurs Espace Pic", which popularizes astronomy at the Pic du Midi Observatory † | JPL · 264476 |

## 264501–264600

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

## 264601–264700

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

## 264701–264800

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

## 264801–264900

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

## 264901–265000

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