# Meanings of minor-planet names: 257001–258000

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

* 252,000s
* 253,000s
* 254,000s
* 255,000s
* 256,000s
* 257,000s
* 258,000s
* 259,000s
* 260,000s
* 261,000s
* 262,000s
* 257,001…
* 257,101…
* 257,201…
* 257,301…
* 257,401…
* 257,501…
* 257,601…
* 257,701…
* 257,801…
* 257,901…

## 257001–257100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 257005 Arpadpal | 2008 EW$_{152}$ | Árpád Pál (1929–2006), a Romanian astronomer and professor at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. | JPL · 257005 |
| 257084 Joanalcover | 2008 GX$_1$ | Joan Alcover y Maspons (1854–1926), a Spanish Balearic poet, essayist and politician. | IAU257084 |

## 257101–257200

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

## 257201–257300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 257211 Kulizoli | 2008 YY$_4$ | Zoltán Kuli (born 1977), a Hungarian physicist, amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. He is the head of the technical department at Konkoly Observatory and was instrumental in installing a large CCD-camera on the Schmidt telescope at the Piszkéstető Station near Budapest. | IAU · 257211 |
| 257212 Rózsahegyi | 2008 YB$_5$ | Márton Rózsahegyi (born 1979), a Hungarian environmental researcher, science communicator and amateur astronomer, who was instrumental in installing a wide field-of-view camera on the Schmidt telescope at Piszkéstető Station. | IAU · 257212 |
| 257234 Güntherkurtze | 2009 DD$_{112}$ | Günther Kurtze (1921–1986), a physicist and professor of acoustics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany | JPL · 257234 |
| 257248 Chouchiehlun | 2009 FA$_{19}$ | Jay Chou (born 1979) is one of the most famous musicians in Asia | JPL · 257248 |
| 257261 Ovechkin | 2009 FS$_{47}$ | Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985), a Russian ice-hockey winger who began his career with the Dynamo Moscow | JPL · 257261 |
| 257296 Jessicaamy | 2009 HT$_{57}$ | Jessica Amy Todd (born 1994), daughter of the Australian discoverer Michael Todd | JPL · 257296 |

## 257301–257400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 257336 Noeliasanchez | 2009 JA$_1$ | Noelia Sanchez (born 1975) is an aeronautical engineer and co-founder of the DEIMOS space company, where she works as Head of the Space Situational Awareness Division for NEO and Space Debris. | JPL · 257336 |
| 257371 Miguelbello | 2009 PM$_4$ | Miguel Bello (born 1961), the founder and CEO of the DEIMOS space company. | JPL · 257371 |

## 257401–257500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 257439 Peppeprosperini | 2010 PL$_{23}$ | Giuseppe Prosperini (1937–2005), an Italian amateur astronomer, observer of lunar and minor-planet occultations, and a co-founder of the Frasso Sabino Observatory | JPL · 257439 |

## 257501–257600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 257515 Zapperudi | 1997 CD$_6$ | Rudolf Zappe (born 1928), a longtime member of the "Linzer Astronomische Gemeinschaft" | JPL · 257515 |
| 257533 Iquique | 1998 CN$_4$ | Iquique, a port city in northern Chile | JPL · 257533 |

## 257601–257700

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

## 257701–257800

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

## 257801–257900

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

## 257901–258000

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