# Meanings of minor-planet names: 245001–246000

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

* 240,000s
* 241,000s
* 242,000s
* 243,000s
* 244,000s
* 245,000s
* 246,000s
* 247,000s
* 248,000s
* 249,000s
* 250,000s
* 245,001…
* 245,101…
* 245,201…
* 245,301…
* 245,401…
* 245,501…
* 245,601…
* 245,701…
* 245,801…
* 245,901…

## 245001–245100

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

## 245101–245200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 245158 Thomasandrews | 2004 TU$_{18}$ | Thomas Andrews (1873–1912), the British shipbuilder who was primarily responsible for the design of the RMS Titanic | JPL · 245158 |

## 245201–245300

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

## 245301–245400

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

## 245401–245500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 245417 Rostand | 2005 JA$_{46}$ | Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), a French poet and playwright. | JPL · 245417 |

## 245501–245600

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

## 245601–245700

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

## 245701–245800

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

## 245801–245900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 245890 Krynychenka | 2006 QE$_{58}$ | Galyna Ivanivna Biletska (born 1961), the leader of the "Krynychenka" folk song and dance ensemble from Andrushivka | JPL · 245890 |

## 245901–246000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 245943 Davidjoseph | 2006 RZ$_{114}$ | David Joseph Masiero (1953–2013), an American mechanical engineer, specializing in nuclear power plant design. He is the father of the discoverer Joseph Masiero. | JPL · 245943 |
| 245983 Machholz | 2006 SG$_{198}$ | Donald Machholz (1952–2022) is an American amateur astronomer. He discovered visually 11 new comets in 1978–2010 (including periodic comets 96P and 141P). He is one of the inventors of the Messier marathon, a race to observe all the Messier objects in a single night. | JPL · 245983 |