# Meanings of minor-planet names: 250001–251000

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

* 245,000s
* 246,000s
* 247,000s
* 248,000s
* 249,000s
* 250,000s
* 251,000s
* 252,000s
* 253,000s
* 254,000s
* 255,000s
* 250,001…
* 250,101…
* 250,201…
* 250,301…
* 250,401…
* 250,501…
* 250,601…
* 250,701…
* 250,801…
* 250,901…

## 250001–250100

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

## 250101–250200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250164 Hannsruder | 2002 TM$_{69}$ | Hanns Ruder [de] (1939–2015), a German professor of astrophysics at the University of Tübingen | JPL · 250164 |

## 250201–250300

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

## 250301–250400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250354 Lewicdeparis | 2003 SP$_{244}$ | The WIC de Paris (Women International Club), welcomes women of all nationalities living in and around Paris and provides them a friendly environment for sharing cultures. | JPL · 250354 |
| 250370 Obertocitterio | 2003 TK$_4$ | Oberto Citterio (born 1933) is an astronomer at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. He has made important contributions in the field of astronomical optics and instrumentation from infrared to γ-rays, with particular reference to the X-ray optics technology used for many space projects. | IAU · 250370 |
| 250374 Jírovec | 2003 UL$_4$ | Vojtěch Matyáš Jírovec (1763–1850), also known as Adalbert Gyrowetz, was a Bohemian composer born in České Budějovice. | JPL · 250374 |

## 250401–250500

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

## 250501–250600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250526 Steinerzsuzsanna | 2004 PO$_{42}$ | Zsuzsanna Steiner (1927–2012), a Hungarian physics and mathematics teacher | JPL · 250526 |

## 250601–250700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250606 Bichat | 2005 EL$_{222}$ | Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), an anatomist and pathologist | JPL · 250606 |

## 250701–250800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250719 Jurajbardy | 2005 SN$_{21}$ | Juraj Bardy [sk] (1919–2011) was a Slovak amateur astronomer and secondary school teacher who taught at the Gymnasium in Považská Bystrica. As an enthusiastic popularizer of astronomy, he contributed to its development in the region. He was the designer of the Považská Bystrica sundial. | JPL · 250719 |
| 250774 Syosset | 2005 TX$_{11}$ | Syosset is a hamlet on Long Island, New York. Originally colonized by Dutch settlers in the 1600s, it became a well populated, suburban town after World War II. The discoverer was born in Syosset. | JPL · 250774 |

## 250801–250900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 250840 Motörhead | 2005 UT$_{158}$ | Motörhead, a British heavy metal group established in 1975 | JPL · 250840 |

## 250901–251000

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