# Meanings of minor-planet names: 296001–297000

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

* 291,000s
* 292,000s
* 293,000s
* 294,000s
* 295,000s
* 296,000s
* 297,000s
* 298,000s
* 299,000s
* 300,000s
* 301,000s
* 296,001…
* 296,101…
* 296,201…
* 296,301…
* 296,401…
* 296,501…
* 296,601…
* 296,701…
* 296,801…
* 296,901…

## 296001–296100

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

## 296101–296200

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

## 296201–296300

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

## 296301–296400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296351 Linyongbin | 2009 FZ$_{18}$ | Lin Yong-Bin (born 1968), a Chinese meteorite hunter and member of the Xinjiang Astronomical Society, who frequently visits the Gobi Desert. | IAU · 296351 |

## 296401–296500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296462 Corylachlan | 2009 HZ$_{81}$ | Cory Lachlan Todd (born 1997), son of Australian astronomer Michael Todd who discovered this minor planet | JPL · 296462 |

## 296501–296600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296525 Milanovskiy | 2009 OU$_2$ | Aleksandr Evgen'evich Milanovskiy (1950–2004), a famous Russian geologist and meteorite searcher and investigator. | JPL · 296525 |
| 296577 Arkhangelsk | 2009 RV$_2$ | Arkhangelsk, city and first Russian seaport founded in 1584, on the banks of the Northern Dvina River near the White Sea | JPL · 296577 |

## 296601–296700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296638 Sergeibelov | 2009 SD$_{101}$ | Sergei Belov (1944–2013), a Soviet basketball player, considered to be one of the best European basketball players of all time | JPL · 296638 |

## 296701–296800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296753 Mustafamahmoud | 2009 UP$_{14}$ | Mustafa Mahmoud born Mustafa Kamal Mahmoud Husayn (1921–2009), an Egyptian scientist and a prolific author | JPL · 296753 |

## 296801–296900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296819 Artesian | 2009 WY$_6$ | The Artesian archaeological expedition (AAE) was formed in 1987 and organized by Moscow State Pedagogical University on the territory of the Bosporan Kingdom in eastern Crimea. The research included archaeoastronomy and discovered several ancient astronomical observatories (Src). | JPL · 296819 |
| 296820 Paju | 2009 WT$_7$ | PAJU is the nickname of a very popular show on French-speaking Swiss television. Passe-moi les jumelles talks about nature in all its states: the earth, the sea, the sky and the cosmos. | IAU · 296820 |

## 296901–297000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 296905 Korochantsev | 2010 CJ$_{36}$ | Vladimir Alexeevich Korochantsev (born 1934), a Russian journalist, publicist and writer | JPL · 296905 |
| 296907 Alexander | 2010 CA$_{52}$ | Claudia Alexander (1959–2015), an American planetary scientist who served as the project manager for the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the U.S. project scientist for the Rosetta mission. | JPL · 296907 |
| 296928 Francescopalla | 2010 CE$_{155}$ | Francesco Palla (1954–2016) was an Italian astronomer, known for his contributions to the field of star formation. He was Director of the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory from 2005 to 2011, and author of more than 300 scientific papers. Palla coauthored, with Steve Stahler, the textbook The Formation of Stars. | JPL · 296928 |
| 296930 McLaren | 2010 CB$_{181}$ | Robert A. McLaren (b. 1946), a Canadian astronomer. | IAU · 296930 |
| 296945 Ronaldlaub | 2010 DD$_{78}$ | Ronald L. Laub (b. 1937), an American astronomer. | IAU · 296945 |
| 296950 Robertbauer | 2010 EJ$_{19}$ | A. Robert Bauer Sr., MD (1897–1984) successfully combined oxygen, heat, humidity and ease of nursing care in 1931 to create the first modern neonatal intensive care unit-grade incubator. Roughly one in eight infants are born prematurely, and many of them have benefited from Bauer's invention. | JPL · 296950 |
| 296968 Ignatianum | 2010 ES$_{74}$ | Ignatianum is the Jesuit University of Philosophy and Education in Kraków, Poland | JPL · 296968 |
| 296987 Piotrflin | 2010 ET$_{119}$ | Piotr Flin (born 1945), a Polish astronomer and a professor at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland | JPL · 296987 |