# Meanings of minor planet names: 549001–550000

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

* 544,000s
* 545,000s
* 546,000s
* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 552,000s
* 553,000s
* 554,000s
* 549,001…
* 549,101…
* 549,201…
* 549,301…
* 549,401…
* 549,501…
* 549,601…
* 549,701…
* 549,801…
* 549,901…

## 549001–549100

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

## 549101–549200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549107 Hackitamás | 2011 CG$_{45}$ | Tamás Hacki (b. 1944), a Hungarian ear, nose and throat specialist, university professor, and whistling artist. | IAU · 549107 |
| 549185 Herczeg | 2011 EG$_{44}$ | Tibor Herczeg (1926–2014) was a Hungarian astronomer and a mathematics and physics teacher. From 1949 to 1956 he was an assistant astronomer at the Konkoly Observatory. The main areas of his research were stellar evolution and the observation of variable stars. | IAU · 549185 |

## 549201–549300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549228 Labuda | 2011 FW$_4$ | Marián Labuda (1944–2018) was a Slovak actor, one of the most prominent of his generation. He had a long series of great theatre roles and regularly starred in both Slovak and Czech films. His most memorable performance was in the 1985 Czechoslovak cult comedy, Vesničko má středisková (My Sweet Little Village). | IAU · 549228 |
| 549229 Bánjános | 2011 FB$_5$ | János Bán (b. 1955) is a Hungarian actor. He was a founding member of the famous Katona József Theater, Budapest, and is one of the most popular foreign actors in Czech and Slovak films. His most memorable performance was in the 1985 Czechoslovak cult comedy, Vesničko má středisková (My Sweet Little Village). | IAU · 549229 |

## 549301–549400

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

## 549401–549500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549418 Andreifesenko | 2011 HF$_{61}$ | Andrei Fesenko (b. 1967), a Russian astronomer, astroarchaeologist and lecturer. | IAU · 549418 |

## 549501–549600

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

## 549601–549700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549648 Shirokov | 2011 QA$_{39}$ | Stanislav Vasilevich Shirokov (1932–2010) was a Soviet astronomer, playwright and lecturer at the Moscow Planetarium and the Argo astronomical school. He created a number of theatrical astronomical programs, which are recognized as masterpieces in the field of popularization of astronomy. | IAU · 549648 |
| 549663 Barczaszabolcs | 2011 QR$_{66}$ | Szabolcs Barcza (1944–2021) was a Hungarian astronomer and honorary professor at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE). His research included atmospheric radiative transfers, both in stars and on Earth. | IAU · 549663 |

## 549701–549800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549706 Spbuni | 2011 SH$_{24}$ | The names is dedicated to Saint Petersburg University, founded by Peter the Great in 1724, that was the first university in Russia | IAU · 549706 |
| 549744 Heimpál | 2011 SL$_{119}$ | Pál Heim (1875–1929), a Hungarian pediatrician and university professor who specialized in treating babies and children. The Pál Heim Children's Hospital in Budapest was named in his honor. | IAU · 549744 |

## 549801–549900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549873 Portsevskii | 2011 UA$_{205}$ | Konstantin Alekseevich Portsevskii (1922–2010) was a Soviet astronomer, researcher and science communicator. As director of the Moscow Planetarium, he created popular science lectures and taught astronomy classes, including classes at Argo astronomy school. He also created and hosted the educational TV show Astronomy. | IAU · 549873 |

## 549901–550000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 549961 Földesistván | 2011 WQ$_{31}$ | István Földes (1908–1977) was a Hungarian astronomer and mathematician. From 1949 to 1974, he was the head of the Department of Astronomy at the Eötvös Loránd University. His main field of research was celestial mechanics and he gave popular lectures on astronomy on the radio. | IAU · 549961 |
| 549996 Dmitriiguliutin | 2011 WX$_{132}$ | Dmitrii Guliutin (born 1965), a Russian historian on space-science and amateur astronomer, who has worked in the aerospace industry and as a researcher in space museums. | IAU · 549996 |