# Meanings of minor planet names: 546001–547000

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

* 541,000s
* 542,000s
* 543,000s
* 544,000s
* 545,000s
* 546,000s
* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 546,001…
* 546,101…
* 546,201…
* 546,301…
* 546,401…
* 546,501…
* 546,601…
* 546,701…
* 546,801…
* 546,901…

## 546001–546100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546025 Ábrahámpéter | 2011 WG$_{117}$ | Péter Ábrahám (born 1964) is a Hungarian astrophysicist and a former director of the Konkoly Observatory (2010 to 2015), whose research includes the nebular hypothesis and the formation of stars. | IAU · 546025 |
| 546049 Zhujin | 2011 YL$_4$ | Zhu Jin (born 1965), a Chinese astronomer and editor of the monthly publishing magazine Amateur Astronomer in China. He leads the "Popularization Working Committee of the Chinese Astronomical Society", and was the director of the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program (1995–2002) and the Beijing Planetarium (2002–2019), respectively. | IAU · 546049 |

## 546101–546200

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

## 546201–546300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546235 Kolbenheyer | 2010 UK$_{29}$ | Tibor Kolbenheyer (1917–1993), a Slovakian-Hungarian geophysicist and astrophysicist. | IAU · 546235 |
| 546275 Kozák | 2010 UW$_{83}$ | Danuta Kozák (born 1987), a Hungarian sprint canoeist, who won six Olympic gold medals during 2008–2021, and 15 and 17 gold medals at the World and European Championship, respectively. | IAU · 546275 |

## 546301–546400

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

## 546401–546500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546471 Szipál | 2010 VQ$_{176}$ | Szipál Márton (1924–2016) was a Hungarian-American photographer, most known for his portrait photographs of movie stars and celebrities. In his later years he worked for Hungarian newspapers and taught at several photography schools. | IAU · 546471 |
| 546498 Demjénferenc | 2010 VQ$_{206}$ | Ferenc Demjén (b. 1946), a Hungarian rock singer, songwriter and bass guitarist. | IAU · 546498 |

## 546501–546600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546515 Almásy | 2010 VY$_{216}$ | Paul Almásy (1906–2003) was a Hungarian-born French photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism. For more than six decades he traveled the world and took about 120,000 photographs, creating a detailed picture archive that is a unique document of 20th century history. | IAU · 546515 |

## 546601–546700

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

## 546701–546800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546756 Sunguoyou | 2010 XL$_{71}$ | Sun Guoyou (born 1984) is a Chinese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets with the Sky Survey team at Xingming Observatory (C42). Sometimes credited as Guoyou Sun and G. Sun, he also discovered supernovae, novae, dwarf novae, variable stars, double stars and planetary nebulae as well as comet C/2015 F5 (SWAN-XingMing) in 2015. | IAU · 546756 |

## 546801–546900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 546842 Ruanjiangao | 2011 YD$_3$ | Jiangao Ruan, or Ruan Jiangao (born 1986), a Chinese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets from Fangchenggang. Sometimes credited as "J. Ruan", he also discovered supernovae, novae in M31 and M33, C/2009 G1 (STEREO), and more than 80 other SOHO comets. | IAU · 546842 |
| 546843 Xuzhijian | 2014 QK$_{307}$ | Xu Zhijian (born 1989), a Chinese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets from Nanjing. Sometimes credited as "Z. Xu", he also discovered supernovae, novae in M31 and M81, and more than 300 SOHO comets. He has also co-founded the Nanjing Amateur Astronomers Association. | IAU · 546843 |
| 546844 Jinzhangwei | 2016 UZ$_{58}$ | Jin Zhangwei (born 1968), a Chinese amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets from Ningbo, who is a member of the Sky Survey team at Xingming Observatory (C42). Sometimes credited as Zhang-Wei Jin ("Z.-W. Jin" and "Z. Jin"), he also discovered supernovae and several SOHO comets. | IAU · 546844 |
| 546845 Wulumuqiyizhong | 2016 UB$_{101}$ | The No.1 Senior High School of Ürümqi (Wulumuqiyizhong) located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. In 2021, this asteroid was named on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the school's founding. Several minor planets, including this one, have been discovered at the Xingming Observatory (C42) with telescopes from this school. | IAU · 546845 |
| 546846 Sunpeiyuan | 2018 VD$_{42}$ | Sun Peiyuan (born 1994) is a Chinese amateur astronomer and a member of Xingming Observatory. He has discovered several novae, supernovae, asteroids and SOHO comets, and is engaged in the popularization of astronomy. | IAU · 546846 |

## 546901–547000

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