# Meanings of minor planet names: 548001–549000

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

* 543,000s
* 544,000s
* 545,000s
* 546,000s
* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 552,000s
* 553,000s
* 548,001…
* 548,101…
* 548,201…
* 548,301…
* 548,401…
* 548,501…
* 548,601…
* 548,701…
* 548,801…
* 548,901…

## 548001–548100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 548032 Ensisheim | 2010 BU$_4$ | Ensisheim is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department of eastern France, about 15 km north of Mulhouse. It is well known for the fall of the Ensisheim meteorite on 1492 November 7, the oldest recorded meteorite fall in Europe. | IAU · 548032 |

## 548101–548200

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

## 548201–548300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 548263 Alexandertutov | 2010 FD$_{10}$ | Alexander Nikolaevich Tutov (1966–2018), a Russian doctor and fantasy writer. | IAU · 548263 |

## 548301–548400

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

## 548401–548500

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

## 548501–548600

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

## 548601–548700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 548624 Ekwerike | 2010 TL$_{78}$ | Alphonsus Ekwerike (1960–2022), a Nigerian astronomer, and the first asteroid-discovering Nigerian. | IAU · 548624 |
| 548690 Hazucha | 2010 UC$_{30}$ | Pavol Hazucha (1939–2022), a secondary school teacher of physics in Hlohovec, Slovakia. | IAU · 548690 |

## 548701–548800

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

## 548801–548900

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

## 548901–549000

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