# Meanings of minor planet names: 545001–546000

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

* 540,000s
* 541,000s
* 542,000s
* 543,000s
* 544,000s
* 545,000s
* 546,000s
* 547,000s
* 548,000s
* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 545,001…
* 545,101…
* 545,201…
* 545,301…
* 545,401…
* 545,501…
* 545,601…
* 545,701…
* 545,801…
* 545,901…

## 545001–545100

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

## 545101–545200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545167 Bonfini | 2011 BF$_{42}$ | Antonio Bonfini (1427–1502) was an Italian humanist and the court historian for Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary. | IAU · 545167 |

## 545201–545300

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

## 545301–545400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545394 Rossetter | 2011 HH$_{45}$ | David Rossetter (born 1956) is an American amateur astronomer . | IAU · 545394 |

## 545401–545500

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

## 545501–545600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545564 Sabonis | 2011 QA$_{50}$ | Arvydas Sabonis (born 1964) is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and businessman. Sabonis won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and bronze medals at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. | IAU · 545564 |
| 545565 Borysten | 2011 QZ$_{50}$ | Mykola Khomychevsky (1897–1983), known by his pen-name Borys Ten, was a Ukrainian writer, poet, composer, translator, and a priest by education, whose best-known work includes the translation of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad into the Ukrainian language. | IAU · 545565 |
| 545571 Carlobaccigalupi | 2011 QP$_{67}$ | Carlo Baccigalupi (b. 1968), an Italian astronomer. | IAU · 545571 |

## 545601–545700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545619 Lapuska | 2011 SR$_{47}$ | Kazimirs Lapuska (1936–2013) was a Latvian astronomer and a pioneering observer of artificial satellites in Latvia. | IAU · 545619 |
| 545651 Lilyjames | 2011 SH$_{119}$ | Lily Catherine James (b. 2002), the granddaughter of the discoverer. | IAU · 545651 |

## 545701–545800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545784 Kelemenjános | 2011 UA$_{57}$ | János Kelemen (born 1951), a Hungarian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, comets and flare stars as well as an observer of Gamma-ray burst afterglows. He has made several of his discoveries at the Piszkéstető Station. | IAU · 545784 |

## 545801–545900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 545839 Hernánletelier | 2011 UC$_{172}$ | Hernán Rivera Letelier (born 1950), a Chilean writer and novelist whose books have been translated into several languages. | IAU · 545839 |

## 545901–546000

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