# Meanings of minor planet names: 554001–555000

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.

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* 549,000s
* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 552,000s
* 553,000s
* 554,000s
* 555,000s
* 556,000s
* 557,000s
* 558,000s
* 559,000s
* 554,001…
* 554,101…
* 554,201…
* 554,301…
* 554,401…
* 554,501…
* 554,601…
* 554,701…
* 554,801…
* 554,901…

## 554001–554100

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

## 554101–554200

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

## 554201–554300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 554239 Montseypedro | 2012 SV$_{26}$ | Montserrat Loredo (b. 1959) and Pedro Villanueva (b. 1958) are Spanish artisans. Montse creates leather works and Pedro creates works in amber, mammoth ivory and jet. | IAU · 554239 |
| 554268 Marksylvester | 2012 SD$_{77}$ | Mark Lyle George Sylvester (b. 1952, South Africa) joined United World College of the Adriatic in 1983 and has been instrumental in its development since its early years. Renowned for his adventurous teaching methods. | IAU · 554268 |

## 554301–554400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 554317 Rorywoodhams | 2012 TO$_{71}$ | Rory Alexander Woodhams (b. 2022), the great-grandson of the discoverer. | IAU · 554317 |

## 554401–554500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 554466 Pablomotos | 2012 TN$_{321}$ | Pablo Motos Burgos (born 1965), a Spanish television presenter, radio host, comedian, and businessman. | IAU · 554466 |

## 554501–554600

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

## 554601–554700

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

## 554701–554800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 554704 Széppataki | 2012 XH$_{69}$ | Déryné Róza Széppataki (1793–1872), the first acclaimed female opera singer of Hungary and the best-known actress of early Hungarian theater. | IAU · 554704 |
| 554709 Magdastavinschi | 2012 XW$_{92}$ | Magdalena Iolanda Stavinschi (b. 1942), a Romanian astronomer and mathematician. | IAU · 554709 |

## 554801–554900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 554879 Kissgyula | 2013 EA$_{49}$ | Gyula Kiss (1948–2022), a Hungarian amateur astronomer. | IAU · 554879 |

## 554901–555000

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