# Meanings of minor planet names: 555001–556000

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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* 550,000s
* 551,000s
* 552,000s
* 553,000s
* 554,000s
* 555,000s
* 556,000s
* 557,000s
* 558,000s
* 559,000s
* 560,000s
* 555,001…
* 555,101…
* 555,201…
* 555,301…
* 555,401…
* 555,501…
* 555,601…
* 555,701…
* 555,801…
* 555,901…

## 555001–555100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555092 Annasusanne | 2013 QY$_{47}$ | Anna Susanne Jahn (b. 1961) is the wife of the discoverer and a well-known German painter and printmaker in monotypes and watercolors. | IAU · 555092 |

## 555101–555200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555112 Monika | 2013 QS$_{96}$ | Monika Ponikiewska (born 1985) is the fiancée of the astronomer Michal Kusiak, who co-discovered this minor planet. | IAU · 555112 |
| 555120 Ottoguthier | 2013 RW$_{24}$ | Otto Guthier (b. 1953), a German oenologist and amateur astronomer. | IAU · 555120 |
| 555128 Birštonas | 2013 RZ$_{51}$ | Birštonas is a scenic resort and a spa town, population about 4000, in Lithuania. It is located 30 km south of Kaunas, on the right bank of the Nemunas River. Birštonas was granted its city rights in 1529, and was designated as a city in 1966. | IAU · 555128 |
| 555152 Oproiu | 2013 RV$_{94}$ | Tiberiu Oproiu (1939–2020) was a Romanian researcher and professor at the Cluj-Napoca Astronomical Institute and University, respectively. | IAU · 555152 |

## 555201–555300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555227 Claraisabella | 2013 TH$_{90}$ | Clara Isabella Hormuth (2022 April 6) is the name of the stillborn daughter of the discoverer. | IAU · 555227 |
| 555292 Bakels | 2013 UZ$_{32}$ | Corrie Bakels (born 1942) is a Dutch archaeobotanist | IAU · 555292 |

## 555301–555400

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

## 555401–555500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555468 Tokarczuk | 2013 YH$_{47}$ | Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962) is a Polish writer and activist who was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature. Her works presents pancultural insight into the eastern European region seen as a land, where large historical events interline with the life of ordinary people. | IAU · 555468 |

## 555501–555600

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

## 555601–555700

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

## 555701–555800

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

## 555801–555900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555802 Chengyen | 2014 EH$_{32}$ | Cheng Yen (b. 1937), founded the Tzu-Chi Foundation, a Taiwanese humanitarian organization involved in medical aid, disaster relief and environmental work. She has inspired countless people to help others in need. | IAU · 555802 |

## 555901–556000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 555955 Lurçat | 2014 HB$_{70}$ | Jean Lurçat (1892–1966), a French painter, ceramist and designer of tapestry | IAU · 555955 |