# Meanings of minor planet names: 562001–563000

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

* 557,000s
* 558,000s
* 559,000s
* 560,000s
* 561,000s
* 562,000s
* 563,000s
* 564,000s
* 565,000s
* 566,000s
* 567,000s
* 562,001…
* 562,101…
* 562,201…
* 562,301…
* 562,401…
* 562,501…
* 562,601…
* 562,701…
* 562,801…
* 562,901…

## 562001–562100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 562008 Samtackeff | 2015 XW$_{62}$ | Samantha “Sam" Tackeff (born 1986) is a North American entrepreneur and food connoisseur. | IAU · 562008 |

## 562101–562200

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

## 562201–562300

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

## 562301–562400

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

## 562401–562500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 562446 Pilinszky | 2015 YR$_{23}$ | János Pilinszky (1921–1981), a Hungarian poet, best known for his poems about the horrors of a prisoner of war and the life under a communist dictatorship. | IAU · 562446 |

## 562501–562600

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

## 562601–562700

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

## 562701–562800

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

## 562801–562900

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

## 562901–563000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 562936 Bródyimre | 2016 BG$_2$ | Imre Bródy (1891–1944), a Hungarian physicist, inventor and developer of the modern krypton electric bulb. | IAU · 562936 |
| 562964 Hudin | 2016 BM$_{22}$ | Lucian Hudin (b. 1975) is a Romanian amateur astronomer and computer programmer who owns a small roll-off observatory in Cluj-Napoca. A very active member of the EURONEAR project using the Isaac Newton Telescope, he was involved in data reduction of near Earth asteroids, discovering seven such bodies and other minor planets. | IAU · 562964 |
| 562971 Johannhagen | 2016 BG$_{24}$ | Johann Georg Hagen (1847–1930), an Austrian-American astronomer and Jesuit priest. He helped devise several experiments that proved Copernicus and Galileo's theories. | IAU · 562971 |
| 562979 Barabásmiklós | 2016 BB$_{29}$ | Miklós Barabás (1810–1898) was a painter, graphic artist, photographer, and a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the most outstanding masters of Hungarian Biedermeier painting, and one of the earliest Hungarian photographers. | IAU · 562979 |