# Meanings of minor planet names: 579001–580000

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

* 574,000s
* 575,000s
* 576,000s
* 577,000s
* 578,000s
* 579,000s
* 580,000s
* 581,000s
* 582,000s
* 583,000s
* 584,000s
* 579,001…
* 579,101…
* 579,201…
* 579,301…
* 579,401…
* 579,501…
* 579,601…
* 579,701…
* 579,801…
* 579,901…

## 579001–579100

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

## 579101–579200

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

## 579201–579300

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

## 579301–579400

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

## 579401–579500

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

## 579501–579600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 579513 Saselemér | 2014 SE$_{357}$ | Elemér Sas [hu] (1930–1998) was a Hungarian physicist, teacher and science communicator, who hosted several popular TV programms. | IAU · 579513 |

## 579601–579700

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

## 579701–579800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 579785 Kepesgyula | 2014 WT$_{382}$ | Gyula Kepes (1847–1924), a Hungarian doctor. | IAU · 579785 |
| 579787 Formentera | 2014 WN$_{384}$ | The island of Formentera is the fourth largest in the Balearic archipelago and, with the island of Eivissa (Ibiza) and several islets, part of the Pityusic Islands. | IAU · 579787 |

## 579801–579900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 579890 Mocnik | 2014 XT$_{14}$ | Teo Močnik (born 1989), a Slovenian astronomer and discoverer of minor planets with EURONEAR. He currently studies exoplanets at Gemini North Observatory, Hawaii. | IAU · 579890 |

## 579901–580000

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