# Meanings of minor planet names: 578001–579000

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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* 573,000s
* 574,000s
* 575,000s
* 576,000s
* 577,000s
* 578,000s
* 579,000s
* 580,000s
* 581,000s
* 582,000s
* 583,000s
* 578,001…
* 578,101…
* 578,201…
* 578,301…
* 578,401…
* 578,501…
* 578,601…
* 578,701…
* 578,801…
* 578,901…

## 578001–578100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 578053 Jordillorca | 2013 WD$_1$ | Jordi Llorca Piqué (born 1966) is a Spanish chemist and professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (BarcelonaTech). He was a meteoricist at UMN's Institute of Meteoritics in New Mexico, and founded a citizen scientist group which recovered hundreds of meteorites (Src, Src) | IAU · 578053 |

## 578101–578200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 578164 Rerrichbéla | 2013 XO | Béla Rerrich (1881–1932), a Hungarian architect and landscape designer, known for new ways of designing public green spaces and for his building complex around Dóm Square in Szeged town. | IAU · 578164 |
| 578168 Miaochangwen | 2013 XS$_4$ | Miao Changwen (b. 1957), an expert in the field of building materials and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. | IAU · 578168 |

## 578201–578300

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

## 578301–578400

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

## 578401–578500

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

## 578501–578600

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

## 578601–578700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 578622 Fergezsuzsa | 2014 EN$_{17}$ | Zsuzsa Ferge (1931–2024), a Hungarian economist, who worked in the fields of social statistics, sociology, and social policy. | IAU · 578622 |

## 578701–578800

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

## 578801–578900

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

## 578901–579000

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