MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (50001-51000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
50001-50100
50033 Perelman Grigorij (Grisha) Yakovlevich Perelman, Russian mathematician
50240 Cortina Cortina d'Ampezzo, holiday resort in the Dolomites, Italy, host to the 1956 Winter Olympics, near which the Osservatorio Astronomico del Col Drusciè (Col Drusciè Astronomical Observatory) is located
50412 Ewen Harry Ewen, Canadian amateur astronomer
50413 Petrginz Petr Ginz, Czech-Jewish boy who edited ''Vedem'', a secret magazine, in the Terezín ghetto during World War II


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