MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (57001-58000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
57359 Robcrawford 2001 RC Robert W. Crawford, American energy and environmental consultant, amateur astronomer and physicist
57401-57500
57424 Caelumnoctu (19)57–4–24, 1957 April 24, is the date of the transmission of the first edition of the BBC television series ''The Sky at Night'' (''Caelum noctu'' in Latin)
57501-57600
57567 Crikey "Crikey!", signature phrase of Steve Irwin, 20th-century Australian television naturalist
57601-57700
57658 Nilrem Jean-Claude Merlin ("Merlin" backwards, because of pre-existing 2598 Merlin), French astronomer, founder-president of the Société astronomique de Bourgogne (Burgundy Astronomical Society) †
57879 Cesarechiosi Cesare Chiosi, Italian professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Padua


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