MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (58001-59000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
58001-58100
58084 Hiketaon 1197 T-3 Hiketaon, one of the elders of Troy, counselors to Priam; the son of Laomedon, he suggested Helen be returned to Menelaus to avoid the Trojan war
58095 Oranienstein 1973 SN Oranienstein, a baroque castle on the Lahn river near Diez, Germany
58096 Oineus Oeneus, king of Calydonia, son of Porthaon, who sent Meleager out to find heroes to kill the Calydonian Boar; his grandson Diomedes avoided fighting Glaukos because of the friendship between Oeneus and Glaukos' grandfather Bellerophon
58097 Alimov Alexandr Fyodorovich Alimov, Russian founder of the school of functional ecology and president of the Hydrobiological Society
58098 Quirrenbach 1977 TC Andreas Quirrenbach, German astronomer, director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Königstuhl Observatory) since 2006
58101-58200
58152 Natsöderblom Nathan Söderblom (Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom), Swedish archbishop, theologian and Peace Nobelist
58163 Minnesang Minnesang, German sung poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries
58191 Dolomiten The Dolomites mountains (''Dolomiten'' is the Swiss-German name)
58201-58300
58215 von Klitzing Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and Nobelist
58301-58400
58364 Feierberg Michael Feierberg, American astronomer, who was involved in the early work connecting C-class minor planets to carbonaceous chondrites
58365 Robmedrano 1995 OQ Technical Sergeant Rob Medrano, of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) observatory
58401-58500
58424 Jamesdunlop James Dunlop, Scottish-Australian astronomer
58466 Santoka Santoka Taneda, the Japanese "Wandering Haiku Poet"
58499 Stüber 1996 VY Eberhard Stüber, Austrian director of the natural science museum "Haus der Natur" in Salzburg
58501-58600
58534 Logos Logos and Zoe ((58534) Logos I Zoe), a paired emanation of the deity in the Gnostic tradition, and part of its creation myth
58535 Pattillo 1997 DP Leonard Pattillo, American founding member and former officer of the Fort Bend Astronomy Club
58573 Serpieri Arrigo Serpieri, Italian agricultural economist
58578 Žídek Ivo Žídek, Czech opera singer †
58579 Ehrenberg Eleonora Gayerová z Ehrenberku (Eleonora Gayerová of Ehrenberg), Czech soprano opera singer, who lived in Vila Leonora at Ondřejov and was instrumental in the establishment of the Ondřejov Observatory † ‡
58601-58700
58607 Wenzel 1997 UL Wolfgang Wenzel, German astronomer †
58608 Geroldrichter 1997 UY Gerold A. Richter, German astronomer †
58672 Remigio Scarfi Remigio, Italian geologist, mathematics teacher, and amateur astronomer
58682 Alenašolcová Alena Šolcová, Czech mathematician and historian of mathematics and astronomy
58701-58800
58707 Kyoshi 1998 CS Kyoshi Takahama, Japanese Haiku poet and novelist
59000 Beiguan 'Bei'jing Tianwen'guan' (Beijing Planetarium), on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary year (2007)


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