Meanings of minor planet names: 58001–59000
Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for Ref · Catalog
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 JPL · 58084
58095 Oranienstein 1973 SN Oranienstein , a baroque castle on the Lahn river near Diez , Germany JPL · 58095
58096 Oineus 1973 SC 2 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 JPL · 58096
58097 Alimov 1976 UQ 1 Alexandr Fyodorovich Alimov , Russian founder of the school of functional ecology and president of the Hydrobiological Society JPL · 58097
58098 Quirrenbach 1977 TC Andreas Quirrenbach , German astronomer , director of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl ( Königstuhl Observatory ) since 2006 JPL · 58098
58001–58100