The following is a partial list of minor planets, running from minor-planet number 551001 through 552000, inclusive.
[4] A detailed description of the table's columns and additional sources are given on the main page including a complete list of every page in this series, and a statistical break-up on the dynamical classification of minor planets.
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).
[7] 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.
[11] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.