Asteroid 5461, Autumn, was discovered April 18, 1983 by Norman G. Thomas at the Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona. It has a period of 5 years, 217 days and is 21.6 kilometers (about 13 and 1/2 miles) in diameter.
It was named for Autumn Dongxia Thomas (born 2002 in China), Norman Thomas' granddaughter.
Autumn Thomas (in 2008, at age 6)
The meaning of asteroid Autumn seems to be: autumn, autumnal .