Asteroid 22589, Minor, was discovered on April 21, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team (LINEAR) at Socorro, New Mexico. It has a period of 3 years, 132 days.
It was named for Dayton, Ohio parochial high school teacher Tom Minor, who mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search science fair.
The meaning of asteroid Minor seems to be: minor (Henk Middleraad), minors, miners.