Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

178001–178100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
178008 Picard 2006 QQ137 Claude Picard, 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France JPL

178101–178200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
178113 Benjamindilday 2006 SA381 Benjamin Dilday (b. 1975), an American Astronomer, a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. JPL
178150 Taiyuinkwei 2006 TN92 Tai Yuin-Kwei (1897-1982), a Taiwanese physicist and educator who set up the National Taiwan University Department of Physics and the Graduate Inst of Geophysics, National Central University. JPL
178151 Kulangsu 2006 TO92 Kulangsu (Gulangyu) is an island off the southwestern coast of the city of Xiamen in China. JPL
178155 Kenzaarraki 2006 TN117 Kenza Arraki (b. 1988), an American astronomer. JPL
178156 Borbála 2006 UL1 Borbála Ujhelyi is the wife of the co-discoverer, Zoltán Kuli JPL

178201–178300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
178226 Rebeccalouise 2006 VP156 Rebecca Louise Puckett, née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversary JPL
178243 Schaerding 2006 YH13 Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer JPL
178256 Juanmi 2007 VR102 Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor, son of the discoverer JPL
178263 Wienphilo 2007 WV55 The Vienna Philharmonic JPL
178267 Sarajevo 2007 YG59 Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. JPL
178294 Wertheimer 1990 TA12 Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations JPL

178301–178400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178401–178500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178501–178600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178601–178700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178701–178800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
178796 Posztoczky 2001 DQ86 Károly Posztoczky, Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomer JPL

178801–178900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
178803 Kristenjohnson 2001 FA4 Kristen Johnson, American officer of the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona, and of the National Federation of the Blind, and daughter of astronomer Wayne Johnson JPL
178830 Anne-Véronique 2001 HT Anne-Véronique is the wife of Michel Hernandez, one of the discoverers of this minor planet JPL

178901–179000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
177,001–178,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 178,001–179,000
Succeeded by
179,001–180,000
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