Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See main page for an introduction.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars several times a year. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). 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. Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Meanings marked with * are from legacy sources may not be accurate.  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document "SBDB".

178001–178100

Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
178008 Picard	2006 QQ137	Claude Picard, 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France	JPL · 178008

178101–178200

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
178113 Benjamindilday	2006 SA381	Benjamin Dilday (born 1975), an American Astronomer, a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.	JPL · 178113
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 · 178150
178151 Kulangsu	2006 TO92	Kulangsu (Gulangyu) is an island off the southwestern coast of the city of Xiamen in China.	JPL · 178151
178155 Kenzaarraki	2006 TN117	Kenza Arraki (born 1988), an American astronomer.	JPL · 178155
178156 Borbála	2006 UL1	Borbála Ujhelyi (born 1982), wife of the Hungarian co-discoverer Zoltán Kuli	JPL · 178156

178201–178300

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
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 · 178226
178243 Schaerding	2006 YH13	Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer Richard Gierlinger	JPL · 178243
178256 Juanmi	2007 VR102	Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor, son of the discoverer Juan Lacruz	JPL · 178256
178263 Wienphilo	2007 WV55	The Vienna Philharmonic	JPL · 178263
178267 Sarajevo	2007 YG59	Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.	JPL · 178267
178294 Wertheimer	1990 TA12	Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations	JPL · 178294

178301–178400

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178401–178500

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178501–178600

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
There are no named minor planets in this number range

178601–178700

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
178603 Pinkine	2000 CV107	Nickalaus Pinkine (born 1967) is a manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who served as a Deputy Mission Operations Manager for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.	JPL · 178603
178679 Piquette	2000 QT247	Marcus R. Piquette (born 1990), a graduate student researcher at the University of Colorado, served as a Student Dust Counter instrument scientist for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.	JPL · 178679

178701–178800

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
178796 Posztoczky	2001 DQ86	Károly Posztoczky, Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomer	JPL · 178796

178801–178900

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
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 · 178803
178830 Anne-Véronique	2001 HT	Anne-Véronique is the wife of Michel Hernandez, one of the discoverers of this minor planet	JPL · 178830

178901–179000

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Named minor planet	Provisional	This minor planet was named for...	Ref · Catalog
178987 Jillianredfern	2001 QD306	Jillian A. Redfern (born 1979) is a Manager for Research and Development at the Southwest Research Institute, and served as an Alice UV Spectrometer Instrument Sequencer for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.	JPL · 178987

References

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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