Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

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.

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. Also see list of named minor planets (alphabetical) for a condensed version without naming citations.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars several times a year.[1] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[2] 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.[3][4] Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[5] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II.  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Government document: "SBDB". New namings may only be added after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned by the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature.[6]

178001–178100

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178008 Picard2006 QQ137Claude Picard (1942–2008), 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de FranceJPL · 178008

178101–178200

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178113 Benjamindilday2006 SA381Benjamin Dilday (born 1975), an American Astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyJPL · 178113
178150 Taiyuinkwei2006 TN92Tai 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 UniversityJPL · 178150
178151 Kulangsu2006 TO92The Chinese island of Kulangsu (Gulangyu), located off the southwestern coast of the city of XiamenJPL · 178151
178155 Kenzaarraki2006 TN117Kenza Arraki (born 1988), an American astronomer who discovered asteroids as an undergraduate using data from the Sloan Digital Sky SurveyJPL · 178155
178156 Borbála2006 UL1Borbála Ujhelyi (born 1982), wife of the Hungarian astronomer Zoltán Kuli who co-discovered this minor planetJPL · 178156

178201–178300

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178226 Rebeccalouise2006 VP156Rebecca Louise Puckett (born 1976), née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversaryJPL · 178226
178243 Schaerding2006 YH13Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer Richard GierlingerJPL · 178243
178256 Juanmi2007 VR102Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor (born 1988), son of Spanish astronomer Juan Lacruz who discovered this minor planetJPL · 178256
178263 Wienphilo2007 WV55The Vienna Philharmonic, a world-renowned orchestra based in Vienna, AustriaJPL · 178263
178267 Sarajevo2007 YG59Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.JPL · 178267
178294 Wertheimer1990 TA12Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894–1957), an Austrian diplomat, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United NationsJPL · 178294

178301–178400

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

178401–178500

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

178501–178600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

178601–178700

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178603 Pinkine2000 CV107Nickalaus Pinkine (born 1967), a manager at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, who worked as a Deputy Mission Operations Manager on the New Horizons mission to PlutoJPL · 178603
178679 Piquette2000 QT247Marcus R. Piquette (born 1990), a graduate student researcher at the University of Colorado, who worked on the Student Dust Counter instrument for the New Horizons mission to PlutoJPL · 178679

178701–178800

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178796 Posztoczky2001 DQ86Károly Posztoczky (1882–1963), Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomerJPL · 178796

178801–178900

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178803 Kristenjohnson2001 FA4Kristen Johnson (born 1985), American officer of the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona, and of the National Federation of the Blind, and daughter of astronomer Wayne JohnsonJPL · 178803
178830 Anne-Véronique2001 HTAnne-Véronique Hernandez (born 1969) is the wife of astronomer Michel Hernandez, one of this minor planet's discoverers at Observatory of Saint-Veran, FranceJPL · 178830

178901–179000

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178987 Jillianredfern2001 QD306Jillian A. Redfern (born 1979), a Manager for Research and Development at the Southwest Research Institute, who worked with the Alice UV Spectrometer Instrument on the New Horizons mission to PlutoJPL · 178987

References
  1. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  3. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  4. 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.
  5. Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
  6. "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
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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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