Meanings of minor planet names: 278001–279000

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]

278001–278100

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

278101–278200

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278141 Tatooine2007 CS61Tatooine is a desert planet in the fictional Star Wars universe. It is the home planet of Anakin and Luke Skywalker.JPL · 278141
278197 Touvron2007 EL12Guy Touvron (born 1950), a French Classical trumpet player and music teacherJPL · 278197
278200 Olegpopov2007 EV26Oleg Popov (1930–2016), a famous Russian circus artistJPL · 278200

278201–278300

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278225 Didierpelat2007 EY87Didier Pelat (born 1948) is an astronomer at Paris Observatory, who has worked on spectroscopy and modelling of active galactic nuclei, hydrodynamics of accretion disks and stellar populations synthesis. He has also designed an iterative Bracewell interferometer extending the nulling effect to a large bandwidth.JPL · 278225

278301–278400

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278384 Mudanjiang2007 MV20The Chinese city of Mudanjiang, located in the country's northernmost province of HeilongjiangJPL · 278384
278386 Sofivanna2007 NK2Twins Sofia and Ivanna (born 2007) are the grandchildren of Boris Romanyuk, Professor at the V. Ye. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.JPL · 278386

278401–278500

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278447 Saviano2007 THRoberto Saviano (born 1979), an Italian journalist, writer and essayistJPL · 278447

278501–278600

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278513 Schwope2008 CE120Axel Schwope (born 1959), a German astronomer at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in PotsdamJPL · 278513
278591 Salò2008 NZ3The historic town of Salò on the western bank of Lake Garda in northern ItalyJPL · 278591

278601–278700

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278609 Avrudenko2008 PP17Anatoliy Viktorovych Rudenko (born 1955), a Ukrainian scientist and surgeonJPL · 278609
278645 Kontsevych2008 RQ22Yevgen Vasylyovych Kontsevych (1935–2010) was a Ukrainian novelist and short story writer. In his works he often compared people's relationships with the behavior of birds and wild animals, preferring communication with the latter, rather than with the deceptive and treacherous-by-nature humans.JPL · 278645

278701–278800

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278735 Kamioka2008 SG83The Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research is a neutrino physics laboratory located underground of the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.JPL · 278735

278801–278900

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

278901–279000

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278956 Shei-Pa2008 UZ83Shei-Pa National Park is located in the central part of Taiwan around the peaks of Hsuehshan and Dabajian Mountain, with an area of 76,850 hectares. There are 51 peaks over 3,000 meters high.JPL · 278956
278986 Chenshuchu2008 UQ205Chen Shu-chu, a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung in Eastern TaiwanJPL · 278986

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.
Preceded by
277,001–278,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 278,001–279,000		 Succeeded by
279,001–280,000
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