Meanings of minor planet names: 177001–178000

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. The official naming citations have been published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars and in Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names.[1][2][3] Meanings marked with † or * are from legacy sources may contain errors.

177001–177100

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

177101–177200

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177120 Ocampo Uría2003 GZ51Adriana Ocampo (born 1955) served as the NASA Headquarters Program Program Executive for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.JPL · 177120
177148 Pätzold2003 QJ85Martin Pätzold (born 1960), Max Planck Institute, served as a Science Team Collaborator for radio science for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.JPL · 177148

177201–177300

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

177301–177400

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

177401–177500

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177415 Queloz2004 CK3Didier Queloz, Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva UniversityJPL · 177415

177501–177600

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There are no named minor planets in this number range

177601–177700

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177659 Paolacel2005 CE77Paola Celletti graduated in architecture from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She has been an amateur astronomer and involved in public outreachJPL · 177659

177701–177800

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177722 Pelletier2005 GJ205Frederic J. Pelletier (born 1974) is a senior engineer at KinetX, and served as Navigation Lead for the New Horizons Mission to Pluto.JPL · 177722

177801–177900

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177853 Lumezzane2005 PQ3Lumezzane, a small town in northern Italy, near BresciaJPL · 177853

177901–178000

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177967 Chouchihkang2006 PY32Chih-Kang Chou (born 1935), a Chinese-born astronomer, who taught and conducted research in astronomy at the National Central University in Taiwan for 30 years.JPL · 177967
177982 Popilnia2006 QE34Popilnia district (Попільня), Popilniansky Raion (Попільнянський район), Zhytomyr Oblast (Житомирська область), Ukraine, motherland of Maxym Tadeyovych Rylskyj, 20th-century Ukrainian poetJPL · 177982

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
176,001–177,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 177,001–178,000		 Succeeded by
178,001–179,000
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