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, 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.

178001–178100

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178008 Picard2006 QQ137Claude Picard, 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, a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.JPL · 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 University.JPL · 178150
178151 Kulangsu2006 TO92Kulangsu (Gulangyu) is an island off the southwestern coast of the city of Xiamen in China.JPL · 178151
178155 Kenzaarraki2006 TN117Kenza Arraki (born 1988), an American astronomer.JPL · 178155
178156 Borbála2006 UL1Borbála Ujhelyi (born 1982), wife of the Hungarian co-discoverer Zoltán KuliJPL · 178156

178201–178300

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178226 Rebeccalouise2006 VP156Rebecca Louise Puckett, 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, son of the discoverer Juan LacruzJPL · 178256
178263 Wienphilo2007 WV55The Vienna PhilharmonicJPL · 178263
178267 Sarajevo2007 YG59Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.JPL · 178267
178294 Wertheimer1990 TA12Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, 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) 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 Piquette2000 QT247Marcus 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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178796 Posztoczky2001 DQ86Károly Posztoczky, Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomerJPL · 178796

178801–178900

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178803 Kristenjohnson2001 FA4Kristen 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 JohnsonJPL · 178803
178830 Anne-Véronique2001 HTAnne-Véronique is the wife of Michel Hernandez, one of the discoverers of this minor planetJPL · 178830

178901–179000

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178987 Jillianredfern2001 QD306Jillian 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

  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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