# Meanings of minor-planet names: 171001–172000

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 approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. 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. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

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* 166,000s
* 167,000s
* 168,000s
* 169,000s
* 170,000s
* 171,000s
* 172,000s
* 173,000s
* 174,000s
* 175,000s
* 176,000s
* 171,001…
* 171,101…
* 171,201…
* 171,301…
* 171,401…
* 171,501…
* 171,601…
* 171,701…
* 171,801…
* 171,901…

## 171001–171100

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

## 171101–171200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171112 Sickafoose | 2005 ER$_{301}$ | J. Lorin (born 1944) and Tanalynne Sickafoose (1945–2006), parents of the discoverer Amanda Sickafoose Gulbis | JPL · 171112 |
| 171118 Szigetköz | 2005 GJ$_1$ | Szigetköz, a beautiful island plain in western Hungary, part of the Little Hungarian Plain | JPL · 171118 |
| 171153 Allanrahill | 2005 GL$_{81}$ | Allan Rahill (born 1958), meteorologist at the Canadian Meteorological Centre | JPL · 171153 |
| 171171 Prior | 2005 GZ$_{164}$ | Richard M. Prior (born 1942), a professor of physics who earned a PhD. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Florida | JPL · 171171 |
| 171183 Haleakala | 2005 HJ$_4$ | Haleakala (Hawaiian for the house of the sun), high dormant volcano on the island of Maui | JPL · 171183 |

## 171201–171300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171256 Lucieconstant | 2005 PU$_5$ | Lucie Constant (born 1983), goddaughter of French discoverer Bernard Christophe | JPL · 171256 |

## 171301–171400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171381 Taipei | 2006 OG$_{17}$ | Taipei, known officially as Taipei City, is the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan. | JPL · 171381 |
| 171396 Miguel | 2006 QH$_{33}$ | Miguel Lacruz Martín (born 1963), Spanish mathematician at Kent State University | JPL · 171396 |

## 171401–171500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171424 Rudyfernández | 2007 NL$_2$ | Rodolfo ‘Rudy’ Fernandez Farrs (b. 1985), a Spanish basketball player for Real Madrid. | IAU · 171424 |
| 171429 Hunstead | 2007 RD$_5$ | Richard W. Hunstead (1943–2020), Australian astronomer | JPL · 171429 |
| 171433 Prothous | 2007 RK$_{35}$ | Prothous, from Greek mythology. He is the leader of Magnesia, son of Tenthredon, was one of the suitors of Helen of Troy | JPL · 171433 |
| 171448 Guchaohao | 2007 RD$_{147}$ | Gu Chaohao (1926–2012), a Chinese mathematician who has made contributions to both pure and applied mathematics, and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences | JPL · 171448 |
| 171458 Pepaprats | 2007 TF$_{14}$ | Pepa Prats Cruz (1964–2008), deceased wife of the astrophysicist José Luis Ortiz Moreno, uncredited co-discoverer of this minor planet at La Sagra Observatory | JPL · 171458 |
| 171465 Evamaria | 6847 P-L | Eva Maria Schubart (1919–2008), teacher of languages in the southern U.S. | JPL · 171465 |

## 171501–171600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171588 Náprstek | 1999 WG$_1$ | Vojta Náprstek (1826–1894), Czech philanthropist and advocate of progressive ideas | JPL · 171588 |

## 171601–171700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 171624 Nicolemartin | 2000 CT$_{106}$ | Nicole P. Martin (born 1973) served as a Pluto flyby sequencer for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. | JPL · 171624 |

## 171701–171800

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

## 171801–171900

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

## 171901–172000

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