# 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.
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.

## Index100K200K300K400K500K600K

* 173,000s
* 174,000s
* 175,000s
* 176,000s
* 177,000s
* 178,000s
* 179,000s
* 180,000s
* 181,000s
* 182,000s
* 183,000s
* 178,001…
* 178,101…
* 178,201…
* 178,301…
* 178,401…
* 178,501…
* 178,601…
* 178,701…
* 178,801…
* 178,901…

## 178001–178100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178008 Picard | 2006 QQ$_{137}$ | Claude Picard (1942–2008), a French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France | JPL · 178008 |
| 178014 Meslay | 2006 RG | Christiane Meslay (1957–2019) was a French computer engineer, who introduced the first local Ethernet network at the Dax Observatory (958) in 1996. This allowed for the discovery of comet C/1997 J2 (Meunier–Dupouy) via remote control of the telescope and CCD. | IAU · 178014 |
| 178088 Marktovey | 2006 SY$_{197}$ | Mark Alexander Tovey (b. 1970), an amateur astronomer and Adjunct Research Professor in History at Western University in London, Canada. | IAU · 178088 |

## 178101–178200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178113 Benjamindilday | 2006 SA$_{381}$ | Benjamin Dilday (born 1975), an American Astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 178113 |
| 178150 Taiyuinkwei | 2006 TN$_{92}$ | Tai 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 Kulangsu | 2006 TO$_{92}$ | The Chinese island of Kulangsu (Gulangyu), located off the southwestern coast of the city of Xiamen | JPL · 178151 |
| 178155 Kenzaarraki | 2006 TN$_{117}$ | Kenza Arraki (born 1988), an American astronomer who discovered asteroids as an undergraduate using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey | JPL · 178155 |
| 178156 Borbála | 2006 UL$_1$ | Borbála Ujhelyi (born 1982), wife of the Hungarian astronomer Zoltán Kuli who co-discovered this minor planet | JPL · 178156 |

## 178201–178300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178226 Rebeccalouise | 2006 VP$_{156}$ | Rebecca Louise Puckett (born 1976), née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversary | JPL · 178226 |
| 178243 Schaerding | 2006 YH$_{13}$ | Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer Richard Gierlinger | JPL · 178243 |
| 178256 Juanmi | 2007 VR$_{102}$ | Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor (born 1988), son of Spanish astronomer Juan Lacruz who discovered this minor planet | JPL · 178256 |
| 178263 Wienphilo | 2007 WV$_{55}$ | The Vienna Philharmonic, a world-renowned orchestra based in Vienna, Austria | JPL · 178263 |
| 178267 Sarajevo | 2007 YG$_{59}$ | Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. | JPL · 178267 |
| 178294 Wertheimer | 1990 TA$_{12}$ | Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer (1894–1957), an Austrian diplomat, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations | JPL · 178294 |

## 178301–178400

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

## 178401–178500

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

## 178501–178600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178534 Mosheelitzur | 1999 TO$_{333}$ | Moshe Elitzur (born 1944), an American physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Kentucky, who has significantly contributed to the theories of maser and dust radiation transfer in astrophysical environments. | IAU · 178534 |

## 178601–178700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178603 Pinkine | 2000 CV$_{107}$ | Nickalaus 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 Pluto | JPL · 178603 |
| 178679 Piquette | 2000 QT$_{247}$ | Marcus 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 Pluto | JPL · 178679 |

## 178701–178800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178796 Posztoczky | 2001 DQ$_{86}$ | Károly Posztoczky (1882–1963), Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomer | JPL · 178796 |

## 178801–178900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178803 Kristenjohnson | 2001 FA$_4$ | Kristen 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 Johnson | JPL · 178803 |
| 178830 Anne-Véronique | 2001 HT | Anne-Véronique Hernandez (born 1969) is the wife of astronomer Michel Hernandez, one of this minor planet's discoverers at Observatory of Saint-Veran, France | JPL · 178830 |

## 178901–179000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 178987 Jillianredfern | 2001 QD$_{306}$ | Jillian 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 Pluto | JPL · 178987 |