# Meanings of minor-planet names: 169001–170000

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

* 164,000s
* 165,000s
* 166,000s
* 167,000s
* 168,000s
* 169,000s
* 170,000s
* 171,000s
* 172,000s
* 173,000s
* 174,000s
* 169,001…
* 169,101…
* 169,201…
* 169,301…
* 169,401…
* 169,501…
* 169,601…
* 169,701…
* 169,801…
* 169,901…

## 169001–169100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 169078 Chuckshaw | 2001 HD$_{14}$ | Charles Shaw (born 1946), the mission director for the Hubble Space Telescope rescue mission STS-125. | JPL · 169078 |

## 169101–169200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 169184 Jameslee | 2001 QQ$_{306}$ | James E. Lee (born 1958), NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center, served as the NASA Program Manager for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. | JPL · 169184 |

## 169201–169300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 169299 Sirko | 2001 SK$_{353}$ | Edwin Sirko (born 1978) is a former American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known for his work on cosmological simulations. He was lead programmer on NASA's official computer game, Moonbase Alpha. | JPL · 169299 |

## 169301–169400

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

## 169401–169500

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

## 169501–169600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 169568 Baranauskas | 2002 FN$_6$ | Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902), a Roman Catholic bishop, mathematician and poet who wrote one of the greatest works in Lithuanian literature, Anyksciu silelis (The Forest of Anyksciai). | JPL · 169568 |

## 169601–169700

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

## 169701–169800

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

## 169801–169900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 169834 Hujie | 2002 QX$_{95}$ | Hu Jie (born 1981), wife of Chinese astronomer Tao Chen, who discovered this minor planet | JPL · 169834 |

## 169901–170000

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