# Meanings of minor-planet names: 277001–278000

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

* 272,000s
* 273,000s
* 274,000s
* 275,000s
* 276,000s
* 277,000s
* 278,000s
* 279,000s
* 280,000s
* 281,000s
* 282,000s
* 277,001…
* 277,101…
* 277,201…
* 277,301…
* 277,401…
* 277,501…
* 277,601…
* 277,701…
* 277,801…
* 277,901…

## 277001–277100

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

## 277101–277200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 277106 Forgó | 2005 GY | László Forgó (1907–1985), a Hungarian mechanical engineer and co-inventor of the Heller–Forgó system | JPL · 277106 |
| 277118 Zaandam | 2005 GS$_{59}$ | The cruise ship MS Zaandam encountered the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 off the west coast of Mexico. | JPL · 277118 |

## 277201–277300

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

## 277301–277400

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

## 277401–277500

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

## 277501–277600

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

## 277601–277700

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

## 277701–277800

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

## 277801–277900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 277816 Varese | 2006 GL | The city of Varese in northern Italy. The "city of gardens" is located between several lakes including Lake Maggiore and in proximity to the Alps. | JPL · 277816 |
| 277883 Basu | 2006 JA$_{69}$ | Shantanu Basu (born 1964), an American astrophysicist whose numerical studies on the formation of stars explained the effect of magnetic fields on cloud core and disk formation. He is also one of the originators of the Migrating Embryo model, which describes the evolution of circumstellar discs (Src). | JPL · 277883 |

## 277901–278000

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