# Meanings of minor-planet names: 279001–280000

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

* 274,000s
* 275,000s
* 276,000s
* 277,000s
* 278,000s
* 279,000s
* 280,000s
* 281,000s
* 282,000s
* 283,000s
* 284,000s
* 279,001…
* 279,101…
* 279,201…
* 279,301…
* 279,401…
* 279,501…
* 279,601…
* 279,701…
* 279,801…
* 279,901…

## 279001–279100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279035 Mara | 2008 VX$_4$ | Mara Ruiz (born 2000), the daughter of Spanish co-discoverer Jose Maria Ruiz (currently not credited by the Minor Planet Center). | JPL · 279035 |
| 279037 Utezimmer | 2008 VU$_{13}$ | Ute Zimmer (born 1964) is a German amateur astronomer who started her work in 2007 at the Taunus Observatory in Frankfurt am Main. She has discovered numerous minor planets, including the Apollo-type object 2009 DM$_{45}$. | IAU · 279037 |

## 279101–279200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279119 Khamatova | 2009 OY$_1$ | Chulpan Khamatova (born 1975), a Russian theater and film actress | JPL · 279119 |

## 279201–279300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279226 Demisroussos | 2009 UR$_{103}$ | Demis Roussos (1946–2015), a Greek singer and performer, best remembered for being a member of Aphrodite's Child, a rock band that also included Greek musician Vangelis | JPL · 279226 |
| 279274 Shurpakov | 2009 WL$_8$ | Sergey Shurpakov (born 1966), a Belarusian amateur astronomer, observer of comets and discoverer of minor planets and coordinator of the "International Comet Quarterly" (ICQ) for Belarus | JPL · 279274 |

## 279301–279400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279377 Lechmankiewicz | 2010 CH$_1$ | Lech Mankiewicz (born 1960), a director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. | JPL · 279377 |
| 279397 Dombeck | 2010 DN$_{77}$ | Thomas W. Dombeck (1945–2016) received his Physics PhD from Northwestern University. He displayed his creative genius as professor, research scientist, project director for Pan-STARRS, husband and father. | JPL · 279397 |

## 279401–279500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279410 McCallon | 2010 EF$_{144}$ | Howard McCallon (born 1945), an American engineer. | JPL · 279410 |

## 279501–279600

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

## 279601–279700

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

## 279701–279800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 279723 Wittenberg | 1991 RM$_3$ | Wittenberg, a town situated in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was starting point of the Reformation, where Martin Luther posted his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. | JPL · 279723 |

## 279801–279900

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

## 279901–280000

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