Meanings of minor planet names: 177001–178000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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.

Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

177001–177100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177101–177200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177201–177300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177301–177400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177401–177500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
177415 Queloz 2004 CK3 Didier Queloz, Swiss astrophysicist at Geneva University JPL

177501–177600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177601–177700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
177659 Paolacel 2005 CE77 Paola Celletti graduated in architecture from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". She has been an amateur astronomer and involved in public outreach JPL

177701–177800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

177801–177900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
177853 Lumezzane 2005 PQ3 Lumezzane, a small town in northern Italy, near Brescia JPL

177901–178000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
177967 Chouchihkang 2006 PY32 Chih-Kang Chou (b. 1935), a Chinese-born astronomer, who taught and conducted research in astronomy at the National Central University in Taiwan for 30 years. JPL
177982 Popilnia 2006 QE34 Popilnia district (Попільня), Popilniansky Raion (Попільнянський район), Zhytomyr Oblast (Житомирська область), Ukraine, motherland of Maxym Tadeyovych Rylskyj, 20th-century Ukrainian poet JPL

References

  1. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
176,001–177,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 177,001–178,000
Succeeded by
178,001–179,000
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