Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor-planet names. Also see list of named minor planets (alphabetical) for a condensed version without naming citations.

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).[1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades.[2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB).[3] 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.[4][5]

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets,[6] Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Public Domain 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.[7] The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.[8]

178001–178100

Named minor planet Provisional This minor planet was named for... Ref · Catalog
178008 Picard 2006 QQ137 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 SY197 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 SA381 Benjamin Dilday (born 1975), an American Astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey JPL · 178113
178150 Taiyuinkwei 2006 TN92 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 TO92 The Chinese island of Kulangsu (Gulangyu), located off the southwestern coast of the city of Xiamen JPL · 178151
178155 Kenzaarraki 2006 TN117 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 UL1 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 VP156 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 YH13 Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer Richard Gierlinger JPL · 178243
178256 Juanmi 2007 VR102 Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor (born 1988), son of Spanish astronomer Juan Lacruz who discovered this minor planet JPL · 178256
178263 Wienphilo 2007 WV55 The Vienna Philharmonic, a world-renowned orchestra based in Vienna, Austria JPL · 178263
178267 Sarajevo 2007 YG59 Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. JPL · 178267
178294 Wertheimer 1990 TA12 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 TO333 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 CV107 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 QT247 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 DQ86 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 FA4 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 QD306 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

References

  1. ^ "WGSBN Bulletin Archive". Working Group Small Body Nomenclature. 14 May 2021. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  2. ^ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ^ "JPL – Solar System Dynamics: Discovery Circumstances". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  4. ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Herget, Paul (1968). The Names of the Minor Planets. Cincinnati, Ohio: Minor Planet Center, Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991.
  7. ^ "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Minor Planet Naming Guidelines (Rules and Guidelines for naming non-cometary small Solar-System bodies) – v1.0" (PDF). Working Group Small Body Nomenclature (PDF). 20 December 2021.


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