Meanings of minor planet names: 174001–175000

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 span of numbers 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. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
174301–174400
174361 Rickwhite 2002 TV315 Richard L. White, American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174362 Bethwillman 2002 TE324 Beth Willman, American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174363 Donyork 2002 TW343 Don York, American astronomer, one of the founders of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174364 Zakamska 2002 TH369 Nadia Zakamska, Russian-American astrophysicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174365 Zibetti 2002 TF371 Stefano Zibetti, Italian astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174401–174500
174466 Zucker 2002 YO36 Daniel Zucker, American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
174501–174600
174515 Pamelaivezic 2003 BN92 Pamela Ivezic (b. 1961), an American singer, musicologist, music educator, a patron of astronomy.
174567 Varda 2003 MW12 In J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythology, Varda is the queen of the stars, the star-kindler. She is the deity who, prior to the birth of the first humans, created the stars and constellations.
174801–174900
174801 Etscorn 2003 WZ165 Frank T. Etscorn, American professor of psychology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, inventor of the nicotine patch and amateur astronomer, founder of the university's Frank T. Etscorn Campus Observatory
Preceded by
173,001–174,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 174,001–175,000
Succeeded by
175,001–176,000
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