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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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