Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
178001–178100
178008 Picard 2006 QQ137 Claude Picard, 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France
178101–178200
178113 Benjamindilday 2006 SA381 Benjamin Dilday (b. 1975), an American Astronomer, a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
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.
178155 Kenzaarraki 2006 TN117 Kenza Arraki (b. 1988), an American astronomer.
178156 Borbála 2006 UL1 Borbála Ujhelyi is the wife of the co-discoverer, Zoltán Kuli
178201–178300
178226 Rebeccalouise 2006 VP156 Rebecca Louise Puckett, née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversary
178243 Schaerding 2006 YH13 Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer
178256 Juanmi 2007 VR102 Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor, son of the discoverer
178263 Wienphilo 2007 WV55 The Vienna Philharmonic
178267 Sarajevo 2007 YG59 Sarajevo, the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
178294 Wertheimer 1990 TA12 Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations
178701–178800
178796 Posztoczky 2001 DQ86 Károly Posztoczky, Hungarian landowner and amateur astronomer
178801–178900
178803 Kristenjohnson 2001 FA4 Kristen Johnson, 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
178830 Anne-Véronique 2001 HT Anne-Véronique is the wife of Michel Hernandez, one of the discoverers of this minor planet
Preceded by
177,001–178,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 178,001–179,000
Succeeded by
179,001–180,000
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