Meanings of minor planet names: 179001–180000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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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179501–179600 | |||
179593 Penglangxiaoxue | 2002 LK61 | Penglang School, founded in 1906 in Kunshan City (Jiangsu Province) † | |
179595 Belkovich | 2002 MK4 | Oleg Belkovich (born 1934) is recognized worldwide for his work on the radar observations of meteors † | |
179601–179700 | |||
179678 Rietmeijer | 2002 QS66 | Frans J. M. Rietmeijer, Dutch-American planetary geologist and research professor at the University of New Mexico † | |
179701–179800 | |||
179764 Myriamsarah | 2002 SC | Myriam Ory and Sarah Ory are daughters of the discoverer. † | |
179801–179900 | |||
179875 Budavari | 2002 TX328 | Tamas Budavari (b. 1973), a Hungarian physicist and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. † | |
Preceded by 178,001–179,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 179,001–180,000 |
Succeeded by 180,001–181,000 |
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