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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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