Meanings of minor planet names: 273001–274000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/15139271/710074702/name/Dictionary-of-Minor-Planet-Names.pdf

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
	273001–273100
	273101–273200
	273201–273300
273230 de Bruyn	2006 JU72	John Roy de Bruyn (b. 1958) is a Canadian physicist working on experimental condensed-matter physics, with emphasis on soft materials, the physics of biological systems, and the dynamics of systems driven out of equilibrium. †
273262 Cottam	2006 KJ142	Michael Gordon Cottam (b. 1945), an English-Canadian physicist. †
273273 Piwowarski	2006 OR9	Marcin Piwowarski (1984–2007), a computer consultant, specializing in flight simulators. †
	273301–273400
	273401–273500
	273501–273600
	273601–273700
	273701–273800
	273801–273900
273836 Hoijyusek	2007 GZ27	Hoi Jyu Sek (Haizhushi), "the Rock of the Pearl in Sea", was a large rock in the Pearl River that had been treated as an icon of Guangzhou (Canton) for many centuries. †
	273901–274000
273987 Greggwade	2007 LQ30	GreggWade (b. 1971), a Canadian astrophysicist. †