Meanings of minor planet names: 278001–279000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	278001–278100
	278101–278200
278197 Touvron	2007 EL12	Guy Touvron (b. 1950), a French Classical trumpet player and music teacher. †
278200 Olegpopov	2007 EV26	Oleg Konstantinovich Popov (born 1930) is a famous Russian circus artist. †
	278201–278300
	278301–278400
278384 Mudanjiang	2007 MV20	Mudanjiang, a city in the northernmost Heilongjiang Province in China. †
	278401–278500
278447 Saviano	2007 TH	Roberto Saviano (born 1979), a writer and journalist. †
	278501–278600
278513 Schwope	2008 CE120	Axel Schwope (born 1959), a German astronomer at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. †
278591 Salò	2008 NZ3	The city of Salò is a historic town in northern Italy on the western bank of Lake Garda. †
	278601–278700
278609 Avrudenko	2008 PP17	Anatoliy Viktorovych Rudenko (b. 1955), an Ukrainian scientist and surgeon. †
	278701–278800
	278801–278900
	278901–279000
278986 Chenshuchu	2008 UQ205	Chen Shu-chu is a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung in Eastern Taiwan. †