Meanings of minor planet names: 279001–280000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
	279001–279100
	279101–279200
279119 Khamatova	2009 OY1	Chulpan Nailevna Khamatova (born 1975), a famous Russian theater and film actress. †
	279201–279300
279226 Demisroussos	2009 UR103	Artemios (Demis) Ventouris Roussos (b. 1946), a Greek singer and performer. †
279274 Shurpakov	2009 WL8	Sergey Eduardovich Shurpakov (born 1966), an amateur astronomer and ICQ Coordinator for Belarus who has observed comets since 1986. †
	279301–279400
279377 Lechmankiewicz	2010 CH1	Lech Mankiewicz (born 1960), a director of the Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw. †
	279401–279500
279410 McCallon	2010 EF144	Howard McCallon (b. 1945), an American engineer. †
	279501–279600
	279601–279700
	279701–279800
	279801–279900
	279901–280000