Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
178001–178100
178008 Picard 2006 QQ137 Claude Picard, 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France
178201–178300
178226 Rebeccalouise 2006 VP156 Rebecca Louise Puckett, née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversary
178243 Schaerding 2006 YH13 Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer
178256 Juanmi 2007 VR102 Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor, son of the discoverer
178294 Wertheimer 1990 TA12 Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations
178801–178900
178803 Kristenjohnson 2001 FA4 Kristen Johnson, American officer of the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona, and of the National Federation for the Blind, and daughter of astronomer Wayne Johnson
Preceded by
177,001–178,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 178,001–179,000
Succeeded by
179,001–180,000

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