Meanings of minor planet names: 171001–172000
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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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 | |
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171101–171200 | |||
171112 Sickafoose | 2005 ER301 | J. Lorin and Tanalynne Sickafoose, parents of the discoverer † | |
171118 Szigetköz | 2005 GJ1 | Szigetköz, a beautiful island plain in western Hungary, part of the Little Hungarian Plain. † | |
171153 Allanrahill | 2005 GL81 | Allan Rahill, meteorologist at the Canadian Meteorological Centre † | |
171171 Prior | 2005 GZ164 | Richard M. Prior (b. 1942), a Professor of Physics who earned a PhD. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Florida. † | |
171183 Haleakala | 2005 HJ4 | Haleakala (Hawaiian for the house of the sun), high dormant volcano on the island of Maui † | |
171201–171300 | |||
171256 Lucieconstant | 2005 PU5 | Lucie Constant, the discoverer's goddaughter † | |
171301–171400 | |||
171381 Taipei | 2006 OG17 | Taipei, known officially as Taipei City, is the political, economic and cultural center of Taiwan. † | |
171396 Miguel | 2006 QH33 | Miguel Lacruz Martín, Spain mathematical observer † | |
171401–171500 | |||
171429 Hunstead | 2007 RD5 | Richard (Dick) W. Hunstead, Australian astronomer † | |
171433 Prothous | 2007 RK35 | Prothous, leader of Magnesia, son of Tenthredon, was one of the suitors of Helen † | |
171448 Guchaohao | 2007 RD147 | Gu Chaohao is a mathematician who has made contributions to both pure and applied mathematics and was elected a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 † | |
171458 Pepaprats | 2007 TF14 | Pepa Prats Cruz, deceased wife of the astrophysicist José Luis Ortiz, codiscoverer of this minor planet † | |
171465 Evamaria | 6847 P-L | Eva Maria Schubart, teacher of languages in the southern U.S † | |
171501–171600 | |||
171588 Náprstek | 1999 WG1 | Vojta Náprstek, Czech philanthropist and advocate of progressive ideas † | |
Preceded by 170,001–171,000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 171,001–172,000 |
Succeeded by 172,001–173,000 |
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