Meanings of minor-planet names: 174001–175000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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 number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.

Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.

Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. Template:USGovernment New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

174001–174100

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174101–174200

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174201–174300

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=281 | 174281 Lonský || Template:Mp || Vladimír Lonský (born 1953), a heart surgeon, works in the Faculty Hospital in Olomouc, Czech Republic || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

174301–174400

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=361 | 174361 Rickwhite || Template:Mp || Richard L. White (born 1953), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=362 | 174362 Bethwillman || Template:Mp || Beth Willman (born 1976), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=363 | 174363 Donyork || Template:Mp || Don York (born 1944), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=364 | 174364 Zakamska || Template:Mp || Nadia Zakamska (born 1979), Russian-American astrophysicist with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=365 | 174365 Zibetti || Template:Mp || Stefano Zibetti (born 1976), Italian astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

174401–174500

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=466 | 174466 Zucker || Template:Mp || Daniel Zucker (born 1968), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

174501–174600

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |-id=515 | 174515 Pamelaivezic || Template:Mp || Pamela Ivezic (born 1961), an American singer, musicologist, music educator, a patron of astronomy || JPL · Template:LoMP |-id=567 | 174567 Varda || Template:Mp || Varda the star-kindler, is the queen of the stars in Tolkien's legendarium || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

174601–174700

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174701–174800

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174801–174900

Template:MinorPlanetNameMeaningsTableHeader |- | 174801 Etscorn || Template:Mp || Frank T. Etscorn (born 1945), American professor of psychology at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, inventor of the nicotine patch and amateur astronomer, founder of the university's Frank T. Etscorn Campus Observatory || JPL · Template:LoMP |}

174901–175000

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References

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