Meanings of minor planet names: 278001–279000

This is a partial list of meanings of minor planet names. See meanings of minor planet names for a list of all such partial lists.

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 number-range 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published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, among others.[1][2][3] Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative. Meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against the mentioned sources to ensure that the identification is correct.

278001–278100

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

278101–278200

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278197 Touvron 2007 EL12 Guy Touvron (b. 1950), a French Classical trumpet player and music teacher. JPL
278200 Olegpopov 2007 EV26 Oleg Konstantinovich Popov (born 1930) is a famous Russian circus artist. JPL

278201–278300

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

278301–278400

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278384 Mudanjiang 2007 MV20 Mudanjiang, a city in the northernmost Heilongjiang Province in China. JPL

278401–278500

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278447 Saviano 2007 TH Roberto Saviano (born 1979), a writer and journalist. JPL

278501–278600

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278513 Schwope 2008 CE120 Axel Schwope (born 1959), a German astronomer at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. JPL
278591 Salò 2008 NZ3 The city of Salò is a historic town in northern Italy on the western bank of Lake Garda. JPL

278601–278700

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278609 Avrudenko 2008 PP17 Anatoliy Viktorovych Rudenko (b. 1955), an Ukrainian scientist and surgeon. JPL

278701–278800

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

278801–278900

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
There are no named minor planets in this number range

278901–279000

Number–Name Prov. Designation Source of Name
278986 Chenshuchu 2008 UQ205 Chen Shu-chu is a vegetable vendor and philanthropist from Taitung in Eastern Taiwan. JPL

References

  1. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  2. ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2006). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – Addendum to Fifth Edition: 2003–2005. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-34360-8. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
Preceded by
277,001–278,000		 Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 278,001–279,000 		Succeeded by
279,001–280,000
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