Meanings of minor planet names: 171001–172000

Meanings of minor planet names: 171001172000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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.

Contents: 171,001 171,101 171,201 171,301 171,401 171,501 171,601 171,701 171,801 171,901

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
171101171200
171112 Sickafoose 2005 ER301 J. Lorin and Tanalynne Sickafoose, parents of the discoverer
171201171300
171256 Lucieconstant 2005 PU5 Lucie Constant, the discoverer's goddaughter
171401171500
171458 Pepaprats 2007 TF14 Pepa Prats Cruz, deceased wife of the astrophysicist José Luis Ortiz, codiscoverer of this minor planet
Preceded by
170,001171,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 171,001172,000
Succeeded by
172,001173,000

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