Meanings of minor planet names: 173001–174000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
173001–173100
173002 Dorfi	2006 OS	Ernst Dorfi, Austrian professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Vienna, promoter of astronomy †
173086 Nireus	2007 RS8	Nireus, son of Aglaea and Charopus, mythological Greek king of Syme island, killed by Eurypylos during the Trojan war †
173101–173200
173117 Promachus	1973 SA1	Promachus, Greek warrior of the Iliad, killed by the Trojan hero Acamas †
173201–173300
173301–173400
173401–173500
173501–173600
173601–173700
173701–173800
173801–173900
173901–174000

Preceded by 172,001–173,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 173,001–174,000

Succeeded by 174,001–175,000