Meanings of minor planet names: 177001–178000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
177001–177100
177101–177200
177201–177300
177301–177400
177401–177500
177501–177600
177601–177700
177701–177800
177801–177900
177901–178000
177982 Popilnia	2006 QE34	Popilnia district (Попільня), Popilniansky Raion (Попільнянський район), Zhytomyr Oblast (Житомирська область), Ukraine, motherland of Maxym Tadeyovych Rylskyj, 20th-century Ukrainian poet †

Preceded by 176,001–177,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 177,001–178,000

Succeeded by 178,001–179,000