Meanings of minor planet names: 178001–179000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
178001–178100
178008 Picard	2006 QQ137	Claude Picard, 20th-century French engineer and astronomer, creator of the Commission Cosmologie of the Societé Astronomique de France †
178101–178200
178201–178300
178226 Rebeccalouise	2006 VP156	Rebecca Louise Puckett, née Ramsay, wife of discovery team member Andrew W. Puckett, because it was discovered three days before their first wedding anniversary †
178243 Schaerding	2006 YH13	Schärding, Upper Austria, home town of the discoverer †
178256 Juanmi	2007 VR102	Juan Miguel Lacruz Camblor, son of the discoverer †
178294 Wertheimer	1990 TA12	Egon Ranshofen-Wertheimer, 20th-century Austrian lawyer, journalist and historian, involved in the establishment of the United Nations †
178301–178400
178401–178500
178501–178600
178601–178700
178701–178800
178801–178900
178803 Kristenjohnson	2001 FA4	Kristen Johnson, American officer of the Foundation for Blind Children in Phoenix, Arizona, and of the National Federation for the Blind, and daughter of astronomer Wayne Johnson †
178901–179000

Preceded by 177,001–178,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 178,001–179,000

Succeeded by 179,001–180,000