|-id=039| 168039 Eefalcoacosta || || Emilio Eduardo Falco Acosta (b. 1954), an Uruguayan-American astronomer. || |}
|-id=126| 168126 Chengbruce || 2006 GK || Bruce C. H. Cheng (born 1936), Taiwanese ecological entrepreneur, chairman and CEO of Delta Electronics, Inc. || |}
|-id=203| 168203 Kereszturi || || Ákos Kereszturi (b. 1972), a Hungarian geologist and amateur astronomer. || |-id=221| 168221 Donjennings || || Don E. Jennings (born 1948) of the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, served as a Co-Investigator for Surface Composition Science for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. || |-id=234| 168234 Hsi Ching || || Hsi Ching, or the Western Capital, is a term often used in Chinese history. It may refer to Haoking (10th century BCE to 7th century BCE), Ch'ang-an (2nd century BCE to 7th century CE), or Ta-t'ung (11th to 12th century CE). || |-id=261| 168261 Puglia || || Apulia (in Italian Puglia), a region at the south-eastern end of the Italian peninsula || |}
|-id=321| 168321 Josephschmidt || || Joseph Schmidt (1904–1942), an operatic tenor who performed in the world's top concert halls || |-id=358| 168358 Casca || || "Casca", the Canadian Astronomical Society (French: Société Canadienne d'Astronomie|link=no) || |}
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|-id=531| 168531 Joshuakammer || || Joshua A. Kammer (born 1986) is a research scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, who served as a postdoctoral science team member for the atmospheric investigation for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. || |}
|-id=635| 168635 Davidkaufmann || || David E. Kaufmann (born 1964), a principal analyst at the Southwest Research Institute, served as a PEPSSI Instrument Sequencer for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. || |-id=638| 168638 Waltersiegmund || || Walter Siegmund (born 1950) is an American engineer, the Project Engineer for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and a designer of the telescope and its optical fiber positioning system || |-id=698| 168698 Robpickman || || Robert D. Pickman (born 1945), was an engineer for IBM and also for NASA developing ground-based systems to support the space shuttle || |}
|-id=767| 168767 Kochte || || Mark C. Kochte (born 1962) of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, served as a mission operations analyst in support of the SWAP instrument command sequences for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. || |}
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|-id=948| 168948 Silvestri || || Nicole Silvestri (born 1973) is an American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known for establishing a chromospheric activity-age relation for M dwarf stars and work on SDSS close binary systems || |}