|-id=002| 173002 Dorfi || 2006 OS || Ernst Dorfi (1956-2020), Austrian professor of theoretical astrophysics at the University of Vienna, promoter of astronomy || |-id=032| 173032 Mingus || || Jose Antonio Lacruz Martin (born 1967), a member of the group of observers at Monte del Pardo, Madrid, who obtained his bachelor's degree in law at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. || |-id=086| 173086 Nireus || || Nireus, son of Aglaea and Charopus, mythological Greek king of Syme island, killed by Eurypylos during the Trojan war || |-id=094| 173094 Wielicki || || Krzysztof Wielicki (born 1950) is a Polish mountaineer. He was fifth man in the world to climb all fourteen of the world's 8000-m mountains. || |}
|-id=108| 173108 Ingola || 6240 P-L || Ingeborg Walpurga Gasperi (1915–2002) grew up in Germany and Switzerland. In 1942 she married Mario Gasperi, an Italian engineer and expert in the construction of airplanes. || |-id=117| 173117 Promachus || || Promachus, Greek warrior of the Iliad, killed by the Trojan hero Acamas || |}
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|-id=395| 173395 Dweinberg || || David Weinberg (born 1963), American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, known for theoretical interpretation of observed galaxy clustering || |}
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|-id=649| 173649 Jeffreymoore || || Jeffrey M. Moore (born 1953) is a Research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, who served as a Co-Investigator and Geology Science Team Lead for the New Horizons mission to Pluto. || |}
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|-id=872| 173872 Andrewwest || || Andrew A. West (born 1977), an American astronomer with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey || |}
|-id=936| 173936 Yuribo || || Yuribo, official mascot character of the town of Kuma Kogen, Japan || |}