(born 1953), Canadian astronomy writer and astrophotographer || |-id=453 | 78453 Bullock || || Sandra Bullock (born 1964), an American actress and producer || |} 78501–78600 |-id=534 | 78534 Renmir || || Renato Bernardi (born 1946) and Mirella Ceccato (born 1946), the parents of co-discoverer Fabrizio Bernardi || |-id=535 | 78535 Carloconti || || Carlo Conti (born 1961), a popular Italian showman. || |-id=536 | 78536 Shrbený || || Lukáš Shrbený (born 1981), an astronomer at the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. || |-id=577 | 78577 JPL || || The NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is managed by the California Institute of Technology. JPL is the hub of U.S. unmanned spacecraft solar system exploration, with visits to the sun, eight planets and their satellites, four minor planets and two comets. It has also established a permanent presence around Mars. || |-id=578 | 78578 Donpettit || || Donald Pettit (born 1955), American astronaut who flew on STS-113 to the International Space Station, where he spent over 5{frac|1|2} months as science officer on Expedition 6. An avid amateur astronomer, Pettit recorded dozens of astrophotographs from ISS, most notably numerous 30-second and 60-second exposures of 4 Vesta. || |} 78601–78700 |-id=652 | 78652 Quero || || The town of Quero in northern Italy || |-id=661 | 78661 Castelfranco || || The town of Castelfranco Veneto in northern Italy || |} 78701–78800 |-id=756 | 78756 Sloan || || The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an astronomical survey conducted in New Mexico, that uses a dedicated 2.5-meter telescope to image more than a quarter of the celestial sphere. It has catalogued over 300 million objects and obtained spectra of over a million galaxies, quasars and stars. || |} 78801–78900 |-id=816 | 78816 Caripito || || The city of Caripito, Venezuela, where the parents of the discoverer Joseph A. Dellinger met || |-id=830 | 78830 Simonadirubbo || || Simona Di Rubbo (born 1987) has been interested in astronomy since her childhood. She graduated in Aerospace Engineering in 2013 from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy. In 2015 she joined the amateur astronomy association in the town of Benevento. Name proposed by A. Boattini and M. Tombelli. || |-id=867 | 78867 Isakowitz || || Matthew Isakowitz (1987–2017), an American aerospace engineer and contributor to the field of commercial spaceflight, known for the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, XPRIZE, and several newspace companies (obituary). || |} 78901–79000