State Natural Science Awards and National Science and Technology Progress Awards. || |} 79301–79400 |-id=316 | 79316 Huangshan || || Huangshan City, named for nearby Huangshan mountain range, is the birthplace of Huizhou culture. There is beautiful natural scenery, human relics and rare natural resources that have allowed the city to be identified for UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage in the World Heritage List || |-id=333 | 79333 Yusaku || || Yūsaku Matsuda, 20th-century Japanese television and film actor || |-id=347 | 79347 Medlov || || Medlov is a pond located near the town of Nové Město na Moravě in the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, Czech Republic. It is a popular recreational area. Astronomical summer youth camps were organized near Medlov pond in the 1980s and 1990s. || |-id=353 | 79353 Andrewalday || || Andrew Alday, American member of the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) team || |-id=354 | 79354 Brundibár || 1997 BB || Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása and librettist Adolf Hoffmeister, originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt ghetto for Jews in 1943. The name comes from a Czech word for a bumble-bee. || |-id=360 | 79360 Sila-Nunam || || Silap Inua (Sila) is the Inuit god of the sky, weather, and life force. Nunam is the Earth goddess, Sila's wife. || |-id=375 | 79375 Valetti || 1997 FA || Alvero Valetti (1923–2005), an Italian mathematician and physicist || |} 79401–79500 |-id=410 | 79410 Wallerius || || Johan Gottschalk Wallerius (1709–1785), a Swedish chemist and mineralogist, who was the first holder (from 1750) of a professorship in chemistry, medicine and pharmacy at Uppsala University. He is considered the founder of agricultural chemistry. In 1761 he published his main work, Agriculturae fundamenta chemica || |-id=418 | 79418 Zhangjiajie || 1997 LO || Zhangjiajie, Hunan province, China, one of eight UNESCO-listed Chinese geoparks. || |-id=419 | 79419 Gaolu || 1997 MZ || Gaolu (1877–1947), the pioneer of modern astronomy in China, was born in Changle city, China Fujian province. He initiated the foundation of the Chinese Astronomical Society and the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing || |-id=472 | 79472 Chiorny || || Vasilij G. Chiorny (born 1953), Ukrainian astronomer and asteroid photometrist who has discovered several binary asteroids at the Kharkiv Observatory || |} 79501–79600 |-bgcolor=#f2f2f2 | colspan=4 align=center | |} 79601–79700 |-id=641 | 79641 Daniloceirani || || Danilo Ceirani (born 1964)