(17253) Vonsecker = 2000 GW136
Named in honor of Claire VonSecker for mentoring a finalist in the 2002
Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors.
VonSecker is a teacher at the Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland.
A complete set of naming citations of the numbered minor planets is available in the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, edited by Lutz Schmadel.