Meanings of asteroid names/3201–3300

Meanings of asteroid names/3201–3300

|| Wuhan, China
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3207 Spinrad || || Dmitrii Lupishko, Ukrainian astronomer*
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3211 Louispharailda || 1931 CE || Louis Pharailda? *
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3212 Agricola || || Changshu, China
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3222 Liller || 1983 NJ || William Liller, American astronomer [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SENL/SENL200307A.pdf †]
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3223 Forsius || 1942 RN || Aron Sigfrid Forsius (also known as Siegfried Aronsen), Finnish-born Professor of Astronomy in Uppsala, Sweden. His 1611 manuscript propounding his theory of colours was discovered in the Royal Library in Stockholm in 1969*
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3224 Irkutsk || || Krišjānis Barons, Latvian folklorist [http://books.google.com/books?q=3232+Brest+1974+SU †]
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3234 Hergiani || || *
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3237 Victorplatt || || Meizhou, China
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3240 Laocoon || || Bakhchisaray, a town in Crimea, the center of the same district where Crimean Astrophysical Observatory was created [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q=3238+Timresovia †]
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3243 Skytel || 1980 DC || named after "Sky and Telescope" magazine for its 50th anniv. [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q=3238+Timresovia †]
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3244 Petronius || 4008 P-L || Petronius, Roman writer
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3245 Jensch || || Musashino, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan*
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3250 Martebo || 1979 EB || Martebo, Gotland island, Sweden [http://www.astro.uu.se/planet/asteroid/astdiv/3250.html †]
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3251 Eratosthenes || 6536 P-L || Eratosthenes, Ancient Greek scientist
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3252 Johnny || || Louis Daguerre, French chemist and artist, pioneer of photography (the Daguerreotype process)
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3257 Hanzlík || 1982 GG || Stanislav Hanzlík, Czech meteorologist and climatologist [http://www.klet.org/names/view.php3?astnum=3257 †]
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3258 Somnium || 1983 RJ || Kepler's "Somnium, sive opus posthumum de astronomia lunaris" (The Dream, or Posthumous Work on Lunar Astronomy), which combined a serious study of lunar astronomy and the fictional account of a journey to the Moon
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3259 Brownlee || || Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&q=3260+vizbor †]
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3262 Miune || 1983 WB || Miune, mountain in Kōchi, Japan
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3263 Bligh || 1932 CN || William Bligh, captain of the "Bounty"
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3264 Bounty || 1934 AF || HMAS "Bounty", ship
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3265 Fletcher || || Elias Erici Tillandz (Elias Tillander), Swedish physician and botanist*
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3273 Drukar || || Hans Oberndorfer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) [http://www.kleinplanetenseite.de/Versch/kphimmel.htm †] [http://www.mondatlas.de/new.html ‡]
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3276 Porta Coeli || || Frantsisk Skorina, first doctor of medicine in Belarus, printer and publisher*
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3284 Niebuhr || 1953 NB || Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian*
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3285 Ruth Wolfe || || Azabu, a district of Tokyo, Japan
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3291 Dunlap || || *
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3299 Hall ||


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