Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3500

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, and the discoverers can then submit names for them, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets in the specified span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Contents: 3001... 3101... 3201... 3301... 3401...

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
3001–3100 edit
3001 Michelangelo	1982 BC1	Michelangelo Buonarroti, 15th-16th-century Italian painter and sculptor [MPC 10045]
3002 Delasalle	1982 FB3	Saint Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, 18th-century French founder of the Frères des écoles chrétiennes, in whose schools the discoverer has studied and taught [MPC 15573]
3003 Konček	1983 YH	Mikuláš Konček, Slovak meteorologist †
3004 Knud	1976 DD	Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 19th-20th-century Danish-Eskimo explorer and ethnologist, and close friend of the discoverer's paternal grandfather and namesake [MPC 27124]
3005 Pervictoralex	1979 QK2	Per Victor Alexander Lagerkvist, son of the discoverer †
3006 Livadia	1979 SF11	Livadiya suburb of Yalta †
3007 Reaves	1979 UC	Gibson Reaves, American astronomer, historian and educator at the University of Southern California [MPC 9769]
3008 Nojiri	1938 WA	Houei (Hoei) Nojiri, 19th-20th-century Japanese essayist, author and astronomer [MPC 9478]
3009 Coventry	1973 SM2	Coventry, England, sister city of Volgograd †
3010 Ushakov	1978 SB5	Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian admiral † ‡
3011 Chongqing	1978 WM14	Chongqing, China, capital of Ba state in ancient times and the provisional capital of China 1937–1946 [MPC 20834]
3012 Minsk	1979 QU9	Minsk, Byelorussian SSR †
3013 Dobrovoleva	1979 SD7	Oleg Vasilyevich Dobrovolsky, Soviet astronomer †
3014 Huangsushu	1979 TM	Su-Shu Huang, Chinese-American astrophysicist †
3015 Candy	1980 VN	Michael P. Candy, Australian astrometrist †
3016 Meuse	1981 EK	The Meuse River (Dutch Maas), which rises in France and flows through Belgium and the Netherlands †
3017 Petrovič	1981 UL	Štefan Petrovič, Slovak climatologist †
3018 Godiva	1982 KM	Lady Godiva, legendary 10th-11th-century Anglo-Saxon wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia [MPC 9770]
3019 Kulin	1940 AC	György Kulin, Hungarian astronomer † ‡
3020 Naudts	1949 PR	Ignace Naudts, Belgian amateur astronomer [MPC 21955]
3021 Lucubratio	1967 CB	Latin for "nocturnal study, night work" (from lucubrum, candle) [MPC 21129]
3022 Dobermann	1980 SH	Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, German amateur astronomer and dog breeder † ‡ +
3023 Heard	1981 JS	John Frederick Heard, Canadian astronomer †
3024 Hainan	1981 UW9	Hainan Province †
3025 Higson	1982 QR	Roger Higson, American astronomer assistant †
3026 Sarastro	1977 TA1	Sarastro, high priest of the Temple of Wisdom in Mozart's The Magic Flute [MPC 21130]
3027 Shavarsh	1978 PQ2	Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian sportsman †
3028 Zhangguoxi	1978 TA2	Zhang Guoxi, Chinese industrialist †
3029 Sanders	1981 EA8	Jeffrey D. Sanders, American student †
3030 Vehrenberg	1981 EH16	Hans Vehrenberg, German amateur astronomer, author of the Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors (Mein Messier-Buch) † ‡
3031 Houston	1984 CX	Walter Scott Houston, American amateur astronomer well known for his column Deep Sky Wonders in "Sky & Telescope" [MPC 10845]
3032 Evans	1984 CA1	Reverend Robert O. Evans, Australian amateur astronomer, discoverer of several extragalactic supernovae [MPC 10845]
3033 Holbaek	1984 EJ	Holbæk, Denmark, town nearest to the discovery site (Brorfelde Observatoriet) on the occasion of the former's 700th anniversary in 1986 [MPC 10045]
3034 Climenhaga	A917 SE	John L. Climenhaga, Canadian astronomer †
3035 Chambers	A924 EJ	John Eric Chambers, then British predoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics [MPC 22497]
3036 Krat	1937 TO	Vladimir Alekseevich Krat, Russian astronomer †
3037 Alku	1944 BA	Finnish for "Beginning", the discoverer's boyhood boat, built by his father [MPC 18450]
3038 Bernes	1978 QB3	Mark Naumovich Bernes, Soviet film actor and singer †
3039 Yangel	1978 SP2	Mikhail Kuz'mich Yangel', 20th-century Soviet rocket and missile designer [MPC 10547] † ‡
3040 Kozai	1979 BA	Yoshihide Kozai, Japanese astronomer and celestial mechanician, discoverer of the Kozai mechanism [MPC 9770]
3041 Webb	1980 GD	Rev. Thomas William Webb, 19th-century British amateur astronomer, author of Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes and discoverer of S Orionis [MPC 9770]
3042 Zelinsky	1981 EF10	David S. Zelinsky, American mathematician, formerly active participant in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech [MPC 13173]
3043 San Diego	1982 SA	San Diego, California, in recognition of its efforts to curb light pollution [MPC 8914]
3044 Saltykov	1983 RE3	Nikita Saltykov, the first discoverer's grandfather [MPC 22245]
3045 Alois	1984 AW	Alois T. Stuczynski, the discoverer's grandfather [MPC 9479]
3046 Molière	4120 P-L	Molière, 17th-century French playwright [MPC 10045]
3047 Goethe	6091 P-L	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 18th-19th-century German poet and playwright [MPC 10045]
3048 Guangzhou	1964 TH1	Guangzhou, largest open city in southern China and the capital of Guangdong province [MPC 15089]
3049 Kuzbass	1968 FH	Kuznets Basin, an industrial region (Kemerovo Region) of Siberia, known for its coalmining (it is one of the richest coal deposits in the world) [MPC 13173]
3050 Carrera	1972 NW	The Carreras (Javiera, Juan José, José Miguel, and Luis), 18th-19th-century key figures of the Chilean War of Independence [MPC 10547]
3051 Nantong	1974 YP	Nantong, China [MPC 20835]
3052 Herzen	1976 YJ3	Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen, 19th-century Russian revolutionary, writer, and philosopher, "father of Russian socialism" and founder of the free Russian press abroad [MPC 11159]
3053 Dresden	1977 QS	Dresden, Germany (then in the GDR) [MPC 9770]
3054 Strugatskia	1977 RE7	Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writers †
3055 Annapavlova	1978 TR3	Anna Pavlova, Russian ballet dancer †
3056 INAG	1978 VD1	French Institut national d'astronomie et de géophysique (National Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics), which built the discovery telescope †
3057 Mälaren	1981 EG	Lake Mälaren, Sweden †
3058 Delmary	1981 EO17	Delmary Rose Schanz, 20th-century American artist †
3059 Pryor	1981 EF23	Carlton P. Pryor, American astronomer, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech [MPC 13173]
3060 Delcano	1982 RD1	Juan Sebastian del Caño, 15th-16th-century Spanish navigator, lieutenant of Magellan, first to continuously circumnavigate the globe †
3061 Cook	1982 UB1	James Cook, 18th-century British navigator †
3062 Wren	1982 XC	Sir Christopher Wren, 17th-18th-century British architect and astronomer †
3063 Makhaon	1983 PV	Makhaon, mythical physician to Greeks during the Trojan War †
3064 Zimmer	1984 BB1	Louis Zimmer, Belgian (Flemish) clockmaker and amateur astronomer †
3065 Sarahill	1984 CV	Sarah J. Hill, American astronomer †
3066 McFadden	1984 EO	Lucy-Ann McFadden, American planetary scientist †
3067 Akhmatova	1982 TE2	Anna Akhmatova, 20th-century Soviet poet †
3068 Khanina	1982 YJ1	Frida Borisovna Khanina, Soviet orbit computer †
3069 Heyrovský	1982 UG2	Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech physical chemist †
3070 Aitken	1949 GK	Robert Grant Aitken, 19th-20th-century American astronomer, fourth director of the Lick Observatory, author of the "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 12° of the North Pole" (1932) [MPC 14481]
3071 Nesterov	1973 FT1	Pyotr Nesterov, 19th-20th-century Russian pioneer airman †
3072 Vilnius	1978 RS1	Vilnius, Lithuania †
3073 Kursk	1979 SW11	Kursk, Russia †
3074 Popov	1979 YE9	Alexander Stepanovich Popov, 19th-century Russian radio inventor †
3075 Bornmann	1981 EY15	Patricia L. Bornmann, American solar astronomer, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech [MPC 13174]
3076 Garber	1982 RB1	Paul E. Garber, 20th-century American historian †
3077 Henderson	1982 SK	Thomas James Henderson, 19th-century Scottish astronomer, first Astronomer Royal for Scotland, first to measure the distance to a star, Alpha Centauri, in 1839 [MPC 10846]
3078 Horrocks	1984 FG	Jeremiah Horrocks, 17th-century English astronomer and mathematician, who predicted the transit of Venus across the face of the sun in November of 1639 and became the first to see such an event; he also believed the Moon to have an elliptical orbit with the earth at one focus, a fact that Newton was later to acknowledge [MPC 10846]
3079 Schiller	2578 P-L	Friedrich Schiller, 18th-century German playwright [MPC 10045]
3080 Moisseiev	1935 TE	Nikolai Dmitrevich Moiseiev (Moisseev), 20th-century Soviet astronomer †
3081 Martinůboh	1971 UP	Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer [MPC 31609]
3082 Dzhalil	1972 KE	Musa Mustafovich Dzhalil' (Musa Cälil), 20th-century Tatar Soviet poet †
3083 OAFA	1974 MH	Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar [MPC 19333]
3084 Kondratyuk	1977 QB1	Yuri Kondratyuk, 20th-century Soviet cosmonautics pioneer †
3085 Donna	1980 DA	Donna Marie Thompson, American administrative assistant for the Minor Planet Center and the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, secretary for the Planetary Sciences division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics [MPC 16244]
3086 Kalbaugh	1980 XE	Carroll Kalbaugh Liller, father of Chilean astronomer William Liller [MPC 10548]
3087 Beatrice Tinsley	1981 QJ1	Beatrice Muriel Tinsley, née Hill, 20th-century British-born New Zealand astronomer [MPC 9479]
3088 Jinxiuzhonghua	1981 UX9	"Splendid China", park at Shenzhen, the largest miniature scenic spot in the world [MPC 17221]
3089 Oujianquan	1981 XK2	Jian-Quan Ou, Chinese entrepreneur, for his notable contributions in developing township enterprises [MPC 22497]
3090 Tjossem	1982 AN	The Tjossem family family of central Washington State, four generations of whose members have been friends of the discoverer and his family (in particular Peter Tjossem, 19th-20th-century amateur entomologist and paleobotanist) [MPC 10045]
3091 van den Heuvel	6081 P-L	Edward Peter Jacobus van den Heuvel, Dutch astronomer, and his niece Julia Edith van den Heuvel [MPC 11159] †
3092 Herodotus	6550 P-L	Herodotus, 5th-century B.C. Greek historian, "Father of Historiography" [MPC 11159]
3093 Bergholz	1971 MG	Olga Fedorovna Bergholz, 20th-century Russian poet † ‡
3094 Chukokkala	1979 FE2	Korney Chukovsky, pen name of Nikolaj Vasil'evich Kornejchukov, 18th-19th-century Russian writer, scholar, and poet ("Chukokkala" is the title of an album by him) †
3095 Omarkhayyam	1980 RT2	Omar Khayyám, 11th-12th-century Tajik-Persian poet, mathematician and philosopher †
3096 Bezruč	1981 QC1	Petr Bezruč, Czech poet †
3097 Tacitus	2011 P-L	Tacitus, 1st-century Roman historian [MPC 11159]
3098 van Sprang	4579 P-L	Bert van Sprang, Dutch meteor specialist †
3099 Hergenrother	1940 GF	Carl W. Hergenrother, American astronomer [MPC 27124]
3100 Zimmerman	1977 EQ1	Nikolaj Vladimirovich Zimmerman, Russian astronomer †
3101–3200 edit
3101 Goldberger	1978 GB	Marvin L. Goldberger, American physicist, teacher and humanitarian, president of the California Institute of Technology, to commemorate his birthday, October 22 [MPC 9217]
3102 Krok	1981 QA	Krok, mythical Slavonic prince †
3103 Eger	1982 BB	Eger a small town NE of Budapest, at one time the sixth largest town in Hungary, known for its medieval streets, castle, and red wine (Bull's Blood) †
3104 Dürer	1982 BB1	Albrecht Dürer, 15th-16th-century German master painter, woodcutter, engraver, and scholar [MPC 9217]
3105 Stumpff	A907 PB	Karl Stumpff, 20th-century German celestial mechanician and professor of astronomy, pioneer of Fast Fourier Analysis, author of the three-volume Himmelsmechanik [MPC 22497]
3106 Morabito	1981 EE	Linda Morabito (afterwards Linda Kelly), Education Programs Manager at the Planetary Society †
3107 Weaver	1981 JG2	Kenneth F. Weaver, American senior assistant editor for science of the National Geographic magazine [MPC 10311]
3108 Lyubov	1972 QM	Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, 20th-century Soviet actress †
3109 Machin	1974 DC	Arnold Machin, 20th-century British sculptor [MPC 34618]
3110 Wagman	1975 SC	Nicholas E. Wagman, 20th-century American astronomer and astrometrist †
3111 Misuzu	1977 DX8	Nickname of Shinano Province, now Nagano Prefecture, Japan, the discovery site [MPC 11441]
3112 Velimir	1977 QC5	Velimir (Viktor Vladimirovitch) Khlebnikov, 19th-20th-century Russian poet †
3113 Chizhevskij	1978 RO	Aleksandr Leonidovich Chizhevskij, 20th-century Soviet biologist, one of the founders of heliobiology †
3114 Ercilla	1980 FB12	Don Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga, 16th-century Spanish poet and soldier, who distinguished himself in the campaign in Chile against the Araucanians, inspiration for the epic poem La Araucana [MPC 11160]
3115 Baily	1981 PL	Francis Baily, 18th-19th-century English astronomer, one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society, and namesake of Baily's beads [MPC 11160]
3116 Goodricke	1983 CF	John Goodricke, 18th-century Dutch-English deaf-mute astronomer, who identified Algol as an eclipsing variable and discovered δ Cephei [MPC 10847] †
3117 Niepce	1983 CM1	Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 18th-19th-century French photography pioneer [MPC 10548]
3118 Claytonsmith	1974 OD	Clayton Albert Smith, 20th-century American astrometrist, director of the Yale-Columbia Southern Observatory and later the United States Naval Observatory's astrometry department †
3119 Dobronravin	1972 YX	Petr Pavlovich Dobronravin, 20th-century Russian astrophysicist and spectroscopist, deputy director of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory 1952–1969 † ‡
3120 Dangrania	1979 RZ	Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, 20th-century Russian writer † ‡
3121 Tamines	1981 EV	Tamines, Belgium, now called (Sambreville) [MPC 19333]
3122 Florence	1981 ET3	Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer [MPC 21955]
3123 Dunham	1981 QF2	David Waring Dunham, American astronomer, organizer of the International Occultation Timing Association [MPC 10847]
3124 Kansas	1981 VB	Kansas, United States, the discoverer's home state, and also the University of Kansas, the discoverer's alma mater, to commemorate the centennial of observational astronomy there, which began with the purchase of an Alvan Clark 6-inch refractor in 1885 [MPC 10045]
3125 Hay	1982 BJ1	William Thompson Hay, 19th-20th-century British music-hall comedian, film star of the 1930s and early 1940s, and amateur astronomer, (re)discoverer of Saturn's Great White Spot in 1933 [MPC 10847]
3126 Davydov	1969 TP1	Denis Vasil'evich Davydov, 18th-19th-century Russian officer, writer and poet, hero of the war of 1812 [MPC 11160]
3127 Bagration	1973 ST4	Petr Ivanovich Bagration, 18th-19th-century Russian (of Georgian descent) general, hero of the war of 1812 who died at the Battle of Borodino [MPC 11160]
3128 Obruchev	1979 FJ2	Vladimir Afanasjevich Obruchev, 19th-20th-century Russian geologist, geographer, and author of popular books on science and science-fiction novels [MPC 12013]
3129 Bonestell	1979 MK2	Chesley Bonestell, American space artist. Named following a competition organized by the Planetary Society †
3130 Hillary	1981 YO	Sir Edmund Hillary, British mountaineer †
3131 Mason-Dixon	1982 BM1	Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, 18th-century British astronomers who observed the 1761 transit of Venus from the Cape of Good Hope, and later (1763–1767) surveyed the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, the Mason-Dixon Line [MPC 10847]
3132 Landgraf	1940 WL	Werner Landgraf, German astronomer, who established the orbit (and whose initials appear in the provisional designation) †
3133 Sendai	A907 TC	Sendai, Japan, the "Heidelberg of the East" (this object was discovered from Heidelberg) and the Sendai Municipal Astronomical Observatory [MPC 10045]
3134 Kostinsky	A921 VA	Sergej Konstantinovich Kostinskij, 19th-20th-century Russian astronomer, after whom the Kostinsky effect is named [MPC 10548] †
3135 Lauer	1981 EC9	Tod R. Lauer, American astronomer, who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech [MPC 13174]
3136 Anshan	1981 WD4	Anshan, China [MPC 21607]
3137 Horky	1982 SM1	Czech hill, site of Antonín Mrkos' first telescope †
3138 Ciney	1980 KL	Ciney, Belgium, chief town of the Condroz, where the discoverer maintains a residence [MPC 15573]
3139 Shantou	1980 VL1	Shantou, China [MPC 16244]
3140 Stellafane	1983 AO	Stellafane, the annual Vermont star party organized by the Springfield Telescope Makers [MPC 13174]
3141 Buchar	1984 RH	Emil Buchar, Czech astronomer †
3142 Kilopi	1937 AC	kilo pi (1000*π, rounds off to 3142) [MPC 9771]
3143 Genecampbell	1980 UA	I. Gene Campbell, American systems programmer in the central computing facility at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics [MPC 16244]
3144 Brosche	1931 TY1	Peter Brosche, 20th-century German astronomer [MPC 22497]
3145 Walter Adams	1955 RY	Walter Sydney Adams, 19th-20th-century American astronomer, director of the Mount Wilson Observatory (1923–1946), whose spectroscopic studies led to the discovery, with Ernst Arnold Kohlschütter, of the spectroscopic method for determining parallax, and who identified Sirius B as the first white-dwarf star known [MPC 15089]
3146 Dato	1972 KG	Dato Kratsashvili, 20th-century Georgian painter [MPC 13174] †
3147 Samantha	1976 YU3	Samantha Reed Smith, 20th-century American schoolgirl who became "America's Youngest Ambassador" [MPC 11160] †
3148 Grechko	1979 SA12	Georgii Mikhailovich Grechko, Soviet cosmonaut and scientist [MPC 12971] †
3149 Okudzhava	1981 SH	Bulat Okudzhava, Russian (of Georgian descent) writer, poet and songwriter [MPC 12209] † ‡
3150 Tosa	1983 CB	Tosa province (Ancient name of Kōchi Prefecture), Japan, the discoverer's place of residence [MPC 10847]
3151 Talbot	1983 HF	William Henry Fox Talbot, British pioneer of photography*
3152 Jones	1983 LF	Albert F. A. L. Jones, New Zealand astronomer [LDS]
3153 Lincoln	1984 SH3	Abraham Lincoln, American president*
3154 Grant	1984 SO3	Ulysses S. Grant, American president*
3155 Lee	1984 SP3	Robert E. Lee, American general*
3156 Ellington	1953 EE	Duke Ellington, American musician*
3157 Novikov	1973 SX3	Alexei Ivanovich Novikov, Soviet aviator and poet †
3158 Anga	1976 SU2	Siberian village, birthplace of Russian etnographers Ivan Evseevich Venyaminov and Afanasij Prokopevich Shchapov †
3159 Prokof'ev	1976 US2	Vladimir Konstantinovich Prokof'ev, Russian spectroscopist †
3160 Angerhofer	1980 LE	Phillip Edward Angerhofer, American astronomer and astrophysicist*
3161 Beadell	1980 TB5	Len Beadell, Australian surveyor [LDS]
3162 Nostalgia	1980 YH	named in remembrance of good things that are no more †
3163 Randi	1981 QM	James Randi, magician †
3164 Prast	6562 P-L	Martin Prast, American citizen and war veteran [LDS] †
3165 Mikawa	1984 QE	Mikawa Province (Ancient name of eastern half of Aichi Prefecture), Japan
3166 Klondike	1940 FG	The brothers Karl F. Joutsen and Anton F. Johnson, who made a fortune in the Klondike Gold Rush †
3167 Babcock	1955 RS	Horace W. Babcock and his father Harold D. Babcock, American astronomers [LDS]
3168 Lomnický Štít	1980 XM	Lomnický Štít, Czech meteorological and solar observatory †
3169 Ostro	1981 LA	Steven Jeffrey Ostro, American astronomer
3170 Dzhanibekov	1979 SS11	Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut †
3171 Wangshouguan	1979 WO	Shou-Guan Wang, Chinese astronomer*
3172 Hirst	1981 WW	William Parkinson Hirst, South African astronomer
3173 McNaught	1981 WY	Robert McNaught, British astronomer*
3174 Alcock	1984 UV	George Alcock, British comet and nova hunter
3175 Netto	1979 YP	Edgar Rangel Netto, Brazilian astronomer*
3176 Paolicchi	1980 VR1	Paolo Paolicchi, Italian astrophysicist
3177 Chillicothe	1934 AK	Chillicothe, OH [LDS]. (There are places of the same name in Missouri and Illinois )*
3178 Yoshitsune	1984 WA	Minamoto no Yoshitsune, early samurai
3179 Beruti	1962 FA	Colonel Antonio Luis Beruti, Argentinian military officer and patriotic leader in the struggles for independence from Spanish rule
3180 Morgan	1962 RO	William Wilson Morgan, American astronomer [MPC 15089]
3181 Ahnert	1964 EC	Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer, author of the annual Kalender fur Sternfreunde [MPC 9771]
3182 Shimanto	1984 WC	Shimanto River, longest river of the discoverer's home prefecture of Kochi, Japan [MPC 10848]
3183 Franzkaiser	1949 PP	Franz Kaiser German astronomer †
3184 Raab	1949 QC	Herbert Raab, Austrian software engineer and amateur astronomer, author of Astrometrica software † ‡
3185 Clintford	1953 VY1	Clinton B. Ford, American amateur astronomer, at one time secretary of the American Association of Variable Star Observers, co-founder of what is now called the Ford Observatory in southern California, and 1987 recipient of the Amateur Achievement Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific [MPC 15260]
3186 Manuilova	1973 SD3	Olga Maksimilianovna Manuilova, Soviet sculptor †
3187 Dalian	1977 TO3	Dalian, China [MPC 22497]
3188 Jekabsons	1978 OM	Peter Jekabsons, 20th-century Australian observer and astronomical painter, whose paintings adorn the walls of the Perth Observatory, the discovery site [MPC 18644]
3189 Penza	1978 RF6	Penza, Russia †
3190 Aposhanskij	1978 SR6	Vladimir Mikhailovich Aposhanskij, 20th-century Soviet poet and journalist [MPC 11160]
3191 Svanetia	1979 SX9	Svanetia, a mountainous district in Georgia [MPC 12971]
3192 A'Hearn	1982 BY1	Michael Francis A'Hearn, American astronomer † ‡
3193 Elliot	1982 DJ	James L. Elliot, American professor of physics and astronomy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-discoverer of the Uranian rings [MPC 10848]
3194 Dorsey	1982 KD1	Dorsey Taylor Shoemaker, Jr., American businessman and uncle of the second discoverer [MPC 10311]
3195 Fedchenko	1978 PT2	The 19th-20th-century Fedchenko Russian family: Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, naturalist, geographer, and explorer, his wife Ol'ga Aleksandrovna Fedchenko, botanist and plant collector, and their son Boris Alekseevich Fedchenko, botanist, geographer, writer, co-initiator and contributor to the multi-volume "Flora of the U.S.S.R." [MPC 12971]
3196 Maklaj	1978 RY	Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, Russian ethnologist †
3197 Weissman	1981 AD	Paul Robert Weissman, American cometary physicist [MPC 11160]
3198 Wallonia	1981 YH1	Wallonia (Walloon Region), one of the three federal regions of Belgium, the discoverer's birth place and location of the Institut d'astrophysique (the discovery site operator) [MPC 10848]
3199 Nefertiti	1982 RA	Nefertiti, Egyptian queen [MPC 10311]
3200 Phaethon	1983 TB	Phaëton, mythological son of Helios, who operated the solar chariot for a day, lost control of it and almost set fire to the Earth (the object, associated with the Geminid meteor stream, had then the smallest known perihelion distance) [MPC 9771]
3201–3300 edit
3201 Sijthoff	6560 P-L	Albert Georg Sijthoff, a Dutch publisher whose family backed the construction of the Sijthoff Planetarium in The Hague in 1934.†
3202 Graff	A908 AA	Kasimir Romuald Graff, German astronomer*
3203 Huth	1938 SL	Hans Huth, German astronomer*
3204 Lindgren	1978 RH	Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, Swedish writer †
3205 Boksenberg	1979 MO6	Alexander Boksenberg, British astronomer*
3206 Wuhan	1980 VN1	Wuhan, China
3207 Spinrad	1981 EY25	Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer*
3208 Lunn	1981 JM	Borge Lunn, Danish civil engineer and metallurgist [LDS]
3209 Buchwald	1982 BL1	Vagn Fabritius Buchwald, Danish meteoriticist*
3210 Lupishko	1983 WH1	Dmitrii Lupishko, Ukrainian astronomer*
3211 Louispharailda	1931 CE	Louis Pierre Van Biesbroeck, and Pharailda de Colpaert Van Biesbroeck, parents of the discoverer [LDS]
3212 Agricola	1938 DH2	Georg Agricola, German scientist, "father of mineralogy"*
3213 Smolensk	1977 NQ	Smolensk, Russia †
3214 Makarenko	1978 TZ6	Anton Makarenko, Soviet teacher and writer †
3215 Lapko	1980 BQ	Konstantin Kuz'mich Lapko, Soviet surgeon †
3216 Harrington	1980 RB	Robert Sutton Harrington, American astronomer †
3217 Seidelmann	1980 RK	Paul Kenneth Seidelmann, American astronomer*
3218 Delphine	6611 P-L	Delphine Jehoulet Delsemme, wife of American astronomer Armand Delsemme of Toledo, OH [LDS]
3219 Komaki	1934 CX	Kōjirō Komaki, Japanese amateur astronomer
3220 Murayama	1951 WF	Sadao Murayama, Japanese astronomer
3221 Changshi	1981 XF2	Changshu, China
3222 Liller	1983 NJ	William Liller, American astronomer †
3223 Forsius	1942 RN	Sigfrid Aronus 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*
3224 Irkutsk	1977 RL6	Irkutsk, Russia
3225 Hoag	1982 QQ	Arthur Allen Hoag, American astronomer*
3226 Plinius	6565 P-L	Pliny the Elder (or Pliny the Younger)*
3227 Hasegawa	1928 DF	Ichirō Hasegawa, Japanese astronomer*
3228 Pire	1935 CL	Georges Pire (Father Dominique), Belgian monk (Dominican Order), winner of the 1958 Nobel Prize for Peace*
3229 Solnhofen	A916 PC	Solnhofen, south (SSE) of Nuremberg in Germany and known for its limestone and fossils*
3230 Vampilov	1972 LE	Aleksandr Valentinovich Vampilov, Soviet playwright †
3231 Mila	1972 RU2	Lyudmila Pakhomova, Soviet ice dancer †
3232 Brest	1974 SL	Brest, a city in Belarus †
3233 Krišbarons	1977 RA6	Krišjānis Barons, Latvian folklorist †
3234 Hergiani	1978 QO2	Mikhail Vissarionovich Hergiani, famous Soviet mountaineer †
3235 Melchior	1981 EL1	Paul Jacques Léon Melchior, Belgian geophysicist*
3236 Strand	1982 BH1	Kaj Aage Gunnar Strand, Danish and American astronomer [LDS]
3237 Victorplatt	1984 SA5	Victor Platt, British actor*
3238 Timresovia	1975 VB9	Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Soviet biologist †
3239 Meizhou	1978 UJ2	Meizhou, China
3240 Laocoon	1978 VG6	Laocoön, Trojan priest of Poseidon
3241 Yeshuhua	1978 WH14	Shuhua Ye (or correct Chinese style: Ye Shuhua), Chinese astronomer †
3242 Bakhchisaraj	1979 SG9	Bakhchisaray, a town in Crimea, the center of the same district where Crimean Astrophysical Observatory was created †
3243 Skytel	1980 DC	named after Sky and Telescope magazine for its 50th anniv.†
3244 Petronius	4008 P-L	Petronius, Roman writer
3245 Jensch	1973 UL5	Alfred Jensch, German astronomer*
3246 Bidstrup	1976 GQ3	Herluf Bidstrup, Danish caricaturist †
3247 Di Martino	1981 YE	Mario di Martino, Italian astronomer*
3248 Farinella	1982 FK	Paolo Farinella, Italian astronomer*
3249 Musashino	1977 DT4	Musashino, a suburb of Tokyo, Japan*
3250 Martebo	1979 EB	Martebo, Gotland island, Sweden †
3251 Eratosthenes	6536 P-L	Eratosthenes, Ancient Greek scientist
3252 Johnny	1981 EM4	Johnny Carson, American TV host and comedian, and amateur astronomer [LDS]
3253 Gradie	1982 HQ1	Jonathan Carey Gradie, American astronomer
3254 Bus	1982 UM	Schelte John Bus, American astronomer
3255 Tholen	1980 RA	David James Tholen, American astronomer
3256 Daguerre	1981 SJ1	Louis Daguerre, French chemist and artist, pioneer of photography (the Daguerreotype process)
3257 Hanzlík	1982 GG	Stanislav Hanzlík, Czech meteorologist and climatologist †
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
3259 Brownlee	1984 SZ4	Donald Eugene Brownlee, American astronomer*
3260 Vizbor	1974 SO2	Yurii Iosifovich Vizbor, Russian actor, poet, writer, composer and playwright †
3261 Tvardovskij	1979 SF9	Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet †
3262 Miune	1983 WB	Miune, mountain in Kōchi, Japan
3263 Bligh	1932 CN	William Bligh, captain of the Bounty
3264 Bounty	1934 AF	HMAS Bounty, ship
3265 Fletcher	1953 VN2	Fletcher Christian, Bounty mutineer
3266 Bernardus	1978 PA	Andres Bernardus Muller, Dutch astronomer †
3267 Glo	1981 AA	Nickname of Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer, comet hunter, and advisor to the Planetary Society †
3268 De Sanctis	1981 DD	Giovanni de Sanctis, Italian astronomer*
3269 Vibert-Douglas	1981 EX16	Alice Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer †
3270 Dudley	1982 DA	H. Dudley Wright, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and benefactor of science, education and the arts in California and in Geneva, Switzerland. Name endorsed by E. M. ShoemakerMPC not Dudley Observatory, in Albany, N.Y. and later Schenectady, N.Y.. Originally noted for its work in astrometry and latterly (1956-1976) in the study of micrometeoroids. It now functions as an educational foundation*
3271 Ul	1982 RB	Ul, a lunar deity in the mythology of Vanuatu [LDS]
3272 Tillandz	1938 DB1	Elias Erici Tillandz (Elias Tillander), Swedish physician and botanist*
3273 Drukar	1975 TS2	Ivan Fyodorov, one of the first printers of books in Russia and Ukraine. The word Drukar means ‘printer’ in Ukrainian and old Russian. [LDS]
3274 Maillen	1981 QO2	Maillen, Belgium*
3275 Oberndorfer	1982 HE1	Hans Oberndorfer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) † ‡
3276 Porta Coeli	1982 RZ1	Porta Coeli ("Gateway to Heaven") convent in Tišnov, Czech Republic †
3277 Aaronson	1984 AF1	Marc Aaronson, American astronomer
3278 Běhounek	1984 BT	František Běhounek, Czech physicist †
3279 Solon	9103 P-L	Solon, Greek lawmaker*
3280 Grétry	1933 SJ	André Ernest Modeste Grétry, Belgian (Walloon) composer
3281 Maupertuis	1938 DZ	Pierre Louis Maupertuis, French mathematician and astronomer
3282 Spencer Jones	1949 DA	Sir Harold Spencer Jones, British astronomer, former Astronomer Royal
3283 Skorina	1979 QA10	Frantsisk Skorina, first doctor of medicine in Belarus, printer and publisher*
3284 Niebuhr	1953 NB	Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian*
3285 Ruth Wolfe	1983 VW1	Ruth F. Wolfe, American geologist, colleague of Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker at the United States Geological Survey*
3286 Anatoliya	1980 BV	Anatoly V. Karachkin, brother of the discoverer's husband [LDS]
3287 Olmstead	1981 DK1	C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer*
3288 Seleucus	1982 DV	Seleucus I Nicator, one of the generals of Alexander the Great and heir to the largest part of his empire [MPC 10046] not Seleucus of Seleucia, Greek astronomer*
3289 Mitani	1934 RP	Tetsuyasu Mitani, Japanese astronomer not Takefumi Mitani, Japanese astronomer*
3290 Azabu	1973 SZ1	Azabu, a district of Tokyo, Japan
3291 Dunlap	1982 VX3	J. Lawrence Dunlap, American astronomer*
3292 Sather	2631 P-L	Bob Sather, research assistant Lunar and Planetary Laboratory[1] not Robert E. Sather, American astronomer*
3293 Rontaylor	4650 P-L	Ronald C. Taylor, American astronomer*
3294 Carlvesely	6563 P-L	Carl D. Vesely, American astronomer*
3295 Murakami	1950 DH	Tadayoshi Murakami, Japanese astronomer
3296 Bosque Alegre	1975 SF	Named after the astrophysical station of Cordoba Observatory in Argentina
3297 Hong Kong	1978 WN14	Hong Kong, China
3298 Massandra	1979 OB15	Massandra, town in Crimea [LDS]
3299 Hall	1980 TX5	John Scoville Hall, American astronomer and director of the Lowell Observatory from 1958 to 1977[MPC 10312] not Asaph Hall, American astronomer, or Donald Hall, American astronomer*
3300 McGlasson	1928 NA	Scottish Surname of a small clan located in the highlands of Scotland.
3301–3400 edit
3301 Jansje	1978 CT	Jansje Verveer, mother of Dutch astronomer Arie Verveer †
3302 Schliemann	1977 RS6	Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist*
3303 Merta	1967 UN	František Merta (1872-1953), teacher and journalist. Grandfather of the discoverer. [LDS]
3304 Pearce	1981 EQ21	Joseph A. Pearce, Canadian astronomer †
3305 Ceadams	1985 KB	Charles Edward Adams, American astronomer*
3306 Byron	1979 SM11	Lord Byron, British poet*
3307 Athabasca	1981 DE1	The Athabascans, ancient people of North America †
3308 Ferreri	1981 EP	Walter Ferreri, Italian astronomer*
3309 Brorfelde	1982 BH	Brorfelde Observatory in Denmark
3310 Patsy	1931 TS2	Named in honor of the discoverer's wife [LDS]
3311 Podobed	1976 QM1	Vladimir Vladimirovich Podobed, Soviet astronomer †
3312 Pedersen	1984 SN	Holger Pedersen, Danish astronomer*
3313 Mendel	1980 DG	Gregor Johann Mendel, Czech-Austrian father of genetics †
3314 Beals	1981 FH	Carlyle Smith Beals, Canadian astronomer †
3315 Chant	1984 CZ	Clarence Augustus Chant, Canadian astronomer † ‡
3316 Herzberg	1984 CN1	Gerhard Herzberg, German-born Canadian chemist and astronomer †
3317 Paris	1984 KF	Paris, Trojan prince
3318 Blixen	1985 HB	Karen Blixen, Danish writer
3319 Kibi	1977 EJ5	Kibi Province (ancient name of Okayama Prefecture and eastern half of Hiroshima Prefecture), Japan
3320 Namba	1982 VZ4	Naniwa, traditional name of Osaka, Japan
3321 Dasha	1975 TZ2	Darya Lavrentyevna Mikhailova (known as Dasha Sevastopolskaya), Russian sister of charity †
3322 Lidiya	1975 XY1	Lidiya Vissarionovna Zvereva, the first Russian female aviator †
3323 Turgenev	1979 SY9	Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer †
3324 Avsyuk	1983 CW1	Yurii Nikolaevich Avsyuk, Russian geophysicist (specialist in gravimetry and geodynamics) †
3325 TARDIS	1984 JZ	The TARDIS, time machine in Doctor Who
3326 Agafonikov	1985 FL	Askol'd M. Agafonikov, Russian(?) geophysicist †
3327 Campins	1985 PW	Humberto Campins (Humberto Campins Camejo), Venezuelan-born American astronomer †
3328 Interposita	1985 QD1	The discovery film was exposed hastily between two satellite laser ranging sessions in the adjacent dome. (M 27125)
3329 Golay	1985 RT1	Marcel Golay, Swiss astronomer*
3330 Gantrisch	1985 RU1	Gantrisch, a mountain south of Bern in Switzerland*
3331 Kvistaberg	1979 QS	Kvistaberg, site of Uppsala Observatory, Sweden †
3332 Raksha	1978 NT1	Yury Mikhailovich Raksha, Russian artist †
3333 Schaber	1980 TG5	Gerald Gene Schaber, American planetary geologist*
3334 Somov	1981 YR	Mikhail M. Somov, Soviet Antarctic explorer † ‡ +
3335 Quanzhou	1966 AA	Quanzhou, China
3336 Grygar	1971 UX	Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer*
3337 Miloš	1971 UG1	Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer*
3338 Richter	1973 UX5	Nikolaus B. Richter (1910-1980), first director of the Tautenburg Observatory (1960-1975)MPC 10549 not Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist*
3339 Treshnikov	1978 LB	Aleksei Fedorovich Treshnikov, Soviet Antarctic explorer † ‡
3340 Yinhai	1979 TK	Yinhai, China
3341 Hartmann	1980 OD	William Kenneth Hartmann, American planetary scientist, writer, and painter †
3342 Fivesparks	1982 BD3	In honor of Newton and Margaret Mayall, American astronomer. The name refers to their residence in Cambridge, MA, as explained in [2]
3343 Nedzel	1982 HS	V. Alexander Nedzel [LDS]
3344 Modena	1982 JA	Modena, city in Italy [LDS]
3345 Tarkovskij	1982 YC1	Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet film producer †
3346 Gerla	1951 SD	Gertrude Lawrence, English actress [LDS]
3347 Konstantin	1975 VN1	Konstantin Alekseevich Kalinin, Soviet aviator †
3348 Pokryshkin	1978 EA3	Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, Soviet pilot †
3349 Manas	1979 FH2	Manas, a Kyrgyz epic poem†
3350 Scobee	1980 PJ	Francis "Dick" Scobee, STS-51-L crew member
3351 Smith	1980 RN1	Michael J. Smith, STS-51-L crew member
3352 McAuliffe	1981 CW	Christa McAuliffe, STS-51-L crew member
3353 Jarvis	1981 YC	Gregory Jarvis, STS-51-L crew member
3354 McNair	1984 CW	Ronald McNair, STS-51-L crew member
3355 Onizuka	1984 CC1	Ellison Onizuka, STS-51-L crew member
3356 Resnik	1984 EU	Judith Resnik, STS-51-L crew member
3357 Tolstikov	1984 FT	Yevgeny Ivanovich Tolstikov, Russian meteorologist † ‡ +
3358 Anikushin	1978 RX	Mikhail Anikushin, Russian sculptor †
3359 Purcari	1978 RA6	Moldavian wine producer †
3360 Syrinx	1981 VA	Syrinx, a nymph
3361 Orpheus	1982 HR	Orpheus, mythological Greek musician
3362 Khufu	1984 QA	Khufu, Egyptian pharaoh
3363 Bowen	1960 EE	Ira Sprague Bowen, American astronomer*
3364 Zdenka	1984 GF	Zdenka Vávrová, Czech astronomer † OR Zdenka Kadla, Chechen-Russian astronomer, wife of A. A. Mikhailov ‡
3365 Recogne	1985 CG2	Recogne in the Ardennes, Belgium*
3366 Gödel	1985 SD1	Kurt Gödel, Austro-Hungarian logician
3367 Alex	1983 CA3	Alex R. Baltutis, grandson of the discoverer [LDS]
3368 Duncombe	1985 QT	Raynor Lockwood Duncombe, American astronomer*
3369 Freuchen	1985 UZ	Peter Freuchen, Danish polar explorer and author*
3370 Kohsai	1934 CU	Hiroki Kosai, Japanese astronomer
3371 Giacconi	1955 RZ	Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born American astrophysicist and winner (with Raymond Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2002*
3372 Bratijchuk	1976 SP4	M. V. Bratiichuk, Ukrainian astronomer*
3373 Koktebelia	1978 QQ2	Koktebel, a resort on the Black Sea in Crimea*
3374 Namur	1980 KO	Namur, capital of the region of Wallonia in Belgium*
3375 Amy	1981 JY1	Amy Shoemaker Prescott, relative of the discoverer [LDS]
3376 Armandhammer	1982 UJ8	Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector*
3377 Lodewijk	4122 P-L	Lodewijk Woltjer, Dutch astronomer †
3378 Susanvictoria	A922 WB	Susan Titus and Victoria Van Biesbroeck Streeter, granddaughters of the discoverer [LDS]
3379 Oishi	1931 TJ1	Hideo Oishi, Japanese amateur astronomer
3380 Awaji	1940 EF	Awaji Island, Japan
3381 Mikkola	1941 UG	Seppo Mikkola, Finnish astronomer*
3382 Cassidy	1948 RD	William Arthur Cassidy, American meteoriticist*
3383 Koyama	1951 AB	Hisako Koyama, Japanese amateur astronomer
3384 Daliya	1974 SB1	Vladimir Dahl, Russian lexicologist and ethnographer [LDS]
3385 Bronnina	1979 SK11	Nina Mikhajlovna Bronnikova, Russian astronomer †
3386 Klementinum	1980 FA	The Clementinum, college in Prague †
3387 Greenberg	1981 WE	Richard J. Greenberg, planetary scientist at the University of ArizonaMPC 12803, not Jerome Mayo Greenberg (J. Mayo Greenberg), American cosmochemist*
3388 Tsanghinchi	1981 YR1	Hin-Chi Tsang, Chinese*
3389 Sinzot	1984 DU	Family name of the discoverer's grandmother [LDS]
3390 Demanet	1984 ES1	The family name of the discoverer's paternal grandmotherr* [MPC 15573]
3391 Sinon	1977 DD3	Sinon, mythical Greek warrior
3392 Setouchi	1979 YB	Setouchi Region, Japan
3393 Štúr	1984 WY1	Ľudovít Štúr(1815-1856), Slovak leader and writer [LDS]
3394 Banno	1986 DB	Yoshiaki Banno, Japanese engineer
3395 Jitka	1985 UN	Jitka Beneš, Czech astronomer †
3396 Muazzez	A915 TE	Muazzez K. Lohmiller, staff member of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [LDS]
3397 Leyla	1964 XA	Nancy Leyla Lohmiller, daughter of Muazzez Lohmiller [LDS]
3398 Stättmayer	1978 PC	Peter Stättmayer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) † ‡
3399 Kobzon	1979 SZ9	Joseph Kobzon, Soviet singer †
3400 Aotearoa	1981 GX	Māori name for New Zealand*
3401–3500 edit
3401 Vanphilos	1981 PA	Named by G. V. Williams in honor of his friends Vanessa Hall and Philip Osborne
3402 Wisdom	1981 PB	Jack Wisdom, American astronomer*
3403 Tammy	1981 SW	*
3404 Hinderer	1934 CY	Fritz Hinderer, German astronomer*
3405 Daiwensai	1964 UQ	Wen-Sai Dai, Chinese astronomer*
3406 Omsk	1969 DA	Omsk, Russia †
3407 Jimmysimms	1973 DT	James A. C. Simms III, American system administrator [MPC 34618]
3408 Shalamov	1977 QG4	Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, Soviet writer †
3409 Abramov	1977 RE6	Fyodor Abramov, Soviet writer †
3410 Vereshchagin	1978 SZ7	Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin, Russian painter †
3411 Debetencourt	1980 LK	*
3412 Kafka	1983 AU2	Franz Kafka, German-Czech writer
3413 Andriana	1983 CB3	*
3414 Champollion	1983 DJ	Jean-François Champollion, French linguist
3415 Danby	1928 SL	Anthony Danby (John Michael Anthony Danby), British-born mathematician formerly of North Carolina State University †
3416 Dorrit	1931 VP	Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer
3417 Tamblyn	1937 GG	Peter Tamblyn, American astronomer [3]
3418 Izvekov	1973 QZ1	Vladimir Andreevich Izvekov, Soviet astronomer † ‡
3419 Guth	1981 JZ	Vladimír Guth, Slovak astronomer †
3420 Standish	1984 EB	E Myles Standish Jr, American astronomer, Caltech/JPL
3421 Yangchenning	1975 WK1	Yang Zhenning (Chen Ning Franklin Yang), Chinese-American physicist
3422 Reid	1978 OJ	*
3423 Slouka	1981 CK	Hubert Slouka, Czech astronomer †
3424 Nušl	1982 CD	František Nušl, Czech astronomer and mathematician †
3425 Hurukawa	1929 BD	Kiichiro Hurukawa, Japanese astronomer
3426 Seki	1932 CQ	Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer*
3427 Szentmártoni	1938 AD	Béla Szentmártoni, Hungarian amateur astronomer † ‡ ┼
3428 Roberts	1952 JH	Walter Orr Roberts, American astronomer and atmospheric physicist*
3429 Chuvaev	1974 SU1	Konstantin Konstantinovich Chuvaev, Soviet astronomer †
3430 Bradfield	1980 TF4	William A. Bradfield, Australian amateur astronomer*
3431 Nakano	1984 QC	Syuichi Nakano, Japanese astronomer
3432 Kobuchizawa	1986 EE	Kobuchizawa Observatory in Japan which contributes asteroid (Near Earth Objects) observations to the Minor Planet Center
3433 Fehrenbach	1963 TJ1	Charles Fehrenbach, French astronomer*
3434 Hurless	1981 VO	Carolyn Hurless, American amateur astronomer
3435 Boury	1981 XC2	Arsène Boury, Belgian astronomer*
3436 Ibadinov	1976 SS3	Hursandkul Ibadinov, Tajik astronomer †
3437 Kapitsa	1982 UZ5	Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978 †
3438 Inarradas	1974 SD5	*
3439 Lebofsky	1983 RL2	Larry Allen Lebofsky, or Marcia Jean Lebofsky, both American astronomers*
3440 Stampfer	1950 DD	Simon Stampfer, Austrian geodesist and astronomer, pioneer of cinematography*
3441 Pochaina	1969 TS1	Pochaina, a tributary of the Dnieper in the Ukraine
3442 Yashin	1978 TO7	Lev Yashin, Soviet goalkeeper
3443 Leetsungdao	1979 SB1	Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics*
3444 Stepanian	1980 RJ2	Jivan A. Stepanian, Armenian astronomer*
3445 Pinson	1983 FC	William H. Pinson, American geochemist*
3446 Combes	1942 EB	Michel-Alain Combes, French astronomer
3447 Burckhalter	1956 SC	Charles Burckhalter, American astronomer*
3448 Narbut	1977 QA5	*
3449 Abell	1978 VR9	George O. Abell, American astronomer*
3450 Dommanget	1983 QJ	Jean Dommanget, Belgian astronomer*
3451 Mentor	1984 HA1	Mentor, mythological Greek king, son of Imbrus at Pedaseus, father of Imbrius, ally of the Trojans †
3452 Hawke	1980 OA	Bernard Ray Hawke, American planetary geologist*
3453 Dostoevsky	1981 SS5	Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer
3454 Lieske	1981 WB1	Jay Henry Lieske, American astronomer*
3455 Kristensen	1985 QC	Leif Kahl Kristensen, Danish astronomer*
3456 Etiennemarey	1985 RS2	Étienne-Jules Marey, French surgeon, physiologist, inventor of the chronophotograph, pioneer of cinematography, contemporary of Eadweard Muybridge
3457 Arnenordheim	1985 RA3	Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer*
3458 Boduognat	1985 RT3	Boduognat or Boduognatus, leader of the Nervii in Gaul who, with the Atrebates and Viromandui, fought Julius Caesar in 57 BC
3459 Bodil	1986 GB	*
3460 Ashkova	1973 QB2	*
3461 Mandelshtam	1977 SA1	Osip Mandelstam, Soviet poet †
3462 Zhouguangzhao	1981 UA10	Zhou Guangzhao
3463 Kaokuen	1981 XJ2	Charles K. Kao
3464 Owensby	1983 BA	*
3465 Trevires	1984 SQ5	*
3466 Ritina	1975 EA6	discoverer's daughter Margarita, who was also an astronomer at CrAO †
3467 Bernheim	1981 SF2	Robert Burnham, Jr. †
3468 Urgenta	1975 AM	*
3469 Bulgakov	1982 UL7	Mikhail Bulgakov, Soviet writer †
3470 Yaronika	1975 ES	discoverer's son Yaroslav, who also works at CrAO†
3471 Amelin	1977 QK2	Valentin Mikhailovich Amelin, Soviet geodesist †
3472 Upgren	1981 EJ10	Arthur Reinhold Upgren, American astronomer*
3473 Sapporo	A924 EG	Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan*
3474 Linsley	1962 HE	*
3475 Fichte	1972 TD	Hubert Fichte, German writer [MPC 34618]
3476 Dongguan	1978 UF2	Dongguan, China
3477 Kazbegi	1979 KH	Mount Kazbek, on the border between Georgia and Russia
3478 Fanale	1979 XG	Fraser Partington Fanale, American planetary geologist*
3479 Malaparte	1980 TQ	Curzio Malaparte (Kurt (Erich) Suckert), Italian writer †
3480 Abante	1981 GB	*
3481 Xianglupeak	1982 DS6	Xianglu Peak ("Incense Burner Peak", 557 m), highest point of the Fragrant Hill Park, northwest of Beijing, China †
3482 Lesnaya	1975 VY4	village Lesnaya, near which Swedes were defeated by the Russian army in the Battle of Lesnaya †
3483 Svetlov	1976 YP2	Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Soviet poet †
3484 Neugebauer	1978 NE	Paul Victor Neugebauer, German astronomer or Otto Neugebauer, historian of astronomy, or Marcia Neugebauer, American astronomer*
3485 Barucci	1983 NU	Maria Antonietta Barucci, Italian astronomer*
3486 Fulchignoni	1984 CR	Marcello Fulchignoni, Italian astronomer
3487 Edgeworth	1978 UF	Kenneth Essex Edgeworth, Irish engineer [MPC 34618]
3488 Brahic	1980 PM	André Brahic, French astronomer*
3489 Lottie	1983 AT2	*
3490 Šolc	1984 SV	Ivan Šolc, Czech inventor †
3491 Fridolin	1984 SM4	Fridolin Becker, Swiss cartographer or Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician or Saint Fridolin (Fridolin von Säckingen), Irish missionary*
3492 Petra-Pepi	1985 DQ	Daughter of the discoverer [MPC 21955] †
3493 Stepanov	1976 GR6	Vladimir Yevgenyevich Stepanov, Soviet physicist †
3494 Purple Mountain	1980 XW	Purple Mountain Observatory, China
3495 Colchagua	1981 NU	Colchagua Province, Chile †
3496 Arieso	1977 RC	name consists of acronyms of Astronomisches Rechen-Institut and the European Southern Observatory †
3497 Innanen	1941 HJ	Kimmo Innanen, Finnish-Canadian astronomer †
3498 Belton	1981 EG14	Michael James Scott Belton, astronomer †
3499 Hoppe	1981 VW1	Johannes Hoppe, German astronomer, or Peter Hoppe, German planetary scientist*
3500 Kobayashi	A919 SD	Takao Kobayashi, astronomer*

Preceded by 2,501–3,000

Meanings of minor planet names List of minor planets: 3,001–3,500

Succeeded by 3,501–4,000