Meanings of minor planet names: 3001–3100

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Name	Provisional designation	Source of name
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 †

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