Meanings of minor planet names: 3101–3200

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Name	Provisional designation	Source of name
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]

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