Meanings of minor planet names: 3201–3300

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Name	Provisional designation	Source of name
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.

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