Meanings of asteroid names (3001-3500)

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This is a list of the sources of asteroid names. Those meanings marked with an asterisk (*) are guesswork, and should be checked against Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names to ensure that the identification is correct. Names established from other sources should quote the reference.

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

Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
3001-3100
3001 Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor
3002 Delasalle *
3003 Konček 1983 YH Mikuláš Konček, Slovak meteorologist [†]
3004 Knud 1976 DD *
3005 Pervictoralex Per Victor Alexander Lagerkvist, son of the discoverer [†]
3006 Livadia Livadiya Palace, where the Yalta Conference took place
3007 Reaves 1979 UC Gibson Reaves, American astronomer*
3008 Nojiri 1938 WA Houei Nojiri, Japanese essayist and astronomer
3009 Coventry Coventry, England*
3010 Ushakov Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander [†]
3011 Chongqing Probably, large Chinese "provincial-level municipality" of Chongqing*
3012 Minsk Minsk, Belarus
3013 Dobrovoleva *
3014 Huangsushu 1979 TM *
3015 Candy 1980 VN *
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 Anglo-Saxon woman
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
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 *
3025 Higson 1982 QR *
3026 Sarastro Sarastro, the wise priest, in Mozart's The Magic Flute
3027 Shavarsh Xerxes of Armenia (Shavarsh)*
3028 Zhangguoxi *
3029 Sanders *
3030 Vehrenberg Hans Vehrenberg, German amateur astronomer, author of the Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors (Mein Messier-Buch) [†] [‡]
3031 Houston 1984 CX Houston, Texas
3032 Evans David Stanley Evans, British-born astronomer*
3033 Holbaek 1984 EJ *
3034 Climenhaga A917 SE John L. Climenhaga, Canadian astronomer [†]
3035 Chambers A924 EJ *
3036 Krat 1937 TO Vladimir Alekseevich Krat, Russian astronomer*
3037 Alku 1944 BA Discoverer's boat
3038 Bernes Mark Bernes, Russian singer*
3039 Yangel Mikhail Kuz'mich Yangel', Russian rocket and missile designer [†]
3040 Kozai 1979 BA Yoshihide Kozai, Japanese astronomer*
3041 Webb 1980 GD Rev. Thomas William Webb, British amateur astronomer, author of Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes*
3042 Zelinsky D. Zelinsky, American astronomer*
3043 San Diego 1982 SA San Diego, California, in recognition of its efforts to curb light pollution
3044 Saltykov Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist
3045 Alois 1984 AW *
3046 Molière 4120 P-L Molière, French playwright
3047 Goethe 6091 P-L Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
3048 Guangzhou probably Guangzhou, large Chinese city*
3049 Kuzbass 1968 FH Kuznets Basin, an industrial region (Kemerovo Region) of Siberia, known for its coalmining
3050 Carrera 1972 NW *
3051 Nantong 1974 YP *
3052 Herzen Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and "father of Russian socialism"
3053 Dresden 1977 QS Dresden, Germany*
3054 Strugatskia Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writers*
3055 Annapavlova Anna Pavlova, Russian ballet dancer [†]
3056 INAG Institut national d'astronomie et de géophysique*
3057 Mälaren 1981 EG Lake Mälaren, Sweden*
3058 Delmary *
3059 Pryor *
3060 Delcano Juan Sebastian delCaño, Explorer,Captain of the ship Victoria, sailed with Magellan*
3061 Cook *
3062 Wren 1982 XC Sir Christopher Wren, English architect*
3063 Makhaon 1983 PV Makhaon, mythical person related to Trojan War*
3064 Zimmer Louis Zimmer, Belgian (Flemish) clockmaker and amateur astronomer [†]
3065 Sarahill 1984 CV *
3066 McFadden 1984 EO Lucy-Ann McFadden, American astronomer [†]
3067 Akhmatova Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
3068 Khanina *
3069 Heyrovský Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech physical chemist [†]
3070 Aitken 1949 GK Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer
3071 Nesterov see Nesterov*
3072 Vilnius Vilnius, Lithuania
3073 Kursk Kursk, Russia
3074 Popov *
3075 Bornmann *
3076 Garber *
3077 Henderson 1982 SK Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer, first Astronomer Royal for Scotland*
3078 Horrocks 1984 FG Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer and mathematician*
3079 Schiller 2578 P-L Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
3080 Moisseiev 1935 TE Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseev, Russian dancer and choreographer or Vladimir Moiseyev, Russian conductor*
3081 Martinůboh 1971 UP Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer
3082 Dzhalil 1972 KE Musa Calil, Tatar poet
3083 OAFA 1974 MH Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar*
3084 Kondratyuk *
3085 Donna 1980 DA *
3086 Kalbaugh 1980 XE *
3087 Beatrice Tinsley Beatrice Tinsley, British-born New Zealand astronomer
3088 Jinxiuzhonghua *
3089 Oujianquan *
3090 Tjossem 1982 AN *
3091 van den Heuvel 6081 P-L Edward Peter Jacobus van den Heuvel, Dutch astronomer [†]
3092 Herodotus 6550 P-L Herodotus, Ancient Greek historian
3093 Bergholz 1971 MG Olga Bergholz, Russian poetess [†]
3094 Chukokkala Title of a work by the Russian author Kornei Chukovsky
3095 Omarkhayyam Omar Khayyám, Persian poet
3096 Bezruč Petr Bezruč, Czech poet [†]
3097 Tacitus 2011 P-L Tacitus, Roman historian
3098 van Sprang 4579 P-L Bert van Sprang, Dutch meteor specialist [†]
3099 Hergenrother 1940 GF Carl W. Hergenrother, American astronomer*
3100 Zimmerman *
3101-3200
3101 Goldberger 1978 GB *
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 Albrecht Dürer, artist*
3105 Stumpff A907 PB Karl Stumpff, German astronomer*
3106 Morabito 1981 EE Linda Morabito (afterwards Linda Kelly), Education Programs Manager at the Planetary Society [†]
3107 Weaver Harold Anthony Weaver, American astronomer, or Harold Francis Weaver, American astronomer, or William Bruce Weaver, American astronomer, or several other candidates*
3108 Lyubov 1972 QM *
3109 Machin 1974 DC Arnold Machin, British sculptor [MPC 34618]
3110 Wagman 1975 SC *
3111 Misuzu *
3112 Velimir *
3113 Chizhevskij 1978 RO *
3114 Ercilla *
3115 Baily 1981 PL Francis Baily, English astronomer*
3116 Goodricke 1983 CF John Goodricke, English (of Dutch descent) astronomer [†]
3117 Niepce Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer*
3118 Claytonsmith 1974 OD Clayton Smith of the United States Naval Observatory [†]
3119 Dobronravin 1972 YX Petr Pavlovich Dobronravin, Russian astronomer*
3120 Dangrania 1979 RZ Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, Russian writer [†]
3121 Tamines 1981 EV Tamines, Belgium*
3122 Florence Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer [MPC 21955]
3123 Dunham David Waring Dunham, American astronomer*
3124 Kansas 1981 VB Kansas, United States*
3125 Hay *
3126 Davydov *
3127 Bagration Pyotr Bagration, Russian (of Georgian descent) general who died at the Battle of Borodino in 1812*
3128 Obruchev Vladimir Obruchev, Russian geologist and fiction author*
3129 Bonestell 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 The Mason-Dixon line, USA*
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
3134 Kostinsky A921 VA S. K. Kostinskii, Russian astronomer, after whom the Kostinsky effect is named
3135 Lauer Tod Richard Lauer, American astronomer*
3136 Anshan Anshan, China*
3137 Horky Czech hill, site of Antonín Mrkos' first telescope [†]
3138 Ciney 1980 KL Ciney, Belgium*
3139 Shantou *
3140 Stellafane 1983 AO Stellafane, the annual starparty organized by the Springfield Telescope Makers
3141 Buchar 1984 RH Emil Buchar, Czech astronomer [†]
3142 Kilopi 1937 AC kilo pi (1000*π, rounds off to 3142)
3143 Genecampbell 1980 UA Gene Campbell? *
3144 Brosche Peter Brosche, German astronomer*
3145 Walter Adams 1955 RY Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer*
3146 Dato 1972 KG *
3147 Samantha Samantha Smith, American peace activist
3148 Grechko Georgii Mikhailovich Grechko, Russian astronaut, head of the laboratories of the Institute of Physics of the Atmosphere of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1985 to 1992*
3149 Okudzhava 1981 SH Bulat Okudzhava, Russian (of Georgian descent) poet and songwriter [†] [‡]
3150 Tosa 1983 CB Ancient name of Kochi, Japan
3151 Talbot 1983 HF William Henry Fox Talbot, British pioneer of photography*
3152 Jones 1983 LF *
3153 Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, American president*
3154 Grant Ulysses S. Grant, American president*
3155 Lee Robert E. Lee, American general*
3156 Ellington 1953 EE Duke Ellington, American musician*
3157 Novikov Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist*
3158 Anga *
3159 Prokof'ev Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
3160 Angerhofer 1980 LE P. E. Angerhofer, German astronomer*
3161 Beadell *
3162 Nostalgia 1980 YH *
3163 Randi 1981 QM James Randi, magician [†]
3164 Prast 6562 P-L *
3165 Mikawa 1984 QE *
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 Babcock, American astronomer*
3168 Lomnický Štít 1980 XM Lomnický Štít, Czech meteorological and solar observatory [†]
3169 Ostro 1981 LA Steven Jeffrey Ostro, American astronomer
3170 Dzhanibekov Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Russian cosmonaut*
3171 Wangshouguan 1979 WO *
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 Paolo Paolicchi, Italian astronomer
3177 Chillicothe 1934 AK One of the places named Chillicothe in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois? *
3178 Yoshitsune 1984 WA *
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*
3181 Ahnert 1964 EC Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer
3182 Shimanto 1984 WC Shimanto River, Japan
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 Clinton B. Ford, American amateur astronomer, at one time Secretary of the American Association of Variable Star Observers*
3186 Manuilova *
3187 Dalian Dalian, China
3188 Jekabsons 1978 OM *
3189 Penza Penza, Russia
3190 Aposhanskij *
3191 Svanetia Svanetia, a mountainous district in Georgia
3192 A'Hearn Michael Francis A'Hearn, American astronomer [†] [‡]
3193 Elliot 1982 DJ *
3194 Dorsey *
3195 Fedchenko Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, Russian explorer*
3196 Maklaj 1978 RY Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, Russian ethnologist [†]
3197 Weissman 1981 AD Paul Robert Weissman, American astronomer*
3198 Wallonia Wallonia (Walloon Region), one of the three federal regions of Belgium*
3199 Nefertiti 1982 RA Nefertiti, Egyptian queen*
3200 Phaethon 1983 TB Phaëton, mythological Greek
3201-3300
3201 Sijthoff 6560 P-L Albert Willem Sijthoff, Dutch publisher, who funded the construction of the Sijthoff Planetarium in the Hague in 1934. When that burned down in 1975, A. G. Sijthoff funded the construction of its replacement, the Omniversum [†]
3202 Graff A908 AA Kasimir Romuald Graff, German astronomer*
3203 Huth 1938 SL Hans Huth, German astronomer*
3204 Lindgren 1978 RH Mats Lindgren, Swedish astronomer (comet and minor planet researcher), or, Carlton Jay Lindgren, American astronomer, or Harri Lindgren, Swedish astronomer, or Bo Lindgren, Swedish astrophysicist
3205 Boksenberg Alec Boksenberg, British astronomer*
3206 Wuhan Wuhan, China
3207 Spinrad Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer*
3208 Lunn 1981 JM *
3209 Buchwald Vagn Fabritius Buchwald, Danish meteorite researcher*
3210 Lupishko Dmitrii Lupishko, Ukrainian astronomer*
3211 Louispharailda 1931 CE Louis Pharailda? *
3212 Agricola Georg Agricola, German scientist, "father of mineralogy"*
3213 Smolensk 1977 NQ Smolensk, Russia
3214 Makarenko E. N. Makarenko, Ukrainian astronomer*
3215 Lapko 1980 BQ *
3216 Harrington 1980 RB Robert Sutton Harrington, American astronomer [†]
3217 Seidelmann 1980 RK Paul Kenneth Seidelmann, American astronomer*
3218 Delphine 6611 P-L *
3219 Komaki 1934 CX *
3220 Murayama 1951 WF *
3221 Changshi *
3222 Liller 1983 NJ William Liller, American astronomer*
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*
3224 Irkutsk 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 Sunao 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, Russian playwright*
3231 Mila *
3232 Brest 1974 SL Brest, Brittany, French port and resort (though there is a lesser-known place of that name, a city and province in Belarus)*
3233 Krišbarons Kriš Barons, Lithuanian folklorist*
3234 Hergiani Mikhail Hergiani (Mihail Hergiani) "Misha", famous Georgian mountaineer*
3235 Melchior Paul Jacques Léon Melchior, Belgian geophysicist*
3236 Strand *
3237 Victorplatt Victor Platt, British actor*
3238 Timresovia *
3239 Meizhou Meizhou, China
3240 Laocoon Laocoön, Trojan priest of Poseidon
3241 Yeshuhua Shuhua Ye (or correct Chinese style: Ye Shuhua), Chinese astronomer*
3242 Bakhchisaraj Bakhchisaray, city and former capital of the Khanate (15th-18th centuries) of the Crimea, Ukraine
3243 Skytel 1980 DC *
3244 Petronius 4008 P-L Petronius, Roman writer
3245 Jensch Alfred Jensch, German astronomer*
3246 Bidstrup Philip Bidstrup, Danish astronomer (asteroid researcher)*
3247 Di Martino 1981 YE Mario di Martino, Italian astronomer*
3248 Farinella 1982 FK Paolo Farinella, Italian astronomer*
3249 Musashino 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 *
3253 Gradie 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 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 Donald Eugene Brownlee, American astronomer*
3260 Vizbor Yurii Iosifovich Vizbor, Russian actor, poet, writer, composer and playwright*
3261 Tvardovskij Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet*
3262 Miune 1983 WB Miune, mountain in Kochi, Japan
3263 Bligh 1932 CN William Bligh, captain of the Bounty
3264 Bounty 1934 AF HMAS Bounty, ship
3265 Fletcher 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 Alice Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer [†]
3270 Dudley 1982 DA 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 *
3272 Tillandz Elias Erici Tillandz (Elias Tillander), Swedish physician and botanist*
3273 Drukar *
3274 Maillen Maillen, Belgium*
3275 Oberndorfer Hans Oberndorfer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) [†] [‡]
3276 Porta Coeli Porta Coeli ("Gateway to Heaven") convent in Tišnov, Czech Republic [†]
3277 Aaronson 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 Frantsisk Skorina, first doctor of medicine in Belarus, printer and publisher*
3284 Niebuhr 1953 NB Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian*
3285 Ruth Wolfe Ruth F. Wolfe, American geologist, colleague of Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker at the United States Geological Survey*
3286 Anatoliya 1980 BV *
3287 Olmstead C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer*
3288 Seleucus 1982 DV Seleucus, Ancient Greek king*
3289 Mitani 1934 RP Tetsuyasu Mitani, Japanese astronomer or Takefumi Mitani, Japanese astronomer*
3290 Azabu *
3291 Dunlap David Dunlap Observatory*
3292 Sather 2631 P-L 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 *
3296 Bosque Alegre 1975 SF Named after the astrophysical station of Cordoba Observatory in Argentina
3297 Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
3298 Massandra *
3299 Hall Asaph Hall, American astronomer, or Donald Hall, American astronomer, or other candidates*
3300 McGlasson 1928 NA *
3301-3400
3301 Jansje 1978 CT Jansje Verveer, mother of Dutch astronomer Arie Verveer [†]
3302 Schliemann Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist*
3303 Merta 1967 UN *
3304 Pearce Joseph A. Pearce, Canadian astronomer [†]
3305 Ceadams 1985 KB Charles Edward Adams, American astronomer*
3306 Byron Lord Byron, British poet*
3307 Athabasca 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 *
3311 Podobed Vladimir Vladimirovich Podobed, Russian 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 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 *
3320 Namba Osamu Namba, Japanese astronomer*
3321 Dasha *
3322 Lidiya *
3323 Turgenev Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer
3324 Avsyuk 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 *
3329 Golay Marcel Golay, Swiss astronomer*
3330 Gantrisch Gantrisch, a mountain south of Bern in Switzerland*
3331 Kvistaberg 1979 QS Kvistaberg, site of Uppsala Observatory, Sweden [†]
3332 Raksha *
3333 Schaber Gerald Gene Schaber, American planetary geologist*
3334 Somov 1981 YR Mikhail M. Somov, Russian(?) Antarctic explorer [†] [‡]
3335 Quanzhou 1966 AA *
3336 Grygar 1971 UX Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer*
3337 Miloš *
3338 Richter Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist*
3339 Treshnikov 1978 LB Aleksei Fedorovich Treshnikov, Russian(?) Antarctic explorer [†]
3340 Yinhai 1979 TK *
3341 Hartmann 1980 OD William Kenneth Hartmann, American planetary scientist, writer, and painter [†]
3342 Fivesparks *
3343 Nedzel 1982 HS *
3344 Modena 1982 JA *
3345 Tarkovskij Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director*
3346 Gerla 1951 SD *
3347 Konstantin *
3348 Pokryshkin Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, Russian air ace*
3349 Manas Manas, a Kirghiz epic*
3350 Scobee 1980 PJ Francis "Dick" Scobee, STS-51-L crew member
3351 Smith 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 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 Purcari in Moldova, a region known for its wines*
3360 - 1981 VA *
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 [†]
3365 Recogne Recogne in the Ardennes, Belgium*
3366 Gödel Kurt Gödel, Austro-Hungarian logician
3367 Alex *
3368 Duncombe 1985 QT Raynor Lockwood Duncombe, American astronomer*
3369 Freuchen 1985 UZ Peter Freuchen, Norwegian polar explorer and author*
3370 Kohsai 1934 CU *
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 M. V. Bratiichuk, Ukrainian astronomer*
3373 Koktebelia Koktebel, a resort on the Black Sea in Crimea*
3374 Namur 1980 KO Namur, capital of the region of Wallonia in Belgium*
3375 Amy *
3376 Armandhammer Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector*
3377 Lodewijk 4122 P-L Lodewijk Woltjer, Dutch astronomer [†]
3378 Susanvictoria A922 WB Susan Victoria? *
3379 Oishi Masayuki Oishi, Japanese astronomer*
3380 Awaji 1940 EF *
3381 Mikkola 1941 UG Seppo Mikkola, Finnish astronomer*
3382 Cassidy 1948 RD William Arthur Cassidy, American meteoricist*
3383 Koyama 1951 AB *
3384 Daliya *
3385 Bronnina *
3386 Klementinum 1980 FA The Klementinium, college in Prague [†]
3387 Greenberg 1981 WE Jerome Mayo Greenberg (J. Mayo Greenberg), American cosmochemist*
3388 Tsanghinchi *
3389 Sinzot 1984 DU *
3390 Demanet Victor Demanet, Belgian sculptor*
3391 Sinon Sinon, mythical Greek warrior
3392 Setouchi 1979 YB *
3393 Štúr *
3394 Banno 1986 DB Yoshiaki Banno, Japanese engineer
3395 Jitka 1985 UN Jitka Beneš, Czech astronomer [†]
3396 Muazzez A915 TE *
3397 Leyla 1964 XA *
3398 Stättmayer 1978 PC Peter Stättmayer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) [†] [‡]
3399 Kobzon Joseph Kobzon, Soviet crooner
3400 Aotearoa 1981 GX Maori name for New Zealand*
3401-3500
3401 Vanphilos 1981 PA *
3402 Wisdom 1981 PB Jack Leach Wisdom, American astronomer*
3403 Tammy 1981 SW *
3404 Hinderer 1934 CY Fritz Hinderer, German astronomer*
3405 Daiwensai 1964 UQ *
3406 Omsk 1969 DA Omsk, Russia
3407 Jimmysimms 1973 DT James A. C. Simms III, American system administrator [MPC 34618]
3408 Shalamov Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, Russian author*
3409 Abramov *
3410 Vereshchagin Sergei V. Vereshchagin, Russian astronomer or Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin, Russian artist*
3411 Debetencourt 1980 LK *
3412 Kafka Franz Kafka, German-Czech writer
3413 Andriana *
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 *
3418 Izvekov *
3419 Guth 1981 JZ Vladimír Guth, Slovak astronomer [†]
3420 Standish 1984 EB Myles Standish, American pilgrim father*
3421 Yangchenning 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 *
3426 Seki 1932 CQ Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer*
3427 Szentmártoni 1938 AD Béla Szentmártoni, Hungarian amateur astronomer [†] [‡] [┼]
3428 Roberts 1952 JH *
3429 Chuvaev K. K. Chuvaev, Russian (Ukrainian?) astronomer*
3430 Bradfield 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 Charles Fehrenbach, French astronomer*
3434 Hurless 1981 VO Carolyn Hurless, American amateur astronomer
3435 Boury Arsène Boury, Belgian astronomer*
3436 Ibadinov Khursand Ibadinov, Tajik astronomer
3437 Kapitsa Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978
3438 Inarradas *
3439 Lebofsky 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 Pochaina, a tributary of the Dnieper in the Ukraine
3442 Yashin Leonid Yashin, Soviet goalkeeper
3443 Leetsungdao Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics*
3444 Stepanian 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 *
3449 Abell George Ogden Abell, American astronomer*
3450 Dommanget 1983 QJ Jean Dommanget, Belgian astronomer*
3451 Mentor 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 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer
3454 Lieske Jay Henry Lieske, American astronomer*
3455 Kristensen 1985 QC Leif Kahl Kristensen, Danish astronomer*
3456 Etiennemarey Étienne-Jules Marey, French surgeon, physiologist, inventor of the chronophotograph, pioneer of cinematography, contemporary of Eadweard Muybridge
3457 Arnenordheim Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer*
3458 Boduognat 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 *
3461 Mandelshtam Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet*
3462 Zhouguangzhao Zhou Guangzhao
3463 Kaokuen *
3464 Owensby 1983 BA *
3465 Trevires *
3466 Ritina *
3467 Bernheim Robert Burnham, Jr. [†]
3468 Urgenta 1975 AM *
3469 Bulgakov Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist*
3470 Yaronika 1975 ES *
3471 Amelin *
3472 Upgren 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 *
3477 Kazbegi 1979 KH Mount Kazbek, 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 - *
3482 Lesnaya *
3483 Svetlov Mikhail Svetlov (Mikhail Arkad'evich Svetlov), Russian poet or Mikhail Svetlov (Mikhail Svetlov-Krutikov), Russian opera singer*
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 *
3490 Šolc 1984 SV Ivan Šolc, Czech inventor [†]
3491 Fridolin 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 *
3494 Purple Mountain 1980 XW Purple Mountain Observatory, China
3495 Colchagua 1981 NU *
3496 Arieso 1977 RC *
3497 Innanen 1941 HJ Kimmo Innanen, Finnish-Canadian astronomer [†]
3498 Belton Michael James Scott Belton, astronomer [†]
3499 Hoppe Johannes Hoppe, German astronomer, or Peter Hoppe, German planetary scientist*
3500 Kobayashi A919 SD Takao Kobayashi, astronomer*

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
3001-3100
3001 Michelangelo		Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor
3002 Delasalle		*
3003 Konček	1983 YH	Mikuláš Konček, Slovak meteorologist [†]
3004 Knud	1976 DD	*
3005 Pervictoralex		Per Victor Alexander Lagerkvist, son of the discoverer [†]
3006 Livadia		Livadiya Palace, where the Yalta Conference took place
3007 Reaves	1979 UC	Gibson Reaves, American astronomer*
3008 Nojiri	1938 WA	Houei Nojiri, Japanese essayist and astronomer
3009 Coventry		Coventry, England*
3010 Ushakov		Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander [†]
3011 Chongqing		Probably, large Chinese "provincial-level municipality" of Chongqing*
3012 Minsk		Minsk, Belarus
3013 Dobrovoleva		*
3014 Huangsushu	1979 TM	*
3015 Candy	1980 VN	*
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 Anglo-Saxon woman
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
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		*
3025 Higson	1982 QR	*
3026 Sarastro		Sarastro, the wise priest, in Mozart's The Magic Flute
3027 Shavarsh		Xerxes of Armenia (Shavarsh)*
3028 Zhangguoxi		*
3029 Sanders		*
3030 Vehrenberg		Hans Vehrenberg, German amateur astronomer, author of the Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors (Mein Messier-Buch) [†] [‡]
3031 Houston	1984 CX	Houston, Texas
3032 Evans		David Stanley Evans, British-born astronomer*
3033 Holbaek	1984 EJ	*
3034 Climenhaga	A917 SE	John L. Climenhaga, Canadian astronomer [†]
3035 Chambers	A924 EJ	*
3036 Krat	1937 TO	Vladimir Alekseevich Krat, Russian astronomer*
3037 Alku	1944 BA	Discoverer's boat
3038 Bernes		Mark Bernes, Russian singer*
3039 Yangel		Mikhail Kuz'mich Yangel', Russian rocket and missile designer [†]
3040 Kozai	1979 BA	Yoshihide Kozai, Japanese astronomer*
3041 Webb	1980 GD	Rev. Thomas William Webb, British amateur astronomer, author of Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes*
3042 Zelinsky		D. Zelinsky, American astronomer*
3043 San Diego	1982 SA	San Diego, California, in recognition of its efforts to curb light pollution
3044 Saltykov		Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian satirist
3045 Alois	1984 AW	*
3046 Molière	4120 P-L	Molière, French playwright
3047 Goethe	6091 P-L	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
3048 Guangzhou		probably Guangzhou, large Chinese city*
3049 Kuzbass	1968 FH	Kuznets Basin, an industrial region (Kemerovo Region) of Siberia, known for its coalmining
3050 Carrera	1972 NW	*
3051 Nantong	1974 YP	*
3052 Herzen		Alexander Herzen, Russian writer and "father of Russian socialism"
3053 Dresden	1977 QS	Dresden, Germany*
3054 Strugatskia		Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Russian science fiction writers*
3055 Annapavlova		Anna Pavlova, Russian ballet dancer [†]
3056 INAG		Institut national d'astronomie et de géophysique*
3057 Mälaren	1981 EG	Lake Mälaren, Sweden*
3058 Delmary		*
3059 Pryor		*
3060 Delcano		Juan Sebastian delCaño, Explorer,Captain of the ship Victoria, sailed with Magellan*
3061 Cook		*
3062 Wren	1982 XC	Sir Christopher Wren, English architect*
3063 Makhaon	1983 PV	Makhaon, mythical person related to Trojan War*
3064 Zimmer		Louis Zimmer, Belgian (Flemish) clockmaker and amateur astronomer [†]
3065 Sarahill	1984 CV	*
3066 McFadden	1984 EO	Lucy-Ann McFadden, American astronomer [†]
3067 Akhmatova		Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet
3068 Khanina		*
3069 Heyrovský		Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech physical chemist [†]
3070 Aitken	1949 GK	Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer
3071 Nesterov		see Nesterov*
3072 Vilnius		Vilnius, Lithuania
3073 Kursk		Kursk, Russia
3074 Popov		*
3075 Bornmann		*
3076 Garber		*
3077 Henderson	1982 SK	Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer, first Astronomer Royal for Scotland*
3078 Horrocks	1984 FG	Jeremiah Horrocks, English astronomer and mathematician*
3079 Schiller	2578 P-L	Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
3080 Moisseiev	1935 TE	Igor Aleksandrovich Moiseev, Russian dancer and choreographer or Vladimir Moiseyev, Russian conductor*
3081 Martinůboh	1971 UP	Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer
3082 Dzhalil	1972 KE	Musa Calil, Tatar poet
3083 OAFA	1974 MH	Observatorio Astronómico Félix Aguilar*
3084 Kondratyuk		*
3085 Donna	1980 DA	*
3086 Kalbaugh	1980 XE	*
3087 Beatrice Tinsley		Beatrice Tinsley, British-born New Zealand astronomer
3088 Jinxiuzhonghua		*
3089 Oujianquan		*
3090 Tjossem	1982 AN	*
3091 van den Heuvel	6081 P-L	Edward Peter Jacobus van den Heuvel, Dutch astronomer [†]
3092 Herodotus	6550 P-L	Herodotus, Ancient Greek historian
3093 Bergholz	1971 MG	Olga Bergholz, Russian poetess [†]
3094 Chukokkala		Title of a work by the Russian author Kornei Chukovsky
3095 Omarkhayyam		Omar Khayyám, Persian poet
3096 Bezruč		Petr Bezruč, Czech poet [†]
3097 Tacitus	2011 P-L	Tacitus, Roman historian
3098 van Sprang	4579 P-L	Bert van Sprang, Dutch meteor specialist [†]
3099 Hergenrother	1940 GF	Carl W. Hergenrother, American astronomer*
3100 Zimmerman		*
3101-3200
3101 Goldberger	1978 GB	*
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		Albrecht Dürer, artist*
3105 Stumpff	A907 PB	Karl Stumpff, German astronomer*
3106 Morabito	1981 EE	Linda Morabito (afterwards Linda Kelly), Education Programs Manager at the Planetary Society [†]
3107 Weaver		Harold Anthony Weaver, American astronomer, or Harold Francis Weaver, American astronomer, or William Bruce Weaver, American astronomer, or several other candidates*
3108 Lyubov	1972 QM	*
3109 Machin	1974 DC	Arnold Machin, British sculptor [MPC 34618]
3110 Wagman	1975 SC	*
3111 Misuzu		*
3112 Velimir		*
3113 Chizhevskij	1978 RO	*
3114 Ercilla		*
3115 Baily	1981 PL	Francis Baily, English astronomer*
3116 Goodricke	1983 CF	John Goodricke, English (of Dutch descent) astronomer [†]
3117 Niepce		Nicéphore Niépce, French photography pioneer*
3118 Claytonsmith	1974 OD	Clayton Smith of the United States Naval Observatory [†]
3119 Dobronravin	1972 YX	Petr Pavlovich Dobronravin, Russian astronomer*
3120 Dangrania	1979 RZ	Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin, Russian writer [†]
3121 Tamines	1981 EV	Tamines, Belgium*
3122 Florence		Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer [MPC 21955]
3123 Dunham		David Waring Dunham, American astronomer*
3124 Kansas	1981 VB	Kansas, United States*
3125 Hay		*
3126 Davydov		*
3127 Bagration		Pyotr Bagration, Russian (of Georgian descent) general who died at the Battle of Borodino in 1812*
3128 Obruchev		Vladimir Obruchev, Russian geologist and fiction author*
3129 Bonestell		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		The Mason-Dixon line, USA*
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
3134 Kostinsky	A921 VA	S. K. Kostinskii, Russian astronomer, after whom the Kostinsky effect is named
3135 Lauer		Tod Richard Lauer, American astronomer*
3136 Anshan		Anshan, China*
3137 Horky		Czech hill, site of Antonín Mrkos' first telescope [†]
3138 Ciney	1980 KL	Ciney, Belgium*
3139 Shantou		*
3140 Stellafane	1983 AO	Stellafane, the annual starparty organized by the Springfield Telescope Makers
3141 Buchar	1984 RH	Emil Buchar, Czech astronomer [†]
3142 Kilopi	1937 AC	kilo pi (1000*π, rounds off to 3142)
3143 Genecampbell	1980 UA	Gene Campbell? *
3144 Brosche		Peter Brosche, German astronomer*
3145 Walter Adams	1955 RY	Walter Sydney Adams, American astronomer*
3146 Dato	1972 KG	*
3147 Samantha		Samantha Smith, American peace activist
3148 Grechko		Georgii Mikhailovich Grechko, Russian astronaut, head of the laboratories of the Institute of Physics of the Atmosphere of the Russian Academy of Sciences from 1985 to 1992*
3149 Okudzhava	1981 SH	Bulat Okudzhava, Russian (of Georgian descent) poet and songwriter [†] [‡]
3150 Tosa	1983 CB	Ancient name of Kochi, Japan
3151 Talbot	1983 HF	William Henry Fox Talbot, British pioneer of photography*
3152 Jones	1983 LF	*
3153 Lincoln		Abraham Lincoln, American president*
3154 Grant		Ulysses S. Grant, American president*
3155 Lee		Robert E. Lee, American general*
3156 Ellington	1953 EE	Duke Ellington, American musician*
3157 Novikov		Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist*
3158 Anga		*
3159 Prokof'ev		Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer
3160 Angerhofer	1980 LE	P. E. Angerhofer, German astronomer*
3161 Beadell		*
3162 Nostalgia	1980 YH	*
3163 Randi	1981 QM	James Randi, magician [†]
3164 Prast	6562 P-L	*
3165 Mikawa	1984 QE	*
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 Babcock, American astronomer*
3168 Lomnický Štít	1980 XM	Lomnický Štít, Czech meteorological and solar observatory [†]
3169 Ostro	1981 LA	Steven Jeffrey Ostro, American astronomer
3170 Dzhanibekov		Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Russian cosmonaut*
3171 Wangshouguan	1979 WO	*
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		Paolo Paolicchi, Italian astronomer
3177 Chillicothe	1934 AK	One of the places named Chillicothe in Ohio, Missouri, or Illinois? *
3178 Yoshitsune	1984 WA	*
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*
3181 Ahnert	1964 EC	Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer
3182 Shimanto	1984 WC	Shimanto River, Japan
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		Clinton B. Ford, American amateur astronomer, at one time Secretary of the American Association of Variable Star Observers*
3186 Manuilova		*
3187 Dalian		Dalian, China
3188 Jekabsons	1978 OM	*
3189 Penza		Penza, Russia
3190 Aposhanskij		*
3191 Svanetia		Svanetia, a mountainous district in Georgia
3192 A'Hearn		Michael Francis A'Hearn, American astronomer [†] [‡]
3193 Elliot	1982 DJ	*
3194 Dorsey		*
3195 Fedchenko		Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko, Russian explorer*
3196 Maklaj	1978 RY	Nicholai Miklukho-Maklai, Russian ethnologist [†]
3197 Weissman	1981 AD	Paul Robert Weissman, American astronomer*
3198 Wallonia		Wallonia (Walloon Region), one of the three federal regions of Belgium*
3199 Nefertiti	1982 RA	Nefertiti, Egyptian queen*
3200 Phaethon	1983 TB	Phaëton, mythological Greek
3201-3300
3201 Sijthoff	6560 P-L	Albert Willem Sijthoff, Dutch publisher, who funded the construction of the Sijthoff Planetarium in the Hague in 1934. When that burned down in 1975, A. G. Sijthoff funded the construction of its replacement, the Omniversum [†]
3202 Graff	A908 AA	Kasimir Romuald Graff, German astronomer*
3203 Huth	1938 SL	Hans Huth, German astronomer*
3204 Lindgren	1978 RH	Mats Lindgren, Swedish astronomer (comet and minor planet researcher), or, Carlton Jay Lindgren, American astronomer, or Harri Lindgren, Swedish astronomer, or Bo Lindgren, Swedish astrophysicist
3205 Boksenberg		Alec Boksenberg, British astronomer*
3206 Wuhan		Wuhan, China
3207 Spinrad		Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer*
3208 Lunn	1981 JM	*
3209 Buchwald		Vagn Fabritius Buchwald, Danish meteorite researcher*
3210 Lupishko		Dmitrii Lupishko, Ukrainian astronomer*
3211 Louispharailda	1931 CE	Louis Pharailda? *
3212 Agricola		Georg Agricola, German scientist, "father of mineralogy"*
3213 Smolensk	1977 NQ	Smolensk, Russia
3214 Makarenko		E. N. Makarenko, Ukrainian astronomer*
3215 Lapko	1980 BQ	*
3216 Harrington	1980 RB	Robert Sutton Harrington, American astronomer [†]
3217 Seidelmann	1980 RK	Paul Kenneth Seidelmann, American astronomer*
3218 Delphine	6611 P-L	*
3219 Komaki	1934 CX	*
3220 Murayama	1951 WF	*
3221 Changshi		*
3222 Liller	1983 NJ	William Liller, American astronomer*
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*
3224 Irkutsk		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	Sunao 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, Russian playwright*
3231 Mila		*
3232 Brest	1974 SL	Brest, Brittany, French port and resort (though there is a lesser-known place of that name, a city and province in Belarus)*
3233 Krišbarons		Kriš Barons, Lithuanian folklorist*
3234 Hergiani		Mikhail Hergiani (Mihail Hergiani) "Misha", famous Georgian mountaineer*
3235 Melchior		Paul Jacques Léon Melchior, Belgian geophysicist*
3236 Strand		*
3237 Victorplatt		Victor Platt, British actor*
3238 Timresovia		*
3239 Meizhou		Meizhou, China
3240 Laocoon		Laocoön, Trojan priest of Poseidon
3241 Yeshuhua		Shuhua Ye (or correct Chinese style: Ye Shuhua), Chinese astronomer*
3242 Bakhchisaraj		Bakhchisaray, city and former capital of the Khanate (15th-18th centuries) of the Crimea, Ukraine
3243 Skytel	1980 DC	*
3244 Petronius	4008 P-L	Petronius, Roman writer
3245 Jensch		Alfred Jensch, German astronomer*
3246 Bidstrup		Philip Bidstrup, Danish astronomer (asteroid researcher)*
3247 Di Martino	1981 YE	Mario di Martino, Italian astronomer*
3248 Farinella	1982 FK	Paolo Farinella, Italian astronomer*
3249 Musashino		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		*
3253 Gradie		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		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		Donald Eugene Brownlee, American astronomer*
3260 Vizbor		Yurii Iosifovich Vizbor, Russian actor, poet, writer, composer and playwright*
3261 Tvardovskij		Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Russian poet*
3262 Miune	1983 WB	Miune, mountain in Kochi, Japan
3263 Bligh	1932 CN	William Bligh, captain of the Bounty
3264 Bounty	1934 AF	HMAS Bounty, ship
3265 Fletcher		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		Alice Vibert Douglas, Canadian astronomer [†]
3270 Dudley	1982 DA	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	*
3272 Tillandz		Elias Erici Tillandz (Elias Tillander), Swedish physician and botanist*
3273 Drukar		*
3274 Maillen		Maillen, Belgium*
3275 Oberndorfer		Hans Oberndorfer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) [†] [‡]
3276 Porta Coeli		Porta Coeli ("Gateway to Heaven") convent in Tišnov, Czech Republic [†]
3277 Aaronson		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		Frantsisk Skorina, first doctor of medicine in Belarus, printer and publisher*
3284 Niebuhr	1953 NB	Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian*
3285 Ruth Wolfe		Ruth F. Wolfe, American geologist, colleague of Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker at the United States Geological Survey*
3286 Anatoliya	1980 BV	*
3287 Olmstead		C. Michelle Olmstead, American astronomer*
3288 Seleucus	1982 DV	Seleucus, Ancient Greek king*
3289 Mitani	1934 RP	Tetsuyasu Mitani, Japanese astronomer or Takefumi Mitani, Japanese astronomer*
3290 Azabu		*
3291 Dunlap		David Dunlap Observatory*
3292 Sather	2631 P-L	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	*
3296 Bosque Alegre	1975 SF	Named after the astrophysical station of Cordoba Observatory in Argentina
3297 Hong Kong		Hong Kong, China
3298 Massandra		*
3299 Hall		Asaph Hall, American astronomer, or Donald Hall, American astronomer, or other candidates*
3300 McGlasson	1928 NA	*
3301-3400
3301 Jansje	1978 CT	Jansje Verveer, mother of Dutch astronomer Arie Verveer [†]
3302 Schliemann		Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist*
3303 Merta	1967 UN	*
3304 Pearce		Joseph A. Pearce, Canadian astronomer [†]
3305 Ceadams	1985 KB	Charles Edward Adams, American astronomer*
3306 Byron		Lord Byron, British poet*
3307 Athabasca		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		*
3311 Podobed		Vladimir Vladimirovich Podobed, Russian 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		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		*
3320 Namba		Osamu Namba, Japanese astronomer*
3321 Dasha		*
3322 Lidiya		*
3323 Turgenev		Ivan Turgenev, Russian writer
3324 Avsyuk		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		*
3329 Golay		Marcel Golay, Swiss astronomer*
3330 Gantrisch		Gantrisch, a mountain south of Bern in Switzerland*
3331 Kvistaberg	1979 QS	Kvistaberg, site of Uppsala Observatory, Sweden [†]
3332 Raksha		*
3333 Schaber		Gerald Gene Schaber, American planetary geologist*
3334 Somov	1981 YR	Mikhail M. Somov, Russian(?) Antarctic explorer [†] [‡]
3335 Quanzhou	1966 AA	*
3336 Grygar	1971 UX	Jiří Grygar, Czech astronomer*
3337 Miloš		*
3338 Richter		Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist*
3339 Treshnikov	1978 LB	Aleksei Fedorovich Treshnikov, Russian(?) Antarctic explorer [†]
3340 Yinhai	1979 TK	*
3341 Hartmann	1980 OD	William Kenneth Hartmann, American planetary scientist, writer, and painter [†]
3342 Fivesparks		*
3343 Nedzel	1982 HS	*
3344 Modena	1982 JA	*
3345 Tarkovskij		Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director*
3346 Gerla	1951 SD	*
3347 Konstantin		*
3348 Pokryshkin		Aleksandr Ivanovich Pokryshkin, Russian air ace*
3349 Manas		Manas, a Kirghiz epic*
3350 Scobee	1980 PJ	Francis "Dick" Scobee, STS-51-L crew member
3351 Smith		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		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		Purcari in Moldova, a region known for its wines*
3360 -	1981 VA	*
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 [†]
3365 Recogne		Recogne in the Ardennes, Belgium*
3366 Gödel		Kurt Gödel, Austro-Hungarian logician
3367 Alex		*
3368 Duncombe	1985 QT	Raynor Lockwood Duncombe, American astronomer*
3369 Freuchen	1985 UZ	Peter Freuchen, Norwegian polar explorer and author*
3370 Kohsai	1934 CU	*
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		M. V. Bratiichuk, Ukrainian astronomer*
3373 Koktebelia		Koktebel, a resort on the Black Sea in Crimea*
3374 Namur	1980 KO	Namur, capital of the region of Wallonia in Belgium*
3375 Amy		*
3376 Armandhammer		Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector*
3377 Lodewijk	4122 P-L	Lodewijk Woltjer, Dutch astronomer [†]
3378 Susanvictoria	A922 WB	Susan Victoria? *
3379 Oishi		Masayuki Oishi, Japanese astronomer*
3380 Awaji	1940 EF	*
3381 Mikkola	1941 UG	Seppo Mikkola, Finnish astronomer*
3382 Cassidy	1948 RD	William Arthur Cassidy, American meteoricist*
3383 Koyama	1951 AB	*
3384 Daliya		*
3385 Bronnina		*
3386 Klementinum	1980 FA	The Klementinium, college in Prague [†]
3387 Greenberg	1981 WE	Jerome Mayo Greenberg (J. Mayo Greenberg), American cosmochemist*
3388 Tsanghinchi		*
3389 Sinzot	1984 DU	*
3390 Demanet		Victor Demanet, Belgian sculptor*
3391 Sinon		Sinon, mythical Greek warrior
3392 Setouchi	1979 YB	*
3393 Štúr		*
3394 Banno	1986 DB	Yoshiaki Banno, Japanese engineer
3395 Jitka	1985 UN	Jitka Beneš, Czech astronomer [†]
3396 Muazzez	A915 TE	*
3397 Leyla	1964 XA	*
3398 Stättmayer	1978 PC	Peter Stättmayer, German amateur astronomer, director of the Volkssternwarte München (Munich Public Observatory) [†] [‡]
3399 Kobzon		Joseph Kobzon, Soviet crooner
3400 Aotearoa	1981 GX	Maori name for New Zealand*
3401-3500
3401 Vanphilos	1981 PA	*
3402 Wisdom	1981 PB	Jack Leach Wisdom, American astronomer*
3403 Tammy	1981 SW	*
3404 Hinderer	1934 CY	Fritz Hinderer, German astronomer*
3405 Daiwensai	1964 UQ	*
3406 Omsk	1969 DA	Omsk, Russia
3407 Jimmysimms	1973 DT	James A. C. Simms III, American system administrator [MPC 34618]
3408 Shalamov		Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov, Russian author*
3409 Abramov		*
3410 Vereshchagin		Sergei V. Vereshchagin, Russian astronomer or Vasilii Vasilievich Vereshchagin, Russian artist*
3411 Debetencourt	1980 LK	*
3412 Kafka		Franz Kafka, German-Czech writer
3413 Andriana		*
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	*
3418 Izvekov		*
3419 Guth	1981 JZ	Vladimír Guth, Slovak astronomer [†]
3420 Standish	1984 EB	Myles Standish, American pilgrim father*
3421 Yangchenning		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	*
3426 Seki	1932 CQ	Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer*
3427 Szentmártoni	1938 AD	Béla Szentmártoni, Hungarian amateur astronomer [†] [‡] [┼]
3428 Roberts	1952 JH	*
3429 Chuvaev		K. K. Chuvaev, Russian (Ukrainian?) astronomer*
3430 Bradfield		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		Charles Fehrenbach, French astronomer*
3434 Hurless	1981 VO	Carolyn Hurless, American amateur astronomer
3435 Boury		Arsène Boury, Belgian astronomer*
3436 Ibadinov		Khursand Ibadinov, Tajik astronomer
3437 Kapitsa		Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1978
3438 Inarradas		*
3439 Lebofsky		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		Pochaina, a tributary of the Dnieper in the Ukraine
3442 Yashin		Leonid Yashin, Soviet goalkeeper
3443 Leetsungdao		Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics*
3444 Stepanian		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		*
3449 Abell		George Ogden Abell, American astronomer*
3450 Dommanget	1983 QJ	Jean Dommanget, Belgian astronomer*
3451 Mentor		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		Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian writer
3454 Lieske		Jay Henry Lieske, American astronomer*
3455 Kristensen	1985 QC	Leif Kahl Kristensen, Danish astronomer*
3456 Etiennemarey		Étienne-Jules Marey, French surgeon, physiologist, inventor of the chronophotograph, pioneer of cinematography, contemporary of Eadweard Muybridge
3457 Arnenordheim		Arne Nordheim, Norwegian composer*
3458 Boduognat		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		*
3461 Mandelshtam		Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet*
3462 Zhouguangzhao		Zhou Guangzhao
3463 Kaokuen		*
3464 Owensby	1983 BA	*
3465 Trevires		*
3466 Ritina		*
3467 Bernheim		Robert Burnham, Jr. [†]
3468 Urgenta	1975 AM	*
3469 Bulgakov		Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist*
3470 Yaronika	1975 ES	*
3471 Amelin		*
3472 Upgren		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		*
3477 Kazbegi	1979 KH	Mount Kazbek, 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 -		*
3482 Lesnaya		*
3483 Svetlov		Mikhail Svetlov (Mikhail Arkad'evich Svetlov), Russian poet or Mikhail Svetlov (Mikhail Svetlov-Krutikov), Russian opera singer*
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		*
3490 Šolc	1984 SV	Ivan Šolc, Czech inventor [†]
3491 Fridolin		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		*
3494 Purple Mountain	1980 XW	Purple Mountain Observatory, China
3495 Colchagua	1981 NU	*

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