Meanings of asteroid names (30001-31000)

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As asteroid 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. The list below concerns those asteroids 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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Contents: 30001... 30101... 30201... 30301... 30401... 30501... 30601... 30701... 30801... 30901...

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
30001-30100
30101-30200
30201-30300
30252 Textorisová	2000 HE24	Izabela Textorisová, Slovak botanist †
30301-30400
30305 Severi	2000 JA	Francesco Severi, Italian mathematician*
30306 Frigyesriesz	2000 JD	Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician, elder brother of Marcel Riesz †
30307 Marcelriesz	2000 JE	Marcel Riesz, Hungarian-born Swedish mathematician †
30401-30500
30417 Staudt	2000 LF	*
30418 Jakobsteiner	2000 LG	Jakob Steiner?*
30439 Moe	2000 MB	One of the Three Stooges*
30440 Larry	2000 MG	One of the Three Stooges*
30441 Curly	2000 MX	One of the Three Stooges*
30443 Stieltjes	2000 NR	Thomas Jan Stieltjes, Dutch physicist and mathematician †
30444 Shemp	2000 NY1	*
30445 Stirling	2000 NJ2	James Stirling, Scottish mathematician?*
30501-30600
30564 Olomouc	2001 OC77	Olomouc, an old city in Moravia, the Czech Republic
30566 Stokes	2001 OO81	Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish mathematician and physicist*
30601-30700
30698 Hippokoon	2299 T-3	*
30701-30800
30704 Phegeus	3250 T-3	*
30705 Idaios	3365 T-3	*
30708 Echepolos	4101 T-3	*
30722 Biblioran	1978 RN5	*
30724 Peterburgtrista	1978 SX2	St. Petersburg tricentenary (2003) †
30767 Chriskraft	1983 VQ1	Christopher C. Kraft, who oversaw rocket launches and the design of space modules from Mercury to Apollo, as well as creating Mission Control †
30775 Lattu	1987 QX	*
30778 Döblin	1987 SX10	Alfred Döblin, German novelist*
30779 Sankt-Stephan	1987 UE1	Abbey Sankt-Stephan (Benediktinerkloster Sankt Stephan) in Augsburg, Germany, where the Benedictine monk Father Gregor (Bernhard Helms) is a physics-astronomy teacher, builder of his own observatory and of the school planetarium †
30785 Greeley	1988 PX	Ronald Greeley, American planetary geologist †
30786 Karkoschka	1988 QC	Erich Karkoschka, German-born American astronomer*†
30788 Angekauffmann	1988 RE3	Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter*
30798 Graubünden	1989 CR5	Graubünden, birthplace of Angelica Kauffmann*
30801-30900
30821 Chernetenko	1990 RR17	Yuliya Andreevna Chernetenko, Russian astronomer †
30826 Coulomb	1990 TS1	Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist*
30828 Bethe	1990 TK4	Hans Albrecht Bethe, German-American physicist*
30830 Jahn	1990 TQ12	Max Jahn, German physical chemist*
30836 Schnittke	1991 AU2	Alfred Garyevich Schnittke, Russian composer*
30837 Steinheil	1991 AW2	Carl August von Steinheil, Swiss physicist*
30840 Jackalice	1991 GC2	Jack Newton, Canadian astrophotographer, and his wife Alice †
30844 Hukeller	1991 KE	*
30850 Vonsiemens	1991 TN2	Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist*
30852 Debye	1991 TR6	Peter Joseph William Debye, Dutch-born American physical chemist [1]
30879 Hiroshikanai	1992 KF	*
30883 de Broglie	1992 SW16	Louis-Victor, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist*
30901-31000
30917 Moehorgan	1993 HV1	Maureen "Moe" A. Horgan, American trombonist, conductor and teacher †
30933 Grillparzer	1993 UW8	Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatic poet*
30934 Bakerhansen	1993 WH	Baker Hansen, a main character in William Heinesen's novel Lost Musicians? *
30935 Davasobel	1994 AK1	Dava Sobel, American author †
30963 Mount Banzan	1994 WO3	Mount Banzan, Japan, at the foot of which is the Sendai Astronomical Observatory Ayashi Station (and where the New Sendai Astronomical Observatory will be in 2008) †

Preceded by 29001–30000

Meanings of asteroid names List of asteroids (30001-31000)

Succeeded by 31001–32000