Meanings of asteroid names (34001-35000)
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As minor planet 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, following the IAU's naming conventions. The list below concerns those minor planets 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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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: 34001... 34101... 34201... 34301... 34401... 34501... 34601... 34701... 34801... 34901...
| Name | Provisional Designation | Source of Name |
|---|---|---|
| 34001-34100 | ||
| 34077 Yoshiakifuse | 2000 OV68 | Yoshiaki Fuse, father of astronomer and Subaru Telescope staff member Tetsuru Fuse † |
| 34101-34200 | ||
| 34137 Lonnielinda | 2000 QL6 | Lonnie and Linda Wolfe, parents of the discoverer † |
| 34138 Frasso Sabino | 2000 QE9 | Frasso Sabino, Italy, which hosts the Osservatorio Astronomico Virginio Cesarini - Frasso Sabino (Frasso Sabino Observatory), the discovery site † |
| 34301-34400 | ||
| 34351 Decatur | 2000 RZ8 | Decatur, Alabama, the discovery site (Emerald Lane Observatory) † |
| 34366 Rosavestal | 2000 RP36 | Rosa Vallee Warner, née Vestal, the discoverer's mother † |
| 34398 Terryschmidt | 2000 RK78 | Terry Eugene Schmidt, American meteoriticist † |
| 34401-34500 | ||
| 34419 Corning | 2000 SA7 | Corning, New York, home of a glassworks that makes professional telescope mirrors, including the disk for the 5-m Hale Telescope at Palomar; the one-tenth-scale engineering model of that telescope still resides there, and was used to discover this minor planet † |
| 34420 Peterpau | 2000 SC7 | Peter Pau, Hong Kong-born cinematographer † |
| 34501-34600 | ||
| 34543 Davidbriggs | 2000 SM229 | David L. Briggs, American director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory from 1998 to 2006 † |
| 34601-34700 | ||
| 34611 Nacogdoches | 2000 UF11 | Nacogdoches, Texas † |
| 34666 Bohyunsan | 2000 XA14 | Mount Bohyunsan, South Korea, where the discovery site, the Bohyunsan Optical Astronomy Observatory, is located † |
| 34696 Risoldi | 2001 OV12 | Vairo Risoldi, Italian amateur astronomer † |
| 34701-34800 | ||
| 34718 Cantagalli | 2001 PR28 | Michela Cantagalli, daughter-in-law of the first discoverer † |
| 34738 Hulbert | 2001 QV71 | Samuel F. Hulbert, American president of the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, host to the discovery site, the Oakley Observatory † |
| 34753 Zdeněkmatyáš | 2001 QU110 | Zdeněk Matyáš, Czech theoretical physicist † |
| 34778 Huhunglick | 2001 RV6 | Henry Hung-lick Hu, Chinese barrister-at-law, co-founder of Shue Yan ("the cultivation of virtue") College, the first privately funded university in Hong Kong † |
| 34779 Chungchiyung | 2001 RW11 | Chung Chi-Yung, wife of Henry Hung-lick Hu, co-founder of Shue Yan College † |
| 34801-34900 | ||
| 34854 Paquifrutos | 2001 TP17 | Paqui Frutos Frutos, wife of the discoverer † |
| 34901-35000 | ||
| 34919 Imelda | 4710 P-L | Imelda Gentile, cousin of Heidelberg astronomer Joachim Schubart † |
| 34993 Euaimon | 1973 SR1 | Euaimon, mythological king of Atlantis, son of Poseidon and father of Eurypylos, one of the Greeks that sacked Troy † |
| Preceded by 33001–34000 |
Meanings of minor planet names List of asteroids (34001-35000) |
Succeeded by 35001–36000 |
