# Meanings of minor-planet names: 347001–348000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center (MPC), 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 number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). Until his death in 2016, German astronomer Lutz D. Schmadel compiled these citations into the Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (DMP) and regularly updated the collection.
Based on Paul Herget's The Names of the Minor Planets, Schmadel also researched the unclear origin of numerous asteroids, most of which had been named prior to World War II. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: SBDB New namings may only be added to this list below after official publication as the preannouncement of names is condemned. The WGSBN publishes a comprehensive guideline for the naming rules of non-cometary small Solar System bodies.

## Index100K200K300K400K500K600K

* 342,000s
* 343,000s
* 344,000s
* 345,000s
* 346,000s
* 347,000s
* 348,000s
* 349,000s
* 350,000s
* 351,000s
* 352,000s
* 347,001…
* 347,101…
* 347,201…
* 347,301…
* 347,401…
* 347,501…
* 347,601…
* 347,701…
* 347,801…
* 347,901…

## 347001–347100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 347016 Haydnhuntley | 2010 DR$_{77}$ | J. Haydn Huntley (b. 1963), an American software engineer. | IAU · 347016 |
| 347017 Pui-Hin | 2010 DB$_{78}$ | Pui Hin Rhoads (b. 1949) joined the computer group at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, in the United States in 1986, and later became the head of the group. | IAU · 347017 |
| 347028 Važec | 2010 EV$_{44}$ | Važec, a village in northern Slovakia, within the district of Liptovský Mikuláš in the Žilina Region. | JPL · 347028 |

## 347101–347200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347201–347300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 347266 Carrière | 2011 KR$_{28}$ | Jean-Claude Carrière (1931–2021) was a French novelist, screenwriter, actor, and Academy Award honoree. He was a frequent collaborator with Luis Buñuel on the screenplays of Buñuel's late French films. | IAU · 347266 |

## 347301–347400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 347336 Changmeemann | 2012 NN$_1$ | Chang Meemann (born 1936) is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and pioneered the study of tetrapod origin in China. Her pioneer work has revolutionized research on early vertebrate evolution. | IAU · 347336 |

## 347401–347500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347501–347600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347601–347700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347701–347800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347801–347900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| There are no named minor planets in this number range ||||

## 347901–348000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 347940 Jorgezuluaga | 2003 FZ$_{128}$ | Jorge Zuluaga (born 1975) is a researcher, educator and popularizer of astronomy. | JPL · 347940 |