# Meanings of minor-planet names: 346001–347000

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

* 341,000s
* 342,000s
* 343,000s
* 344,000s
* 345,000s
* 346,000s
* 347,000s
* 348,000s
* 349,000s
* 350,000s
* 351,000s
* 346,001…
* 346,101…
* 346,201…
* 346,301…
* 346,401…
* 346,501…
* 346,601…
* 346,701…
* 346,801…
* 346,901…

## 346001–346100

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

## 346101–346200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346150 Nanyi | 2007 VE$_{253}$ | Nanyi is the Chinese abbreviation of Nanjing Medical University, which was founded in 1934 and is one of the birthplaces of public health education in modern China. | IAU · 346150 |

## 346201–346300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346261 Alexandrescu | 2008 EK$_{145}$ | Harald Alexandrescu (1945–2005), a Romanian astronomer. | JPL · 346261 |

## 346301–346400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346318 Elektrenai | 2008 QX$_{32}$ | Elektrenai, a city in Vilnius County, Lithuania. | IAU · 346318 |

## 346401–346500

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

## 346501–346600

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

## 346601–346700

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

## 346701–346800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346721 Panchengdong | 2009 AP$_{15}$ | Chengdong Pan (1934–1997), Chinese mathematician of number theory. | IAU · 346721 |

## 346801–346900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346810 Giancabattisti | 2009 CD$_{40}$ | Giancarlo Battisti (born 1942) is a very enthusiastic Italian amateur astronomer. He is the author of the graphical Atlas of Galaxies (2008). | IAU · 346810 |
| 346886 Middelburg | 2009 MB | Middelburg is an old Dutch city on the isle of Walcheren in the province of Zeeland that was built as a fortress against the Vikings. | JPL · 346886 |
| 346889 Rhiphonos | 2009 QV$_{38}$ | Riphonus (Rhiphonos), one of the commanders of the Lamian centaurs in Greek mythology. He is one of the twelve rustic spirits of the Lamos river set by Zeus to guard the infant Dionysos. Later, Riphonus joined Dionysus in his campaign against India. | JPL · 346889 |

## 346901–347000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 346998 Wakamura | 2010 CR$_{182}$ | Cori Wakamura (b. 1977), a Fiscal Specialist at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. | IAU · 346998 |
| 346999 Evalilly | 2010 CQ$_{183}$ | Eva Lilly (b. 1982), a Slovak-American astronomer. She earned her PhD in astronomy at Comenius University in Bratislava. | IAU · 346999 |