# Meanings of minor-planet names: 316001–317000

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

* 311,000s
* 312,000s
* 313,000s
* 314,000s
* 315,000s
* 316,000s
* 317,000s
* 318,000s
* 319,000s
* 320,000s
* 321,000s
* 316,001…
* 316,101…
* 316,201…
* 316,301…
* 316,401…
* 316,501…
* 316,601…
* 316,701…
* 316,801…
* 316,901…

## 316001–316100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316010 Daviddubey | 2009 FC$_5$ | David Richard Jacob Dubey (born 1997), a grandson of British discoverer Norman Falla | JPL · 316010 |
| 316020 Linshuhow | 2009 FV$_{29}$ | Jeremy Lin (Jeremy Shu-How Lin; born 1988), an American professional basketball player in NBA | JPL · 316020 |
| 316028 Patrickwils | 2009 FR$_{45}$ | Patrick Wils (born 1960), a Belgian amateur astronomer. | JPL · 316028 |
| 316039 Breizh | 2009 GB$_3$ | Breizh (Brittany) is the Breton name of a historical and cultural region in northwestern France, and one of the six so-called Celtic nations. | IAU · 316039 |
| 316042 Tilofranz | 2009 HP$_2$ | Tilo Franz Schwab (born 2008), son of German discoverer Erwin Schwab | JPL · 316042 |
| 316080 Boni | 2009 KD | Boniface Alfonsi (born 1950) is a Corsican retired private detective and author. He wrote La vérité est mon métier in 2012. The discoverer met him under the night sky of Erbaghjolu in 2020. | IAU · 316080 |
| 316084 Mykolapokropyvny | 2009 KT$_8$ | Mykola Petrovych Pokropyvny (born 1966), the director of the Ivan Ogienko Zhytomyr College of Culture and Arts. | JPL · 316084 |

## 316101–316200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316138 Giorgione | 2009 SL$_{170}$ | Giorgione (1477–1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school in the High Renaissance from Venice. | JPL · 316138 |
| 316186 Kathrynjoyce | 2010 KJ$_{41}$ | Kathryn Mainzer (born 1946), an American artist and graphic designer who is the mother of Amy Mainzer, PI of the NEOWISE mission. | JPL · 316186 |

## 316201–316300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316201 Malala | 2010 ML$_{48}$ | Malala Yousafzai (born 1997), a Pakistani human rights activist who advocates for the rights of women and girls and worldwide access to education. | JPL · 316201 |
| 316202 Johnfowler | 2010 MX$_{54}$ | John Fowler (born 1942), an American scientist. | JPL · 316202 |

## 316301–316400

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

## 316401–316500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316450 Changhsiangtung | 2010 UZ$_{71}$ | Zhang Xiangtong (1907–2007), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a leader of neurophysiology and a founder of neuroscience in China. He was the first to discover dendritic functions of neurons in the brain. | JPL · 316450 |

## 316501–316600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316527 Jürgenoberst | 2010 VW$_{201}$ | Jürgen Oberst (born 1955), a German planetary scientist and expert in remote sensing at the Planetary Geodesy Department of the German Aerospace Center, and a professor for Planetary Geodesy at Technische Universität Berlin. | IAU · 316527 |

## 316601–316700

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

## 316701–316800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 316709 POSS | 1997 EE$_{60}$ | The Palomar Observatory Sky Surveys (POSS) a major astronomical survey conducted at Palomar Observatory using the Samuel Oschin telescope. POSS-I was undertaken from 1949 to 1958, while POSS-II took from 1987 until 2002. The discovery of this minor planet is based on two photographic plates obtained from the second survey. | IAU · 316709 |
| 316741 Janefletcher | 1998 WS$_{44}$ | Jane Fletcher (born 1967), the producer of the BBC television programme The Sky at Night from 2002 to 2013. | JPL · 316741 |

## 316801–316900

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

## 316901–317000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 317000 Simonepastore | 2001 PY$_{28}$ | Simone Pastore (b. 1986), an Italian amateur astronomer. | IAU · 317000 |