# Meanings of minor-planet names: 342001–343000

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

* 337,000s
* 338,000s
* 339,000s
* 340,000s
* 341,000s
* 342,000s
* 343,000s
* 344,000s
* 345,000s
* 346,000s
* 347,000s
* 342,001…
* 342,101…
* 342,201…
* 342,301…
* 342,401…
* 342,501…
* 342,601…
* 342,701…
* 342,801…
* 342,901…

## 342001–342100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342017 Ramonin | 2008 RA$_{80}$ | Ramon Lacruz Alcaraz (born 1988) is an aeronautical engineer at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. | JPL · 342017 |

## 342101–342200

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

## 342201–342300

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

## 342301–342400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342372 Titia | 2008 UQ$_5$ | Patricia ‘Titia’ Colombin (1954–2022) was the companion of the discoverer. A talented painter, she also contributed to the creation and development of the Dauban Observatory. | IAU · 342372 |

## 342401–342500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342431 Hilo | 2008 UQ$_{90}$ | Hilo, the largest city on Big island of Hawaii, United States | JPL · 342431 |

## 342501–342600

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

## 342601–342700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342620 Beita | 2008 UL$_{341}$ | Beatriz Lacruz Alcaraz (born 1990), a computer sciences engineer at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid. | JPL · 342620 |

## 342701–342800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342764 Alantitus | 2008 WL$_{95}$ | Alan Titus (born 1964) is an American paleontologist specializing in ammonites. He has also been instrumental in finding and describing new species of dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous subcontinent of Laramidia. | JPL · 342764 |

## 342801–342900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 342843 Davidbowie | 2008 YN$_3$ | David Bowie (David Robert Jones, 1947–2016), a British musician, singer, producer and actor. | JPL · 342843 |
| 342844 Anabel | 2008 YA$_4$ | Anabel Elisabeth Hormuth (b. 2023), the daughter of the discoverer. | IAU · 342844 |
| 342864 Teresamateo | 2008 YF$_{32}$ | Teresa Mateo (b. 1967) is a Spanish economist and an amateur astronomer. | IAU · 342864 |

## 342901–343000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343000 Ijontichy | 2009 BH$_{73}$ | Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot, a satirical German science fiction TV-series. The space traveller Ijon Tichý navigates the universe in his ""three-room rocket". The story is based on The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem. | JPL · 343000 |