# Meanings of minor-planet names: 314001–315000

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

* 309,000s
* 310,000s
* 311,000s
* 312,000s
* 313,000s
* 314,000s
* 315,000s
* 316,000s
* 317,000s
* 318,000s
* 319,000s
* 314,001…
* 314,101…
* 314,201…
* 314,301…
* 314,401…
* 314,501…
* 314,601…
* 314,701…
* 314,801…
* 314,901…

## 314001–314100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 314040 Tavannes | 2005 AU | Tavannes is a municipality of the Swiss canton of Bern. | JPL · 314040 |
| 314082 Dryope | 2005 CZ$_{36}$ | Dryope was the daughter of King Dryops. | JPL · 314082 |

## 314101–314200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 314159 Mattparker | 2005 FW$_1$ | Matthew Thomas Parker (b. 1980), an Australian recreational mathematician, author, and science communicator based in the United Kingdom. | IAU · 314159 |
| 314163 Kittenberger | 2005 GX | Kálmán Kittenberger (1881–1958), a Hungarian traveller, African researcher, zoologist, teacher, hunter and writer on natural history. | JPL · 314163 |

## 314201–314300

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

## 314301–314400

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

## 314401–314500

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

## 314501–314600

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

## 314601–314700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 314650 Neilnorman | 2006 OC$_1$ | Neil Norman (born 1972) is a British astronomer, writer, broadcaster, humorist and creator of the Comet Watch internet resource. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and creator of the Solar System Bodies and Minor Solar System Bodies internet resources. | JPL · 314650 |

## 314701–314800

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

## 314801–314900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 314808 Martindutertre | 2006 TQ$_{105}$ | Saint-Martin-du-Tertre is a French town to the north of Paris that is twinned with the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio, the discovery site for this minor planet. | JPL · 314808 |

## 314901–315000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 314988 Sireland | 2006 XO$_{67}$ | Sarah Ireland (born 1996), interested in the pursuit of astronomical knowledge, following in the Canadian tradition of astronomical excellence and embodying the spirit of Beyond the International Year of Astronomy. | JPL · 314988 |