# Meanings of minor-planet names: 332001–333000

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

* 327,000s
* 328,000s
* 329,000s
* 330,000s
* 331,000s
* 332,000s
* 333,000s
* 334,000s
* 335,000s
* 336,000s
* 337,000s
* 332,001…
* 332,101…
* 332,201…
* 332,301…
* 332,401…
* 332,501…
* 332,601…
* 332,701…
* 332,801…
* 332,901…

## 332001–332100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332084 Vasyakulbeda | 2005 UQ$_{12}$ | Vasyl' Kulbeda (born 1954), an engineer at the Department for Solar Physics of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences. | JPL · 332084 |

## 332101–332200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332183 Jaroussky | 2006 BE$_{186}$ | Philippe Jaroussky (born 1978), a French countertenor | JPL · 332183 |

## 332201–332300

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

## 332301–332400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332324 Bobmcdonald | 2006 XN$_{67}$ | Bob McDonald (born 1951), a distinguished award-winning science journalist and educator. | JPL · 332324 |
| 332326 Aresi | 2006 YK$_{19}$ | Paolo Aresi (born 1958), an Italian journalist and science fiction writer. | JPL · 332326 |

## 332401–332500

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

## 332501–332600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332530 Canders | 2008 OS$_{18}$ | Fridrihs Canders or Friedrich Zander (1887–1933), a Baltic-German pioneer of rocketry and spaceflight in Russia | JPL · 332530 |

## 332601–332700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332632 Pharos | 2008 UO$_1$ | The Pharos of Alexandria was considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. This lighthouse, one of the tallest structures in the world at the time, was built on the island of Pharos, in front of the port of Alexandria of Egypt, and was destroyed by two earthquakes. | IAU · 332632 |

## 332701–332800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332706 Karlheidlas | 2009 RW$_{57}$ | Karl Heidlas (born 1932), a German chemist and amateur astronomer. | JPL · 332706 |
| 332733 Drolshagen | 2009 SV$_{321}$ | Gerhard Drolshagen (born 1953), the co-manager of the Near-Earth Object program of the European Space Agency. | JPL · 332733 |

## 332801–332900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332884 Arianagrande | 2011 AG$_{53}$ | Ariana Grande, American singer-songwriter and actress | IAU · 332884 |

## 332901–333000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 332991 Tammybecker | 2011 FX$_{147}$ | Tammy Becker (b. 1964), an American cartographer. | IAU · 332991 |