# Meanings of minor-planet names: 343001–344000

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

* 338,000s
* 339,000s
* 340,000s
* 341,000s
* 342,000s
* 343,000s
* 344,000s
* 345,000s
* 346,000s
* 347,000s
* 348,000s
* 343,001…
* 343,101…
* 343,201…
* 343,301…
* 343,401…
* 343,501…
* 343,601…
* 343,701…
* 343,801…
* 343,901…

## 343001–343100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343057 Lucaravenni | 2009 CB$_{20}$ | Luca Ravenni (1968–2015) was a software analyst and an amateur astronomer. In 1997 he graduated in mathematics with a thesis on gravity-assisted trajectories for space missions. He collaborated with the Torre Luciana Observatory. Name suggested by the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Siena. | JPL · 343057 |

## 343101–343200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343134 Bizet | 2009 FG$_5$ | Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era. Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire. | JPL · 343134 |
| 343157 Mindaugas | 2009 HH$_{68}$ | Mindaugas (1200–1263), the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Lithuania. | JPL · 343157 |
| 343158 Marsyas | 2009 HC$_{82}$ | Marsyas, a Phrygian Satyr dared oppose Apollo in a musical duel. Marsyas lost when he could not play his flute upside-down. For his hubris he was tied to a tree, flayed, his blood turned into a stream. Marsyas is so named for its unusual retrograde orbit, that which opposes the motion of most solar system objects, Apollos included. | IAU · 343158 |

## 343201–343300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343230 Corsini | 2009 WZ$_{105}$ | Enrico Maria Corsini (born 1969) is an astronomer and professor of astrophysics at Padua University in Italy. | JPL · 343230 |

## 343301–343400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343322 Tomskuniver | 2010 CK | Tomsk State University is a recognized center of education and science. Founded on 1878 May 28 by a decree of Russian Emperor Alexander II, it was the first university in the Asian part of Russia. | JPL · 343322 |

## 343401–343500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343412 de Boer | 2010 CC$_{181}$ | Thomas J. L. de Boer (b. 1983), a Dutch astronomer. | IAU · 343412 |
| 343413 Lauratoyama | 2010 CX$_{181}$ | Laura Toyama (b. 1965), a Fiscal Support Specialist at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi. | IAU · 343413 |
| 343438 Gao | 2010 DS$_{77}$ | Hua Gao (b. 1992), a Chinese astronomer. | IAU · 343438 |
| 343439 Kaukali | 2010 DW$_{77}$ | Chris Kaukali (b. 1969), a Fiscal Specialist at the University of Hawaiʻi's Institute for Astronomy. | IAU · 343439 |
| 343440 Magnier | 2010 DY$_{77}$ | Eugene A. Magnier (b. 1967), an American astronomer. | IAU · 343440 |
| 343441 Chienchenglin | 2010 DC$_{78}$ | Chien-Cheng Lin (b. 1981), a Taiwanese researcher. | IAU · 343441 |
| 343444 Halluzinelle | 2010 EW$_{20}$ | "Analoge Halluzinelle", a fictional female robot hologram in the satirical German science fiction TV-series Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot. The role is played by the actress Nora Tschirner. The story is based on The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem. | JPL · 343444 |

## 343501–343600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343587 Mamuna | 2010 GQ$_{23}$ | Nikolai Vladimirovich Mamuna (1956–2016) was an astronomer, teacher and leading lecturer of the Moscow Planetarium. He was artistic director of the Maximachev Planetarium, the author of a number of books and many journal publications, a science fiction writer, a radio and a TV host. | JPL · 343587 |

## 343601–343700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343662 Robmorgan | 2010 NM$_{16}$ | Rob Morgan (b. 1973), an American actor. | IAU · 343662 |
| 343664 Nataliemainzer | 2010 NM$_{16}$ | Natalie Mainzer (born 1978) is an American nurse who has cared for many patients suffering from COVID-19 during the global pandemic. | IAU · 343664 |

## 343701–343800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343743 Kjurkchieva | 2011 FY$_{16}$ | Diana Kjurkchieva (born 1952) is a professor in astronomy at the University of Shumen, Bulgaria and current President of the Bulgarian Astronomical Union. She works on the observation and modeling of variable stars, exoplanets and is the leading popularizer of astronomy science in Bulgaria. Name suggested by S. Ibryamov. | JPL · 343743 |
| 343774 Samuelhale | 2011 FN$_{150}$ | Samuel D. Hale (b. 1942), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Wilson Institute and grandson of Mount Wilson Observatory's founding director, George Ellery Hale. | IAU · 343774 |

## 343801–343900

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

## 343901–344000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 343981 Oppenheim | 2011 LA$_{27}$ | Moritz Nathan Oppenheim (1848-1933) and Katharina (von Kuffner) Oppenheim (1862-1933), German-Jewish couple who donated a refractor to the Frankfurt Observatory, and later donated a chair in physics to Goethe University Frankfurt. Both committed suicide after the Nazi Party came to power. | IAU · 343981 |
| 344000 Astropolis | 2011 QQ$_{45}$ | The Kyiv Club Astropolis, the largest association of amateur astronomers in Ukraine | JPL · 344000 |