# Meanings of minor-planet names: 379001–380000

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

* 374,000s
* 375,000s
* 376,000s
* 377,000s
* 378,000s
* 379,000s
* 380,000s
* 381,000s
* 382,000s
* 383,000s
* 384,000s
* 379,001…
* 379,101…
* 379,201…
* 379,301…
* 379,401…
* 379,501…
* 379,601…
* 379,701…
* 379,801…
* 379,901…

## 379001–379100

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

## 379101–379200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 379130 Lopresti | 2009 CA$_{20}$ | Claudio Lopresti, an Italian amateur astronomer and founder of the Digital Astronomy Group as well as a discoverer of numerous variable stars. In 2007, he discovered the first transit of an extrasolar planet in the constellation of Cassiopeia. | JPL · 379130 |
| 379155 Volkerheinrich | 2009 QR$_6$ | Volker Heinrich (born 1962), a German amateur astronomer and chairman of the Astronomy Section of the "Physikalischer Verein" at Frankfurt, Germany | JPL · 379155 |
| 379173 Gamaovalia | 2009 RA$_2$ | Galina (born 1935), Mariya (born 1940), Oktyabrina (born 1938), Vassiliy (born 1944) and Lev (born 1947), the brothers and sisters of astronomer Klim Churyumov (1937–2016), co-discoverer of comet 67P | JPL · 379173 |

## 379201–379300

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

## 379301–379400

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

## 379401–379500

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

## 379501–379600

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

## 379601–379700

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

## 379701–379800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 379732 Oklay | 2011 GY$_{54}$ | Nilda Oklay (b. 1981), a Turkish planetary scientist. | IAU · 379732 |
| 379767 Barcis | 2011 HH$_{20}$ | Barcis is an Italian municipality in the province of Pordenone (Friuli-Venezia Giulia). | IAU · 379767 |

## 379801–379900

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

## 379901–380000

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