# Meanings of minor-planet names: 353001–354000

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

* 348,000s
* 349,000s
* 350,000s
* 351,000s
* 352,000s
* 353,000s
* 354,000s
* 355,000s
* 356,000s
* 357,000s
* 358,000s
* 353,001…
* 353,101…
* 353,201…
* 353,301…
* 353,401…
* 353,501…
* 353,601…
* 353,701…
* 353,801…
* 353,901…

## 353001–353100

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

## 353101–353200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353189 Iasus | 2009 RQ$_{76}$ | Iasus, a Greek hero in the Trojan War. A leader of the Athenians and the son of Sphelus. | JPL · 353189 |

## 353201–353300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353232 Nolwenn | 2010 CB$_{12}$ | Nolwenn Leroy (born 1982), a French singer and songwriter. | JPL · 353232 |

## 353301–353400

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

## 353401–353500

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353404 Laugalys | 2011 PR$_{13}$ | Vygandas Laugalys (born 1972), Lithuanian astronomer, is an expert in Galactic structure and stellar photometry. He is known as a hunter of asteroids and together with K. Černis, he discovered the first asteroid from Lithuania in 2001. He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers. | IAU · 353404 |
| 353409 Onaka | 2011 QW$_3$ | Peter M. Onaka (b. 1961), an American engineer. | IAU · 353409 |
| 353429 Fairlamb | 2011 QP$_{46}$ | John R. Fairlamb (b. 1988), a British astronomer. | IAU · 353429 |

## 353501–353600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353577 Gediminas | 2011 SW$_{259}$ | Gediminas (1275–1341), Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 until his death. | JPL · 353577 |
| 353595 Grancanaria | 2011 TL$_{12}$ | Gran Canaria, Spain, an island located in the Atlantic Ocean, is the most populated of the Canary Islands. | JPL · 353595 |

## 353601–353700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353677 Harald | 2011 UV$_{235}$ | Harald Michaelis (b. 1957) of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) has been the head of the Planetary Sensor Systems Department for nearly three decades. | IAU · 353677 |
| 353682 Maberry | 2011 UJ$_{286}$ | Michael T. Maberry (b. 1952), the Assistant Director of the Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaiʻi, USA. | IAU · 353682 |

## 353701–353800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353745 Williamunruh | 2011 YE$_{47}$ | William Unruh (b. 1967), the Physical Plant Manager and Safety Officer at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaiʻi, | IAU · 353745 |

## 353801–353900

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

## 353901–354000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 353903 Kudritzki | 2012 XN$_{58}$ | Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (b. 1945), a German astronomer. | IAU · 353903 |