# Meanings of minor-planet names: 308001–309000

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

* 303,000s
* 304,000s
* 305,000s
* 306,000s
* 307,000s
* 308,000s
* 309,000s
* 310,000s
* 311,000s
* 312,000s
* 313,000s
* 308,001…
* 308,101…
* 308,201…
* 308,301…
* 308,401…
* 308,501…
* 308,601…
* 308,701…
* 308,801…
* 308,901…

## 308001–308100

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

## 308101–308200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 308197 Satrapi | 2005 EV$_{27}$ | Marjane Satrapi (born 1969), an Iranian-born French graphic novelist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author | JPL · 308197 |

## 308201–308300

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

## 308301–308400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 308306 Dainere | 2005 KL$_8$ | Dainere Monique Anthoney (born 1998), an inspiring Australian teenager, author and blogger who raises awareness and funds for brain tumour research. | JPL · 308306 |

## 308401–308500

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

## 308501–308600

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

## 308601–308700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 308680 McLennan | 2006 DY$_{62}$ | Ian C. McLennan (born 1938) was the founding director of the Queen Elizabeth Planetarium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and for the last 60 years has provided extensive experience in public project planning and administration in cultural and educational organizations. | IAU · 308680 |

## 308701–308800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 308798 Teo | 2006 QL$_{57}$ | Teodoro "Teo" Encinar (born 1952) built, according to the discoverer's design, the La Cañada Observatory, Spain, over the summer of 2002. | JPL · 308798 |

## 308801–308900

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 308825 Siksika | 2006 RH$_3$ | Siksika Nation, which is one of the three First Nations, with the Piikani (Peigan) and Kainai (Blood), that comprise the Blackfoot Confederacy. | JPL · 308825 |
| 308856 Daniket | 2006 RS$_{109}$ | Daniela Ketskarova Masiero (born 2015), daughter of American discoverer Joseph Masiero | JPL · 308856 |

## 308901–309000

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