# Meanings of minor-planet names: 301001–302000

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

* 296,000s
* 297,000s
* 298,000s
* 299,000s
* 300,000s
* 301,000s
* 302,000s
* 303,000s
* 304,000s
* 305,000s
* 306,000s
* 301,001…
* 301,101…
* 301,201…
* 301,301…
* 301,401…
* 301,501…
* 301,601…
* 301,701…
* 301,801…
* 301,901…

## 301001–301100

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301021 Sofiarodriguez | 2008 SJ$_{11}$ | Sofia Rodriguez (born 2014), great-granddaughter of the American discoverer James Whitney Young | JPL · 301021 |
| 301061 Egelsbach | 2008 UO$_{91}$ | Egelsbach, a German city located between Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt. | JPL · 301061 |

## 301101–301200

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301153 Jinan | 2008 YO$_9$ | The Chinese city of Jinan, also known as "Tsinan" or "Spring City", is the capital of the Shandong province in Eastern China, and the location of the Shandong University's main campus. | IAU · 301153 |

## 301201–301300

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301263 Anitaheward | 2009 BB$_{77}$ | Anita Heward (born 1974) is a freelance science communicator working for Europlanet, the Royal Astronomical Society and Twinkle space mission. She was the founder of the British Festival of Space, assisted in establishing the UK National Space Centre in Leicester, UK, and encourages gender equality in science. | JPL · 301263 |

## 301301–301400

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301394 Bensheim | 2009 DB$_{31}$ | Bensheim, a town in Hesse, Germany, first mentioned in 765 AD. | JPL · 301394 |

## 301401–301500

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

## 301501–301600

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301511 Hubinon | 2009 FJ$_5$ | Victor Hubinon (1924–1979) was a Belgian comic book artist. With Jean-Michel Charlier, he created the series Buck Danny. | JPL · 301511 |
| 301522 Chaykin | 2009 FX$_{23}$ | Konstantin Yurievich Chaykin (born 1975) is a Russian watchmaker and inventor. He is a creator of the most complicated watches in the world and has won many international awards. | IAU · 301522 |
| 301553 Ninaglebova | 2009 GM$_3$ | Nina Il'inichna Glebova (born 1937) is a senior scientific worker at the IAA RAS, and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Astronomical Yearbook for many years. | JPL · 301553 |
| 301566 Melissajane | 2009 HF$_{36}$ | Melissa Jane Forward (born 1980), youngest daughter of British discoverer Norman Falla | JPL · 301566 |

## 301601–301700

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301622 Chastel | 2010 DZ$_{77}$ | Serge Chastel (b. 1971), a software engineer at the University of Hawaii. | IAU · 301622 |
| 301623 Wynn-Williams | 2010 DA$_{78}$ | Gareth Wynn-Williams (b. 1944), a British-American astronomer. | IAU · 301623 |
| 301638 Kressin | 2010 EQ$_{45}$ | Margarete Kressin (1891–1980), grandmother of German discoverer Rainer Kracht | JPL · 301638 |

## 301701–301800

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301794 Antoninkapustin | 2010 LH$_{64}$ | Andrey Ivanovich Kapustin (archimandrite Antonin) (1817–1894) was the head of the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission in Jerusalem. | JPL · 301794 |

## 301801–301900

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

## 301901–302000

| Named minor planet | Provisional | This minor planet was named for... | Ref · Catalog |
| 301946 Bugyi | 2000 BK$_{15}$ | István Bugyi (1898–1981), a Hungarian physician and university professor. | IAU · 301946 |
| 301949 Hambálek | 2000 CM$_{34}$ | Ľubomír Hambálek (b. 1983), a Slovak astronomer. | IAU · 301949 |