MEANINGS OF ASTEROID NAMES (30001-31000)


Asteroids not yet given a name have not been included in this list.
Name Provisional Designation Source of Name
30252 Textorisová Izabela Textorisová, Slovak botanist
30301-30400
30305 Severi 2000 JA Francesco Severi, Italian mathematician
30306 Frigyesriesz 2000 JD Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician, elder brother of Marcel Riesz
30307 Marcelriesz 2000 JE Marcel Riesz, Hungarian-born Swedish mathematician
30401-30500
30417 Staudt 2000 LF
30418 Jakobsteiner 2000 LG Jakob Steiner?
30439 Moe 2000 MB One of the Three Stooges
30440 Larry 2000 MG One of the Three Stooges
30441 Curly 2000 MX One of the Three Stooges
30443 Stieltjes 2000 NR Thomas Jan Stieltjes, Dutch physicist and mathematician
30444 Shemp One of the Three Stooges
30445 Stirling James Stirling, Scottish mathematician?
30501-30600
30564 Olomouc Olomouc, an old city in Moravia, the Czech Republic
30566 Stokes Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish mathematician and physicist
30601-30700
30698 Hippokoon 2299 T-3
30701-30800
30704 Phegeus 3250 T-3
30705 Idaios 3365 T-3
30708 Echepolos 4101 T-3
30722 Biblioran Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences
30724 Peterburgtrista St. Petersburg tricentenary (2003)
30767 Chriskraft Christopher C. Kraft, who oversaw rocket launches and the design of space modules from Mercury to Apollo, as well as creating Mission Control
30775 Lattu 1987 QX
30778 Döblin Alfred Döblin, German novelist
30779 Sankt-Stephan Abbey Sankt-Stephan (''Benediktinerkloster Sankt Stephan'') in Augsburg, Germany, where the Benedictine monk Father Gregor (Bernhard Helms) is a physics-astronomy teacher, builder of his own observatory and of the school planetarium
30785 Greeley 1988 PX Ronald Greeley, American planetary geologist
30786 Karkoschka 1988 QC Erich Karkoschka, German-born American astronomer
30788 Angekauffmann Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter
30798 Graubünden Graubünden, birthplace of Angelica Kauffmann
30801-30900
30821 Chernetenko Yuliya Andreevna Chernetenko, Russian astronomer
30826 Coulomb Charles Augustin Coulomb, French physicist
30828 Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe, German-American physicist
30830 Jahn Max Jahn, German physical chemist
30836 Schnittke Alfred Garyevich Schnittke, Russian composer
30837 Steinheil Carl August von Steinheil, Swiss physicist
30840 Jackalice Jack Newton, Canadian astrophotographer, and his wife Alice
30844 Hukeller 1991 KE Hans-Ulrich Keller, German astronomer
30850 Vonsiemens Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist
30852 Debye Peter Joseph William Debye, Dutch-born American physical chemist
30879 Hiroshikanai 1992 KF
30883 de Broglie Louis-Victor, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist
30901-31000
30917 Moehorgan Maureen "Moe" A. Horgan, American trombonist, conductor and teacher
30933 Grillparzer Franz Grillparzer, Austrian dramatic poet
30934 Bakerhansen 1993 WH Baker Hansen, a main character in William Heinesen's novel ''Lost Musicians''?
30935 Davasobel Dava Sobel, American author
30963 Mount Banzan Mount Banzan, Japan, at the foot of which is the Sendai Astronomical Observatory Ayashi Station (and where the New Sendai Astronomical Observatory will be in 2008)


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