Meanings of minor planet names: 234001–235000

As minor planet discoveries are confirmed, they are given a permanent number by the IAU's Minor Planet Center, 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 span of numbers that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Besides the Minor Planet Circulars (in which the citations are published), a key source is Lutz D. Schmadel's Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.

Minor planets not yet given a name have not been included in this list.

Name	Provisional Designation	Source of Name
	234001–234100
234026 Unioneastrofili	1998 SJ35	The Italian Amateur Astronomers Union (UAI) was founded in 1967, counts over 1000 members and releases the peer-reviewed magazine Astronomia. The UAI has many research sections and undertakes scientific popularization and didactics, with the co-operation of the Ministry of Education and Universities. †
	234101–234200
	234201–234300
234294 Pappsándor	2000 YD32	Sándor Papp (b. 1949) is a Hungarian amateur astronomer, who has made more than 100,000 visual brightness estimation of variable stars. †
	234301–234400
	234401–234500
	234501–234600
	234601–234700
	234701–234800
234750 Amymainzer	2002 NX69	Amy Mainzer (born 1974), an American astronomer and member of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) team. †
234761 Rainerkracht	2002 OU32	Rainer Kracht (born 1948), a German amateur astronomer. †
	234801–234900
	234901–235000