Meanings of minor planet names: 325001–326000

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 Meanings that do not quote a reference (the "†" links) are tentative.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
325301–325400
325366 Asturias 2008 QN16 The Principality of Asturias, in northwest Spain.
325368 Ihorhuk 2008 QK24 Ihor Huk (b. 1952), a professor of surgery at the Medical University of Vienna, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine.
325369 Shishilov 2008 QJ29 Shishilov Viktor Fedorovich (b. 1939) contributed greatly to the development of tourism in Russia, in particular in Suzdal (Vladimir region).
325401–325500
325436 Khlebov 2009 OJ23 Khlebov Aleksandr Veniaminovich (b. 1966), head of the Observatory and the astronomical club DD(U)T (Izhevsk, Russia) between 1987 and 2003.
325455 Della Valle 2009 QJ26 Massimo Della Valle (b. 1957), an Italian astronomer.
325501–325600
325558 Guyane 2009 SP101 Guyane, the official name for French Guiana, an overseas region of France on the North Atlantic coast of South America.
325901–326000
325973 Cardinal 2010 VJ159 Robert Damian Cardinal (b. 1969), a research associate at the University of Calgary.
Preceded by
324,001–325,000
Meanings of minor planet names
List of minor planets: 325,001–326,000
Succeeded by
326,001–327,000
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