3001–3100
| 3001 Michelangelo || || Michelangelo (1475–1564), Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance || |-id=m002 | 3002 Delasalle || || Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651–1719), French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools || |-id=m003 | 3003 Konček || 1983 YH || Mikuláš Konček (1900–1982), Slovak meteorologist who founded of the Meteorological Institute in Bratislava || |-id=m004 | 3004 Knud || 1976 DD || Knud Rasmussen (1879–1933), Greenlandic/Danish polar explorer and anthropologist, who has been called the "father of Eskimology" || |-id=m005 | 3005 Pervictoralex || || Per Victor Alexander Lagerkvist, son of Swedish discoverer Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist || |-id=m006 | 3006 Livadia || || Livadiya, a suburb of Yalta on the coast of the Crimean Peninsula || |-id=m007 | 3007 Reaves || 1979 UC || Gibson Reaves, American astronomer, historian and educator at the University of Southern California || |-id=m008 | 3008 Nojiri || 1938 WA || Hōei Nojiri (1885–1977) Japanese essayist, author and astronomer || |-id=m009 | 3009 Coventry || || Coventry, England, sister city of Volgograd || |-id=m010 | 3010 Ushakov || || Fyodor Ushakov (1745–1817), Russian admiral || |-id=m011 | 3011 Chongqing || || Chongqing, China || |-id=m012 | 3012 Minsk || || Minsk, Byelorussian SSR || |-id=m013 | 3013 Dobrovoleva || || , Soviet astronomer known for his cometary studies. He was the head of the Cometary Astronomy Department of the Institute of Astrophysics of the Tadjik S.S.R. Academy of Sciences in Dushanbe. || |-id=m014 | 3014 Huangsushu || 1979 TM || Su-Shu Huang (1915–1977), Chinese-American astrophysicist known for his studies on circumstellar habitable zones and prerequisites of extraterrestrial life || |-id=m015 | 3015 Candy || 1980 VN || Michael P. Candy (1928–1994), British astrometrist and discoverer of minor planets and comets. Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and Perth Observatory. President of IAU Commission VI. || |-id=m016 | 3016 Meuse || 1981 EK || The Meuse River (Dutch Maas), which rises in France and flows through Belgium and the Netherlands || |-id=m017 | 3017 Petrovič || 1981 UL || Štefan Petrovič (1906–?), Slovak climatologist || |-id=m018 | 3018 Godiva || 1982 KM || Lady Godiva (died ca. 1076), medieval Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and church patron, wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia || |-id=m019 | 3019 Kulin || 1940 AC || György Kulin (1905–1989), Hungarian astronomer || |-id=m020 | 3020 Naudts || 1949 PR || Ignace Naudts (1949–1992), Belgian amateur astronomer || |-id=m021 | 3021 Lucubratio || 1967 CB || Latin for "nocturnal study, night work" (from lucubrum, candle) || |-id=m022 | 3022 Dobermann || 1980 SH || Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann (1834–1894), German zoologist and amateur astronomer known for breeding the Dobermann || |-id=m023 | 3023 Heard || 1981 JS || John Frederick Heard (1907–1976), Canadian astronomer, professor of astronomy at the University of Toronto and fourth director of the David Dunlap Observatory || |-id=m024 | 3024 Hainan || || Hainan Province || |-id=m025 | 3025 Higson || 1982 QR || Roger Higson, American night assistant for the 1.2-meter Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory in California. His supportive work has been appreciated by observers of comets and minor planets. || |-id=m026 | 3026 Sarastro || || Sarastro, high priest of the Temple of Wisdom in Mozart's The Magic Flute || |-id=m027 | 3027 Shavarsh || || Shavarsh Karapetyan (born 1953), Soviet–Armenian champion and world-record finswimmer, who saved 20 lives from drowning when a trolleybus fell into the Yerevan Lake. || |-id=m028 | 3028 Zhangguoxi || || Zhang Guoxi, Chinese industrialist and philanthropist || |-id=m029 | 3029 Sanders || || Jeffrey D. Sanders, American astronomer who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey as an undergraduate student || |-id=m030 | 3030 Vehrenberg || || Hans Vehrenberg, German amateur astronomer from Düsseldorf. He is the author of the Atlas of Deep-Sky Splendors (). For researchers on minor planets and comets, he published the "Falkauer Atlas" and "Atlas Stellarum". || |-id=m031 | 3031 Houston || 1984 CX || Walter Scott Houston (1912–1993), American amateur astronomer well known for his column Deep Sky Wonders in Sky & Telescope || |-id=m032 | 3032 Evans || || Reverend Robert O. Evans, Australian amateur astronomer, discoverer of several extragalactic supernovae || |-id=m033 | 3033 Holbaek || 1984 EJ || Holbæk, Denmark, town nearest to the discovery site (Brorfelde Observatoriet) on the occasion of the former's 700th anniversary in 1986 || |-id=m034 | 3034 Climenhaga || A917 SE || John L. Climenhaga (1916–2008), Canadian astronomer and father of journalist David Climenhaga (Src/Src) || |-id=m035 | 3035 Chambers || A924 EJ || John Eric Chambers (born 1969), then British predoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics || |-id=m036 | 3036 Krat || 1937 TO || (1911–1983), Russian astronomer || |-id=m037 | 3037 Alku || 1944 BA || Finnish for "Beginning", the discoverer's boyhood boat, built by his father || |-id=m038 | 3038 Bernes || || Mark Bernes (1911–1969), Soviet film actor and singer || |-id=m039 | 3039 Yangel || || Mikhail Yangel (1911–1971), leading Soviet rocket and missile designer || |-id=m040 | 3040 Kozai || 1979 BA || Yoshihide Kozai (1928–2018), Japanese astronomer and celestial mechanician, discoverer of the Kozai mechanism || |-id=m041 | 3041 Webb || 1980 GD || Rev. Thomas William Webb (1807–1885), British astronomer, author of Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes and discoverer of S Orionis || |-id=m042 | 3042 Zelinsky || || David S. Zelinsky, American mathematician at Brown University, formerly active participant in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech || |-id=m043 | 3043 San Diego || 1982 SA || San Diego, California, in recognition of its efforts to curb light pollution || |-id=m044 | 3044 Saltykov || || Nikita Saltykov (1893–1946), Russian farmer and grandfather of Natal'ja Vital'evna Metlova who co-discovered this minor planet || |-id=m045 | 3045 Alois || 1984 AW || Alois T. Stuczynski, grandfather of American astronomer Joe Wagner who discovered this minor planet || |-id=m046 | 3046 Molière || 4120 P-L || Molière (1622–1673), French playwright || |-id=m047 | 3047 Goethe || 6091 P-L || Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet and playwright || |-id=m048 | 3048 Guangzhou || || Guangzhou, Guangdong, China || |-id=m049 | 3049 Kuzbass || 1968 FH || The coal mining Kuznets Basin, located in the Kemerovo Region of Siberia, one of the richest coal deposits in the world || |-id=m050 | 3050 Carrera || 1972 NW || The four brothers of the Carrera family: Javiera (1781–1862), Juan José (1782–1818), José Miguel (1785–1821), and Luis (1791–1818), key figures of the Chilean War of Independence || |-id=m051 | 3051 Nantong || 1974 YP || Nantong, Jiangsu, China || |-id=m052 | 3052 Herzen || || Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), Russian revolutionary, writer, and philosopher, "father of Russian socialism" and founder of the free Russian press abroad || |-id=m053 | 3053 Dresden || 1977 QS || The German city of Dresden || |-id=m054 | 3054 Strugatskia || || The brothers Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (1925–1991, 1933–2012) Russian science fiction writers || |-id=m055 | 3055 Annapavlova || || Anna Pavlova (1881–1931), Russian prima ballerina best known for her performance of The Dying Swan || |-id=m056 | 3056 INAG || || The French National Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (; INAG), which built the discovery telescope || |-id=m057 | 3057 Mälaren || 1981 EG || Lake Mälaren, Sweden || |-id=m058 | 3058 Delmary || || Delmary Rose Schanz (born 1938), American artist || |-id=m059 | 3059 Pryor || || Carlton P. Pryor, American astronomer who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech || |-id=m060 | 3060 Delcano || || Juan Sebastián Elcano or del Caño (1476–1526), Spanish navigator, lieutenant of Magellan, first to continuously circumnavigate the globe || |-id=m061 | 3061 Cook || || James Cook (1728–1779), British explorer and navigator || |-id=m062 | 3062 Wren || 1982 XC || Sir Christopher Wren (1632–1723), British architect and astronomer || |-id=m063 | 3063 Makhaon || 1983 PV || Makhaon, mythical medical doctor to Greeks during the Trojan War || |-id=m064 | 3064 Zimmer || || Louis Zimmer (1888–1970), Belgian amateur astronomer and clockmaker to the King of Belgium || |-id=m065 | 3065 Sarahill || 1984 CV || Sarah J. Hill, professor of astronomy and chairman of the astronomy department at Wellesley College || |-id=m066 | 3066 McFadden || 1984 EO || Lucy-Ann McFadden (born 1953), American astronomer and planetary scientist || |-id=m067 | 3067 Akhmatova || || Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Soviet poet || |-id=m068 | 3068 Khanina || || Frida Borisovna Khanina, Soviet orbit computer and long-time member of the Institute for Theoretical Astronomy || |-id=m069 | 3069 Heyrovský || || Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Czech physical chemist || |-id=m070 | 3070 Aitken || 1949 GK || Robert Grant Aitken (1864–1951), American astronomer, fourth director of the Lick Observatory, and author of the "New General Catalogue of Double Stars within 12° of the North Pole" (1932) || |-id=m071 | 3071 Nesterov || || Pyotr Nesterov (1887–1914), Russian pioneer airman || |-id=m072 | 3072 Vilnius || || Vilnius, Lithuania || |-id=m073 | 3073 Kursk || || Kursk, Russia || |-id=m074 | 3074 Popov || || Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859–1906), Russian radio inventor || |-id=m075 | 3075 Bornmann || || Patricia L. Bornmann, American solar astronomer who participated in the Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey while an undergraduate student at Caltech || |-id=m076 | 3076 Garber || || Paul E. Garber (1899–1992), American historian and first head of the National Air Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. || |-id=m077 | 3077 Henderson || 1982 SK || Thomas Henderson (1798–1844), Scottish astronomer, mathematician, and first Astronomer Royal for Scotland. In 1839 he was the first person to measure the distance Alpha Centauri || |-id=m078 | 3078 Horrocks || 1984 FG || Jeremiah Horrocks (1619–1641), also known as Jeremiah Horrox, English astronomer and mathematician who predicted and was the first to observe the transit of Venus in 1639. He also demonstrated that the Moon moved around the Earth in an elliptical orbit. || |-id=m079 | 3079 Schiller || 2578 P-L || Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), German playwright || |-id=m080 | 3080 Moisseiev || 1935 TE || Nikolay Moiseyev (1902–1955), Soviet astronomer and an expert in celestial mechanics || |-id=m081 | 3081 Martinůboh || 1971 UP || Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959), Czech composer of modern classical music || |-id=m082 | 3082 Dzhalil || 1972 KE || Musa Cälil (Musa Mustafovich Dzhalil'; 1906–1944), Tatar Soviet poet and resistance fighter || |-id=m083 | 3083 OAFA || 1974 MH || Félix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina || |-id=m084 | 3084 Kondratyuk || || Yuri Kondratyuk (1897–1942), Soviet engineer, mathematician and pioneer of astronautics and spaceflight || |-id=m085 | 3085 Donna || 1980 DA || Donna Marie Thompson, American administrative assistant for the Minor Planet Center and the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams, secretary for the Planetary Sciences division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics || |-id=m086 | 3086 Kalbaugh || 1980 XE || Carroll Kalbaugh Liller, father of Chilean astronomer William Liller || |-id=m087 | 3087 Beatrice Tinsley || || Beatrice Tinsley (1941–1981), British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist || |-id=m088 | 3088 Jinxiuzhonghua || || "Splendid China", park at Shenzhen, the largest miniature scenic spot in the world || |-id=m089