Asteroid 3400, Aotearoa, was discovered on April 2, 1981 by Alan C. Gilmore and Pamela M. Kilmartin at Mount John Observatory in Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, New Zealand. It has a period of 2 years, 253 days.
It was named for New Zealand; Aotearoa ("land of the long white cloud") is the best-known and most widely accepted Maori name for New Zealand.
Astrologically, Aotearoa seems to signify having to do with New Zealand or New Zealanders; very fast-moving ("so as to leave a vapor trail")..
Amber Frey, the girlfriend of Modesto, California salesman and convicted murderer Scott Peterson, had the adjective "fast" attached to her by some people in the media (in love fast, out of love fast, wanting money fast). Frey has Aotearoa semisextile South Node and quincunx Pluto and the North Node.
Race car driver Mario Andretti had Aotearoa sextile Chiron and trine Ceres.
Chuck Yeager, the first human to travel faster than sound, had Aotearoa conjunct Sun, square Juno and sesquiquadrate Pluto.
Carol Moseley Braun, a former American ambassador to New Zealand, has Aotearoa sextile Uranus and trine Sun.
Ellen Morgan, an American girl (now woman) who was taken to New Zealand by her mother, plastic surgeron Elizabeth Morgan, allegedly to protect her from abuse by her father, has Aotearoa trine the Sun and opposite Pluto.
New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has Aotearoa conjunct Sun and Vesta, semisextile North Node, and quincunx South Node.
Jenny Shipley, who has also been Prime Minister of New Zealand, has Aotearoa sextile North Node and trine South Node.
New Zealand-born actress Lucy Lawless has Aotearoa sextile Juno and Vesta, sesquiquadrate Jupiter and contraparallel Pluto.
The glyph for Aotearoa is mine.