Asteroid 3226, Plinius, was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Palomar-Leiden Survey (PLS) at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California. It has a period of 4 years, 318 days.
It was named for the Roman writer Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (61-112), better known as Pliny the Younger, who was the nephew of the highly influential writer and naturalist Gaius Plinius Secundus aka Pliny the Elder (23–79). Pliny the Younger's many surviving letters are an invaluable historical source. Both Plinys were witnesses to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum in 79 CE, in which Pliny the Elder died, probably of natural causes, while attempting to rescue a friend from the eruption. A Plinian volcanic eruption is a violent one in which columns of smoke and ash rise high into the air from the volcano.
Pliny the Younger
Astrologically, asteroid Plinius seems to indicate "to blow one's top," careful and detailed descriptions, comprehensive treatment, devotion to something even to the point of death.