Leonid Afanas'evich Akimov (b. 1937) is a Ukrainian planetary scientist. An expert in lunar photometry, he was one of the earliest to study the opposition effect, and additionally made laboratory measurements of lunar regolith particles. The name was suggested by D. F. Lupishko and Yu. G. Shkuratov.
Discovered on 10-4-1999 in Anderson Mesa by LONEOS