Named in honor of Iosif Samuilovich Shklovskij {1916–1985}, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, professor at Moscow University and member of the staff at the Space Research Institute. A brilliant popularizer of astronomy, he has also made substantial contributions to research on the solar corona, galactic radio emission and various cosmic objects. (M 8543) _ _.
Discovered on 1-4-1976 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.