Named in honor of Veronica Lynn Passalacqua, on the occasion of her twenty-fifth birthday, by her long-time friend D. W. E. Green, who made the identifications of this object. She has done tremendous volunteer work over several years, while a student at Harvard University, toward compiling the International Comet Quarterly archive of photometric data on comets. (M 21957) _ _.
Discovered on 11-2-1983 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S.