Vyacheslav Afanasievich Veselov (b. 1930), consultant on the automatic “lunokhods”, made the small-site photolocation systems for driving the Mars Rover and planet rovers. He directed the performance of the astrophysical devices aboard the Mir station for research on the fine structure of the earth's atmosphere.
Discovered on 16-9-1982 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.