Lidiya Vasil'evna Rykhlova, head of the Space Astrometry Department of the Institute of Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, is a specialist in the astrometry and dynamics of artificial satellites and an expert on earth rotation. She is well known for her studies of near-earth space and asteroid hazards.
Discovered on 18-9-1987 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.