Named in honor of Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov {1888–1983}, a prominent Soviet astronomer and gravimetrist, academician, president of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1939–1962), vice-president of the International Astronomical Union (1946–1948), director of the Pulkovo Observatory (1947–1964). (M 3937) _ _.
Discovered on 8-10-1972 in Nauchnyj by Zhuravleva, L. V.