Named in memory of Rafael Suvanto, an assistant of Y. Väisälä {see planets  (1573) and  (2804)}. Later, as rector of a school in Naantali {see planet  (1758)}, he continued to participate in orbit calculations. He fell near Summa {see planet  (1928)} in the last days of the Finnish winter war of 1939–40. (M 5450) _ _.