Named in honor of Åke A. E. Wallenquist {1904–1994}, retired director of the Kvistaberg {see planet (3331)} Station but still active at the Uppsala Observatory, where he studies dark matter in open clusters. While observing at Palomar in 1950 he was a codiscoverer of (1980) Tezcatlipoca. (M 4645) _ _.
Discovered on 19-4-1976 in Mount Stromlo by Lagerkvist, C.-I.