Named in memory of Rem Viktorovich Khokhlov (1926–1977), Soviet physicist and one of the founders of nonlinear optics. An academician, professor and then rector of the Moscow University, Rem was an outstanding alpinist who perished ascending the Pamirs. (M 22499) _ _.
Discovered on 8-9-1977 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.