Named for the Greek physician, son of Aesculapius {see planet (1027)} and Epione and brother of Hygiea, Machaon and Panacea {see planets (10), (3063), (2878), respectively}, who stopped a pestilence during the Trojan War. (M 22246) _ _.
Discovered on 9-11-1985 in Nauchnyj by Zhuravleva, L. V.