Named for one of the Aeolian Islands, site of the “original” volcano, a splendid place where the workshop “Beginning the Spaceguard Survey” was held by the IAU Working Group on Near-Earth Objects during 1995 Sept. 18–22. (M 26762) _ _.
Discovered on 11-10-1966 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.