Named in honor of Kseniya Andreevna Nessler, chemist by profession and fighter against environmental pollution by avocation, friend of the discoverer. Ksana is a familiar variant of Kseniya, the Russian form of Xenia. (M 22505; M 22609) _ _.
Discovered on 6-10-1986 in Nauchnyj by Karachkina, L. G.