Aleksandr Georgievich Kosovichev (1953– ), solar physicist and helioseismologist, has worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and at Stanford University. The naming also honors his wife, Tatiana Ivanova Kosovicheva, a doctor who worked in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory’s medical office. (M 41383; M 41427) _ _.
Discovered on 15-9-1985 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.