Honoring Dr. Alla Genrichovna Massevitch {1918– }, a well-known woman astronomer-astrophysicist, vice-president of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the organizer of optical tracking of artificial Earth satellites in the USSR. (M 3936) _ _.
Discovered on 9-5-1972 in Nauchnyj by Smirnova, T. M.