Named in honor of Lutz D. Schmadel {1942– }, Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, computer of orbits and ephemerides of minor planets, and Editor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts. The lost objects (1206) Numerowia and (1370) Hella were recovered as the result of his calculations. (M 5285) _ _.
Discovered on 27-4-1977 in La Silla by Schuster, H.-E.