Named in honor of Evald Rudolfovich Mustel’ {1911–1988}, chairman of the Astronomical Council of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, editor of the Astronomicheskij Zhurnal, and a vice-president of the IAU during 1970–1976. His research activities involve several aspects of solar and stellar physics and the correlation of geophysical phenomena and solar activity. (M 7617) _ _.
Discovered on 11-11-1969 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.