Named in honor of Klim Ivanovich Churyumov {1937– }, an astronomer on the Astronomical Faculty of Kiev University known for his work on comets. He was a codiscoverer of periodic comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 1969. (M 8542) _ _.
Discovered on 8-8-1978 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.