Named for Svetlana Evgen’evna Savitskaya (1948– ), 1970 world aerobatics champion, the second woman to fly in space (1982) and the first woman to fly in space twice (1984). On her second flight she became the first woman to walk in space. (M 22500) _ _.
Discovered on 15-10-1982 in Nauchnyj by Zhuravleva, L. V.