Named in honor of Anna Alexeevna Kapitsa (1903– ), the daughter of Alexei Nikolaevich Krylov. She was an outstanding Russian mathematician and the wife of famous physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa {see planet (3437) }. (M 22505) _ _.
Discovered on 13-11-1982 in Nauchnyj by Karachkina, L. G.