Named for Horst Uwe Keller, well-known scientist at the Max Planck Institute in Lindau. Uwe was the driving force of the science team for the ESA study on ‘The Orbiting Planetary Telescope’, in which the discoverer also participated. (M 25444) _ _.
Discovered on 16-3-1980 in La Silla by Lagerkvist, C.-I.