Named in honor of Toyozo Okuda (1908–1983), the fourth director of International Latitude Observatory at Mizusawa {see planet 7530)} and a former director of the Geographical Survey Institute of Japan. During his 1963–1976 tenure at Mizusawa he established a modern system of geophysical measurements of gravity and earth tides for research on the earth’s rotation. (M 34624) _ _.
Discovered on 30-10-1995 in Nachi-Katsuura by Shimizu, Y., Urata, T.