Vytautas Straizys (b. 1936) was head of the Moletai Observatory and other astronomical institutions in Lithuania. A specialist in stellar photometry and classification, he authored the Vilnius photometric system. He founded the international journal Baltic Astronomy and served as president of IAU Commission 45.
Discovered on 15-3-2002 in Moletai by Cernis, K., Zdanavicius, J.