Named in honor of Dmitrij Fedorovich Lupishko {1942– }, deputy director of the Kharkow Astronomi?cal Observatory. An assiduous observer of minor-planet lightcurves, Lupishko has made fundamental contribu?tions to the understanding of how photometric data may be used to derive the shapes and spin rates of these bodies. He has also undertaken photometry of Mars and since its inception in 1984 has been chairman of the Working Group on Asteroids of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. (M 12014) _ _.