Leandro Lage dos Santos Guedes (b. 1976), an astronomer at the Rio de Janeiro planetarium, helped to organize the fifth International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy in Aug. 2009. The name was suggested by D. W. E. Green.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.