Named in honor of Eise Eisinga (1744–1821), Dutch amateur astronomer, on the 250th anniversary of his birth. Eisinga lived in the northern town of Franeker, where he constructed a large (and still functioning) mechanical planetarium. (M 23541) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.