Named in honor of the perished lady-parachutist Nata (Nadezhda) Babushkina (1915–1936). See also planets (1062) and (1084). (N. S. Samojlova-Yakhontova; N. Solovaya; N. S. Chernykh) _ _.
Discovered on 25-8-1927 in Simeis by Beljavskij, S., Ivanov, N.