Beate Spiegel (b. 1960) serves as head of the office of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. She was instrumental in supporting the project “Digitization of the Palomar-Leiden Survey and the T-n Trojan Surveys” of the van Houtens. The name was suggested by L. D. Schmadel.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.