Norbert Polko (b. 1944) has scanned more than 200~000 glass plates---a world record---from the largest European astronomical plate archive, at the Sonneberg Observatory. The name was suggested by R. Hudec.
Discovered on 25-9-1973 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.