Wilfried Tost (b. 1952) is a system manager at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlerhof. He has a keen interest in astronomy, and is active at Wilhelm Förster Sternwarte in Berlin. He was instrumental in organizing the ACM 2002 conference. The name was suggested by G. Hahn.
Discovered on 17-9-1998 in Anderson Mesa by LONEOS