Named in honor of Tom Gehrels {1925– }, staff member of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at Tucson. Dr. Gehrels is well known for his photometric and polarimetric observations of minor planets and the Moon. (M 3185) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.