Named in memory of G. B. van Albada (1911–1972), Dutch astronomer, director of the Bosscha Observatory in Lembang from 1948 to 1958 and of the Astronomical Institute of the Municipal University in Amsterdam from 1959 until his death. (M 18135) _ _.
Discovered on 28-9-1935 in Johannesburg by van Gent, H.