Named in honor of the Astronomical Institute of the Nijmegen University, where many of the positions for the Palomar-Leiden Trojan survey are being measured. Noviomagus was the Roman name for Nijmegen. (M 8800) _ _.
Discovered on 17-10-1960 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.