Norman L. Vargas (b. 1972) assisted in organizing the Palomar Observatory's 1.2-m Schmidt Oschin Telescope plate archive. He is active in astronomy outreach through the Los Angeles Astronomical Society and is a volunteer telescope operator at the Mt. Wilson Observatory.
Discovered on 29-5-1987 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M.