Named for the beautiful consort of the revolutionary pharaoh Akhenaten of the seventeenth dynasty in Egypt. She is generally believed to have had a major influence on radical changes that occurred in the court and religion of Egypt during the reign of Akhenaten. (M 10311) _ _.
Discovered on 13-9-1982 in Palomar by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M.