Named for Kirik Novgorodets, a twelfth-century chronicler from the town of Novgorod, author of the first Russian treatise on the luni-solar calendar. “The First Novgorod Chronicle” contains many of his remarks about the various astronomical events he observed. (M 13481) _ _.
Discovered on 8-10-1981 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, L. I.