Named in memory of Ida Barney (1886–1982), astronomer at the Yale Observatory from 1924 to 1959 and supervisor of the Yale Zone Catalogue program of positions and proper motions of stars. (M 23541) _ _.
Discovered on 29-9-1973 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.