Named in honor of Atsushi Sugie, who works at the Dynic Astronomical Observatory and who has discovered numerous minor planets there since 1988. He is an active confirmer of new objects in collaboration with S. Nakano {see planet (3431)}, who proposed the name and made the identifications involving this object. (M 22500) _ _.
Discovered on 24-7-1933 in Heidelberg by Reinmuth, K.