Claim: 4962 Vecherka, a Eunomian asteroid and slow rotator from the central regions of the asteroid belt, was discovered by T. Smirnova on 1 October 1973.
Evidence: 4962 Vecherka, provisional designation 1973 TP, is a Eunomian asteroid and slow rotator from the central regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 1 October 1973, by Soviet astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnij, on the Crimean peninsula.