Edward Charles Pickering
This minor planet was named after American astronomers Edward Charles Pickering (1846–1919) and his brother William Henry Pickering (1858–1938), who were the directors of the Harvard Observatory and the Boyden Station at Arequipa, respectively. William Henry also discovered Phoebe, an irregular moon of Saturn. The was mentioned in "The Names of the Minor Planets" by Paul Herget in 1955 (). The lunar crater "Pickering" and the Martian crater "Pickering" were also named in honor of the two astronomers.