Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
This minor planet was named after the joint Soviet-American space flight, the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, carried on in 1975. The reversal of the names, "Soyuz–Apollo" rather than "Apollo–Soyuz", was not political, but to prevent confusion with the asteroid 1862 Apollo. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 March 1981 ().