Hubble sequence
This minor planet was named after the famous American astronomer Edwin Hubble (1889–1953). He pioneered in the exploration of the Universe beyond the Milky Way galaxy and established a self-consistent distance scale as far as the 100-inch Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory could reach. Hubble's law and the discovery of the expanding Universe were his greatest achievements. His classification scheme for galaxies, the Hubble sequence, is still the standard and often called the "Hubble tuning-fork". Hubble also discovered the minor planet 1373 Cincinnati, his only asteroid discovery. The lunar crater "Hubble" is also named after him. The approved naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 December 1983 ().