Named in honor of James A. C. Simms III (1957– ), a system administrator in the AXAF Science Center at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Beginning in 1980, as an operator in the observatory’s central computing facility, he was always particularly helpful in expediting the Minor Planet Center’s computing jobs. (M 34618) _ _.
Discovered on 28-2-1973 in Bergedorf by Kohoutek, L.