Named in memory of Dmitrij Aleksandrovich Rozhkovskij (1915–1991), a leading astronomer at the Astrophysical Institute of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences for many decades. He was an outstanding observer and researcher on several types of celestial objects, especially reflection nebulae and new comets. (M 19694) _ _.
Discovered on 19-9-1985 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.