Named in honor of Boris Viktorovich Raushenbakh (1915–2001), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the International Academy of Astronautics, and a professor at Moscow Physical and Technical Institute from 1947. He has made valuable contributions in the field of mechanics and in the theory and practice of rocket-building and space exploration. (M 27126) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.