Named in honor of Andrej Vladimirovich Bruns (1931– ), staff member of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, an authority on space astrophysics who has originated several unique instruments for ultraviolet observations of the sun, stars and galaxies from satellites and spacecraft. He designed the large Orbiting Solar Telescope controlled by cosmonauts on Salyut 4 in 1975. A relative of Ernst Heinrich Bruns {see planet  (901)}, director of the Leipzig Observatory at the beginning of this century, he is related on his mother’s side to Euler {see planet  (2002)}. (M 26762; M 27749) _ _.