Yurij G. Shkuratov (b. 1952) is director of the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv National University. He is a well known expert in the theory of light scattering and in optical measurements of laboratory analogues of asteroid regolith and cometary particles. The citation was written by D. F. Lupishko.
Discovered on 6-9-1986 in Anderson Mesa by Bowell, E.