Named in honor of Edgar Everhart {1920–1990}, since 1969 in the physics-astronomy department at the University of Denver and director of the Chamberlain Observatory. After an impressive career working on atomic cross-sections, he has made equally fundamental contributions to our knowledge of the distribution of comets and the evolution of cometary orbits, including the development of an efficient integration technique _ _.
Discovered on 7-9-1934 in Heidelberg by Reinmuth, K.