Named in honor of Artur Nikolaevich Babin (1936– ) and Aleksandra Nikolaevna Koval’, husband and wife, solar astrophysicists at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory for more than 35 years, known for their research on the fine structure of active solar features. (M 23351) _ _.
Discovered on 14-10-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.