Named in honor of Svetlana Semenovna Prilepina, a graduate of the Astronomical Department at the Ural State University in Ekaterinburg and one of the organizers of the annual Winter Astronomical School at the Kourovka {see planet (4964)} Observatory. She is also a gifted amateur singer. (M 30099) _ _.
Discovered on 14-10-1979 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.