Named in honor of Viktor Iosifovich Yudovich (1934– ), a professor at Rostov University and notable specialist in the mathematical hydrodynamics of convective fluid and mathematical geophysics. Yudovich developed convective models for earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. (M 31026) _ _.
Discovered on 14-11-1990 in Nauchnyj by Karachkina, L. G.