1979 SG9. Discovered 1979 Sept. 22 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

Named for a town in Crimea, the center of the district in which the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is located. The name is widely known, thanks to Pushkin’s {see planet (2208)} poem The Bakhchisaraj Fountain. (M 12015)