1983 VM7. Discovered 1983 Nov. 4 by B. A. Skiff at Anderson Mesa.

Named in recognition of all the staff members of the Centre de Données Astronomiques, situated at the Observatoire de Strasbourg, for their efforts to create and maintain the SIMBAD (Set of Identifications, Measurements, and Bibliography for Astronomical Data) stellar bibliographic database and its associated on-line catalogue retrieval services. (M 27127)