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Discovered 1991 Sept. 12 by L. D. Schmadel and F. Börngen at Tautenburg.
Josef W. Fried (b. 1948) is a German astronomer at the Heidelberg Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie who was heavily involved in several instrumentation projects for the Calar Alto telescopes. Fried studied high-redshift quasars and tidal streams in our galaxy. He is an enthusiastic motorcyclist.
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