Named in honor of Raymond Josse (1914– ), a graduate of the Ecole Militaire de l’Air and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique who has occupied important positions in the French aeronautical administration. He is also a member of the Société des Amis de Jean de La Fontaine, one of his ancestors, as well as of the Société Astronomique de France. He has authored about 100 articles on historical and on technical subjects. During the festivities in 1995 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of de La Fontaine {see planet  (5780)} at Château Thierry he became a very good friend of the Elst family. (M 26766; E. W. Elst) _ _.