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Named in honor of Seishi Shinagawa (1944– ), who was the first to use electronic computers for orbit computation in Japan, having written a computer program for this in 1965. This program was used by Yoshiaki Banno (1952–1991) {see planet  (3394)}. (M 22500)

Name proposed by S. Nakano, who found the identifications involving this object and learnt orbit computation and programming from Shinagawa and Banno.