Named in honor of Vladimir Il’ich Skripnichenko (1942– ), staff member of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy since 1968 and its deputy director since 1994, well known expert on computational methods of celestial mechanics. He has studied the application of Hansen’s {see planet  (4775)} method of partial anomalies to the investigation of cometary motions, the development of the Universal Poissonian processor and the development of the programing system ERA. (M 30475) _ _.