Discovery
IAU Circular No. 3331 (1979 Feb. 23) announced the discovery by N. S. Chernykh (Crimean Astrophysical Observatory) of a diffuse, comet-like object on two photographic plates obtained on 1978 December 22. The magnitude was given as 16.
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Analysis
The 1985 March issue of the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society said that although the object was initially announced as a comet, it subsequently received the minor planet designation of "1978 YL1".
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