Discovered 1978 Sep. 2 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at the European Southern Observatory.
Gösta Gahm is an astronomer at Stockholm Observatory. For many years he has been the project leader of the "Swedish Solar System", a model of the Solar System where 1 AU is equal to 7.6 km and the sun and planets are scaled likewise.
Asteroids discovered by Uppsala astronomers
Johan Warell