[2] The decision of the Committee for Small Body Nomenclature to assign the name "Wikipedia" to the asteroid was published in the Minor Planet Circulars on 27 January 2013 (M.P.C.
[8] The name was proposed by Andriy Makukha, a board member of Wikimedia Ukraine.
[9] It reads: Wikipedia is a free, copyleft, collaboratively edited online encyclopedia launched in 2001.
[4] Vestian asteroids have a composition akin to cumulate eucrites (HED meteorites).
[12] After it was also observed on 6 September by the Andrushivka team, the orbit of the asteroid was calculated accurately.