1969 QP. Discovered 1969 Aug. 22 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf.

Named in memory of the Czech student of philosophy Jan Palach, who burned himself to death on 1969 Jan. 16 in Wenceslas Square, Prague, as a protest against the occupation of Czechoslovakia the previous August, resulting in the violent end of the reform movement known as Prague Spring. (M 18643)