1984 WB. Discovered 1984 Nov. 21 by C. S. Shoemaker and E. M. Shoemaker at Palomar.

Named in honor of David J. Roddy, geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. A leading investigator of impact and explosion craters, Roddy is best known for his work on the impact crater of Devonian age at Flynn Creek, Tennessee, the structure of craters produced by large field experiments with high explosives, and numerical modeling of large impacts. (M 15574)