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== Numbering and naming ==
 
This [[minor planet]] was numbered by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 22 March 1989 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 14337}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" /> On 14 May 2021, the object was named by the [[Working Group for Small BodyBodies Nomenclature]] (WGSBN), after [[Thestor (mythology)|Thestor]] from Greek mythology, who was a grandson of Apollo and the father of [[Calchas]].<ref name="WGSBN-Bulletin-Archive" />
 
Before ''Thestor'' was named, it belonged to a small group of only 8 unnamed minor planets with a designated number smaller than 5000. (All of them are Jupiter trojans or [[near-Earth asteroid]]s). Since then, several have already been named:
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<ref name="WGSBN-Bulletin-Archive">{{cite web
|title = WGSBN Bulletin Archive
|work = Working Group for Small BodyBodies Nomenclature
|date = 14 May 2021
|url = https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/index.html