Discovered at Palomar on 1988-05-19 by Eleanor Francis Helin and named in honor of Howard B. Keck, chairman and president emeritus of the W. M. Keck Foundation which was established in 1954 by his father, William M. Keck, to support higher education, medical research and science. Under Howard Keck's leadership, the Foundation provided the grants to build the giant twin telescopes of the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea. At the suggestion of E. C. Stone, this asteroid was named on the occasion of the dedication of the second Keck Telescope on May 8th 1996.

https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/5811_Keck

Eleanor Francis Helin (November 19, 1932 – January 25, 2009) was an American astronomer. She was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
She discovered and co-discovered more than 900 asteroids including the first two Aten asteroids: 2062 Aten and 2100 Ra-Shalom, which gave rise to this new orbital group of near-Earth objects.

She also discovered several comets, including periodic comets 111P/Helin–Roman–Crockett, 117P/Helin–Roman–Alu and 132P/Helin–Roman–Alu.

She is also contributed with the discovery of the asteroid 4015 Wilson–Harrington and comet 107P/Wilson–Harrington.
Although Wilson and Harrington preceded her by some decades, their observations did not establish an orbit for the object, while her rediscovery did.

She retired in 2002. The asteroid 3267 Glo is named for her. ("Glo" was her nickname.)

https://alchetron.com/Eleanor-F-Helin

Distance from the Sun (au) : 1,82

Time: 23:55UT 2026-07-31 Exp. 18 x 5 sec.
Tel. 0.254m f/5.8 ST-10XME CCD @ -17°C 1.9"/pix
Odd Trondal Obs.code 238 (Uranium). Oslo Norway.