The asteroid was named by Carolyn Shoemaker in recognition of Len Beadell an Australian surveyor, whose network of roads in outback Australia enabled Carolyn and husband Eugene to visit meteorite impact craters during the early 1980s.
It has a Len Beadell marker and is indicated as suitable for camping on some maps.
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Len Beadell was given the task of selecting a team and constructing access roads from the test locality to the future weather station, named Giles after the explorer Ernest Giles who had explored that part of the remote inland.