In August of 2008, the Committee on Small Body Nomenclature of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced that asteroid number (183294), also known by its provisional designation 2002 TB382, would henceforth be officially named:
The suggestion to do so came from the discoverers of the object: Stefan Kürti (who found it in NEAT archive imagery) and the NEAT program. It is an honour that I cherish.
The naming citation was published in Minor Planet Circular #63643 and reads as follows:
Asteroid (183294) Langbroek is a main belt asteroid orbiting between the planets Mars and Jupiter. It has an estimated size of approximately 2.5 kilometer and an orbital period of 5.3 years. It's orbital elements are as follows:
| q = 2.69943 AU | i = 6.3198 deg | Q = 3.38040 AU |
| a = 3.03992 AU | omega = 194.2685 deg | H = 15.3 |
| e = 0.122005 | node = 105.88760 deg | epoch = 2016-Jul-31.0 |
Asteroid (183294) Langbroek was discovered on images taken at Mt. Palomar on 9 October 2002 with the 1.2m Schmidt telescope of the NEAT project. Below is a stack of the three 60 second exposure CCD images, showing the asteroid as three dots on a line (because it moved inbetween each image, which were taken at approximately 20 minute intervals at 09:09:16 UTC, 09:27:39 UTC and 09:47:56 UTC):
