8578 Shojikato = 1996 WZ 加藤正二
  Discovered 1996 Nov. 19 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi. Shoji Kato (b. 1935),
professor emeritus of Kyoto University, has been engaged in studying theories
concerning oscillations and waves in accretion disks embedded in active galactic nuclei
and proto-planetary disks. He served as a member of the Japanese National Committee
of the IAU during 1985-1994.

Name proposed by Sakka and Nakao