The 2017 Wesson was discovered by M.F. Wolf in Heidelberg Observatory and was named after Mary Wesson, the wife of C.M. Bardwell.
It was discovered on 20 September 1903, by German astronomer Max Wolf at Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany. It was later named after Mary Joan Wesson Bardwell, wife of Conrad Bardwell, an associate director of the Minor Planet Center. 
