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Discovered 1911 Oct. 18 by F. Kaiser at Heidelberg.
This planet was named by M. F. Wolf after the ocean liner Tabora which was inspected by the participants in a meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in Hamburg in 1913. The discoverer adds that Tabora also was the name of a coastal town in former German East Africa. (H 73; AN 196, 139 (1913))
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(2003). (721) Tabora. In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_722
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