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Adrián Galád

Adrián Galád (born 1970) is a Slovak astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.[2][3]

He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 81 numbered minor planets between 1995 and 2009, most of them in collaboration with astronomers Dušan Kalmančok, Alexander Pravda, Juraj Tóth, Leonard Kornoš, Peter Kolény and Štefan Gajdoš.[1]

The asteroid 32008 Adriángalád, a binary asteroid discovered by LINEAR, was named after him in 2016.[2]

List of discovered minor planets

References

  1. ^ a b "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ^ a b "32008 Adriangalad (2000 HM53)". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  3. ^ Prokopčák, Tomáš (2009-07-28). "Adrián Galád: Amatéri majú výhodu. Čas" (in Slovak). SME. Archived from the original on 2010-07-05. Retrieved 24 April 2010.