21656 Knuth
Encyclopedia
21656 Knuth is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on August 9, 1999 by P. Pravec and P. Kušnirák
at the Ondřejov Observatory
. It is named after Donald Knuth
, a renowned computer scientist and mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
discovered on August 9, 1999 by P. Pravec and P. Kušnirák
Peter Kušnirák
Peter Kušnirák is a Slovak astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids and minor planets, such as his 1999 discovery of the minor planets 21656 Knuth and 20256 Adolfneckař, both located in the Aquarius constellation at the time. He is based out of numerous observatories in the Czech...
at the Ondřejov Observatory
Ondrejov Observatory
The Ondřejov Observatory is the principal observatory of the Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is located near the village of Ondřejov, 35 km southeast of Prague....
. It is named after Donald Knuth
Donald Knuth
Donald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
, a renowned computer scientist and mathematician, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.