2849 Shklovskij
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2849 Shklovskij is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on April 1, 1976 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Quote from MPI 8543: "Named in honor of Iosif Shklovsky
{1916 -- 1985}, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, professor at Moscow University and member of the staff at the Space Research Institute. A brilliant popularizar of astronomy, he had also made substantial contributions to research of Solar corona, Galactic radio emission and various cosmic objects."
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 April 1, 1976 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Quote from MPI 8543: "Named in honor of Iosif Shklovsky
Iosif Shklovsky
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist...
{1916 -- 1985}, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, professor at Moscow University and member of the staff at the Space Research Institute. A brilliant popularizar of astronomy, he had also made substantial contributions to research of Solar corona, Galactic radio emission and various cosmic objects."