3120 Dangrania
Encyclopedia
3120 Dangrania is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 14, 1979 by Nikolai Chernykh
at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
. It is named after Daniil Granin
, a Russian writer, best known as the authour of stories about Soviet intelligentsia
.
Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast...
at Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is located in Ukraine. CrAO has been publishing the Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1947, in English since 1977. The observatory facilities are located near the settlement of Nauchny since the mid-1950s; before that, they were further...
. It is named after Daniil Granin
Daniil Granin
Daniil Alexandrovich Granin is an author born in the former Soviet Union. He started writing in the 1930s when he was still an engineering student at the Leningrad Polytechnical Institute...
, a Russian writer, best known as the authour of stories about Soviet intelligentsia
Intelligentsia
The intelligentsia is a social class of people engaged in complex, mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture, encompassing intellectuals and social groups close to them...
.