3695 Fiala
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3695 Fiala is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on October 21, 1973 by H. L. Giclas at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.
Alan D. Fiala (b. 1942) is an expert on predicting and observing eclipses,
with special application to precise measurement of the solar radius. A
staff astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory since 1962, he has been
Chief of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office since 1996. This naming is on the
occasion of his retirement.
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 October 21, 1973 by H. L. Giclas at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory.
Alan D. Fiala (b. 1942) is an expert on predicting and observing eclipses,
with special application to precise measurement of the solar radius. A
staff astronomer at the U.S. Naval Observatory since 1962, he has been
Chief of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office since 1996. This naming is on the
occasion of his retirement.