6942 Yurigulyaev
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6942 Yurigulyaev is a main-belt
asteroid
discovered on December 16, 1976 by L. I. Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
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The asteroid is named after Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev
(b. 1935) is the director of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics.
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 December 16, 1976 by L. I. Chernykh at the 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...
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The asteroid is named after Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev
Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev
Yuri Vasilyevich Gulyayev — is a Russian physicists and inventor. Full Member and Member of the Presidium of Russian Academy of Science , head of the Semiconductor Electronics chair in the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology...
(b. 1935) is the director of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics.