3546 Atanasoff
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3546 Atanasoff is a main-belt asteroid
discovered on September 28, 1983 by Helin, E. F. and Shkodrav, V. at Rozhen
. It was named after physicist John Vincent Atanasoff
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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...
discovered on September 28, 1983 by Helin, E. F. and Shkodrav, V. at Rozhen
Rozhen
Rozhen may refer to:* Rozhen, Bulgaria, a village in Sandanski municipality, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria** the Rozhen Monastery, located nearby* Rozhen, an area in the Rhodope Mountains, in Smolyan municipality, Smolyan Province, Bulgaria...
. It was named after physicist John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff was an American physicist and inventor.The 1973 decision of the patent suit Honeywell v. Sperry Rand named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer...
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