6075 Zajtsev
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6075 Zajtsev is a main-belt
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. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

Quote from Minor Planet Circular No 25445, 1995 (Attention! Do not correct "Evpatoria" into "Yevpatoria", because it is the authentic version!):

"Named in honor of Alexander L. Zaitsev, Chief Scientist of the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics, Russia. Under his leadership, observation of Near-Earth asteroid 4179 Toutatis
4179 Toutatis
4179 Toutatis/1989 AC is an Apollo, Alinda, and Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter, a 1:4 resonance with the planet Earth, and frequent close approaches to the terrestrial planets...

 were successfully carried out in December 1992 using the 70-m dish of the Evpatoria Planetary Radar (EPR) in Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

, as the sounding signal transmitter and the 100-m radio telescope in Effelsberg
Effelsberg
The Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope is a radio telescope in the Ahrgebirge in Bad Münstereifel, district of Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.- Geography :...

 in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, as the two-channel receiver of the radar echo from the minor planet's surface. Zaitsev is also responsible for initiating the world's first intercontinental radar astronomy experiment, 70-m dish of the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex
The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex  — commonly called the Goldstone Observatory — is located in California's Mojave Desert. Operated by ITT Corporation for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, its main purpose is to track and communicate with space missions. It includes the Pioneer...

 to 70-m dish of the EPR observations of 6489 Golevka
6489 Golevka
6489 Golevka is an Apollo, Mars-crosser and Alinda asteroid, discovered in 1991 by Eleanor F. Helin.Its name has a complicated origin. In 1995, Golevka was studied simultaneously by three radar observatories across the world: Goldstone in California, Yevpatoria RT-70 radio telescope in Ukraine and...

in June 1995. Name proposed by the discoverer following a suggestion by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy".

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