Eric Walter Elst
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Apollo asteroid
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Comet
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8191 Mersenne
8191 Mersenne is an asteroid discovered 1993 July 20 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla Observatory, according to http://www.angelfire.com/id/ericelst/Citapla.html. It was named after Marin Mersenne because 8191, the number of the object discovered, is sequentially the fifth Mersenne prime.- External...
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Mersenne prime
In mathematics, a Mersenne number, named after Marin Mersenne , is a positive integer that is one less than a power of two: M_p=2^p-1.\,...
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Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
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Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
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Amor asteroid
The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars...
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Guido Pizarro
Guido Hernán Pizarro Demestri is an Argentine football midfielder. He currently plays for Lanús.-External links:...
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Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
and a prolific discoverer of 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...
s, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).
Notable discoveries include the Apollo asteroid
Apollo asteroid
The Apollo asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after 1862 Apollo, the first asteroid of this group to be discovered by Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth...
4486 Mithra
4486 Mithra
4486 Mithra is an Apollo and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Eric Elst and Vladimir Shkodrov on September 22, 1987. It is named after Mithra, Indo-Iranian god of light. In Asia Minor around 330 B.C...
, the 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...
/comet
Comet
A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet...
7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P/Elst-Pizarro
133P/Elst-Pizarro
Comet Elst–Pizarro is a body that displays characteristics of both asteroids and comets, and is the prototype of main-belt comets. Its orbit keeps it within the asteroid belt, yet it displayed a dust tail like a comet while near perihelion in 1996, 2001, and 2007.* As a comet it is formally...
), the asteroid 8191 Mersenne
8191 Mersenne
8191 Mersenne is an asteroid discovered 1993 July 20 by Eric Walter Elst at La Silla Observatory, according to http://www.angelfire.com/id/ericelst/Citapla.html. It was named after Marin Mersenne because 8191, the number of the object discovered, is sequentially the fifth Mersenne prime.- External...
(1993 OX9), and more than 25 Trojan asteroid
Trojan asteroid
The Jupiter Trojans, commonly called Trojans or Trojan asteroids, are a large group of objects that share the orbit of the planet Jupiter around the Sun. Relative to Jupiter, each Trojan librates around one of the planet's two Lagrangian points of stability, and , that respectively lie 60° ahead...
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The 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...
3936 Elst
3936 Elst
3936 Elst is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 16, 1977 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.- External links :*...
was named in his honour.