Milorad B. Protic
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| Minor planet Minor planet An asteroid group or minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that have a share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid... s discovered: 7 |
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| 1517 Beograd 1517 Beograd 1517 Beograd is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on March 20, 1938 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia.It was named for the city of Belgrade.... |
March 20, 1938 |
| 1550 Tito 1550 Tito 1550 Tito is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on November 29, 1937 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia.It was named for the Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito.... |
November 29, 1937 |
| 1554 Yugoslavia 1554 Yugoslavia 1554 Yugoslavia is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on September 6, 1940 by Milorad B. Protić, a Serbian astronomer, at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia. It was named for the country of Yugoslavia.... |
September 6, 1940 |
| 1564 Srbija 1564 Srbija 1564 Srbija is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on October 15, 1936 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia.It was named for the country of Serbia.... |
October 15, 1936 |
| 1675 Simonida 1675 Simonida 1675 Simonida is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1938 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.It was named after Queen Simonida, the wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin.- External links :*... |
March 20, 1938 |
| 2244 Tesla 2244 Tesla 2244 Tesla is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on October 22, 1952 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, now Serbia.... |
October 22, 1952 |
| 2348 Michkovitch 2348 Michkovitch 2348 Michkovitch is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on January 10, 1939 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia.... |
January 10, 1939 |
Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
: Милорад Б. Протић; August 6, 1911, Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
- October 29, 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n 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...
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He has discovered a handful 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. 1675 Simonida
1675 Simonida
1675 Simonida is a Main-belt asteroid discovered on March 20, 1938 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.It was named after Queen Simonida, the wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin.- External links :*...
is named after queen Simonida
Simonida
Simonida Nemanjić , born Simonis Palaiologina , was a Byzantine princess and queen consort of Serbia as the fourth wife of Serbian king Milutin . She was a daughter of Byzantine Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and Irene of Montferrat.- Life :Simonida was born in Constantinople ca. 1294...
, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin; 2348 Michkovitch
2348 Michkovitch
2348 Michkovitch is a minor planet or asteroid. It was discovered on January 10, 1939 by Milorad B. Protić at Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, now Serbia....
is named after Vojislav V. Mišković (1892–1976), member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the most prominent academic institution in Serbia today...
and head of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory.
Asteroid 22278 Protitch
22278 Protitch
22278 Protitch is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 2, 1983 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.It was named after Milorad B. Protić, Serbian astronomer.- External links :*...
(discovered by Debehogne
Henri Debehogne
Henri Debehogne was a Belgian astronomer.He worked at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle, and specialized in astrometry of comets and asteroids....
) is named after him, while 1724 Vladimir
1724 Vladimir
1724 Vladimir is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1629.7307065 days . The asteroid was discovered on February 28, 1932.- References :...
(discovered by Delporte
Eugène Joseph Delporte
Eugène Joseph Delporte was a Belgian astronomer.-Discoveries:He discovered a total of sixty-six asteroids. Notable discoveries include 1221 Amor and the Apollo asteroid 2101 Adonis. He discovered or co-discovered some comets as well, including periodic comet 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte...
) is named after his grandson. 5397 Vojislava
5397 Vojislava
5397 Vojislava is a main belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1469.4369962 days . The asteroid was discovered on November 14, 1988.-References:...
(discovered by Oshima
Yoshiaki Oshima
is a Japanese astronomer and prolific discoverer of asteroids.The asteroid 5592 Oshima is named after him.-Works:* Isobe, S., Atsuo, A., Asher, D., Fuse, T., Hashimoto, N., Nakano, S., K. Nishiyama, Y. Oshima, N. Takahashi, J. Terazono, H. Umehara, T. Urata, M. Yoshikawa...
) is named after Vojislava Protić-Benišek, his daughter, three times director of the Belgrade Observatory and a member of its staff since 1972, where she continues her father's work on celestial mechanics and minor planets, together with her husband and son.