Petr Pravec is a Czech

Czech people

Czechs, or Czech people are a western Slavic people of Central Europe, living predominantly in the Czech Republic. Small populations of Czechs also live in Slovakia, Austria, the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Russia and other countries...

 astronomer

Astronomer

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, born in Třinec

Trinec

Třinec is a town in Frýdek-Místek District, Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It lies on the Olza River, in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The town has 37,405 inhabitants as of 2009, in 2001 17.7% of the population were Poles...

, a prolific discoverer of binary asteroid

Asteroid

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s using lightcurve

Light curve

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 photometric studies. He is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations called BinAst to look for multiplicity in the NEA

Near-Earth object

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 and inner main-belt populations. He has found 289 asteroids—112 alone, and 177 with other astronomers.

Asteroid 4790 Petrpravec

4790 Petrpravec

4790 Petrpravec is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.- External links :*...

is named after him.