Adrián Galád (born 1970) is a Slovak

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and a

discoverer of minor planets This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 num ...

. He is credited by the

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with the discovery and co-discovery of 81 numbered minor planets between 1995 and 2009, most of them in collaboration with astronomers

Dušan Kalmančok Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945) is a Slovak astronomer and co-discoverer of minor planets. He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is n ...

, Alexander Pravda,

Juraj Tóth Juraj Tóth (born 28 March 1975) is a Slovak astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and professor of astronomy at Comenius University in Bratislava, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. An expert in meteoroid fragmentation, he is know ...

Leonard Kornoš Leonard Kornoš (born 1956) is a Slovakia, Slovak astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. Career He is a lecturer at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and known for his astrometric and Photometry (astronomy), photometric ...

, Peter Kolény and

Štefan Gajdoš This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). , the discovery of 612,011 num ...

. The asteroid 32008 Adriángalád, a

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discovered by

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, was named after him in 2016.

List of discovered minor planets

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