Tomáš Vorobjov (; born 1984) is a Slovak amateur

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, g ...

and an observer and discoverer of

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s, in particular

near-Earth object A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit brings it into proximity with Earth. By convention, a Solar System body is a NEO if its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU). ...

s. He is the director of the IASC Data Reduction Team and is credited by the

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with the discovery of 9 numbered minor planets. In October 2012, Vorobjov discovered

276P/Vorobjov 276P/Vorobjov (previously P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov)) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered on 15 October 2012 by Tomáš Vorobjov on three 120-s images taken remotely using the 0.81-m f/7 Ritchey-Chretien Schulman Telescope located at the Mt. Lemmon Sk ...

, a

periodic comet Periodic comets (also known as short-period comets) are comets with orbital periods of less than 200 years or that have been observed during more than a single perihelion passage (e.g. 153P/Ikeya–Zhang). "Periodic comet" is also sometimes used ...

and his first

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discovery. He also discovered the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in April 2012. The Florian main-belt asteroid 4858 Vorobjov, discovered by American astronomer James Gibson at Palomar in 1985, was named after him.

Discoveries

Near-Earth objects

* 2011 EB7 (Mar 1, 2011) * 2011 HD63 (May 1, 2011) * 2011 PW6 (Aug 8, 2011) * 2013 EP41 (Mar 9, 2013) * 2013 FC11 (Mar 21, 2013) * 2014 FG33 (Mar 26, 2014) * 2014 GF45 (Apr 6, 2014) * 2014 QP362 (Aug 26, 2014) * 2014 WG70 (Nov 17, 2014)

Centaurs

2013 GY54
(Mar 8, 2013)
2015 FK37
(Mar 20, 2015)

TNOs

(432949) 2012 HH₂
(Apr 19, 2012)
2014 FP43
(Mar 28, 2014)
2014 GE45
(Apr 6, 2014)
2014 QF433
(Aug 26, 2014)
2014 UH192
(Oct 28, 2014)
2014 WT69
(Nov 17, 2014) * TVPS8GA (Nov 20, 2014) - lost
2015 FP36
(Mar 19, 2015)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vorobjov, Tomas 1984 births Discoverers of asteroids Discoverers of comets * Living people Slovak astronomers