Leonard Kornoš (born 1956) is a
Slovak astronomer
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and a prolific discoverer of
asteroid
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s.
Career
He is a lecturer at
Comenius University
Comenius University Bratislava () is the largest university in Slovakia, with most of its faculties located in Bratislava. It was founded in 1919, shortly after the creation of Czechoslovakia. It is named after Jan Amos Comenius, a 17th-century ...
in Bratislava, Slovakia, and known for his
astrometric
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History ...
and
photometric observations of asteroids and
comet
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s. His research includes the relations between
meteoroid
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Meteoroids are distinguished as objects significantly smaller than ''asteroids'', ranging in size from grains to objects up to wide. Objects smaller than meteoroids are classifie ...
streams and their
parent bodies.
He is credited with the discovery of 37 minor planets, many of which are co-discoveries with astronomers
Peter Kolény
Peter Kolény is a Slovak astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids. As of January 2010, the IAU Minor Planet Center
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,
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 ...
,
Adrián Galád
Adrián Galád (born 1970) is a Slovakia, Slovak astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets.
He is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery and co-discovery of 81 numbered minor planets between 1995 and 2009, most of them in coll ...
,
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 ...
,
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 ...
and
Jozef Világi
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 ...
.
Awards and honors
The asteroid
23899 Kornoš, discovered by
LONEOS
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at
Anderson Mesa Station
Anderson Mesa Station is an astronomical observatory established in 1959 as a dark-sky observing site for Lowell Observatory. It is located at Anderson Mesa in Coconino County, Arizona, about southeast of Lowell's main campus on Mars Hill in F ...
in 1998, was named in his honor.
The official naming citation was published by the
Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center (MPC) is the official body for observing and reporting on minor planets under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Founded in 1947, it operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
Funct ...
on 12 July 2014 ().
List of discovered minor planets
See also
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References
1956 births
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Discoverers of asteroids
Slovak astronomers
Living people
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