Milorad B. Protic

Asteroids discovered: 7
(1517) Beograd	March 20, 1938
(1550) Tito	November 29, 1937
(1554) Yugoslavia	September 6, 1940
(1564) Srbija	October 15, 1936
(1675) Simonida	March 20, 1938
(2244) Tesla	October 22, 1952
(2348) Michkovitch	January 10, 1939

Milorad B. Protić (Милорад Б. Протић; born August 6, 1911 in Belgrade ; † October 29, 2001 ibid) was a Yugoslav astronomer .

Protić was one of the first asteroid discoverers of the former Yugoslavia. He also discovered comet C / 1947 Y1 . The seven asteroids he discovered all have names related to his homeland:

The asteroid (1517) Beograd bears the name of the then Yugoslav capital Belgrade , while (1550) Tito is named after the former head of state Josip Broz Tito and (1554) Yugoslavia is named after the former state of Yugoslavia . (1564) Srbija is reminiscent of Serbia .

The asteroid (1675) Simonida is named after the wife of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin , Queen Simonida . Other Serbian personalities were honored with the asteroids (2244) Tesla - after the inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla - and (2348) Michkovitch , the latter named after the SANU member Vojislav V. Mišković .

Protić himself was dedicated to the asteroid (22278) Protitch on December 30, 2001 for his work in the fields of fundamental astronomy and celestial mechanics and as the three-time director of the Belgrade Observatory . The asteroid (1724) Vladimir is named after his grandson .

Web links

• Obituary by Milorad B. Protić (PDF; 60 kB)