Peter Kušnirák

Selection of discovered asteroids :

(21656) Knuth	August 9, 1999	[1]
(22185) Štiavnica	December 29, 2000	[2]
(26401) Sobotište	November 19, 1999
(34753) Zdeněkmatyáš	August 24, 2001	[1]
(40441) Jungmann	September 11, 1999	[1]
(44613) Rudolf	September 8, 1999	[1]
(46280) Hollar	May 21, 2001	[1]
[1] together with Petr Pravec [2] together with Ulrika Babiaková

Peter Kušnirák (born May 22, 1974 in Piešťany ) is a Slovak astronomer and asteroid discoverer.

He mainly uses the Czech observatory Ondřejov .

Between 1999 and 2005 he discovered more than 200 asteroids, 85 of them alone, the rest together with colleagues, especially Petr Pravec .

On June 20, 2016 the asteroid (17260) Kušnirák was named after him.

literature

• Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . 5th revised edition. Springer, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-540-00238-3 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Minor Planet Discoverers
2. ↑ Minor Planet Circ. 100319-100610