Christian Pollas is a French astronomer. An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ...

He has discovered tens of asteroids, some co-discovered with Eric W. Elst, including notably the Aten asteroid (65679) 1989 UQ, the Apollo asteroid 4179 Toutatis, and the Amor asteroid (9950) 1990 VB. An asteroid is a small, solid object in our Solar System, orbiting the Sun. ... Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer. ... The Aten asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids, named after the first of the group to be discovered (2062 Aten, discovered January 7, 1976 by Eleanor F. Helin). ... The Apollo asteroid 25143 Itokawa. ... The asteroid 4179 Toutatis (too-ta-tis) is an Apollo, an Alinda and a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter. ... The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. ...