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Encyclopedia > Petr Pravec

Petr Pravec (Třinec, September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer who is a prolific discoverer of binary asteroids using lightcurve photometric study. He is leading the effort of a large consortium of stations (called BinAst) to look for multiplicity in the NEA and inner main-belt populations. Location of TÅ™inec in the Czech Republic TÅ™inec (Polish: ) is a city in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. ... September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... 253 Mathilde, a C-type asteroid. ...


Asteroid 4790 Petrpravec is named after him.


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Asteroid Data Sets (51 words)
This data set includes a summary table of the characteristics of known binary near-Earth asteroids, compiled by Petr Pravec and Petr Scheirich.
A list of references to the original observations is also included.
"Pravec, P. and Scheirich, P., Eds., Binary NEAs Summary.
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