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Eric Walter Elst | |
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| Born | 30 November 1936  Kapellenbos, Mortsel |
| Died | 2 January 2022 (aged 85) Antwerp |
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| Website | http://www.angelfire.com/id/ericelst |
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| see § List of discovered minor planets |
Eric Walter Elst (30 November 1936 – 2 January 2022) was a Belgian astronomer at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle and a prolific discoverer of asteroids. The Minor Planet Center ranks him among the top 10 discoverers of minor planets with thousands of discoveries made at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile and at the Rozhen Observatory in Bulgaria during 1986–2009.[1]
The minor planet 3936 Elst, a stony Vestian asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, roughly 6 kilometers in diameter, was named in his honour.[2][3]
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