| Asteroids discovered: 3490 (as of July 2006—only a few unusual ones are listed here) |
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| 4486 Mithra[1] | 22 September 1987 | Apollo asteroid |
| 7968 Elst-Pizarro[2] | 14 July 1996 | also a comet |
| 8191 Mersenne | 20 July 1993 | Mersenne prime |
| (15745) 1991 PM5 | 3 August 1991 | Amor asteroid |
| (21088) 1992 BL2 | 30 January 1992 | Amor asteroid |
| (52387) 1993 OM7 | 20 July 1993 | Amor asteroid |
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Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).
Notable discoveries include the Apollo asteroid 4486 Mithra, the asteroid/comet 7968 Elst-Pizarro (133P/Elst-Pizarro), the asteroid 8191 Mersenne (1993 OX9), and more than 25 Trojan asteroids.
The asteroid 3936 Elst was named in his honour.