Eric Walter Elst

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Asteroids discovered: 3490 (as of July 2006—only a few unusual ones are listed here)
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
¹ with Vladimir Georgiev Shkodrov ² with Guido Pizarro

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.

External links

Eric Elst homepage

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Name	Elst, Eric Walter
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Short description	astronomer
Date of birth	unknown
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