Asteroids named after people called Alexandr

(4178) Mimeev

Alexandr Pavlovich Mimeev (b. 1951) is a Russian radio engineer and amateur astronomer, known as the co-discoverer of a number of sungrazing comets. By finding and measuring additional images of objects in the SkyMorph archive, he contributed to the numbering of many hundreds of minor planets.Discovered 13 March 1988 by E. F. Helin, Palomar

(10002) Bagdasarian

Alexandr Sergeevich Bagdasarian (b. 1946) is director of Elco, a research-and-development corporation in Moscow. He is a prominent specialist in the science of radio and electronics.Discovered 8 October 1969 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(14335) Alexosipov

Alexandr Kuzmich Osipov (1920-2004) was an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Kyiv National University. He was a talented teacher of many generations of students. His interests were wide-ranging, from observations of artificial satellites to studies of the motion and the figure of the moon, planets and comets.Discovered 3 September 1981 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(15676) Almoisheev

Alexandr Alexandrovich Moisheev (b. 1943) was a designer of the space observatory ASTRON that successfully operated during 1983-1989. As deputy designer general of the Lavochkin Association he significantly contributed to the implementation of a series of Soviet and Russian space missions to Mars and Venus.Discovered 8 October 1978 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj

(17000) Medvedev

Alexandr V. Medvedev (b. 1985) was awarded third place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his mathematics project; and second place in the American Mathematical Society's Karl Menger Memorial Prize. He attends the BSU Liceum, Minsk, Belarus.Discovered 10 February 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro

(18121) Konovalenko

Alexandr A. Konovalenko (b. 1951) is an academician at the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences and a well-known radioastronomer. He is active in astrophysics and instrumentation using the largest decameter radio telescope (UTR-2). The name was suggested by D. F. Lupishko.Discovered 4 July 2000 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa

(23625) Gelfond

Alexandr Osipovich Gelfond (1906-1968) studied and taught mathematics at the University of Moscow. His main contributions were in the theory of interpolation and approximation of functions of a complex variable, in number theory and the study of transcendental numbers and in the history of mathematics.Discovered 19 November 1996 by P. G. Comba, Prescott

(27659) Dolsky

Alexandr Alexandrovich Dolsky (b. 1938) is an Honoured Artist of Russia, a Bulat Okudzhava State literary prize-winner, a guitarist-virtuoso, a poet-musician and an author of many collections of poems and sonnets.Discovered 26 September 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva, Nauchnyj

(32768) Alexandripatov

Alexandr Vasil鈥檈vich Ipatov (b. 1945) is the director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in radio physics and radio astronomy, one of the creators of the radio interferometric network Quasar-KVO, and the author of more than 300 publications.Discovered 5 September 1983 by L. V. Zhuravleva, Nauchnyj

(58097) Alimov

Alexandr Fyodorovich Alimov (b. 1933), founder of the Russian school of functional ecology and president of the Hydrobiological Society, is known for his theoretical and experimental work on the functioning of aquatic ecosystems and development of methods for, and approaches to, preventing an environmental ecological crisis.Discovered 26 October 1976 by T. M. Smirnova, Nauchnyj