Asteroids named after people called Andrejs

👶 Andrejs as a baby name

(658787) Alksnis

Andrejs Alksnis (1928–2017) was a Latvian astronomer. He was an investigator of photometric properties of carbon and infrared stars, and the discoverer of 54 novae in the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Andrejs was the long-term head of the Astrophysics Department of the Baldone Observatory.Discovered 19 October 2017 by I. Egliti K. Černis, Baldone

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