Asteroids named after people called Faik

(553035) Faikmusayev

Faik Musayev (1959–2021) was a Russian astrophysicist and design engineer. He created a coudé spectrometer at the Zelenchukskaya Observatory (Russia), which has been used for almost 30 years to study the magnetic fields of stars. Spectrographs developed by him are operated in observatories in Russia, Poland, Bulgaria, Turkey and Azerbaijan.Discovered 10 January 2011 by Kryachko, T., Satovski, B., Zelenchukskaya Stn