Asteroids named after people called Nikolai
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(9056) Piskunov
Nikolai Piskunov (b. 1957), professor of astronomy at Uppsala Astronomical Observatory, has made fundamental contributions to our knowledge of physical and chemical surface structures on stars, especially the influence of magnetic fields.Discovered 1 March 1992 by UESAC, La Silla
(9329) Nikolaimedtner
Nikolai Medtner (1880-1951) was a Russian composer and pianist of Baltic ancestry. He created three concertos and 14 sonatas for piano and numerous piano cycles and lieder. He is the author of The Muse and the Fashion.Discovered 2 March 1990 by E. W. Elst, La Silla
(14322) Shakura
Nikolai Ivanovich Shakura (b. 1945) is the head of the relativistic astrophysics department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. A well-known specialist in theory of accretion and in astrophysics of x-ray binaries, he is particularly famous as the developer of the standard theory of disk accretion.Discovered 22 December 1978 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
(22616) Bogolyubov
Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolyubov (1909-1992) was a Russian and Ukrainian Soviet mathematician and theoretical physicist known for his work in statistical field theory and dynamical systems. He was awarded the Dirac Medal in 1992. The name was suggested by K. I. Churyumov.Discovered 23 May 1998 by LONEOS, Anderson Mesa
(31698) Nikolaiortiz
Nikolai Victorovitch Ortiz (b. 2002) is a finalist in the 2015 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for his environmental and earth sciences project. He attends the Seashore Middle Academy, Corpus Christi, Texas.Discovered 10 May 1999 by LINEAR, Socorro
(343587) Mamuna
Nikolai Vladimirovich Mamuna (1956-2016) was an astronomer, teacher and leading lecturer of the Moscow Planetarium. He was artistic director of the Maximachev Planetarium, the author of a number of books and many journal publications, a science fiction writer, a radio and a TV host.Discovered 5 April 2010 by , Zelenchukskaya Stn110133 Kryachko, T. V.