Asteroids named after people called Rashid
(11759) Sunyaev
Rashid A. Sunyaev (b. 1943), born in Uzbekistan, has worked in Moscow and at the Max Planck Institute. Co-discoverer of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, he has directed space missions to study the universe in x-rays, 纬-rays and the cosmic-microwave radiation. He has also contributed to black-hole theory.Discovered 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar