Asteroids named after people called Samuil
馃懚 Samuil as a baby name
Named in memory of Samuil Aronovich Kaplan (1921-1978), head of the astrophysics department at the Lvov Observatory from 1948 to 1961 and subsequently a staff member of the Scientific Research Radiophysics Institute in Gorkij. He contributed extensively to a wide range of astrophysical topics, including white dwarfs, interstellar matter, radiative transfer, solar radiation, pulsars and galactic nuclei.Discovered 11 September 1952 by P. F. Shajn, Simeis
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