Asteroids named after people called Valentin
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(6161) Vojno-Yasenetsky
Named in memory of Valentin Feliksovich Vojno-Yasenetsky (1877–1961), surgeon and bishop. As a physician, he practiced in a number of district hospitals in central Russia, serving as head physician in the Tashkent urban hospital and as a professor at Central Asia University. In the early 1920s he took vows and was ordained as a bishop. During his life he published 55 scientific works on surgery and anatomy, winning the state prize in 1946. Although he was arrested many times and sent into exile for his views, when he died he had dignity as the archbishop of the Crimea and Simferopol.Discovered 14 October 1971 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
(7869) Pradun
Valentin Panteleevich Pradun (b. 1956) is a Ukrainian economist and professor at Tavrichesky National University. As president of the Crimean academy of humanities he has been directing a program for supporting talented schoolchildren and young academics.Discovered 2 September 1987 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
(8409) Valentaugustus
Valentin Augustus Weber (1867-1940) was a grandfather of the team leader. Born in Germany, he moved to the U.S. in 1889, where he designed and constructed stained-glass windows for cathedrals and mahogany furniture for his friends and neighbors in Brooklyn, New York.Discovered 28 November 1995 by R. Weber, Socorro
(9733) Valtikhonov
At the Russian Mission Control Center, Valentin Fedorovich Tikhonov (1938-2004) took an active part in realization of many deep space missions. He also developed a relativistic theory of the inner planets, as well as new theories of the motions of comet 1P/Halley and the satellites of Mars.Discovered 19 September 1985 by Chernykh, N. S., Chernykh, L. I., Nauchnyj
(9741) Solokhin
Valentin Fedorovich Solokhin (b. 1933) is the director general of a company in Surgut of the Tyumen province in Siberia. Under his leadership the unique single-pylon guy-rope bridge over the river Ob in Surgut was constructed in 2000.Discovered 22 October 1987 by L. V. Zhuravleva, Nauchnyj
(10015) Valenlebedev
Valentin Vital'evich Lebedev (b. 1942), a Russian cosmonaut who participated in two space missions, is a scientist working in geoinformation. Among his books is Diary of a cosmonaut, published in many countries. He is founder and director of the Scientific Geoinformation Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Discovered 27 September 1978 by L. I. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
(10481) Esipov
Valentin Feodorovich Esipov (b. 1933) is head of the radioastronomy department at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University. A specialist in astronomical instrument-making and an outstanding observer, he is particularly known for his spectroscopic research on galaxies and unstable stars.Discovered 23 August 1982 by N. S. Chernykh, Nauchnyj
(16861) Lipovetsky
Valentin Alexandrovich Lipovetsky (1945-1996) was a senior researcher at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, Zelenchukskaya, and headed a group studying Blue Compact Galaxies. He was an expert on active galactic nuclei and participated in the production of the First Byurakan Survey.Discovered 27 December 1997 by R. A. Tucker, Goodricke-Pigott
(646626) Valentingrigore
Valentin Grigore (b. 1968) is the founder and president of the Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy. An astrophotographer, editor of astronomical magazines, producer of an astronomy TV show, and founding member of EURONEAR, he is the most active promoter of astronomy since 1990 in Romania, organizing over 500 local, national and international events.Discovered 11 March 2008 by EURONEAR, La Silla