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Place of Birth: Piešťany, Trnava Region, Slovakia
About Peter Kušnirák
- Peter Kušnirák (born 1974) is a Slovak astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and a prolific photometrist of light-curves at Ondrejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.
- He was married to Slovak astronomer Ulrika Babiaková with whom he discovered 123647 Tomáško, named after their son Tomáško. He was the principal observer to discover that the two main-belt asteroids 3073 Kursk and 5481 Kiuchi are in fact binary asteroids.
- In 1999, he discovered the Eunomian main-belt asteroid 24260 Kriván, which he named after one Slovakia's national symbols, as well as 21656 Knuth and 20256 Adolfneckar, both located in the Aquarius constellation at the time.
- He is based out of numerous observatories in the Czech Republic, including the Ondrejov Observatory, and works solo or with partners. The Flora asteroid 17260 Kušnirák, discovered by the U.S.
- LINEAR project at Lincoln Lab's ETS in 2000, is named in his honor (M.P.C.
- 10060).
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