Christian Pollas

Asteroids discovered: 26 <ref name="MPC-Discoverers" />

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Christian Pollas (b. 1947) is a French astronomer, known for the discovery and observation of minor planets and supernovae.<ref name="springer" />

Pollas is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 26 asteroids,<ref name="MPC-Discoverers" /> some co-discovered with Eric W. Elst, including the near-Earth asteroids: Template:Mpl (belonging to the Aten group of asteroids), 4179 Toutatis (belonging to the Apollo group of asteroids) and 9950 ESA (belonging to the Amor group of asteroids).<ref name="MPC-65679" /><ref name="springer-Toutatis" /><ref name="springer-ESA" />

The main-belt asteroid 4892 Chrispollas is named in his honor.<ref name="springer" />

List of discovered minor planets

4179 Toutatis	January 4, 1989
5164 Mullo	November 20, 1984
7296 Lamarck Template:Ref label	August 8, 1992
8009 Béguin	January 25, 1989
9950 ESA	November 8, 1990
14015 Senancour Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
14016 Steller Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp	November 20, 1984
16674 Birkeland Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
29311 Lesire Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
30936 Basra Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
30937 Bashkirtseff Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994

30938 Montmartre Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
30939 Samaritaine Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp	May 11, 1986
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp	December 17, 1992
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	August 15, 1993
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp Template:Ref label	January 16, 1994
Template:Mp	October 26, 1989
Template:Mp	November 29, 1995
Template:Mp	December 27, 1994
Template:Note label co-discovery with E. W. Elst

References

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