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Peter Kušnirák (born 1974) is a Slovak astronomer, discoverer of minor planets, and a prolific photometrist of light-curves at Ondřejov Observatory in the Czech Republic.<ref name="MPC-Kusnirak" /> 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.<ref name="CBET-792" /><ref name="CBET-1339" /> In 1999, he discovered the Eunomian main-belt asteroid 24260 Kriváň, which he named after one Slovakia's national symbols,<ref name="springer-Krivan" /> as well as 21656 Knuth and 20256 Adolfneckař, both located in the Aquarius constellation at the time. He is based out of numerous observatories in the Czech Republic, including the Ondřejov 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 (Template:Small).<ref name="MPC-Kusnirak" />

List of discovered minor planetsEdit

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22185 ŠtiavnicaTemplate:Ref label December 29, 2000
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24260 Kriváň December 13, 1999
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25384 Partizánske October 18, 1999
25778 Csere February 4, 2000
25864 Banič April 8, 2000
26390 Rušin October 19, 1999
26401 Sobotište November 19, 1999
26639 Murgaš May 5, 2000
26640 Bahýľ May 9, 2000
26661 Kempelen November 27, 2000
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28878 Segner May 26, 2000
30253 VítekTemplate:Ref label April 30, 2000
30252 Textorisová April 30, 2000
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32294 ZajoncTemplate:Ref label August 26, 2000
32531 Ulrikababiaková August 13, 2001
34753 ZdeněkmatyášTemplate:Ref label August 24, 2001
36060 BabuškaTemplate:Ref label September 14, 1999
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36888 ŠkrabalTemplate:Ref label September 29, 2000
37279 HukvaldyTemplate:Ref label December 22, 2000
38684 VelehradTemplate:Ref label October 25, 2000
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40440 DobrovskýTemplate:Ref label September 11, 1999
40441 JungmannTemplate:Ref label September 11, 1999
40459 RektorysTemplate:Ref label September 14, 1999
40763 Zloch October 5, 1999
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42998 MalinafrankTemplate:Ref label October 17, 1999
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44613 RudolfTemplate:Ref label September 8, 1999
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46280 HollarTemplate:Ref label May 21, 2001
48171 JuzaTemplate:Ref label April 23, 2001
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51895 BiblialexaTemplate:Ref label August 19, 2001
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59800 AstropisTemplate:Ref label August 14, 1999
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60150 ZachariasTemplate:Ref label October 19, 1999
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61404 OčenášekTemplate:Ref label August 26, 2000
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62794 ScheirichTemplate:Ref label October 30, 2000
63162 DavidčapekTemplate:Ref label December 22, 2000
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74764 RudolfpešekTemplate:Ref label September 15, 1999
75009 PeterverešTemplate:Ref label October 16, 1999
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77621 KotenTemplate:Ref label May 25, 2001
78536 ShrbenýTemplate:Ref label September 7, 2002
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82937 LesickiTemplate:Ref label August 26, 2001
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87088 JoannewheelerTemplate:Ref label June 2, 2000
89282 SuzieimberTemplate:Ref label November 10, 2001
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92389 GretskijTemplate:Ref label May 3, 2000
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94556 JanstarýTemplate:Ref label November 11, 2001
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107054 Daniela January 1, 2001
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167208 LelekoviceTemplate:Ref label October 17, 2003
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Legend of co-discoverers:
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