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Peter Kušnirák

1974 - Today

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Kušnirák has received more than 12,490 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Peter Kušnirák is the 613th most popular astronomer (down from 558th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 281st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Kušnirák ranks 613 out of 644. Before him are William Kwong Yu Yeung, Frank B. Zoltowski, Philip Herbert Cowell, Andrea Boattini, Brett J. Gladman, and Jeff T. Alu. After him are David J. Tholen, Sara Seager, Linda A. Morabito, Matthew J. Holman, Martha P. Haynes, and Akimasa Nakamura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Peter Kušnirák ranks 579. Before him are Noah Huntley, Oleg Pashinin, Dmitri Loskov, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Tomomi Kahara, and Susana Díaz. After him are Markus Schopp, Ruslan Nigmatullin, Andradina, Ruslan Salei, Carla Peterson, and Fanis Katergiannakis.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Peter Kušnirák ranks 286 out of 418. Before him are Miroslav Šatan (1974), Peter Velits (1985), Vratislav Greško (1977), Michal Martikán (1979), Žigmund Pálffy (1972), and Kornel Saláta (1985). After him are Miroslav Mentel (1962), Szilárd Németh (1977), Martin Jakubko (1980), Dušan Švento (1985), Jozef Stümpel (1972), and Filip Hološko (1984).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Slovakia

Among astronomers born in Slovakia, Peter Kušnirák ranks 3. Before him are Maximilian Hell (1720), and Ľudmila Pajdušáková (1916). After him are Ulrika Babiaková (1976).

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