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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 11,381 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Kušnirák is the 558th most popular astronomer (down from 526th in 2019), the 281st most popular biography from Slovakia (down from 245th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Slovak Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Peter Kušnirák ranks 558 out of 531. Before him are Lenka Kotková, Arnold Wolfendale, Akimasa Nakamura, Zdeněk Moravec, Masayuki Yanai, and Andrea Boattini. After him are Anja Cetti Andersen, Sara Seager, Jeff T. Alu, Brett J. Gladman, Dale Frail, and Alan Stern.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Peter Kušnirák ranks 656. Before him are Lodewijk Asscher, Kenichi Uemura, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Cyril Dessel, Roman Hamrlík, and Imelda May. After him are Zoran Janković, Monika Kryemadhi, David Jemmali, Yuko Morimoto, Amarilis Savón, and Mahesh Bhupathi.

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In Slovakia

Among people born in Slovakia, Peter Kušnirák ranks 281 out of 357. Before him are Veronika Velez-Zuzulová (1984), Peter Hlinka (1978), Szilárd Németh (1977), Zdeno Štrba (1976), Magdaléna Rybáriková (1988), and Elena Kaliská (1972). After him are Marcel Hossa (1981), Martina Suchá (1980), Katarína Hasprová (1972), Marek Sapara (1982), Pavol Hurajt (1978), and Ladislav Nagy (1979).

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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).

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