Tomáš Vorobjov

Tomáš Vorobjov (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaːʂ ˈʋɔrɔbjɔw]; born 1984) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and an observer and discoverer of minor planets, in particular near-Earth objects.^[2]

Numbered minor planet discoveries: 10^[1]

239792 Hankakováčová	9 March 2010	list
347028 Važec	13 March 2010	list
590739 Miloslavov	12 September 2012	list
400881 Vladimirdolinay	7 August 2010	list
(362559) 2010 VK41	13 October 2010	list[A]
(432457) 2010 CU127	13 February 2010	list
(432949) 2012 HH2	19 April 2012	list
(445309) 2010 EK42	12 March 2010	list
554268 Marksylvester	26 September 2012	list
Co-discovery made with: A R. Holmes

He is the director of the IASC Data Reduction Team^[2] and is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 9 numbered minor planets.^[1]

In October 2012, Vorobjov discovered 276P/Vorobjov, a periodic comet and his first comet discovery.^[3] He also discovered the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) (432949) 2012 HH2 in April 2012.^[4]

The Florian main-belt asteroid 4858 Vorobjov, discovered by American astronomer James Gibson at Palomar in 1985, was named after him.^[2]

Discoveries

Near-Earth objects

• 2011 EB7 (Mar 1, 2011) ^[5]
• 2011 HD63 (May 1, 2011) ^[6]
• 2011 PW6 (Aug 8, 2011) ^[7]
• 2013 EP41 (Mar 9, 2013) ^[8]
• 2013 FC11 (Mar 21, 2013) ^[9]
• 2014 FG33 (Mar 26, 2014) ^[10]
• 2014 GF45 (Apr 6, 2014) ^[11]
• 2014 QP362 (Aug 26, 2014) ^[12]
• 2014 WG70 (Nov 17, 2014) ^[13]

Centaurs

• 2013 GY54 (Mar 8, 2013) ^[14]
• 2015 FK37 (Mar 20, 2015) ^[15]

TNOs

• (432949) 2012 HH₂ (Apr 19, 2012)
• 2014 FP43 (Mar 28, 2014)
• 2014 GE45 (Apr 6, 2014)
• 2014 QF433 (Aug 26, 2014)
• 2014 UH192 (Oct 28, 2014)
• 2014 WT69 (Nov 17, 2014)
• TVPS8GA (Nov 20, 2014) - lost
• 2015 FP36 (Mar 19, 2015)