Tarr Orbits, Krasznahorkai Spins: Asteroids Named After Them and a Geologist

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The explorer Krisztián Sárneczky initiated the naming.

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The newly named asteroids were discovered by a Hungarian astronomer.

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Asteroids have been named after the recent Nobel Prize-winning writer László Krasznahorkai, the film director Béla Tarr, who passed away in January, and the geologist Imre Kubovics, who is 101 years old, Wikipedia has drawn our attention to this. The objects were discovered by astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky, and he also proposed their names, which were accepted by the International Astronomical Union on February 23. Asteroids are typically named…