Milorad B. Protić

Short description: Serbian astronomer

Milorad B. Protić Minor planets discovered: 7[1] 1517 Beograd | 20 March 1938

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1550 Tito | 29 November 1937
1554 Yugoslavia | 6 September 1940
1564 Srbija | 15 October 1936
1675 Simonida | 20 March 1938
2244 Tesla | 22 October 1952
2348 Michkovitch | 10 January 1939

Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Б. Протић; 19 September 1911, Belgrade – 29 October 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer, discoverer of comets and minor planets, and three times director of the Belgrade Observatory.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Life and work
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Life and work

Protić finished a technical secondary school in 1921 and worked as a technical draftsman until 1931.[3] He joined the Belgrade Observatory in 1932,[4] while in 1936 he started observations of minor planets, comets, and satellites, which have been continuously performed until the present-day.[3]

Protić is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 7 numbered asteroids during 1936–1952,[1] including 1675 Simonida, named after queen Simonida, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin, and 2348 Michkovitch, a rare Erigone asteroid named after Vojislav Mišković (1892–1976), who was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Observatory.[5] Protić also independently discovered comet C/1947 Y1.[2]

Protić died on 29 October 2001 in Belgrade. The main-belt asteroid 22278 Protitch, discovered by Henri Debehogne at ESO's Chilean La Silla site in 1983, was named in his memory.[2] Naming citation was published on 30 December 2001 (M.P.C. 44186).[6]

Also, the outer main-belt asteroid 1724 Vladimir is named after Protić's grandson Vladimir Benišek, while 5397 Vojislava is named after Vojislava Protić-Benišek, his daughter, who has been a member of the observatory's staff since 1972, where she continues her father's work on celestial mechanics and minor planets, together with her son.[4]

## See also

* Category:Erigone asteroids

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 22 June 2016. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schmadel, Lutz D. (2007). "(22278) Protitch". Dictionary of Minor Planet Names – (22278) Protitch. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. p. 869. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29925-7_9705. ISBN 978-3-540-00238-3.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "OBITUARY MILORAD B. PROTIC". https://saj.matf.bg.ac.rs/164/pdf/001-002.pdf.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Буквић, Димитрије. "Три генерације загледане у небо". https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/376525/Tri-generacije-zagledane-u-nebo.
5. ↑ "2348 Michkovitch (1939 AA)". Minor Planet Center. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=2348. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
6. ↑ "MPC/MPO/MPS Archive". Minor Planet Center. http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html. Retrieved 20 July 2016.

## External links

* OBITUARY MILORAD B. PROTI´C
* Kosmička Srbija između Marsa i Jupitera at naslovi.net

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