9 March 2010 | ||
13 March 2010 | ||
12 September 2012 | ||
7 August 2010 | ||
13 October 2010 |   | |
13 February 2010 | ||
19 April 2012 | ||
12 March 2010 | ||
26 September 2012 | ||
Co-discovery made with: R. Holmes |
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Tomáš Vorobjov (in Slovak pronounced as /ˈtɔmaːʂ ˈʋɔrɔbjɔw/; born 1984) is a Slovak amateur astronomer and an observer and discoverer of minor planets, in particular near-Earth objects.
He is the director of the IASC Data Reduction Team and is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 9 numbered minor planets.
In October 2012, Vorobjov discovered 276P/Vorobjov, a periodic comet and his first comet discovery. He also discovered the trans-Neptunian object (TNO) in April 2012.
The Florian main-belt asteroid 4858 Vorobjov, discovered by American astronomer James Gibson at Palomar in 1985, was named after him.