Milorad B. Protić

Minor planets discovered: 7
1517 Beograd	March 20, 1938
1550 Tito	November 29, 1937
1554 Yugoslavia	September 6, 1940
1564 Srbija	October 15, 1936
1675 Simonida	March 20, 1938
2244 Tesla	October 22, 1952
2348 Michkovitch	January 10, 1939

Milorad B. Protić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милорад Б. Протић; August 6, 1911, Belgrade - October 29, 2001, Belgrade) was a Serbian astronomer.

He has discovered a handful of asteroids. 1675 Simonida is named after queen Simonida, wife of medieval Serbian king Stefan Milutin; 2348 Michkovitch is named after Vojislav V. Mišković (1892–1976), member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and head of the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory.

Asteroid 22278 Protitch (discovered by Debehogne) is named after him, while 1724 Vladimir (discovered by Delporte) is named after his grandson. 5397 Vojislava (discovered by Oshima) is named after Vojislava Protić-Benišek, his daughter, three times director of the Belgrade Observatory and a member of its staff since 1972, where she continues her father's work on celestial mechanics and minor planets, together with her husband and son.

External links

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

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Name	Proticzz, Milorad B
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Date of birth	August 6, 1911
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Date of death	October 29, 2001
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